A easy screen of ribbons on a tree situated in front of the Calhoun County Museum and Cultural Heart has come to be a image of love, hope and prayers for a household whose toddler is battling cancer.
Blyth Lyons, the 17-month-son of Creston pair Chad and Brittany Lyons, was diagnosed in November with neuroblastoma, a cancer often identified in the little glands on top of the kidneys that can produce in the stomach, neck, pelvis and bones. Kids ages 5 or younger are most usually influenced. Tiredness, appetite reduction and fever are among the its signs or symptoms.
It was only right after Blyth had developed hand-foot-and-mouth disease and was then identified with the flu that a cancerous lump was identified in his lung.
“He failed to get any much better, and I took him again to the doctor. He was wheezing. So his pediatrician despatched him for a upper body X-ray, and this is how we observed out,” Brittany claimed.
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The neighborhood has because rallied close to Blyth’s loved ones, together with with the placement of ribbons on a tree in entrance of the Calhoun museum.
“This all has been a miracle. It commonly is the form of speedy-increasing most cancers that you really do not capture till it’s also late. … This precious tiny 17-thirty day period-previous has now completed two rounds of chemo,” museum Director Debbie Roland said.
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The 2022 Calhoun County Museum Elf Hunt & Winter season Wonderland of Lights was held Dec. 1, but Blyth could not be there mainly because he was in the clinic. 1 of his more mature siblings was portion of 1 of two teams that came to tour the museum a 7 days after the Elf Hunt.
“One of the college teams that arrived to check out soon after our Elf Hunt brought their ribbons to tie on the tree. Blythe’s more mature brother was in the group. We had a prayer for Blyth and his loved ones, and all of the children collected about the tree and put their ribbons. Now people retain coming,” Roland mentioned.
“Since then, individuals have been using by and stopping and stating a prayer for the sweet child and his relatives. Occasionally they get out of their vehicle and location a ribbon, in some cases they pause. It is a local community tree. It is not about the museum. It is about the local community that cares,” Roland mentioned.
She said Blyth is “everybody’s child,” with the tree serving as an long lasting reminder of the electricity of prayer and really like.
“It’ll be there eternally. So as Blyth grows, he can arrive back again and ideally it’ll be 20 ft tall,” Roland stated.
Ribbons can be environmentally friendly, yellow or whatever shade an individual chooses, with ribbons now getting put up not just on the tree, but on people’s doors and mailboxes.
“One of the children’s lessons arrived with ribbons. It just kind of took off from there. It is about the local community possessing a way to try to remember and pray. Calhoun County is a caring county, and we care about each and every other. We love these expensive hearts and mild men and women who dwell in our excellent county. We want to support get the phrase out to keep those people prayers lifted as we try to remember this relatives,” Roland mentioned.
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Brittany is a preschool/particular education and learning trainer at St. Matthews K-8 Faculty, while Chad is a farmer who has also coached baseball at the Elloree Midway Ballfield for much more than 13 yrs. He has also been president of Lake Marion District 9 baseball for at minimum five many years, Mrs. Lyons said.
The couple, who are also parents to Joseph, 12, and Avery, 9, say they enjoy all of the help and prayers that have been lifted up for the relatives.
“It has certainly been amazing. We knew that this neighborhood was exclusive, and we have often recognised that. We have found that in other cases and when other factors have took place, but when it is you, they actually stand driving you. It’s definitely comforting just to know that that. This local community is very small, but mighty,” Brittany reported.
“The volume of folks praying for our spouse and children and our son is almost nothing small of God doing the job the way that he does,” she stated.
Brittany said Blythe will have an MRI accomplished on Jan. 9. If the mass in his lung has shrunk by 50% or much more, he could be a prospect for surgical treatment. If not, Blythe will bear two additional rounds of chemotherapy and be re-evaluated from there.
The family members proceeds to lean on God, she reported, noting that Blyth is carrying out actually very well.
“He’s undertaking really great. He’s acting like a usual 17-month-aged. Having into almost everything. The initial couple of weeks just after his diagnosis had been quite challenging. … He got pretty unwell last week and had to be place in the pediatric intense treatment unit. He formulated pneumonia. So he has unquestionably bounced back again in only a way that a newborn can,” she reported.
Brittany reported she knows God manufactured Blyth to be as difficult and stubborn as he is “because he understood that he would have this struggle.”
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“We believe in that God realized what he was doing, and we go on to belief that God knew what he was performing. You can’t do this on your own. You require the assist of anyone, and it certainly helps make a variation.
“We have felt it, and so we know other people will really feel it, as nicely. We hold solid to our religion. We are heading to observe our 17-month-previous beat most cancers. It’s not even an alternative. We know that God’s acquired this,” she claimed, noting that she desires the local community to pray not just for her son, but other people.
“We are so grateful for all the prayers that our household have acquired. We want folks to know that there are so a lot of small children … that have the diagnosis of unique cancers and just distinctive childhood ailments. We just check with for absolutely everyone to pray for all of the children,” Brittany claimed.
She ongoing, “There’s so several households heading via so a lot even in our community locally. … We just talk to for absolutely everyone to pray for everyone. The power of prayer is definitely amazing. We have felt it, and we know the other families are sensation it, as well.”
The Lyons family has a internet site, where by family members and good friends can continue to be current on Blyth’s journey, at https://www.caringbridge.org/check out/blythlyons.
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