According to ABC News, Evan Leversage has been fighting cancer for five years and was told last month he may not make it to Christmas.
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“When Evan looks out his window, the backyard is decorated and there’s a sign saying ‘Merry Christmas, ‘” she added.
“Can we light up St. George for Evan so he can see the lights for one last Christmas?”.
Our thoughts are with Evan and his family, and we wish them a magical, merry Christmas. “But it certainly shows that there are an bad lot of good people out there and he’s touched our hearts immensely”.
However, this past January Evan was rushed back to the hospital after having problems with his arms and legs.
An MRI showed that the tumour had become aggressive and he went through more radiation and chemotherapy treatements.
His mother, Nicole Wellwood, is a single parent, and she says she’s used to getting help at Christmas.
Setting up Christmas decorations in her yard and the home was something simple she could do to make Evan happy, but she never expected “Christmas in October” to take off.
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What Wellwood didn’t expect was how that one simple request would resonate within her community. In addition to a family get-together, Wellwood’s cousin Shelly thought it would be nice to throw a larger celebration and invite the community that had rallied behind Evan throughout his fight against cancer. “To have so many lights, literally, around, it’s really making certain aspects of this a little easier to bear”. A Santa Claus Parade, planned by volunteers, will run down Evan’s street on Saturday evening with (artificial) snow in the forecast and his family will celebrate Christmas on Sunday morning.
