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For the second time since first losing my hair over a decade ago, I have hair. Not a lot of hair, not long hair, not normally textured hair, but hair. What I mean is that the total area of my ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post When Bald Beats Hair Loss

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For the second time since first losing my hair over a decade ago, I have hair. Not a lot of hair, not long hair, not normally textured hair, but hair. What I mean is that the total area of my ...

When Bald Beats Hair Loss

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I’ve been a fan of the Bald Barbie idea since I first heard about it. I followed the debate that grew out of it and initially kept my voice of support to myself as I understand the voices of ...

The Beauty Behind the Bald Barbie Movement

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One in five UK women with hair loss feel neglected by their doctors. If you ladies thought you might get better care here in the US, think again, not in this Alopecian’s experience. If a man ...

Wanted: Doctor Who Gets My Response to Hair Loss

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As an Alopecian, the hardest part of hair loss for me is that I am assumed to be sick, or more specifically, to have cancer. Not only don’t I have cancer, but beyond my immune system’s assault on ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post The Hardest Part of Hair Loss

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As an Alopecian, the hardest part of hair loss for me is that I am assumed to be sick, or more specifically, to have cancer. Not only don’t I have cancer, but beyond my immune system’s assault on ...

The Hardest Part of Hair Loss

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My poor mom! She has a cold. She has Lymphoma. And if that isn’t enough, her doctors “floxed” her. A week ago, she was running a low-grade fever, so I placed a weekend call to her ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post “Floxed” Again

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I might be in the minority, but I am okay with Facebook’s decision to censor The Scar Project’s photos of topless women exposing the scars they’ve accumulated in their battles with breast cancer. ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Why I Support Facebook's Censoring of The Scar Project's Photos

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I might be in the minority, but I am okay with Facebook’s decision to censor The Scar Project’s photos of topless women exposing the scars they’ve accumulated in their battles with breast cancer. ...

Why I Support Facebook's Censoring of The Scar Project's Photos

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I might be in the minority, but I am okay with Facebook’s decision to censor The Scar Project’s photos of topless women exposing the scars they’ve accumulated in their battles with breast cancer. ...

Why I Support Facebook's Censoring of The Scar Project's Photos

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If I told you there was an online “hair loss support” site dedicated to supporting those of us (men, women, and children) with hair loss, maybe you’d think, “That’s great!” If I told you that ...

Blinded by Hair Loss Help Sites

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Sounds like Bald Barbie is in the works and she’ll have company. MGA’s Bratz and Moxie Girlz are losing their locs as well in solidarity with Bald Barbie and all the doll-loving young girls out ...

Bald Barbie Goes Beaubeau®

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More and more studies are telling us that breast cancer screens lead to unnecessary treatment. I think it all boils down to your focal point, population vs. individual. Medical recommendations ...

The Dual Realities of Breast Cancer Screening

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Not so fast Myriad Genetics. Back to court with you so the judicial system can reconsider the decision to uphold your patents on OUR BRCA genes. Good news for we BRCA mutation carriers, bad news ...

Who Owns Your Breast Cancer Genes?

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I’ve wasted so much time wishing my hair would grow back. I’m done with it. I don’t even want it to grow back because it just falls out again and I have to ride the same old roller coaster. So ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Wishing for Male Pattern Baldness

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I’ve wasted so much time wishing my hair would grow back. I’m done with it. I don’t even want it to grow back because it just falls out again and I have to ride the same old roller coaster. So ...

Wishing for Male Pattern Baldness

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I want hair. I so want hair. I want it to grow thick and long and luscious and to never stop growing. Careful what I wish for. While I so miss a normal head of hair, I’ve never mourned the ...

Hair In All the Wrong Places

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Alopecia made the list! Of “My Extreme Afflictions” that is. It’s a series on ABC’s news show, 20/20, in which they are covering some truly bizarre health inflictions. It was emotionally ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Our Extreme Afflictions

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Alopecia made the list! Of “My Extreme Afflictions” that is. It’s a series on ABC’s news show, 20/20, in which they are covering some truly bizarre health inflictions. It was emotionally ...

Our Extreme Afflictions

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My poor mom! She has a cold. She has Lymphoma. And if that isn’t enough, her doctors “floxed” her. A week ago, she was running a low-grade fever, so I placed a weekend call to her ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post “Floxed” Again

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What does a woman do when she wakes up and discovers half of her eyebrow missing? No, it was not one of those college pranks in which mischievous things happen while sleeping. This is alopecia ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post The Case of the Missing Eyebrow

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What does a woman do when she wakes up and discovers half of her eyebrow missing? No, it was not one of those college pranks in which mischievous things happen while sleeping. This is alopecia ...

The Case of the Missing Eyebrow

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Cancer stuns us, often to the point it is hard to think straight, hard to turn off the thoughts, and especially hard to organize our thoughts (especially once the chemo fog rolls in). Suddenly, ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post What to Bring to Chemo

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Cancer stuns us, often to the point it is hard to think straight, hard to turn off the thoughts, and especially hard to organize our thoughts (especially once the chemo fog rolls in). Suddenly, ...

What to Bring to Chemo

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The dust has settled ever so slightly on the Komen-Planned Parenthood eruption. It seems everyone and their cousin has weighed in on the issue. Meanwhile, I’ve listened. My overall perception ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Komen Blues

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The dust has settled ever so slightly on the Komen-Planned Parenthood eruption. It seems everyone and their cousin has weighed in on the issue. Meanwhile, I’ve listened. My overall perception ...

