Lindsay’s Difficult Journey
Here’s a nice little piece to start the week off. The Union, out of Nevada County, California, is running an editorial by high school senior Lindsay Adams.
Lindsay was diagnosed with alopecia as a seventh-grader. Though her hair has returned as a result of favorable steroid treatments, she has chosen to title her senior project Creating Awareness of Alopecia. “I want individuals in our community, especially children, who may be experiencing the same type of hair loss as I did to know that there is no need to suffer in silence as the disease progresses.” I’m proud of her for remembering and reaching forward.
Lindsay’s website is www.adamsfamilyusa.com/alopecia/.
At a time in a child’s life when “fitting in” is of utmost importance, and appearance is really that by which your peers judge you, losing your hair can be devastating.
When a person is just beginning to develop who they are and deciding what they want to be in life, losing hair seems like losing your identity.
What 12-year-old girl has the confidence and self-esteem to lose half the hair on her head and still “fit in” with the other kids at school?
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