Do you remember your first grey hair? (If you’re reading this and you’ve not yet found a grey hair, feel free to skip ahead. If you’re reading this and you know all too well what I’m talking about, just nod your head and sigh.)
I found mine at the tender age of 35, a mere three years ago. I still remember how devastated I was. I believe tears were also involved. Even though it was just a random grey hair, there’s something about seeing proof of the fact that you’re aging instead of merely thinking it will happen “some day.”
As awful as that experience was, it was nothing, I mean nothing, in comparison to how I felt the day that I realized I was going bald. Yes, bald. As in receding hairline, tufts of hair growing out of my ears, bald.
Okay, maybe it’s not that bad. But still…
I made that discovery last week and it was due to this picture (admittedly it looks worse in this picture than real life because my hair looks so very dark here. At least I hope it doesn’t look this bad in real life.):
Remember that picture? I used it in a post about our recent trip. See that little spot up near the top, right above my eye? That’s the one. Bald I tell you. Now compare it to the picture below (taken back in 2007) and you’ll see what I mean. No spot.
I should have known this would happen. I’ve been losing hair by the fistfuls over the past two months. I’ve got hair everywhere – it’s in the sink, it’s on the floor, it’s in my baby’s hands as he pulls away from my neck, it’s everywhere. It supposedly has something to do with the hormonal change my body has gone through since having the baby, blah, blah, blah. Again, reading about it happening and then seeing it actually take place are two very different things.
So I did the same thing that I did when I noticed my first grey hair – I Googled. Imagine my relief when I saw several posts about how normal hair loss is after a pregnancy and how it will eventually grow back. I even read about one woman who suddenly had a bald spot right above her temple (just like me!). Needless to say, I came away from my Google search feeling much better than when I went in. I realize now that all is not lost and there is hope and best of all, it will grow back.
Until it does, I guess I’m just going to have one heck of a comb-over.
But looking on the bright side – at least my comb-over’s not grey!
Anyone else had this happen? Anyone? Please?
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