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She Lost Her Hair Battling a Brain Tumor. But What Her Son Did Will Warm Your Heart

When an Arizona mom lost her hair during a third brain-cancer battle, a shaggy-maned son stepped up, shears in hand, to offer a solution.

Growing golden luscious locks out past shoulder length, he chopped it all off to provide a stylish hair piece for his mom.

Melanie Shaha doesn’t mind being sick, but she does mind looking sick. For 15 years you’d never have known that Melanie had a benign cancer tumor on her pituitary gland.

Two successful surgeries in 2003 and 2006 couldn’t get rid of the tumor permanently, and in 2017 she was prescribed radiation therapy. Three months after starting the new treatment, she lost all her hair. Read the full story here ▶