Yes, that's my hair in the photo. And yes, I'm shaving my head THIS COMING MONDAY to raise money for childhood cancer research!

I am excited to be a part of this event at MEMS.

I do not know any children who have or have had cancer but children should be able to have fun and be kids. They should have entire futures to look forward to and not need to worry if they'll even have a tomorrow. 

I am doing this because I'm lucky. There's a need that I can help meet. Some children have been dealt less lucky lives of pain, sickness, suffering, loss. Trauma. It's unfair. Children should play. They should imagine. Have dreams and wishes and futures. Be happy and healthy and innocent. I can't change their luck to mine. I can't cure them. 

Luckily, I have hair. 

My hair can make things just a little easier for kids who need the facade of normalcy in a hard, abnormal world. I can give them my hair so they can go to school, prom, or endure arduous hospital stays with a little bit of individual identity. 

A strand of normal. 

I can walk around - bald - with confidence and not be pitied, not be stigmatized, because I'm not sick. Because this was my choice and I'm proud to make it. Hopefully the stigma lifts just a little because of what we're doing so children who can't choose baldness don't need to cover their own hairless, still-developing heads with judgment and shame. 

We can offer them a strand of normal. 

Through your generous donations supporting everyone at this event, we can help scientists study the problems that desperately need solving. 

The hair that we're voluntarily shaving off our own heads to give to friends, family, or strangers in need is going to that cause. 

We are here to be someone's strand of normal.

Plus, I'm going to look really cool bald!

-Nessa B

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