You are getting very sleepy

I'm sorry for once again disappearing from the world of blogging. It's been a tough few months for me and I've been doing a lot of self inflection. Somehow I've managed to achieve complete happiness with my professional life but my personal life, or at least personal issues, are struggling. If only i could figure out how to achieve success and happiness in both at the same time.

My new firm is going great and it has been a lot of work but I love every moment. My family is doing well and my relationship is still going strong, in fact, we just booked a trip to Italy and will be going in May. I think that is actually my motivation for trying to move forward with the pieces I've let drop.

Trich and I are battling each other once again. I have not fully reverted back to my old pulling ways (where I would be completely hairless) but I'm not doing as well as I was a few months ago and I'm by no means pull free. The eyebrows are still the worst and the eyelashes are thin and, at least in my mind, need make up to compensate for what is lacking.

For the last 2 months I've been in a lot of pain due to a back injury. They recently (and finally) discovered 2 herniated disks in my upper back after insisting for years (and countless lower back MRI's) that it was nothing and giving me medication. After my trip in January, when it became difficult to even walk, I finally started demanding answers. Fast forward to now and I am JUST getting back to the gym and my active lifestyle back. So now I'm 15 pounds heavier than I'd like (it's not an issue of being heavy as much as I just dont FEEL good in my own skin which I think is more important than the number).

So now I'm back to trying to tackle both. It's so frustrating to constantly have this cycle but I guess it is what it is and it could always be worse. Over the last few weeks I've spoken with different people about "bad habits" (although I will say I do not think trich is a habit) and at some point it was suggested to me that I try hypnosis. I will admit that I am skeptical and the money is definitely the biggest issue. I spoke to one woman today, Nancy Donenfeld, who says she has worked with about 50 trich patients in close to 30 years and that at least 40 of them had great success. The cost is $440 for the first session, $390 for the second, then $290 for the third, and $190 for any after that. She said that often it will work in the first or second session (and the person who referred her to me said it worked after one session).

As of now I have a tentative appointment for next Thursday. I will give the woman credit that she is certainly persuasive in getting you to set up an appointment! I've thought about it off and on and I think really if it was maybe $200 I'd do it in a heartbeat. I feel like I'm now at a crossroads- spending $1000 to possibly have freedom from trich? Seems like it could be worth it but I also think part of me is so afraid that this is my last resort and if this fails, what if I cant beat it on my own? Wow, writing does help. I think I just realized my biggest issue with it. Hmm..... well, i'm going to go sleep on that but if you have suggestions or comments I'd love to hear them.

Once again, I'm sorry for not writing for so long and hope that you have had better luck with trich these last few months than I have!