Help, I’m Losing My Hair

Inheriting the family baldness

My balding head. Photo by author.

It runs in the family. I have no choice in life but to be mostly bald when I die.

Men

My dad was completely bald by the time he was 25. His dad was bald and so were his brothers.

His sons, my brothers, are all mostly bald, and their sons are too.

My dad and me. Photo copyright author

Women

My mother is mostly bald. She has always had super thin hair and when the wind blows she really looks bald.

Her mother was mostly bald and wore a wig. Her sisters were mostly bald and wore wigs too.

I remember one time catching one of my aunts at home with no wig on when we went to visit her and she was sick. A strand of hair here, and a strand of hair there. She was almost completely bald.

My sister and I have thinning hair and when the wind blows we both look more bald than we are. And if the sun shines just right on my head I probably look bald to anyone looking at me.

Now my daughter is talking about investing in a hair transplant because she is only 33 and her hair is starting to thin. I told her I…