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Lacy Gadegaard, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, founded Laced Hair Foundation to donate wigs.
She provides hair extensions to women with cancer or medical conditions, enhancing their confidence.
The foundation's annual Hair for Hope Gala has raised over $200,000 since 2022.
SALT LAKE CITY — As she sat in a treatment room at the Huntsman Cancer Institute while massive doses of radiation attacked a tumor at the back of her brain, the other women in the room couldn't keep their eyes off Lacy Gadegaard's hair.
It wasn't that Lacy hadn't lost most of it, like the rest of them. It was that you'd never know it. Flowing out of the beanie she was wearing were long strands of thick, beautiful hair. A veritable oasis in a room full of balding wo