Munchkin has now lost over 70% of her hair. She's not dealing well with it. She's coming to realize that she's probably going to be completely bald when it's all said and done, and is in the "it's not fair" stage. All I can say is, "no, it's not" and hug her. I have set up counseling for her, both to help her deal with this, and hopefully give her more tools to deal with all of her stress that I know is exacerbating the condition, if not triggering it to start with.



We see the… Continue

I had hung such hopes on today... not that I thought we'd walk away with a "cure" or anything, but I thought at least we'd have a definitive diagnosis and confirmation for all the research I've done. Or find something out that I'd not even heard of... I'm one of those people with just enough medical knowledge to be truly dangerous. ;-) But I know it, and I know I'm not a doctor...



We started off with the Nurse Practitioner, since we'd have had to wait another MONTH to see the… Continue