Clarkston boy fights brain cancer
The story’s reach went from local to mind-bogglingly global in a handful of days.
The StayStrongRyanKennedy tag was the No. 4 trending topic in Detroit Wednesday evening. OU players said they’d seen Ryan’s name trending in the UK. Twitter confirmed it was a top 20 trending topic in the U.S. and Canada, and top 10 in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Spain, the UK and the Netherlands.
“I showed him the Britney Spears tweet, and he did start crying, and he said, ‘You know, Mommy, this really touches my heart, that so many people are out there Tweeting, and caring about me,’” said Morris-Karp of the joy the effort brought to Ryan’s heart.
But there’s been somewhat of a misnomer attached to the movement.
He’s been talked about from Michigan to Munich, from the United States to the United Kingdom, from Auburn Hills to …
“The trend has reached Australia,” Aussie Susan Armstead (@TwistedFingas) reported on Tuesday. “God bless mate.”
# If nothing else, all the whirlwind of attention on what everyone’s described as a truly exceptional kid has come at an ironically perfect time — National Brain Cancer Awareness Month is May — and can only help raise awareness for what is an ugly, nasty disease.
A disease for which there is no cure, as of yet, and for which there’s not nearly enough research.
“It’s amazing. It’s something that doesn’t take a whole lot of time, but it’s a huge gesture that means a whole lot to all of us. … It’s good to see because people don’t take the time to do the right thing, you don’t think very often. To see that there are actually good people out there that care, that means a lot,” said Kevin Morris, who joined the Twitter campaign wholeheartedly, hoping to give some meaning to what the entire family’s been going through.
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*sniffle* *dries tears*
