Narromine’s Katrine Rasmussen has been feeling the chill more than most this winter after she took part in the World’s Greatest Shave.
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Miss Rasmussen had her hair shaved off on August 11 at the Narromine Hotel and has raised more than $5500 for the Leukaemia Foundation.
Leukaemia survivor Bill Gibbs spoke to the friends, family and pub regulars assembled on the night, giving some insight into the work of the Leukaemia Foundation.
“His wife was having a baby,” Miss Rasmussen said, “so they gave them somewhere to stay while she had the baby and for him to have treatment in Sydney.
“He had a couple of people approach him to say they had no idea.”
Miss Rasmussen’s efforts will provide the equivalent of three months of laboratory costs, about nine weeks of transport for patients too ill to drive following chemotherapy, or 10 weeks of accommodation for a regional family during treatment.
“It felt good to know I was helping out in anyway I could, because the foundation was a really big help for him with his treatment,” she said.
Miss Rasmussen’s friends and family all had a turn at cutting her hair before Lanie and Tory of Mirror Hair Lounge put on the finishing touches.
She also thanked Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Don Crosby Veterinary Surgeons, Short’s Butchery, Soul Food, Country Traders Home and Life, Country Fair, Kate Dunn Artworks and Michael Hill Dubbo for donating raffle prizes.
Her hair was taken to make a wig for patients that suffer hair loss during medical treatment, and Miss Rasmussen said it was a bonus to know she could help someone to feel more like themselves.
And she’s quite enjoying her short hair, which continues to spark conversations about the work of the Leukaemia Foundation.
“It’s really good! Having a shower is really quick and easy and I don’t have to get up early and do my hair before work,” she said.
“I will grow it out again, but I am enjoying having it quite short – and I’d probably do it again.”
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