A father has gone to extraordinary lengths to show his love and support for his sick young son by
getting a tattoo on his head matching a scar the boy bears from brain surgery.
Gabriel Marshall of Kansas, eight, was diagnosed last year with an anaplastic astrocytoma, a type of malignant brain tumor, the treatment for which was surgery.
While the surgery didn't get all of the tumor out, it has been nine months since he stopped treatment and is currently stable.
However, after the surgery, Gabriel's father Josh, 28, became concerned about how the scar left behind on his son's head from the surgery was affecting his self-confidence.
In fact, the little boy told his dad that he felt like a 'monster' with the scar. A fact that simply broke his father's heart.
So, to help his son feel normal, Josh came up with the idea of getting a tattoo on his head to look identical to his son's cancer scar.
'I told him if people wanted to stare, they could stare at both of us,' the doting dad told BuzzFeed.
The moving gesture came to wide attention after Josh entered the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s #BestBaldDad competition in honor of Father's Day.
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