Childhood cancer is not only physically painful; the ways that the disease changes your appearance can also be quite traumatizing. Seeing a classmate shave their head while undergoing chemotherapy might be hard to fathom for some young students, yet for 7-year-old Olly Spencer, of Anstey, Leicestershire, in the United Kingdom, he grasped its significance right away.
Tommy-Lee Hetherington was battling with acute leukemia for more than a year. His fellow classmate Olly knew just what to do to offer his support. As the boy told Leicestershire Live, “I came home from school and asked my mommy if I could shave my head, so Tommy-Lee wasn’t the only boy in school with no hair.”
