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"The wig made people talk to me normally"
Two Margalit is tired of everything you talk to her being related to cancer and not to things she likes to do or misses doing.
The wig she received from Zichron Menachem, collected from the hair of about seven different women, gave her the strength to leave the house and gave her back the strength to fight
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Shani Margalit, guest article
Monday, 26 April 2021, 14:45 Updated: 15:03
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See only the cancer and not me.
Shani Margalit (Photo: courtesy of those photographed)
My name is Shani and I have cancer. Please note that it is important for me to clarify: I have cancer but I am not cancer. I'm not a disease. I'm two, I'm 18 and among all the things I am - I'm also a cancer patient. But not only. And yet, everywhere I go with my baldness, that's all I am. And all you're talking to me about is my illness, which I did not choose and I did not want, and yet in one moment it took over, not only my body, but also my whole environment, which suddenly sees only the cancer and not me.
You ask how I am, hope for my health, are interested in treatments - everything is well-intentioned, I'm sure, but it's all about this disease. And maybe I do not feel like talking about her? Did you think that maybe what I really need is for you to talk to me about the tennis I love so much? Or about the series I love, and what about those friends and the funny parts of the class? And what do you think of that Instagram photo that everyone is talking about?
It's still me, Monday, with all my hobbies and interests, only the cancer was added and the baldness was added and they both marked me stand out and shine among them all.
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And so I owe a big thank you to Zichron Menachem and the wig they gave me.
Because with the wig I am again me.
With the wig suddenly, without noticing at all, you talk to me like a normal person.
What does it sound like and how is it going, have you seen it?
Did you hear them?
Regular.
And it's amazing, but it's the power of your braid and yours that has made me - again - second.
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This wig, which is the result of a tremendous giving from at least seven other women, allowed me to look in the mirror and gave me the strength to get out of the house.
Understand, as an 18-year-old girl who until a moment ago worried about adulthood, to hear that I have cancer, it is the whole world that is collapsing.
really.
Fears that I do not wish on anyone and if existential anxiety is not enough also comes the chilling realization that my hair is about to fall out.
It's a terrible sense of helplessness.
Not enough of my body, even my face?
Not enough treatments - so are the looks?
Then the wig comes and removes a huge stone from the shoulders and in its place is essential hair ends that adorn the face and at least seemingly eliminate the disease.
My hair took me out of the darkness into the light.
Shani celebrates her 18th birthday (Photo: courtesy of the photographers)
I do not know who were the women or young women who donated their hair to me. Maybe you read these lines and maybe you have no idea what you did for me. But I want to take this opportunity to tell you and you women and the amazing people who donated hair - you brought me out of darkness into light. You returned the two. Shani who is the classmate, the nurse and the daughter.
Shani who dreams of returning to tennis competitions. The one that you can feel free to laugh with and hug tight. You do not believe what a change it has made in the attitude of society towards me. You do not believe in the change it has made in my own attitude towards myself. With the wig I am not ashamed. I do not stand out I am one of you. Another one going around, at least as much as the corona allowed me. It may sound excessive but believe me when I say - you saved me. Thanks to them I have the strength to fight.
In the first week of May, a braiding campaign of power will be held by the Zichron Menachem Association and the Panten brand. In my name and in the name of all the first names that have become cancer patients lately I thank everyone who has donated and will donate hair.
This is not a cliché.
Your braid is our strength.
Thanks
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