jeudi 23 mars 2017
Social Media Helped This Sweet 5-Year-Old Boy With Cancer Find His Bear
Aiden is an adorable 5-year-old boy battling brain cancer and his teddy bear, Tedz, has been by his side through every single doctor's appointment. So when his beloved bear went missing, Aiden's mom, Tracy, did everything she possibly could to find it and took to Facebook to rally up her small Minnesota town for help. "We have done everything else but this," she wrote. "So here is the last ditch effort I suppose. We also wrote a letter to the editor and emailed a local news station. It may sound crazy but this teddy is a rather big deal. So much to his story."
Tracy explained that Aiden had been at the Mayo Clinic for his 60th round of chemo when they realized the bear was missing. "This is more than a teddy bear," she wrote. "It has been with him through every appointment and every scan and surgery, this teddy means the world to him if anyone may have seen it please let us know!"
The family called McDonald's, the local church, and tons of other possible places where Tedz could have gone missing, but it wasn't until she reached out to her Facebook community that the bear was found. Tracy asked her social media friends to share the post with their friends and by the time the post had over 1,000 shares, Tedz had been located! The bear was picked up at the chapel in the hospital and finally brought back to Aiden. He recorded a video to say thank you to the person who found him.
"I can't believe it worked," Tracy wrote on Facebook. We're so glad that Aiden was able to reunite with Tedz, thanks to the wonderful power of social media.
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