From the archives: This story was last updated in January 2020.
Marissa Sowers is already facing the double whammy of raising a young baby and dealing with radiation treatment for cervical cancer, including hair loss and all the rest, at the same time. It’s a heartbreaking situation to begin with. Adding to the burden, Sowers had an encounter with some inexplicably cruel strangers, who commented on her head covering at a McDonald’s in October 2019.Having had one of her legs amputated above the knee and having shaved her hair due to the effects of chemotherapy, Sowers has had pretty much every challenge imaginable thrown her way. When she went to a local McDonald’s for an iced coffee, hoping to make her day better, instead, Sowers was brought to tears because of what an employee at the drive-thru said.
