A son with a shaggy mane came forward with shears to provide a remedy when an Arizona mother lost her hair during her third battle with brain cancer.

He let his golden, luxuriant hair grow over shoulder length before cutting it all off to give his mother a stylish hairpiece.

Although Melanie Shaha doesn’t mind being ill, she does not enjoy appearing ill. You would not have realized that Melanie had a benign cancerous tumor on her pituitary gland for fifteen years.

Her tumor returned after two successful surgeries in 2003 and 2006, and radiation therapy was recommended for her in 2017. She lost all of her hair three months after beginning the new treatment.

When you don’t have hair, Melanie told TODAY, ‘You stick out like a sore thumb and well-meaning people might say things that shatter your heart.’

But what Melanie’s son Matt, 27, initially intended as a joke at the dinner table in 2018, quickly evolved into a strategy.

Matt was eager to go au naturel for a while because he had recently graduated from a school where the dress code prohibited long hair.

He committed to growing his hair out so that he could create his mother a wig, despite her attempts to talk him out of it as the length increased.