Supermarkets, alopecia and hedgehogs

You know those supermarket magazines that drop on to your door mat every week, do you read them? Or do they make their way straight to the paper recycling bin?

I tend to flick through them most weeks, you never know what you will find. Could be a coupon for half price fishfingers if you are lucky.

Anyway this week I came across a wonderful article on Alopecia.

Anyone who reads German its here:

http://www.migrosmagazin.ch/menschen/portraet/artikel/gluecklich-trotz-haarausfall

Who would have thought. No coupon for fishfingers though !

It was about a little boy whose parents were being interviewed. It was a lovely story, nothing dramatic, just their story. They went on to talk about a book they had written for kids on the subject.

It was a tale about a hedghog loosing his spikes.  "Samus grosse Stolz"  Great idea.

The article also explained that they are establishing an alopecian network across Switzerland. A number of years ago I had searched for soemthing like this, yet had never found it. Thats because it didnt exist. So I contacted them, and now I am a member.

Not sure what or anything will come of it, but its good to at least hear from others and know what is moving in the area of research etc.

In the meantime I am off to buy the book.