This website is entitled The Power of the Bald Head because I am a relatively young, seven year cancer patient who has been rendered bald or nearly bald from chemotherapy treatments. In the beginning of my treatments I learned that there was a certain power in having a visible disease. Though I often felt humiliated, occasionally someone would cut me a break or help me out in some special way. As time wore on and my disease became more invisible to others, I came to passionately believe that the miracle of survival was the full use of one's intellect to fight the disease. That is the real power of the bald head. This is a true and accurate account of my experience as a cancer patient and some insights I have about the experience.

If you would like to read this site further, please make a contribution to one of the following charities. The names are linked to their websites:

• House of Grace Catholic Worker
  House of Grace Catholic Worker, 1826 E Lehigh Ave, Philadelphia PA 19125
  Phone: 215-426-0364
  Catholic Worker Free Health Clinic, hospitality, roundtable discussions, liturgies, resistance, and Community Garden.
• Philabundance
  Philabundance, 3616 South Galloway Street PO Box 37555, Philadelphia, PA  19148
  Phone: 215-339-0900
  Philabundance is the region's largest food bank and hunger relief organization. Working with more than 600 neighborhood organizations in both Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey, Philabundance fights hunger and malnutrition principally by collecting and distributing food to people in need. 
• Habitat for Humanity
  Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.