Kathy and Kristin Garrison, of K & J's Complete Woman, A Woman's Specialty Boutique who plan to open a story to help fit breast cancer patients in Seven Fields.

After overcoming triple negative breast cancer, Kathy Garrison started a business selling mastectomy products from her kitchen table. Thirty-one years later, her blooming family business plans to open a third location on Nov. 1 in Seven Fields.

K&J's Complete Woman, the boutique started by Garrison and her friend JoAnn Evans in 1990, is known as a “one-stop shop” for patients battling breast cancer in Pittsburgh. The stores carry prosthetic breast forms, compression and mastectomy bras, wigs, head coverings and more — items initially hard to come by during Garrison's post-surgery days.

“(After treatment), you don't want to go back to a hospital,” Garrison said. Her solution was a homey specialty boutique that provided goods and services unavailable to her during her cancer journey. Since then, the store's inventory has only expanded to satisfy patients' needs.

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