Carleigh Edwards was so upset about her hair loss that she took showers in the dark and turned her back to the mirror to avoid seeing herself. Here's how all of that changed.
sent out a distress signal to the world.
“I remember the exact day,” Edwards tells TODAY.com. “She was eating breakfast and said, ‘Mommy, what is this?’ And she put her finger underneath her hair. It was a spot maybe a little bit bigger than a dime.”Courtesy Courtney Edwards Carleigh struggled so much that she started taking showers in the dark, switching off the lights before she walked into the bathroom, and turning her back to the mirror so she wouldn’t have to see herself, her mom recalls. On especially dark days, Carleigh would find piles of her own hair on the floor. Picking up the strands, Carleigh would hand them over to her mother with tears and apologies.
“That was hard,” Edwards recalls, blinking back tears. “As a seven-year-old, having needles stuck into your head. She was brave. She just amazes me.”For some time, the treatments seemed to ward off Carleigh’s alopecia symptoms. Then Thanksgiving weekend arrived.
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