Well-known Monaghan hairdresser, Mo McQuaid, has spoken about being cancer-free after almost 18 months of treatment and riding an emotional rollercoaster. The 36-year-old was delighted and proud to talk to Northern Sound following her all-clear because, as she said, breast cancer has taught her she has "powers inside her now she never knew she had".
While she continued to work in Mo's Hairdressing on Dawson Street, Monaghan Town albeit on a part-time basis, she said her staff and customers, "amazing family" and the "special, special people" at local cancer support service, Crocus, got her through some dark days". Before her diagnosis, a slogan about women's hair in her salon said "it is the crown you never take off".
Mo says she now has local women in her hairdressing chair confiding in her about their diagnoses or who are losing their hair through chemotherapy and said she is happy to listen. This Movember, Mo says for anyone going through cancer right now, its very important to stay strong and positive through the journey. "One hundred million per cent I would say to anyone going through this journey to sit down and reflect and stay focused on themselves," Mo said, "work out what it is they're going to do in their head to make themselves right and what is the things they can be doing throughout their journey,"
