BELLEISLE CREEK, N.B. – A group of women are going to great lengths to support a friend battling cancer. They’ve all taken razors and shaved their heads, going bald to show their friend what she means to them and that she’s not alone.
Donna Watters says friendship trumps vanity.
“That’s about all I can do is be there and do this,” she said.
Watters and a group of bald beauties shaved off their locks in support of their longtime friend Carol Beckett. Beckett was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall and started chemotherapy treatments in January.
“It’s overwhelming to me. As of yesterday there have been 14 people that have shaved their heads for me,” said Beckett.
Jane Jarvis was the one who came up with the idea.
“So much of it she has to bare alone, you know, the physical part of cancer and treatment,” she said.”
“So I thought to make a statement and really help Carol and support her I could do this and she would not be bald alone.”
Beckett says she just can’t believe the lengths her friends have gone to to show their support.
“I said they are all crazy!”
The ladies do admit that at first, the thought of losing their locks was a little unsettling.
“Well that’s my hair it’s a part of who I am right and then the more I got thinking about it I was like it’s just hair, I can grow it back,” said Beckett’s sister Cheryl Huntley.
She says the loss pales in comparison to the battle her sister is going through.
Because that battle is a scary one, says Beckett. But her bald buddies are making her battle a little easier to bare.
“Oh, it helps big time nobody knows how much it’s helped.”
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