Inspired after her mom’s mastectomy, NC woman creates breast cancer recovery wear

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…

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