Extra Innings

Eyebrows: DONE        Eyelashes: Week 9

Day 64 (April 8, 2019)

Hey Big Guy,

            So, as you can tell we are now officially past the eight-week mark, but that is okay. There is no need to beat myself up, or feel too terribly disappointed, that I did not make the typical end date for both my eyebrows and eyelashes. My eyebrows are still looking nice and that encourages me to keep up the fight with my eyelashes. If I were to guess, my eyelashes most likely have one-and-a-half weeks—two weeks tops—left in their re-growth timeline. I just need to exercise the little patience I have left in order to not pull. (I already have been scraping the bottom of the barrel, but maybe there is a bit left in that crevice over there . . .)

            Gosh, the thing is Lord, it is so hard to exercise patience when I feel like I should be done. Don’t get me wrong, I totally own up to the fact that I pulled when I should not have, and it is my fault I am having to go longer than the usual eight weeks in order to see full growth in my eyelashes. It is just such a bummer that an error on my part has pushed the battle into extra innings. I guess, on the bright side, it could be way worse haha. My eyelashes could have decided to not grow back at all. Sooo, I suppose I will take my eyelashes being on their own time frame, over no time frame at all.

            Lord, looking at the right side of my right eyelash line, you can tell the once short hairs have definitely grown in a bit longer and that makes me so happy. Now, what makes me even happier is that there seem to be some even smaller hairs sprouting up, and growing, in amongst the, now, medium length ones. That points towards the likelihood of having a nicely filled in hairline by the end of all this. (Lord, I do not want to sound vain but, dang, that sounds mighty pretty to me.) It is these kinds of small things (literally lol) that help me see the light at the end of the tunnel. The wait time is on one hand—two(ish) more weeks. That is doable, Lord. (Plus, who doesn’t like a come from behind, walk-off, win in extra innings—makes the victory that much more dramatic and notable in my mind.) Kind of like changing the narrative, of a possible negative situation, into more of a comeback story. I like that, Lord.

Always,

Your Daughter Kaitlan

P.S. Lord, please help those struggling with hair pulling to see that being in extra innings does not mean that they have to start their hair growth journey all over again. Yes, they might have made their lives a little bit harder, by pulling mid-growth, but all is not lost. They stopped before irrevocable damage was done, and they battled their way back. Each person put in the necessary hard work, and now they just need to make the final push to victory. Lord, in these extra weeks, please help them—and me—to continually visualize the positive hair growth already achieved because it can definitely encourage the extra patience needed to embrace the unexpected new time frame and it can encourage the extra mojo needed not to pull.

Lord, I do not have to explain to you how important encouragement is in weeks such as these. (The shorter hairs, at this point in the timeline, are sooo close to looking like the already completely grown in hairs elsewhere!) So, all I ask is that you please provide all of us, dealing with Trichotillomania, an endless supply of encouragement as we battle through the extra innings in our hair re-growth timeline because, Lord, this is it—it’s the final up to bats—and we need you to help us pull out a win. Thank you.   

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