So What's the Deal With This Blog?
I'm glad you asked!
My name is Cassie Eckelman, and I have alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes my hair to fall out - resulting in partial baldness.
I wanted to create this blog to be a way to spread information, coping skills, and even add some humor into living with alopecia every day.
Originally, I came up with the idea when I was younger, as I have been dealing with alopecia in varying forms since I was about ten years old. I was looking for an approachable way to figure out what was happening to me, but all I was finding were medical websites and sites geared towards adults - not the most comforting thing as a young adult.
Putting my idea into action took a little longer however, but I finally got started my senior year of high school as apart of my Girl Scout Gold Award project. The emphasis of a Gold Award project, the highest level of honor as a Girl Scout, is to create a sustainable project that gives back to a community in need. For me, there was no better community to assist than my own - young adults struggling with hair loss, especially alopecia.
Alopecia affects 2.1% of the American population, but it can still feel like a lonely and isolating disease. I hope this blog can make it seem a little less frightening.
My name is Cassie Eckelman, and I have alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes my hair to fall out - resulting in partial baldness.
I wanted to create this blog to be a way to spread information, coping skills, and even add some humor into living with alopecia every day.
Originally, I came up with the idea when I was younger, as I have been dealing with alopecia in varying forms since I was about ten years old. I was looking for an approachable way to figure out what was happening to me, but all I was finding were medical websites and sites geared towards adults - not the most comforting thing as a young adult.
Putting my idea into action took a little longer however, but I finally got started my senior year of high school as apart of my Girl Scout Gold Award project. The emphasis of a Gold Award project, the highest level of honor as a Girl Scout, is to create a sustainable project that gives back to a community in need. For me, there was no better community to assist than my own - young adults struggling with hair loss, especially alopecia.
Alopecia affects 2.1% of the American population, but it can still feel like a lonely and isolating disease. I hope this blog can make it seem a little less frightening.
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