I am very thankful for this website and for the support of my fellow members. It can be very therapeutic at times!! But, I also find it can be very depressing, so I do take long breaks from it. I hear the voices of those who have accepted their condition, no longer fight it for various reasons, and I fully understand and support their positions, but that's not where I am today. I am not ready to give up hope. While I have lost well over half of my hair and still shed, I also have good hearty…

The last couple of days I've been slacking on my anti-inflammatory diet, and it all started with some cardamom pear cupcakes someone brought into work (sigh). Then yesterday, I ate a carb and sugar laden breakfast, tried to get back on track with a healthy lunch, but ended up giving in to a butter drenched dinner with two martinis and ended the day with a mug of hot chocolate. Oh, dear. It was fun while it lasted. This morning, I awoke with a persistently itchy scalp and double the shedding…

"You should just cut the rest of your long hair off. It'll be different, but you'll get used to it."

This is what my nine year old son told me this morning, and there is wisdom in his words. The remaining long strands serve little purpose (except to be pulled back to do the pony tail and ball cap thing on the weekends as a welcome break from Harriet the Wig), and now look just as ugly as my bald patches next to the regrowth that's anywhere between 1/4 - 3 inches in length. I am…