6-year-old battling leukemia will soon get her wish

Six-year-old Addie Reed of Senecaville longed for hair after she lost hers to the side effects of chemotherapy.

Addie was getting upset because everybody referred to as a boy. To hide her lack of hair, Addie would wear T-shirts wrapped around her head. Addie has acute myeloid leukemia.

"We have been dealing with this since she was a year old and she's 6," said Pam, Addie's mother. "She has just always wanted hair and it hasn't been in the cards. To get a wig from Wigs for Kids, there's like a five year waiting list."

To help her daughter, Pam set up a Go-Fund Me page to raise the money to pay for her own hair to be put into a wig for Addie. With help of Addie's hospital care coordinators, they were able to find a website where a wig can be made for a designated person from hair donations.

Pam cut nearly 12 inches from her hair for Addie.

On her way to get her hair cut, Addie was combing it in the car, like it was hers already, saying this is my hair.

Pam wasn't alone in her desire to help Addie.

Addie's cousin, Hailey Workman, 12, of Winterset, decided to help.

"I was sitting at home and I asked my mom if we could do a lemonade stand for Addie," Hailey said.

Hailey's mom and dad and Amy and Harold Workman and stepfather Leon Gordon promoted the lemonade stand on their social media pages for Hailey.

Between the lemonade sales and donations from various people and organizations, Hailey raised  $750 to have her hair made into a second wig. She then cut 11 inches from her hair.

"After the lemonade stand and getting my hair cut, I got to give her my hair," Hailey said.

Hailey said the idea to cut her hair came while she was trying to figure out what else she could do to help  while she was making signs for her lemonade stand.

"When I came up with the idea to do it, I wrote it down. Once I wrote it down I couldn't go back," Hailey said. "I cried when they cut it, but it was going for a pretty good thing."

Hailey has cut her hair twice before for Locks of Love, but it was not cut as short as it was this time for Addie.

Now with the hair for two wigs Addie looks forward to the day when she has hair again.

And Addie won't have to wait much longer.

It takes about 13 weeks to make a wig, and Pam sent hers in about seven weeks ago.

This article originally appeared on The Daily Jeffersonian: 6-year-old battling leukemia will soon get her wish