With wigs, eyebrow restoration and nipple tattoos, this project helps cancer patients feel like women again

JL;DR SUMMARY The project, Best Face Forward 2.0, run by the Jewish breast and ovarian cancer organization Sharsheret, provides financial assistance to women undergoing cancer treatment for non-medical services that aid in mental health and body image, such as nutrition assistance, hair preservation therapies, wigs, tattooing for eyebrows and nipples, and yoga therapies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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