Komen Blues

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Screening Saves Lives. We’re bombarded with the message. Colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, bowel cancer, cervical cancer, you name it cancer, heart tests, blood cholesterol tests, on and ...

When Found Early Doesn't Translate into Treated Early

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How many surrendered body parts does it take to truly cheat cancer by BRCA mutation? 4 and counting…. A majority of women who test positive for a BRCA mutation view prophylactic mastectomy as ...

Cheating Cancer One Body Part at a Time

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Who would’ve thought Barbie could rise to the pinnacle of cancer politics? And still climbing. In a country in which approximately 12,400 children are diagnosed with cancer each year (and the ...

Many Sides to Bald Barbie

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Could hair tests someday provide a viable alternative to mammograms? An Australian research consortium is exploring the possibility after discovering that hair from women with breast cancer had a ...

Can Our Hair Reveal Breast Cancer?

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There’s looking for love in all the wrong places, and then there’s looking for (and keeping) love with all the wrong head wear. Can a bald woman find, or better yet, be the recipient of romantic ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Is There Love After Hair Loss?

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There’s looking for love in all the wrong places, and then there’s looking for (and keeping) love with all the wrong head wear. Can a bald woman find, or better yet, be the recipient of romantic ...

Is There Love After Hair Loss?

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What a difference a year makes. Last year, I was writing a ‘Holiday Blawg’ due to my Mom’s diagnosis of Lymphoma two weeks before Christmas. It was very hard for me to put any cheer into the ...

CHASING CANCER BRINGS HOLIDAY GRATITUDE

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Hair loss is something that happens to us. Be it a side effect of chemotherapy, a thyroid disorder, a hormone imbalance, or our immune system’s decision to attack our hair follicles, hair loss ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Hair Loss the Hard Way

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Hair loss is something that happens to us. Be it a side effect of chemotherapy, a thyroid disorder, a hormone imbalance, or our immune system’s decision to attack our hair follicles, hair loss ...

Hair Loss the Hard Way

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There is one common thread that runs through human cancer stories - a renewed appreciation for life and love. Why is it that it too often takes serious questions of health or life to help us ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Whipple Reflections

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There is one common thread that runs through human cancer stories - a renewed appreciation for life and love. Why is it that it too often takes serious questions of health or life to help us ...

Whipple Reflections

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Bless me father - I just committed the cardinal sin for an Alopecian. I, Susan Beausang, an 11-year veteran of Alopecia, assumed that another person with hair loss had cancer. What was I ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post A Cardinal Sin

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Bless me father - I just committed the cardinal sin for an Alopecian. I, Susan Beausang, an 11-year veteran of Alopecia, assumed that another person with hair loss had cancer. What was I ...

A Cardinal Sin

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As Thanksgiving approaches, I have even more cause than usual to reflect on just what I am most grateful for this year. All around me, all around you, are growing numbers of families who this ...

COUNTING BLESSINGS

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So now I have hair - and now I have to maintain it. In my previous posts, I lamented about my new Alopecia hair and how unnatural the new hair is - very strange color of charcoal and very coarse ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post The High Cost of Hair

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So now I have hair - and now I have to maintain it. In my previous posts, I lamented about my new Alopecia hair and how unnatural the new hair is - very strange color of charcoal and very coarse ...

The High Cost of Hair

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A young woman who will remain unnamed recently shared with me her feelings about mammograms. As a Previvor, someone who surrendered her real breasts to avoid a breast cancer diagnosis, I do not ...

Another Year, Another Mammogram Lecture

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Is it just coincidence, or is the moon in hair growth phase? I’ve noticed that a number of my Alopecian friends on Facebook are experiencing hair regrowth and for the 2nd time in 11 years, I too ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Even Alopecians Get Hair

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Is it just coincidence, or is the moon in hair growth phase? I’ve noticed that a number of my Alopecian friends on Facebook are experiencing hair regrowth and for the 2nd time in 11 years, I too ...

Even Alopecians Get Hair

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I bet even those living on the moon have heard about Steve Jobs’ passing due to pancreatic cancer. Like many, I feel very impacted by his death. Like many who have lost loved one’s to that ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post Pancreatic Cancer On My Mind

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I bet even those living on the moon have heard about Steve Jobs’ passing due to pancreatic cancer. Like many, I feel very impacted by his death. Like many who have lost loved one’s to that ...

Pancreatic Cancer On My Mind

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Every year, there are more and more stories about young women, many not yet mothers, who are pursuing genetic testing and joining a growing Club of Previvors. As I read their stories, I am deeply ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post WHAT I WISH I KNEW BEFORE GENETIC TESTING

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Every year, there are more and more stories about young women, many not yet mothers, who are pursuing genetic testing and joining a growing Club of Previvors. As I read their stories, I am deeply ...

WHAT I WISH I KNEW BEFORE GENETIC TESTING

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It’s finally cooling down here in the sunshine state, to the point that those early morning runs feel good - still sweaty, but not gasping. Thank goodness. I need all the inspiration I can get ...

Susan Beausang commented on Susan Beausang's post A GOOD EXCUSE TO EXERCISE