When Matt Won’t Chop Off His Hair
When a year and then two passed, some of Matt’s closest friends were surprised that he had continued to love his long hair. They wondered if he would ever get a haircut, and some of them wondered if it might be time to talk him into cutting his hair.
Although he supported his mother throughout her cancer treatment, Matt became preoccupied with the state of his hair. After two and a half years, its growth had accelerated. Having reached a good length, he was ready to show everyone the reason for his efforts.
Anything For His Mom
With her third pituitary tumor, Melanie Shaha had to endure hours of radiation therapy. One drawback of this therapy was that it caused horrible side effects.
Matt was upset by seeing the side effects of her treatment—namely, that it caused his mom’s hair to fall out. He was such an amazing young man that he grew his own hair for two and a half years so that he could turn it into a wig for his mother to wear after hers fell out due to radiation treatments.