October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and ABC11 is highlighting one North Carolina woman’s innovation in recovery wear for patients after surgery.
Leah Wyrick founded Three Strands Recovery Wear as a freshman at Wake Forest University. She was inspired to create a new surgical bra with special features like drain pocket holders and compression bands after seeing what her mom, Nancy, went through following a mastectomy and three subsequent surgeries due to complications.
“We quickly realized that with a better post-operative bra, some of those complications could have been actually prevented and realized that this doesn’t just happen to my mom. It happens to millions of other women.” Wyrick said…