If you feel inspired to donate your hair, then keep reading. I thought, well, if I’m going to lose it anyway, maybe if I keep giving it away, I’ll get to keep it longer? And so, for the second time only a month ago, off went 20 inches with a hope and a blessing. In fact, there are millions who suffer from diseases like mine, including alopecia, trichotillomania, cancer, and more. When I was first diagnosed with lupus, I learned that dramatic hair loss is often a symptom of flare-ups.
Personally, I started donating for the same reason. “And it’s good karma in case I ever find myself in need of someone else’s help.” “I was young and knew it would grow back,” she says. Sara Turney Gentile is one of those people she grew out her hair for all four years of college and donated it. Those who haven’t personally experienced hair loss often do it for karmic credit. Katie’s survival story is only one of many perspectives as to why people make the conscious decision to grow out and donate their hair. “She’s already seen me do it twice,” Katie says, proudly, “I just chopped it off in February!” Today, Katie donates once every four years, and one day, she will explain to her daughter Brooklyn the reason why. This inspired her to become a hair donor once she finished her treatments and was able to grow her mane back. “I saw firsthand that it gave many girls and boys a little extra comfort, confidence, and normalcy during a difficult experience.” That said, many of the kids and teens she met during her journey did choose to wear wigs. “Bald felt more natural and more me,” she notes. When she eventually lost her locks, she decided not to wear a wig, and instead, showed off her sharply beautiful bone structure by embracing her baldness. So she decided to have some fun before it did. “I knew the chemo would make it fall out,” she says.
She geared up for war by making a bold statement with her hair: she dyed it blue. Katie Stockhammer-DeSimone was only 16 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
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