Take good care of yourself, that it doesn't get anyworse than a cough..
How come the power will be out?

wow you are so brave!!!! I don't think I will tell the hairdresser about trich - hmmm I think I will just say I had hairloss. Hmmmm, so stupid really, this embaressment and shame.

You are doing so well - rock on!!

I wonder if I have seen a couple of people with trich recetly, one in the butchers and one at a school I was supplying at - both older women so maybe it was natural hairloss, but I think trich looks quite distinctive, patches that are quite thin/bald, patches that are thicker and also some very white hairs. I try soooo hard not to stare as I wouldn't want to make someone feel self-consious!

try this i've heard it really works!

http://taweng.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/how-to-stop-cough-in-5-minutes/

haha i just avoid the hairdresser completely...i just cut my own hair and it doesnt look great, but it doesnt look horrible, and lets be honest, no matter what a hairstylist did to it, i would just ruin it in like 2 days anyways hahaha
thats incredible that she told them though
i feel like id have to find one that im close enough to that seems nice enough to understand hahah

congrats on day 209 sam- keep up the amazing work!

Hurrah! 209 days is wonderful! You are doing so well!
You can do this!

Hiya peeps! OH IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK ON MY LAPTOP!! I just experience a 24 hr powercut. Yes. 24 hours! What the. It was ridiculously cold and dark and miserable. I could have gone to my bf's but that would have meant abandoning my mum. So no. Ugh it was horrible. No toast, no tea, no tv, no laptop, my phone battery died. I hate the Blue Mountains sometimes. And it was SO cold...

Mmmmm I'm sitting in front of the heater with a cup of tea, soooo happy.

WOW Granit! That sounds amazing. My cough is much better now, and I don't have any Vick's Vapour Rub at home. But I'll remember that tip for sure, thanks!!

Firante, I cut my hair too. My mum used to (when I was a teenager) , but I was sick of her comments, sighs, and tutting when she did it. She'd always say "you REALLY need to stop pulling you hair out". Oh mum. She wasn't to know I guess.

I don't really feel that nervous about telling the hairdresser. It feels really matter of fact to me, and I want to educate them if they don't already know about it. But I don't feel nervous because I don't have any bald patches... Probably.

Thank youuuuu everyone! 201 days pull free, so 7 months, woo! I almost can't believe I made it this far.

The power cut was cos of wind, to give you an idea of how windy it was, a trampoline blew into my friend's back yard!

*cos of wind knocking down trees, which in turn knocked down power lines.

Wow if it would get that windy here, we would announce the national contingency plan :p But you made it through.

I think it’s still very brave that you’re telling your hairdresser, even without any showing bald patches :)

ALMOST 7 MONTHS!!!!!! :D

NO IT IS 7 MONTHS! Today today! Today! Todaaaaaaaay! Yay!

Hehe, and no-one cares about Lawson Lien. That's the small town I live in. We got ignore. If it happened in Sydney it would be on the news. Then again, a lot more businesses would be affected if it happened in Sydney!

Thanks for thinking I'm brave. I'll have my boyfriend there to punch the stylist in the boob/crotch if anything goes wrong hehe!

Eeeeew, cold and dark and no hot beverages. :( Why can't that happen in summer instead?

My little sister cuts my hair. She cuts her own hair too-- she's not a puller, but she bleaches her hair a lot and it's really damaged, and the stylists are very judgmental about that, as well. It's unbelievable. Why can't they just cut our hair and NOT make us feel horrible about ourselves?

And it's 210 days, not 201, to clear up any confusion. 7 months, YAAAAAAAAAY! Not surprising, because Sam is awesome and what not. :)

Oh crap! Damn my fat fingers hehehe. Soooorry Lien.

Ha and Emmy, yes, why can't it happen in summer?

Well I guess hairdressers disapproving of bleaching, pulling etc is like doctors disapproving over over eating, smoking etc.

Hehehehe, awesome and what not, THANKS! You are :)

Yay, 7 months!!

And I agree about hairdressers.... why do some of them feel compelled to chastise us about EVERYTHING? I get that they want to make hair look good, but come on, between dyeing it, styling it, etc., everyone is bound to have some damaged hair, to some extent. Years ago, when my trich wasn't that bad, I got scolded for what type of elastic band I used for ponytails. And this was at the crappy "$10 haircut" type salon. Not that I've been to many hairdressers in the past few years, but if I went some place and they made me feel bad for the state of my hair, I wouldn't return.

I totally forgot you are in winter time right now. Whoops. How cold is it there? I can't imagine an entire day without power. You are a better person than me, I would've gone to the boyfriend's house, just for a little bit. :)

Yes it's yucky YUCKY winter, ew. 7-ish degrees Celsius during the day, 0-ish at night, which in my opinion is absolutely foul. Well cos I was sick, plus had no access to car, and boyfriend lives a bit over half an hour away, yeah, not so convenient to go there for just a little while.

Hmm my memories of hairdressers aren't good ones, so.. Hm. We'll see! I'll have my defenses up though, so one little comment, GR, bitch sam shall speak. I have wikid evil eyes.

You are freezing and I am sweltering. It was too hot already when I went for my walk an hour ago at 7:15.

When is your haircut? You'll be fine. I talk about it a lot to people, and 90% of them react with understanding. I never feel judgment.

xoxo