2019 Paint the Paper Pink
Page 60 2019 Paint the Paper Pink Lincoln Daily News October 2019 Once a wig is selected, it is fitted to the client, and styled on their head. Sometimes wigs need a little bit of shaping to fit the face or a length adjustment. Kim and Judy are happy to work with their clients, because they understand the impact this small gesture can make on a warrior. Judy is a six time cancer survivor, who still struggles from time to time, but doesn’t let it stop her. She helps with the wig bank, actually doing most of it and she also works as a stylist at one of the local senior living facilities. Kim said there has been a time or two when she and her mom talked about giving the responsibility of the wig bank to someone else, but then something strange and kind of wonderful happened during a fitting one time. Kim explained that people don’t often see the tops of their heads. It’s practically impossible to get a mirror in a position where one can see the top and a lot of people don’t ever think about trying to look, or having someone else look. One day Judy was preparing a client for a fitting, and before doing so was looking at the shape of her head and noted something odd looking on the top of her head. It alarmed her enough that she felt compelled to tell her customer there was an odd spot there. She suggested the client might want to speak to her doctor about it. Sometime later, the client reached out to Judy and said that she wanted to thank the stylist for telling her about the spot. It turned out that when the doctor examined it and did the testing, the spot was an aggressive skin cancer that could have become life-threatening in only a short while. The client thanked Judy for perhaps saving her life from one cancer as she battled to survive another. Kim said after that, she and her mom knew that they were not ready to pass the torch to another stylist. The care and consideration they give to their clients is important to Kim and Judy, and they want to rest easy knowing that each client is treated with love and respect. In addition, they know that not everyone would have seen what Judy saw. Giving their clients that little extra bit of attention is why Judy and Kim both keep doing what they do. Karen Hargis remembers when her best friend lost her hair; it was a tough thing to go through. But the situation was made better Continued n
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