News | How swimming lets Sugar Grove teen with alopecia be herself

Leah Hayes is never so free as when she's in the pool. It was right around the time Leah started swimming that she began to lose her hair. As a 6-year-old, she found it difficult to process the reality of her alopecia universales diagnosis. In just four months, she lost all the hair on her scalp and body.
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