He left the infirmary but not his vocation: today he gives free eyebrows to cancer patients

08/22/2021 18:09

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Updated 08/22/2021 18:09

The engagement was still intact.

But after several years and after becoming a mother, Carla Valeria Alonso

(35) taking care of terminally ill patients became too heavy a burden.

She felt that the work was very sacrificing, and it was clear to her that not getting involved with patients suffering from advanced cancer was impossible.

That's why he was having a hard time.

He had

panic and anxiety attacks.

The way out she found was to leave the infirmary and become a beautician, also in search of the livelihood that, working independently or as a third party, she had not achieved.

The neighbor of Caseros was then encouraged to change her profession, although her vocation to help the sick did not disappear.

Today she combines both, and demonstrates it with a gesture of solidarity that fills both the beneficiaries and herself with gratification: she gives free

dermopigmentation

treatments

(permanent makeup) to

cancer

patients

who, due to their treatment,

lose their hair and

skin.

eyebrows. 

"If you have someone you know who has lost their eyebrows from undergoing chemo ... it was done free of charge, let them pay me with their smile," Carla posted on her networks.

To access this help, Carla asks the patients to first tell the

oncologist

that they want to undergo the treatment so that they can confirm if they are suitable and

enable them to receive it.

It is your only requirement.

“The

smile, in 

the end, when they look in the mirror, is

from ear to ear

, and many even start to cry.

Sometimes they are accompanied by their partners or other family members, who are also excited and well… I am also

quite excited

”, explains the

35-year-old

beautician

As of today, I have already provided the free dermopigmentation service to 8 cancer patients.

To perform the dermopigmentation treatment -explains the specialist-

electronic equipment (dermograph)

is used that is special for the skin of the face, in order not to damage it and not go deep.

It uses 

disposable needles

and vegetable pigments that do not contain lead, are

biodegradable

,

hypoallergenic

and are dermatologically tested.

What you want to do is a simulation of 

finite eyebrows,

making lines as if they were hairs.

The

design

is assembled

based on

the measurement protocol

with the angles of each person's face, and the result lasts between a year and a half and two.

"The smile at the end when they look in the mirror is from ear to ear, many start to cry.", Explained Carla Alonso.

When carrying out the aesthetic treatment

, the patient's hair color

is taken as a

basis, 

and in the event that they are totally bald and there is no reference, they define it as a whole. 

According to her account, Carla began with this initiative when she saw on the networks the advertisement of a colleague who made

the same.

And he thought about

bringing it to his neighborhood.

He shared a flyer on Facebook that, in a few days,

was shared more than 15 thousand times.

First emotion.

"The mother of a

6-year-old

girl came to tell me

that her face burned

and lost her eyebrow, but it doesn't seem to me to prick such a small girl, if she were a little older I would say yes", recalls Carla on the high impact his offer had, which showed him

how necessary it was

. 

To carry out the treatment, the original hair color is taken as a basis.

Carla provides this service in the cabinet that she set up in her house on Calle Blas Pascal, where in addition to performing

permanent eyebrow makeup

, she offers other treatments such as eyelid and lip lining, permanent eyelash lifting, brow lamination and phototherapy.

"Now I live from this and to be able to do a free part, I think it is an act of good in this world that, at times, is so ugly. The first free service I did already moved me a lot. And each reaction from them is very strong. , because they are deteriorated by a disease that is super aggressive, "says the former nurse who spent four years caring for terminal patients and needed to turn her working life around.

"The sensitivity that I have with external people has to do with my

previous work

, only that today I see it from another side because I am not involved every day with palliative care

, I only return their smile

", synthesizes today, with the gratification of being able to "leave a small footprint in someone's life." 

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