Anti-cancer life witnessed by a wig shop: customers are mostly chemotherapy patients

There is a wig shop near Peking University Cancer Hospital. Many cancer patients have become frequent visitors here.

　　 Anti-cancer life witnessed by a wig shop

Probably only here, cancer patients are willing to take off their hats, scarves, or wigs, and let the strange eyes look at the little hair left on their heads .

This is a wig shop located near Peking University Cancer Hospital. A small storefront is filled with a variety of wigs. Due to the special geographical location and the word of mouth between the patients, it is the place where patients with hair loss due to chemotherapy are buying wigs.

Zhou Wei has been working in the store for more than ten years. From the initial contact with the patient, she was nervous and overwhelmed. Now she can freely choose the right wig for the patient and determine the style. Zhou Hao is used to this kind of work form. . This small storefront at the entrance of the Cancer Hospital has become a foothold for patients outside the hospital. In Zhou Yi’s view, it is “not just a wig shop”.

In fact, life, death, and joy are being played here every day.

From the barber shop to the wig shop, the customers are mostly chemotherapy patients.

Peking University Cancer Hospital West Gate, across the road, through the back street, there is a small shop. There is no door face facing the road. There are only a few light boxes commonly used in hair salons on the outer side, and there are signs printed in ordinary red and black letters. From the hospital, there are two "wigs" on the signboard. Words are not at all eye-catching.

This is a store with a "special" status in the minds of patients in cancer hospitals. The store is about 70 square meters in size and is divided into two separate sections. On the inside is a floor mirror, a large chair, a leather sofa, a simple European decoration, a roar of hair dryers, and a white tiled floor, often with a few more black hair. Here is the area where you can wash and burn your hair. Through the connected back door, the space suddenly slammed, and the decoration style stayed in the 1990s.

Hair, all eyes are hair. Placed on the wall, the iron frame is connected end to end, each iron frame is five layers, each layer has 10 head molds, wearing wigs of various lengths and shapes. This is the wig sales area in the store.

Frequent visitors in this area are patients who have lost hair due to chemotherapy in a hospital across the street.

In 1998, the hairdresser Wang Feng opened the store. The "big apprentice" Zhou Wei in the store has been working here since the age of 17, and has been working for more than 10 years.

Zhou Wei remembers that in 2007, the store only did some washing and dyeing business. Gradually, "strange guests" are getting more and more. "Some people look at their age and their hair is almost gone. The most frequently asked question is 'sell wigs'."

Sometimes the customer wash their hair, wash and wash, and find that the sink is full of hair. Zhou Wei is a little nervous, worried that he is "hands-on" heavy, but the customer is very generous, "fall off."

More contact, Zhou Wei and Master Wang Feng realized that these are patients in the cancer hospital, because of chemotherapy, causing hair to fall off. There are more and more people asking about wigs. In 2013, Wang Feng, who originally had a fake intention, decided to turn the business to sell and sell wigs.

Switching is not easy. In order to ensure the quality of the wig, the store has to purchase a large amount of hair from the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou through the middleman every year. This is very demanding for the hair owner. "The age is under 45, the long hair that has not been dyed is the best. The hair quality is good, the purchase price is only 9,800 yuan for one kilogram." These real hair, According to the quality of the hair, the length of the hair, divided into various grades, and then through processing, into a wig, the price of different wigs, placed on the shelves for customers to choose.

Put on a wig and take a photo to remember "This is my most beautiful time"

Many people are accompanied by family members to pick up wigs. When Zhang Wei (pseudonym) entered the door, he followed her husband and sister. After watching it for a while, Zhang Wei said that he was "hungry." The family went to lunch before they returned to the store.

"Who needs it, can introduce it." Looking at the clerk, Chang Zhang turned from the showcase and said to the clerk, "I want to see, you see this hair lost." Speaking, Zhang Wei licked his hair with two fingers, and his hair fell to the ground with his fingertips.

In a wig shop, patients who are taking chemotherapy seem to be more comfortable than acquaintances and friends, and it is easier to talk about their own affairs. Zhang Wei said that he had lung cancer and had been taking targeted drugs before. The drug did not work during this time and chemotherapy began. It took only two weeks for chemotherapy to start, and the hair was dropped a lot. There was already a clear trace in front of the forehead.

"It used to be long hair fluttering." Looking at Zhang Wei’s hair before the forehead, the husband shouted at the side. Zhang Xiao smiled and didn't answer the words. The eyes followed the showcase and looked at the wigs of different hairstyles. “The wigs in the store range from 380 yuan to 40,000 yuan. Do you have an expected price?” “It’s almost the same.”

The clerk introduced that the wig of 380 yuan is woven. The hair is set on the fabric in a row, which looks thicker, but the hair is also real. Another hand-woven wig looks more realistic. The worker uses a needle to woven the hair one by one into the fabric, simulating the hair follicle and the direction of the spin growth. Even if you look closely, it is difficult to see the true and false.

After reading the woven and handmade wigs, Zhang Wei picked up a wig that sold for 1999 yuan and hand-woven.

In order to wear a wig without sultry heat, and to avoid the trouble of hair loss, many chemotherapy patients will basically shave their hair. Zhang Wei thought about it and said, "Don't shave into a bald head and leave it in a board." Sitting down in the seat in front of the mirror, surrounded by white cloth, Zhang Wei looked at himself in the mirror. The sister who has never said anything, took out her mobile phone and said that she would take a photo "Keep a commemoration". Zhang Hao refused too much. "Not good, don't shoot."

