Amazing Bella!

    A week ago, I met the most beautiful and welcoming 8 year old, Bella.  From talking to Bella for 5 minutes, I was honored to meet her and learn so much about this amazing individual and the horrific disease she carries. Bella is diagnosed with a hair loss disease called Alopecia since the age of two. Alopecia has completely took Bell's hair and has left her head completely bald. At the time of meeting her, Bella wore a purple scarf to cover her head but she understood why she is in such a situation or what is targeting her hair. Bella seemed so happy and she had an amazing smile that was so welcoming and was is very proud of the way she looks. Bella was even more excited to tell me she just arrived from an Alopecia convention in Michigan which i didn't even know such a thing exist.
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This is BELLA!
    Many of you are probably wondering why am i writing about Bella. Bella and i have something in common; Bella and I are both diagnosed with Alopecia. Alopecia targeted me 13 years ago and I continue to live with it everyday. My brown hair started to fall out during my 7th grade of middle school. I remember when I was doing a math worksheet and the worksheet was completely covered with hair; my own hair. After numerous treatments, nothing seemed to work and until to this day nothing has worked. I continue to wake up every morning shaving my patches even some people say my head looks like a map sometimes or some say the bald style works for me.
 

As the more I sit here and think, I can never picture Bella go through the same suffering that I have gone through. At 12 years of age, i never expected of having a disease even after multiple doctors attempted to explain it to me numerous times. I hated life at the time. I missed school for a month and even after going back it was very hard for me to adjust. At the time of this terrible and challenging time of my life, I became closer to my family and my religion. 

    Bella is a strong young lady and I am certain she will face some hard time in her life and she will be asked many questions and also face many difficult individuals but she will overcome those challenges by educating others about Alopecia. Bella also has an outstanding support especially from her mother as I witnessed at the park.

   I am so grateful to meet an amazing courageous person and I am so pumped to write this article. I also want to thank Bella’s mother by giving me the permission to write about her wonderful little precious daughter. We will overcome this ongoing pain.