When young lives are touched by cancer, a roller coaster ride of emotional highs and lows can deeply affect patients, families, and caregivers. Among the many challenges especially traumatic for ...
Most cancer survivors say that losing your hair is one of the most difficult transitions to deal with after a diagnosis. For kids undergoing chemotherapy, this shock can be especially traumatizing.
Volunteers around the world are bringing smiles to children's faces with yarn. — -- What started out as one wig made for the daughter of a friend has become thousands of wigs made for children ...
Maiya Lima was only 5 years old when her mother noticed a small bald patch on the back of her head. More patches began to appear in the weeks and months that followed in 2015. Her mother, Emmanuela ...
Delivered by pirates to So Original Yarn Studio in Columbia, a large box filled with skeins of multicolored yarn was indeed a treasure chest for recipient Brittany Harrison. As the Baltimore area ...
A Derby hair salon is transforming young cancer patients into their favorite Disney princess or movie character. Revive Spa and Salon just started the Kansas chapter of The Magic Yarn Project, a ...
Holly Christiensen, co-founder of The Magic Yarn Project, creates magical yarn wigs by hand, and sends them to girls around the world battling cancer. Every little girl deserves long flowing locks ...
Childhood cancer can be devastating for so many reasons, but one of the biggest is that between all of the appointments, chemo sessions and side effects, there isn’t always time to just be a kid. One ...
RIVER RIDGE – A group of local volunteers are spending hours upon hours on a labor of love after an Alaska woman created a special head of hair for her daughter battling cancer. Dozens of women and ...
Maiya Lima was only 5 years old when her mother noticed a small bald patch on the back of her head. More patches began to appear in the weeks and months that followed in 2015. Her mother, Emmanuela ...