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I have been living with alopecia totalis for almost 10 years now. Basically i've lost all my hair for no reason. I've survived. I recently joined up on Facebook, and found tons of alopecia support groups, wow! So the whole thing has been fresh in my mind. As life goes on it feels somewhat normal, and when I see others with it, or do research on it, it feels more like a disease or a burden. I'm sure i'm just being paranoid, but i've been worried about my 3 yr olds hair and passing it to her. When I was brushing her hair after a bath, the day I also found all the alopecia groups on Facebook, it seemed so much more thin than usual. It freaked me out, and I just said a prayer for her not to get alopecia.

Of course I had to call my mom, since I call her for everything. Just ask her, she'll tell you how much I call :). She assured me it was the time of year, or like I said, I'm just paranoid. She mentioned cutting her hair so it wouldn't be as heavy.

The thought of cutting those beautiful curls, not the first thing I wanted to do. A few days later (last night), I finally got a chance where I felt like doing it, and the baby was asleep. I was just going to trim it a little bit..then when I got to the last cut I realized she had her head tilted to the side. Ok, so I had to do it again and even it out. Not too bad of a job. Then I realized that because of her curls it will be a lot shorter when it dried! Now she's got a cute little cut, much shorter than I wanted, but very cute. Even Theron liked it.