We have not been on here for quite some time. Nicky is 10 now and doing pretty well with his alopecia, he has been growing several really large patches of black hair since early summer and has very thick eye lashes, the last week or so though he has noticed his eyebros getting thinner, he's feeling upset about that but we have tried encouraging him as much as possible, anyway he is wanting to take over this page that I had originally set up a few years ago so I'm sure he will be on here soon… Continue

Nicky went back to public school this year. He started 3rd grade on Monday. I went in with him today and we did a little 5-10 minute presentation all about Alopecia. I was very nervous standing up in front of 70+ 3rd graders as I'm sure Nicky was too. But we got through it and it really seemed to help. When I took questions one little girl asked me if she could catch it from Nicky, another asked if he would die, once I went back and explained that he was otherwise very healthy and not… Continue

Nick started his new school today. He goes to a private Christian school a stone throw from my work. We just could not get him adjusted in his last school. His self esteem had gotten better, but some teasing still persisted and the staff just wouldn't deal with that in a effective manner. Which I truley believed caused Nicky to be a "class clown", thus causing some of his negative behavior.



He went into his new classroom today, which was 14 other children from the ages of 8-16, they… Continue

Wow, is all I think each time we look on this site. I am still in awe for all of you wonderful people. I wanted to post an update on the dilema that Nicky is facing at school. It seems as if this site as opened up a new world for Nicky. He doesn't concentrate on his alopecia as much anymore since he has seen a whole world of people that live with his diagnosis. It seems as if when he gained more self confidence/self acceptance that his peers accepted him more. Things are going better for him.… Continue

I wanted to say thank you to all those who responded to our last post and accepted us as friends. Thank you all for your lovely comments.

Nicholas Peyton (Nicky) was born in June 2001, he is the youngest of 5 children. Nicky had beautiful dark brown hair, and smiled almost instantly. He was a healthy newborn. When he was 2 weeks old he was put in the hospital with a high fever, it lasted several days, we never did know what it was. Nicky began loosing his hair. I was not alarmed because my other two sons lost thier hair as babies to. Nicky had GERD (reflux) really bad, they switch his formula several times. His hair quickly grew… Continue