Locks of Love........?

Question

I hear a lot of people bad mouthing them because they help give wigs to any child with medical related hair loss instead of Just kids with cancer. Specifically, I encountered a person today who was all bent over it.

Does that really matter? Does any child deserve to be bald just because its not cancer that made them bald?

Answer 1

As a cancer patient can I say I TOTALLY agree with giving a wig to any child - or adult - that needs it.

In fact, as a cancer patient I am embarrassed sometimes at the amount of attention we get, in comparison with people who are just as ill, but don't have a high profile illness, and get neglected.

So keep up the good work for everybody, whatever their condition.

Answer 2

Does it matter to you that children with cancer are routinely denied a wig from locks of love? Denied. They don't qualify.

It's the odd policies of the locks of love organization that is the problem . . not the healthy kids who do get wigs. Locks of Love overwhelmingly receives hair donations from people interested in helping children who have had cancer get a wig. Yet the policy of Locks of Love prohibits giving children with short term hair loss a wig. The majority of kids with cancer have short term hair loss. Thus they are denied a wig from Locks of Love. So who receives the wig . . children who are healthy and who do not have cancer. That is the policy established by this organization. There is also a question about honesty . . just exactly who benefits from all the donated hair the organization receives . . locks of love is run by a hair business . . why in the world can't they provide a wig for every single child that asks for one, no matter if it is a short term or long term hair loss medical condition. Other wig organizations do it and no child suffering a medical related hair loss is denied.

If you want to donate your hair to healthy kids suffering hair loss . . that is fine . . but if you want to honor a cancer patient and show support .  . it is annoying that your hair will rarely be given to that child with cancer.  Especially when there are hair loss organizations that DO use the hair donation and give the child with cancer a wig.

That's the difference. If it does not matter to you, that is fine . .but people have a right to know if they are honoring a person with cancer by donating their hair . . or if they are just giving their hair to healthy kids.

One organization that does provide wigs for any child with cancer . . short or long term hair loss . . or any medical condition including alopecia areata is:

Wigs for Kids

http://www.wigsforkids.org/

Ask yourself . . with the huge amount of donated hair that locks of love receives . . why do they have this policy of denying children with short term hair loss . . with cancer . . a wig? Unfortunately the reason may be that children with cancer die . . why waste a wig on a child that is going to live long enough to benefit from one of their wigs. A child with cancer does not have the luxury of waiting to see if they will have a 'long term' hair loss . . because they could lose all their hair, be bald, feel as badly as that healthy child . . and than die . . still bald. That is what makes people angry about the policy.

Answer 3

  it doesnt matter to me at all.  any medical reason for hair loss is good enough as far as im concerned.  acting like cancer is the only medical reason for hair loss is stupid.  

Answer 4

No.

Answer 5

I don't think that baldness is needed but it helps...really does. I have a distant cousin, he had cancer, but his hair was falling by itself...i think it is a side effect of cancer.