My Hair Journey
A while back I was cleaning out files on my computer. I came across several images chronicling my hair loss and regrowth. I posted them back-to-back with the hope of seeing the "whole journey". Man, what a journey that was. I had always loved my hair. It was thick and had flickers of red in the sunlight. Growing up, it was one thing that people commented on about my physical appearance, and I would venture to say that it was my one source of vanity. 5/26/06 - Wedding Day When my hair first started coming out, I was in the hospital. It had gotten thinner soon after I had started medication, but to someone like me, who had thick, thick, thick hair, it wasn't that big of a deal. My doctors said that it was "unlikely" that I would lose my hair entirely. Enter Telogen Effluvium. When I was hospitalized in the summer of 2011 with several serious infections (including cryptococcal meningitis), I began daily doses of the "scary" drug A...