Okay, so I must say I have experienced exactly what you are going through. Yes, I lost lots and LOTS of hair during and after my pregnancy. My baby is 13 months old now and my hair is still growing back. I am having to buy a whole bunch of head bands to hold back the growing hair. Without these headbands, I look like Albert Einstein! As far as scalp treatment goes, I highly recommend a product by Arbonne. It is called Thermal Fusion hair and scalp revitalizer. At first I didn't think this would work (being that I tried countless others). I tell you what.... IT WORKS! The product is well worth it's price. It has and is still making a difference with my hair. It actually feels good on the scalp. Seriously, buy it... you'll thank me later! Below you will find a link to the Arbonne website. You will have to buy it from an Arbonne consultant. When in their webpage, click on the link "Locate a consultant". It is really worth it. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: Arbonne

My cousin called me one day last August to "come get whatever you want out of your mother's storage building, because the rent's up at the end of the month." My brothers, their wives, & my cousin had already been through it: My mother's sister (my cousin's mother) hadn't been up to sifting through stuff at the time: she was in her mid-seventies, she was recovering from a virus, it was August in Texas, & the storage building was a metal structure on a concrete slab. So I went down & started going through things. About an hour into my explorations, I called my cousin & asked him to get his mother to meet me at the building. The things that were left were *mostly* trash & junk, but I knew there was some reason that some of that stuff had been kept all these years. I had a box for myself, a box to take to my mother's church for their kitchen, & a box for trash. When my aunt arrived, I showed her the books I'd started tossing into the trash. She was aghast: "This is Mama's geometry book!" Her mother, my grandmother, was a pioneer: She had graduated from high school in an era when most girls dropped out in about the 8th grade & helped out at home until they married. Back then, you had to pay for your own schoolbooks. This book had her name in the front, & her pencilled notes in the margins. and there were a couple of more of her books in there, too. So those books had been passed down & passed around for about 70 years, & my brothers, my brothers' wives, & my cousin, not knowing that they were, had left them for me to probably throw in the trash. Thank goodness I called my aunt! She kept the schoolbooks. When she, as she puts it, "can no longer enjoy them", my cousin is to be sure that they go to her brother or to one of us cousins or another descendant. Since my brother now has a grandson, the books could one day belong to the original owner's great-great-grandchild.

Great tip, I hate that stuff and do my best to avoid buying plants grown in it but it is not always possible. I had an African violet growing in the stuff, I ended up having to remove half its leaves and roots to save it and repotting. The only thing peat is good for that I know of is for bog plants.

Many plants have, as part of their normal morphology, adaptive appendages (trichomes) that form on leaves and/or herbaceous stems. Depending on their form and function, there are more than 20 botanic adjectives used to describe these appendages. The trichomes on your plant would be described as 'pubescent', which isn't on the list except as a variation of 'puberlulant' (#14) FWIW - the plant is toxic to cats. Al Arachnoid: Cobwebby--soft, entangled hairs. Barbellate: Hairs with barbs down the sides. Bearded: Long, stiff hairs. Bristly: Stiff hairs. Canescent: Dense grayish-white hairs. Ciliate: Hairs along leaf margin forming a fringe. Floccose: Tufts of soft, woolly hairs. Glandular: Hairs with enlarged gland at tip. Hirsute: Stiff hairs, rough to the touch. Hispid: Stiff (rigid), bristly hairs--may penetrate skin. Hoary: Covered with short fine hairs (white down). Lanate: Woolly or cottony hairs. Pilose: Sparse, soft and straight hairs. Puberlulent: Minutely pubescent (diminutive of pubescent). Scabrous: Rough to the touch due to short, stiff hairs. Sericeous: Appressed, fine and straight hairs (silky). Stellate: Star-shaped hairs (common in Malvaceae). Strigose: Sharp, straight, appressed hairs. Tomentose: Densely matted, soft white wool (tomentum). Villous: Long and soft hairs (shaggy)--not matted. Woolly: Long, soft entangled hairs (similar to tomentose). Al