hat's off to y'all

hat's off to y'all

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

The start of treatment has been filled with near-daily hat deliveries from all over the country, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the support.

Treatment has brought ample opportunity for rocking  fresh lids 🧢 and I have loved wearing the new hats everywhere. If you have to be in a cancer center every day, you might as well do it serving fresh lewks 💅.

Alongside a bonanza of fabulous hats, this first week-and-a-half of chemo unsurprisingly delivered some side effects and road bumps: everything from days-long bouts of hiccups, to nausea, vomiting, chills, sleep disruption, fever, etc.

The good news is that the cancer cells are probably feeling a lot worse than I am, and the vast majority will likely take a critical hit in just the first three weeks of treatment. Very grateful for that.

Another plus - I have loved discovering the hat designs y’all have been picking out. It's helped bring a little lightness to every day even though the start of treatment was definitely tough.

I love the little hat collection I am building, and I love that it is curated by friends and family from all over the world. I truly believe that the support is going to help carry me through the next 8 weeks of chemo.

There is still a lot of treatment to come, but if I've learned anything so far its this:

you just gotta take things as they come one day, one dose, one hat, at a time.

stay tuned for more updates and more hat fashion in the weeks to come 👒

💜 matt

P.S.
future hats can be sent to my parents address at:
Matt Callahan
<add your name too so I know who sent the hat>
2473 County C
Grafton, WI 53024