PKG- EILEEN KOREY'S LEGENDARY RED LOCKS HAVE BEEN HER TRADEMARK FOR YEARS... BOTH ON AND OFF THE AIR... SO IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT SHE NEVER MISSES HER MONTHLY APPOINTMENT WITH HAIR COLORIST KARI PHILLIPS... because we take such little tiny parts in our touch ups and hilights we can see pretty much the entire scalp SO WHEN KARI NOTICED THIS ON THE BACK OF EILEEN'S HEAD, SHE SPOKE UP.. I don't like this it doesn't look right, I don't remember seeing it and I want you to obviously to go see your dermatologist to look at it and I knew she would take my advice she had not seen it a month ago so that's how fast this appeared I would never have seen this, I would never have felt it because it wasn't raised there wasn't anything to feel EILEEN WENT STRAIGHT TO METROHEALTH DERMATOLOGIST PAM DAVIS.. WHO AGREED WITH KARI AND ORDERED A BIOPSY... if you're gonna have melanoma it's the best melanoma to have they talked about a melanoma insitu it's just at the skin level the epidermis it hadn't infiltrated down SHE CALLED KARI FIRST TO TELL HER... you bought me time, you gave me the gift of life DOCTOR DAVIS SAYS HAIR STYLISTS AND AESTHETICIANS CAN BE CRITICAL IN FINDING SKIN CANCER.. ESPECIALLY UNDER A FULL HEAD OF HAIR.. not I or any of use can barely get through it all so we ask our patients to ask their stylist to look when the hair is wet hair stylists are the front line of defense they can save their client's life THOSE RED LOCKS, NOW COVERED WITH A HAT WHEN EILEEN IS OUTDOORS.. AND ALTHOUGH IT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS, BUT HER REPORTING INSTINCT IS INTACT.. i wanted other people to know number one how melanoma can be on the scalp and two how your colorist can save your life she saved her own life cause she did something about it

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