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Submitted eet Amanda Vranish: full-time pediatric nurse, part-time hair consultant and makeover artist, at WVU Medicine Children’s.

“Yeah, I didn’t know it was gonna take off like that,” she said. “The kids love it.”

Vranish administers care to a full range of young patients at the children’s hospital in Morgantown.

She sees kids battling chronic illness or on the mend from a broken leg. Kids who go home the next day and others who won’t leave for weeks. Months, even.

There’s a common weave to all this, and you can see it for yourself, just by standing in front of the mirror with a comb or brush in your hand.

Hair.

The locks of the patients of WVU Medicine Children’s are often matted and snarled from bandages and adhesive leads for the diagnostic equipment required as part of the

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