Drag queen comic donates wigs to give cancer survivors hope during Cancer Awareness Month

BUSINESSMAN IS GIVING AWAY SOMETHING THAT SEEMS LIKE A FUN ACCESSORY TO SOME, BUT IT IS LIFE CHANGING TO OTHERS. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE WIG. WESH 2’S. MICHELLE. MEREDITH BRINGS US THE STORY THROUGH THE EYES OF A CANCER SURVIVOR. MAKE SURE YOU LIKE FLUFF IT UP ON THE SIDES A LITTLE. LEE SHANNON KNOWS WIGS. NOT ONLY IS HE THE OWNER OF RITZY RAGS, A WIG SHOP IN COLLEGE PARK, HE’S A LEGEND, A DRAG QUEEN COMIC. BEEN PERFORMING IN ORLANDO FOR DECADES.

But October is also Cancer Awareness Month. So it is in October that Leigh donates wigs worth hundreds of dollars to cancer survivors. Survivors like Cheryl Baggitt. Last summer, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer."And I was told I had two years left to live. But I had amazing doctors, and I got through it," she said. However, the chemo ravaged her hair.

“Women, if you ask them and interview them, the fatigue, the chemo is terrible. But guess what they always come back to. They just don't like what they see in the mirror," Leigh said.

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