This hairdresser helps cancer patients with her wigs reimbursed near Caen
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After more than twenty years of practice, the hairdresser Priscilla Hébert wanted to give a new dimension to its profession Saint-Manvieu-Norrey, near Caen (Calvados). Since the start of 2023, it has been recognized as hair prosthetist for sick peoplein particular from cancerwho lose their hair after treatment.
An idea that goes back a long way
She who created her hairdressing business at home in April 2014, and opened her salon Coiff Hair Pro three years later, the advance:
I needed to feel useful.
She then implemented an idea that had germinated during her initial training, with the boss who had welcomed her for an internship during her CAP as a hairstylist more than 20 years ago: bring well-being to people weakened by disease. She says: “Last November, I left to train to become a hair prosthetist in order to support sick people and then I took the necessary steps to have my salon approved by the CPAM of Caen. »
A private lounge
It’s done. People who contact her can get their hair prosthesis taken care of. To welcome them and accompany them as well as possible, Priscilla has planned everything: “ My little living room is private, attached to my house, accessible only by appointment. It is located ten minutes from the Center François Baclesse in Caen, away from prying eyes, and I work alone. She specifies: “The salon will be systematically privatized free of charge in order to obtain maximum serenity. »
Priscilla Hébert talks about the importance of being accompanied when illness disrupts life. Mother of a “little warrior” affected by a form of cystic fibrosis, she testifies:
I had to fend for myself, to face it alone and I want to change things. We are already very upset and we therefore need to be guided and advised as far as possible.
“It’s my duty to help”
The hairdresser has linked her fight to her professional skills to offer a new service:
It is my duty to help. I want to provide the best possible support, to listen, to restore confidence in patients about their appearance in order to help them reclaim their image by offering the solution that will suit them best following this alopecia caused by the disease.
A complete range
To perfect her approach, Priscilla begins a socio-hairdresser trainingto know the different pathologies and the conditions to be respected to intervene in hospital and sterile environment.
In her salon, she already offers category 1 or 2, total or partial prostheses for women, children and adolescents, as well as turbans and hats. Of the hair supplements for men affected by baldness, volumizers for ladies in loss of prolonged density its offer.
Priscilla Hébert can also recondition prostheses that have deteriorated over time.
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