I have been on crutches for over 2 months. I broke my leg playing hockey and even though the bone is healing nicely I also did quite a nice number on my tendons. So much so that they had to get out the Black & Decker power tools and square my ankle to my leg. Its the soft tissue that takes a long time so although there is no pain...
Last Friday I had a consultation with a woman who came to see me from out of province. She had been in email contact with one of my clients who she found on the web and since she was coming to Toronto for a conference she called ahead to see me about her thinning hair. She had classic female pattern thinning and had tried everything. We talked about her hair...
Stock shipments can be like a box of chocolates. (You know where this is going right?) When you are dealing with people on the other side of the world sometimes the slightest miscommunication can spell disaster. Fortunately disasters are rare. Quite possibly because Continental Hair has been working with roughly the same people for years and that I fly over to meet with them on a regular basis. One of...
I looked at the schedule this morning just like I always do and saw that one of my consultations was a current client. I did not recognize the name so I looked it up in the computer’s files. Still nothing. That meant that the client’s last visit was over four years ago. I would have her full details on the accounts computer kept off site. So I had no idea...
I had three clients come to see me on Saturday. These women have been clients for a long time so it is always great to see how things are moving along in their lives. They all have thinning hair caused by androgenetic alopecia. The first one was someone that I had not seen in years. She came in with her mother, like she did the first time three years ago....
A long time ago there was a hair designer in Toronto. One day a client walked in and told him of her appointment with a dermatologist. Okay, I’ll drop the fairy tale style. But this did really happen. My client was in her 20’s back then. She was very young and very attractive and still in school. But she had been thinning since she was in her late teens and...
