I barely ever get on here, mainly becuase I forgot I even had an account until I got an email from them. So I guess I will talk about what's going on with me currently. With alopecia, I have not had any hair growth in more than 5 years. I am actually used to it and just wear a wig full time. It's kind of like a security blanket for me and I barely ever take it off, which is totally fine with me because I don't feel a need to not wear it. I haven't had eyelashes or eyebrows in a couple of years, but ranndom eyelashes will grow in every now and then. I started using Latisse and my eyelashes are actually growing! I'm so excited! I don't want to get my hopes up and I know I'll be fine if they fall out, but it's been 8 weeks so far and they are still there. All of my friends know I have alopecia, my boyfriend knows, and everyone that matters basically...but I pretty much just let other people guess if my hair is a wig or not and then if they want to talk bad about me and make fun of me I don't care because I have enough friends already.

i'm in my last semester of college, with a major in social work. I am completely on the verge of a quarter life crisis because i don't know if i will be moving, staying here, working in social work, working a different job, or if i will get a job in general. I don't know if my boyfriend and i will stay together and i'm just unsure about everything. I am having one of the hardest semesters of my life and writing my huge senior seminar paper. Life is not wonderful right now, but I still am having fun.

My brother has started his freshman year in college and lives 8 hrs away and i miss him so much! i still live with my twin sister. I went to Uganda, Africa this summer for 5 and 1/2 weeks as my second social work practicum and worked in a school, an organization called Bead for life (beadforlife.org), and an organization called Reach Out, that gave free drugs to clients suffering from HIV/AIDS. I also got to go on an African safari and hiked to Victoria falls.

Just thought I would update since I havent been on!

-whitney