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Heres our collection of Excuse Me's?!
Sometimes people say things to us Alopecians, that have us wondering if they have any brain in their head at all or in some cases if they're just plain ignorant!!
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Professional......Yeah Right!!
I'm a student nurse and when I was on a hospital placement I used to wear just a bandana before I got my new wig. I had spent a week on the ward and I had descreetly mentioned that I had alopecia and no one made a fuss about it or anything. One day, a porter who had been on sick leave came on to the ward.When I was introduced to him, he took one look at my head, tried to grab my bandana and asked, very loudly, in front of a ward full of patients.... WHATS WITH THE HAIR??!
I was stunned and mumbled that I had alopecia, but he kept going on about it until finally a staff nurse told him to shut up!!
Sarah, Ireland
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Psychic Now Are We??
"Well...you're hair is going to grow back, so I wouldn't worry about it."
(And in my brain my hand went SMACK upside that person's head!)
Micaela, Florida
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Who Needs Enemies?.....
I lost my hair fairly quickly, starting in November of 2000. By December of that year, it was almost all gone and I purchased my first wig, a very traumatic experience for me. My friends and family gave me a lot of support -- but everyone wasn't quite so sympathetic. In late October, only ten months after I had started wearing a wig, trying to get used to it and fit in, one of my friends asked if she could "borrow" it for an evening because it would work well with ... are you ready for this? It would work well with a HALLOWEEN COSTUME she was putting together!!I hasten to add that while the wig may not have been perfect, it certainly wasn't ghastly and it sure didn't belong as a part of a Halloween costume! And what was she thinking, that I would just calmly pull it off my head and hand it to her?
Barbara, Colorado
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In-Laws!!
I went to a birthday party for my husband's great uncle. I didn't know many people there because we don't see that side of the family often. My husband's aunt, who we see regularly, hadn't seen me since I bought a new hairpiece. Keep in mind that she's hard of hearing and wears hearing aids for this problem. Therefore, she's not quiet. She looks at me and says, very loudly, "is that the same WIG? Or is it a new one?" This hair replacement is about 6 inches longer than the other one. I was stunned. I looked at her and grumbled, "no, it's new." Inside, what I really wanted to say was, "no, it's the same one. I just decided to grow it out."
Stephanie, Illinois
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