MY SECRET
Jan 23, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS BY HATTIE BISHOP
Calling out from the top of the stairs, I wanted my mum to come and check on something.
‘My head feels weird,’ I shouted down to her.
‘What is it darling? Oh I see…’ she said coming to inspect the back of my scalp and noticing that chunks of my hair had fallen out.
I was only eight and to discover clumps of hair missing was really distressing for me.
My mum, Glenda, 54, took me to our local GP, in Long Melford, Suffolk, and I was quickly diagnosed with alopecia areata multilocularis – an autoimmune condition where the body attacks the hair follicles.
‘Your hair may grow back but it will always fall
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