A 9-year-old girl suffering from a tumor (the size of two golf balls) in her head is getting love and support through a Facebook movement of mustaches!
A few weeks ago, Chad and Shelly Morris noticed that their 9-year-old daughter, Maddie, wasn’t using her left arm very much. Their doctor told them to take Maddie to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
An MRI revealed that Maddie had a tumor the size of two golf balls. The tumor was growing on the pituitary gland, just underneath her brain. A few days ago, doctors “removed about 90 percent of the tumor, but Maddie is still at the hospital struggling through the pain of recovery.”
Maddie has always loved pictures of mustaches (she thinks they’re funny). And so, in an effort to comfort her, friends and relatives have been posting pictures of themselves with mustaches (real or fake) on Facebook. But what started as something small has rippled into a movement of hundreds of photographs!
“We have this collection of people wearing mustaches for Maddie,” Chad Morris said. “The idea just being to make her smile to let her know there’s a lot of people hoping and praying and loving her, and she likes that–she likes that a lot.” (Source: Fox 13 News)
I am often amazed at the kindness and goodness of others. This movement reminds me of a quote by St. Augustine: “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” (And, I would add, it sometimes looks like a bunch of people wearing mustaches!)
Join the movement and tweet your picture using the hash tag #mustachesformaddie
On a personal note, Chad Morris was one of my favorite teachers from high school. He’s a good, good man with a wonderful family. I offer them all of my love and support, and of course, a mustache picture of my own (from my office at work, no less!).
