I am the mother of four children and two step-children. I have a total of twelve grandchildren and a husband with mild Alzheimer's disease. Life is unusual to say the least.
Several years back, my second youngest son (who had been a successful model), was diagnosed with cancer. It was a form of Lymphoma and there was no cure. There was an experimental chemotherapy program but no one had yet survived it. Without this option my son had about three months to live.
As a mother I was horrified and deeply depressed and my son was ready to give up. After much discussion he agreed to participate in the experimental chemo program and did so in the State of Washington under the care of a wonderful doctor who kept our spirits high and gave us constant encouragement.
Long story short, the treatment was a success and my son has been cancer free for several years now. There was a major side effect though; he lost most of his hair and it never grew back. This would be a problem for most people, but to a model it was life altering.
A family member had heard about National Hair Centers through Hair Loss Confidential, a reality show about individuals dealing with hair loss and the wonderful solutions that they offer. We submitted our story about my son and shortly thereafter we were contacted to partake in the show. It was not going to be easy to convince my son to go along with the program since he wanted his own hair and nothing else would do. Eventually, National Hair Centers suggested that we do an intervention and our family agreed.
It consisted of several family members gathering to read personal letters that we had each written to my son and were going to read out loud. We told him that he would be attending a birthday party for my three year old granddaughter so he would show up. We scheduled his arrival to come after we had all gathered and when he walked in to the house the cameras started to roll.
To say that he was shocked would be putting it mildly. He had a look of disbelief on his face when we told him why he was actually there. As each of us read him our own letter the tears began to flow and everyone was moved and shocked at how much emotion we had all stored up concerning my son's plight.
The end result was that my son went to National Hair Centers and got a full head of hair that looks as natural as his own hair used to be. Actually, I thought it looked much better since they made him cut his hair in strange spiky hairdos when he worked in Europe as a model. This was an amazing, natural look for him and he was thrilled. National hair enters took many professional photos of my son (and believe me when I tell you that as a former model, he demands professionalism when getting his picture taken). I was amazed at how he looked and so was everyone else in our family circle.
My son now posts his pictures on social networking sites and goes out on a regular basis just like he used to do before his illness and treatment. No longer does he constantly wear a baseball cap or any other type of hat and what was once a bunch of clumps of sparse hair on his head is now a great head of hair.
I am so grateful to both Hair Loss Confidential and National Hair Centers that I wanted to blog about them. I am hoping that other people read this story and call them for help in changing their own lives. I will list their website addresses so that anyone who wants too can check out these amazing places:
Hairlossconfidential.tv
Nationalhair.com
Meri (Proud Mom)
