Her caring heart leads to sharing hair
Published: July 24, 2005
Katelyn Kraayenbrink seemed surprisingly optimistic and excited, considering that she was about to have all of her long hair cut off.
“I think I’m gonna like short hair,” she decided at the Capri Salon.
Katelyn had been planning to cut her long mane and donate it to Locks of Love for some time now, but when she met Tyler Seian she knew she couldn’t wait any longer.
“I decided to do this before I met him,” she explained. “I was going to wait ’til my hair got longer, but he’s ready for it now.”
Katelyn recently took a job as a nanny for the Seian family. The two young boys that she is now taking care of both have Down syndrome. Tyler, who is 6, has a rare condition in which he has lost all of his hair to the disease.
“I think he looks cute bald,” Katelyn joked.
After making this big decision, Katelyn contacted Locks of Love and let it know that Tyler was the one she wanted her hair to go to.
“It’ll be weird if I have to brush his hair, cause it’s my hair,” Katelyn said.
Katelyn is a college student at Sante Fe Community College in Gainesville who came back to her hometown of Venice for the summer. Along with donating her hair to Tyler, she has also been communicating to him through sign language.
“We are really proud of her,” Pat Kraayenbrink said as she watched her daughter wait anxiously in the salon chair.
Katelyn considers this to be a late birthday gift for young Tyler.
“His birthday is in July, but it will take a bit longer than that to have the wig made,” she said.
Katelyn chose Capri Salon because of its program with Locks of Love.
“We are the place to go for this,” Capri Salon stylist Colleen Phipps-Sinibaldi explained.
Capri Salon will cut your 10-inch or longer hair for free if you agree to send it to Locks of Love to help give sick children who have gone bald from an illness a new head of hair.
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