Invisible Injuries: Children, adults learning to cope in a pandemic-ruled world [record-eagle.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/23/204:00 AM

By Brendan Quealey, Traverse City Record-Eagle, April 19, 2020

Nash Nichols was ecstatic when his hair grew back.

The now 3½-year-old’s long, blond locks first fell out shortly after he began chemotherapy.

His mother, Angie Nichols, can’t forget the day it happened. Nash sat next to his grandfather, lifted his hand to scratch his head, and returned with a handful of hair. Nash looked up, unaware anything was wrong, and said, “Papa, that’s my hair.”

It was a traumatic experience — one of many the Nichols family has endured since December 2018 when Nash was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft tissue cancer.

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