Earlier this week, my daughter was fidgeting in her room and was constanly looking in the mirror.
I suppose this is rather typical behaviour for a pre-teen.
After a bit of observation, I realised she was examining her hair parting more, than what I would consider normal.
After a little probing, she confessed that she thought she was losing her hair. You see her parting was very wide in her eyes, revealing more scalp, than what she thought was normal.
The poor thing.
I had a little look and to me it looked perfectly normal, however that was not the point. The point was clearly that she critically looks at her hair and is worried about hair loss.
We had a little chat about it and I reassured her that even if she did start to lose her hair, that we would manage and cope with this and even better, we would be able to share wigs.
I may have reassured her somewhat, or maybe not.
However the fact remains, my daughters are very aware of their hair and clearly worried about their future. This made me feel sad.
I wish I could help this.
Any ideas?
Oh how awful. And I completely understand. My daughter is terrified that she will get psoriasis - my approach is to cross my fingers behind my back and very firmly tell her that she won't . I point out that nobody else in my family has it, that none of her dad's family has it .. and frankly I lie my way through it. I figure that right now she believes me and so I can stop the worry. If she ever does get it (and please God that will NEVER happen) I hope that she'll be old enough to deal with it as well as possible. At this age of her life I don't want her worrying needlessly. I don't know if that's any help, but just thought I'd throw in my ha'pence worth. Nobody ever tells you about this aspect of having a chronic disorder, do they??
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