its GROWING BACK!!!! No its not like eye brows!!!

ITS GROWING BACK!!!!!
Horsie's hair on his head - his patchie...
It has little razor hairs growing thru...
THANK GOODNESS its not like some women's eye brows.

I mean my mom plucked her eye brows (or should I say OVER plucked)...
And well they didn't grow back...
so here I am... a mommy very HAPPY to have a tuft of hair the size of two R5 coins to start to grow back again...

WEIRD...what makes you happy these days...
Today its a tuft of hair that was literally ripped from my horsie's head a few weeks ago while he went round and round on a indoor swing in the OT room at school...could  have happened to any BOY...he is a boy...my horsie not just the face of autism.

Tomorrow it may be...happiness due to our horsie saying "doo doo" to sleep or finishing no less than 5 tasks his task master speechie (speech therapist) set him today, normally only doing 2.

Yesterday it could have been the fact that he basked in his new "cars" bed being put at his nana's house - as if he knew just how special he is and just how grown up he is - that he now has his own "BIG BOY" bed...he climbed into it smiling from ear to ear...excited and rapt by this bed...mommy even had to get on the bed and hold horsie...enveloping him with my love, my touch, my deep pressure.

You see its these TINY TINY things that make our day...make us smile...make us realise...

That yes its small...BUT THERE IS PROGRESS...

From the smallest tuft of hair growing...to the gleam of our Horsie's eye - filled with pride in his OWN sense of accomplishment - his VERY OWN BED!!!

"APACHIE"

OH MY WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY BOY HAS RIPPED A PATCH OF HAIR OUT OF HIS HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!

AND HE IS OK!!!!!!

HOW you may ask? Very innocently my gorgeous horsie was swinging in the therapy room at school on a occupational tummy swing...which he does almost daily because we have a similar swing at home too.

He somehow got his hair twisted in the chain/rope....

 and in an attempt to FREE himself he R I P P E D a chunk of hair out of his head!!!!

AND guess what...I am in Durban on a business trip...600km away... ofcourse I am....

Nana says it is NOT red swollen or tender and he does not seem fazed...

He did this yesterday and as we speak he is fine and it has not deterred him at all...

His poor beautiful hearted teachers are HEARTBROKEN and scarred as am I...

BUT AS FOR HORSIE...well he is calm, and smiley...aaaah heck NORMAL!!!!!

My nerves are SHOT and frayed and in disbelief...if it was me....I WOULD BE BROKEN IN PAIN!!!!

Then again I AM NO HORSIE!

LOVE YOU HORSIE