The hair of a chemotherapy patient is like a leaf that loses nutrients, and it will fall off at any time, and it is dry and fragile. In a few minutes, the barber shaved Zhang Wei’s hair into a inch. "This shows the true face of the mountain, like a little warrior." For the rest of the time, the hairdresser made a hairstyle for Zhang Wei’s previously selected wig according to the size of the head circumference.

Zhang Wei looked at the hairdresser and took care of her wig on the model. From time to time, she made a point: hot texture, young. Or take out the phone, show the hairdresser a photo, and say a hairstyle similar to a friend. "Is the cleaning the same? Do you want to use conditioner?" Treating the wig, Zhang Wei asked very carefully.

Zhang Wei was not yet 50 years old. In 1997, she followed her husband from Beijing to Beijing. Zhang Yu got lung cancer, he was being treated, and he was cured. Zhang Wei did not make any assumptions.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, nearly three hours later, Zhang Wei wore a selected wig. After the trial, the hairdresser continued to trim the bangs and hair, making the wig more suitable for Zhang's face. The sister on the side took out his mobile phone and took photos of Zhang Wei. This time, Zhang Wei did not refuse. "This is my most beautiful time. There is something wrong with it. If you lose your real hair, you will get such a nice wig."

Ask the hair stylist in the mirror, "Can I cut a board?"

Shortly after entering the door, Chen Jing (a pseudonym) took off the wig worn on his head. This is a wig that cost more than 300 yuan and is bought online. Chen Jing said that there are nearly ten wigs in the house.

Under the wig, it is dry, shed, and white hair because of chemotherapy. Chen Jing, from Daqing, Heilongjiang, worked in the food system for many years, and then co-organized the factory with his family. In March 2014, Chen Jing was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two weeks after chemotherapy, Chen Jing's hair began to fall off a lot.

In addition to the hair that has fallen off, Chen Jing does not look like a 60-year-old. She is slim and likes to wear tight-fitting clothes. Before she fell ill, Chen Jing kept a long hair with a waist, "the kind of walking and posing." Long hair is Chen Jing’s pride and confidence capital. Even during chemotherapy, Chen Jing feels that “there is nothing to worry about, and the hair doesn’t fall anymore.” She often hangs “life and death” on her mouth, but Facing the large group of hair in the sink, I feel "fear and tension."

From March 2014 to January 2015, Chen Jing did chemotherapy for 10 months. After that, she began to buy wigs frequently. By chance, Chen Jing’s husband found the wig shop near the Cancer Hospital and went into the door for a while. Finally, the husband selected two wigs with a unit price of 3,999 yuan.

Chen Jing came with her husband. She was distressed with money, but when she sent it to her face, her eyes suddenly had a god, and she rubbed her hands with her hands. The husband smiled at the side, full of eyes are satisfied.

The hair stylist came, and after observing Chen Jing's face and head shape, he determined the hair style of the wig. Chen Jingguang looked at the head, looked left in the store, looked right, asked the hair stylist in the mirror, "I can cut a board inch?"

After working in this industry for more than ten years, Zhou Wei’s number of patients who came to buy wigs was not enough. “Many patients come to buy wigs or clean wigs, either by tightening the hat on their heads, or by going to a separate room and taking off their wigs and putting on their hats.” Someone cut and cut their hair. Suddenly, I cried. "Although the hair is almost left, it is her own hair."

Not just a wig shop or a place where patients are confident

Zhou Wei said that some patients have rarely spoken after they come. They just watched, the clerk came forward and asked, they did not say that they were wearing chemotherapy. When encountering such a customer, the clerk will follow them, pretend not to know, and give them a careful introduction.

After a long period of work, almost a blink of an eye, Zhou Wei can see which patients want to buy a wig. "I didn't know anything when I first came. I once shampooed the customer, gently grabbed it, dropped a lot, thought that the customer's hair was washed out, and I was scared. Later, the customer explained that he was a patient."

Zhou Wei said that staying in the store for a long time, seeing more life and death, will also be touched by some moments. Once, a pair of mothers and daughters came in the store. I heard that I could make my own hair and make a wig. My daughter said that she should cut long hair that has been raised for many years and make a wig for her mother.

Many patients who buy wigs come in more times and become more familiar with the staff in the store. Zhou Wei had an old customer who said that Zhou Wei was like her nephew, and both of them were from Hunan's fellow villagers. Every time they came with their own chili peppers and other foods for him.

There are also some people who gradually disappear into the field of vision. In the second half of last year, Zhou Hao received an aunt who came to buy a wig, in his 50s, when his daughter came. Two people laughed and picked up the wig, decided to do a good haircut, and said that they would come after a month.

After seeing people for a month, Zhou Wei called the aunt and called. "She is picking up her niece and saying that she has no time, wait." Until half a year later, the girl hurriedly called, "She said let me send her wig 'flash" to her, I asked what happened, she said that her mother is not going to die."

Zhou Xin was shocked. Considering the actual situation, he said that if he didn't need it, he could return the money if he didn't need it. But the girl insisted on buying a wig, "a mother's wish."

After more than two hours, Chen Jing’s wig was done. Wearing it on her head, she repeatedly looked at herself in the mirror and asked people around her again and again, "How is it compared to before?"

This is a scene that Zhou Wei and colleagues are happy to see. Sometimes, some people in the field can't come to register, and he and his colleagues will help to queue up in the opposite hospital. Some customers see the wig they like very much, but they are hesitant to see the price tag. In other cases, the female patient wants to buy, the husband does not agree. At these times, Zhou Wei will estimate the purchasing power of the customer and then recommend some economy. Affordable wig.

In their minds, this inconspicuous storefront is more than just a wig shop, but a place where cancer patients can take off their hats with great brilliance, "a place where patients can feel comfortable and restore confidence."