Hats for Happiness
This is a Public Service Announcement
Listen up, ya hear?
I want to let you all know about a wonderful and worthy cause.
(Nope – I’m not begg’n for money for Gabe,
but that PayPal button in still up there on the left ; 😉
Please take a few minutes to read this…
it would make me very very happy
and when I’m happy, I tend to give stuff away!
I want to introduce you to my new friend CancerGirl,
and her sidekick Superdog.
She would like to tell you about
Hats for Happiness
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I have been asked a few times now, how it is that Hats For Happiness
got to come into being. Here is the story.
When I went through my first round of Chemotherapy and my hair began to fall out,
being a college student I was looking for a way to cover my head.
I was often wearing a black hoodie to cover up my having bald spots
(I tried to keep my hair as long as I could).
I went over the options that were available.
I could wear wigs, but they are expensive with a very nice
wig running in the hundreds.
They are also hot and I live in Florida and was concerned about that.
I thought about bandannas, and while they are not expensive,
nor hot, I felt that sometimes I would want to not have anyone
know I was even bald. and with the bandanna, isn’t much you can hide.
In discussing this dilemma with my family and friends,
I would over and over hear “I have some hats I could give you”
and they would produce 4 or 5 hats at a time that they had.
Hats they owned and most of the time never even wore.
Hats they got at conventions, promotions, as gifts, as souvenirs.
I started collecting these hats, and I would put them on,
one by one, and if it was a silly hat it would make me laugh,
if it was a baseball cap it would make me think of the logo or saying that was on it.
It got me to thinking, if the people I know all have
a few hats they have never worn, maybe a LOT of other people
also have hats they are not wearing.
I found that people that owned companies were more then willing
to give me a hat or two with their company logos.
I came up with an idea, what if a person when they were doing chemo
could pick out a hat right there in the doctors office.
What if there was a hat rack, with numerous hats, wigs, bandannas
that patients could choose from, to take with them.
They could take a silly hat, a hat that they would never wear in public,
but when they needed a lift from fighting the good fight,
they could put that hat on and think of how it is a special hat,
and maybe it will make them smile for the only time that day.
One of the things that was very upsetting to me
was having my picture taken. I was very self conscious about this.
I found that when I was wearing a hat,
the picture wasn’t as jarring as my having no hair.
I was able to smile in photos, and often smiled because
I was wearing a hat.
This is the story of the birth of Hats For Happiness.
To donate – send checks to:
Hats For Happiness
P.O. Box 114
Morriston, FL 32668
Go HERE to Hats for Happiness website.
There are addresses there for donations of hats:-)
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Go HERE to read about The adventures of CancerGirl
and her Service Dog (SD for short)
CancerGirl is a 32 year old woman who has been married
for almost 15 years to a wonderful man,
(we call him SH for short)
She has degenerative Disk Disease, and scoliosis.
She was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer in July.
She is a college student.
Her blog is her daily adventures of going to school,
undergoing cancer treatment, and trying to maintain a marriage.
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane. NO!! It’s Cancergirl!!!
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