From NY1…
Most women say one of the most devastating and challenging parts of dealing with cancer is losing their hair. In the following report, NY1 Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel has more on what someone who’s been through it herself is doing to help.
You might want to call her “the Avon lady” with a twist. Six years ago, Sheril Cohen was slaving away on Wall Street. But then cancer, and the resulting hair loss changed her life.
“I returned to work and people started, women started calling me. They’d say, ‘Will you talk to my next door neighbor’s aunt? Will you talk to my best friend from college?’ People would call me under the premise of wanting to hear about my illness because they had just gotten diagnosed, but always the conversation turned to hair,” she says.
Cohen was not only frustrated by the loss of her own waist-long hair– which has since grown back, but also the awkwardness of coping with illness and shopping for a wig in public at the same time. So she decided to create a service that brings the wig-shopping home for women dealing with hair loss from cancer and other diseases.
“When I was sick, I wanted no one to know that I was sick. I didn’t want my doorman to know that there was something wrong with me, I mean I wanted no one to know,” she says. “It was very difficult finding a wig that looked just like my long hair. I didn’t think it would be such an ordeal but it was.”
Cohen’s business, called “Girl on the Go,” brings a selection of wigs right to her clients’ front doors. A stylist also usually comes along, who actually cuts the hair to match your current haircut or any other look you might want.
Her client Agnes Nusspickel who’s been battling cancer since 2004, says Cohen’s on-the-go wig service gave her back a freedom hair-loss from cancer almost took away.
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