Two weeks later.....

So, it's been about 2 weeks since I posted last.  Right now things are just so up in the air.  My Alopecia is still running it's course.  There is no new growth and now I'm losing my eyebrows.   I am, however, in a much better place about it all.  I've been interacting with a couple of Alopecia support groups online and I am handling the situation much better than I was two weeks ago.

This is just who I am now.  I'm a bald, beautiful, intelligent woman.  I have an amazing and supportive husband.  Compassionate and wonderful friends and a wonderfully supportive and caring family.  I'm getting used to the beautiful woman in the mirror and loving her more each day.  My life is getting back to normal and I've fielded the questions about my beautiful bald head so many times now that I don't cringe anymore.  I am more confident in WHO I AM as a person instead of WHAT I LOOK LIKE.  I'm embracing the freedom I have been blessed with.

My kids are still getting used to it.  And that's O.K.  Joey, my step son and oldest child, finally got up the courage to ask me what was going on with my hair.  Stupidly I thought that someone would have told him what was going on.  He is a special needs child and doesn't deal well with change.  But after we sat down and talked about it he felt better but is still adjusting.  Ashley, my step daughter and middle child, hasn't really said much but she's a preteen so that I expected. 

Emma, my baby girl, has had a hard time with it.  She, unlike the other two, lives with Jon and I and witnessed the process and the depression.  I tried so hard to shield her from it all but she's a smart little thing.  She took in more than I thought she did.  But that's Emma.  Right on top of things from the very beginning.  Sunday she came back from my mothers' house with this picture of me and her.  It's so cute!  I guess she's adjusting just fine after all!

(note that I have no hair in the picture LOL)