Published November 01. 2017 3:22PM
By Mary Biekert
Day staff writer
New York Times best-selling author Kelly Corrigan was diagnosed in 2004 with stage 3 breast cancer. She was 36 years old.
She was living in Piedmont, California, a San Francisco suburb, with her husband and two young daughters, who were then 1 and 3.
As with most people who undergo cancer treatment, Corrigan’s hair started falling out a few weeks after starting chemotherapy — treatment she needed for a fast-spreading breast tumor that she describes as a seven-centimeter “piece of calamari” with “tentacles.”
On that day, she turned the process of shaving her head into a party of sorts, a “happy performance” for her two children, who, after receiving the recommendation from a therapist, needed to see the moment when their mother would lose her hair for themselves. Equipping themselves with a hair trimmer, Corrigan and her husband invited their closest friends to the house, played music and shaved her head in the warm air on their back deck.
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