Twin shaves head in solidarity with cancer-stricken sister: 'We'll fight this battle together'
A woman in New Zealand bravely shaved her head alongside her twin sister, who was recently diagnosed with cancer, in a tear-jerking video that has since gone viral.
Joella Lee-lo, a 20-year-old Samoan living in Aukland, announced on Facebook that her sister, Joanna, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, on April 6.
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Due to coronavirus lockdown, Joanna was forced to begin her chemotherapy treatments alone in the hospital, “without her family there to hold her hand and wipe her tears when she needed it.”
“The only contact we had with her was through video calls and messages,” Joella shared. “It was a hard time for my family and I but especially for my sister.”
When Joanna made the difficult decision to shave her head to make her treatments easier, Joella supported her sister by doing the same.
“I couldn’t let her go through with it alone so I decided we’ll do it together just like everything else we’ve done together in this life,” Joella explained. “I love you so much my beautiful sister. You are a fighter and we’ll fight this battle together.”
The moving video, which shows the entire family hugging and wiping away each other’s tears as both sisters have their heads shaved, has since gone viral, racking up over 11 million views, plus more than 140,000 comments from well-wishers around the globe.
“(Your) sister is strong and beautiful,” said one user. “She will fight this and win.”
“Wow..made me cry,” wrote another. “What a beautiful family.”
“This is beautiful I would do the same thing for my twin sister or any of my siblings,” said a third.
Joella later shared a photo of the two sisters beaming, looking radiant with their newly shaven heads.
“My first bestfriend,” she captioned the image. “By your side through it all sister.”
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