The Rice family found devastating news after posting a picture of a rash they noticed on their four year old on Facebook. A family friend who is a doctor happened to see it and notice and the beginnings of Lukemia on the boy.
This story was originally reported on in the United Kingdom by The Sun. The little boy, Ted, has a seventy-five percent of surviving.
It is crazy to think of how powerful social networking really is; this four year old life was saved by Facebook.
There a lot of things that come with social networking, good and bad things. There have been some extraordinary things that have happened though.
Its just hard to think about this precious little life and how God worked everything together for him to be okay.
I went through this in my own life with my baby nephew, Jacob. Baby J, is the most adorable little guy but he was born with a broken heart. A condition called Hypoplastic Heart Syndrome which means that he was born with only half of a normal functioning heart. He is now about nine months old and has already had two open heart surgeries.
Facebook has actually been a huge help, from being able to spread information aroung fast of how he doing to starting a prayer chain “event” invitation that was sent to over three thousand people. It starting with me sending it to about five hundred people which just spread because of others sending it here and there.
There were people sending prayers and messages of support that had no idea who we were or any of us. When I originally sent out the invitation, he was in the hospital, again, and the doctors were really worried. The saw swelling around his heart and fluid, by the next day there was nothing (out of the ordinary) wrong.
It was definitely all the Lord but it is just another example of how we can use social networking for good. People tend to only point out the bad, the addicting nature and relationship drama that occurs over Facebook.
I am sure that this little boy will grow up big and strong and I praise the Lord for the family finding out about it early. Also, now that the national media has covered it and it was sent from the UK to America, more Christians will hear about him and be praying for him and his cancer to heal and his parent to be comforted.
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