6-Year-Old with Cancer Gets Hundreds of Christmas Cards from Strangers: 'It Lifted His Spirits'

Photo: Doneshia Lee Six-year-old Jomari Bradley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been feeling down this year as he’s undergone treatment for brain cancer, but hundreds of Christmas cards from strangers have lifted the boy’s spirits. Bradley, who has anaplastic ependymoma, didn’t know that his uncle, Waffers Brown, planned to write a Facebook post asking the public to send the little boy Christmas cards. “He’s been going through a lot this past year.

6-Year-Old with Diabetes Sells Pumpkins to Buy a Service Dog — and Ends Up Raising Over $24K

Photo: Courtesy Katrina Christensen As 6-year-old Ian Unger geared up to begin the new school year as a first grader, the Sand Lake, Michigan, boy was most excited to ride the bus with the other kids. So he was “devastated” when school officials told him he wouldn’t be able to take the school transportation because of his type 1 diabetes. “[The district doesn’t] feel like it’s safe for him to ride the bus without [another adult] on it,” Ian’s mother, Katrina Christensen, 38, tells PEOPLE, noting that the school would not provide an aide to ride with Ian and monitor his blood sugar.

6-Year-Old with Rare Disease Has Half Her Brain Disconnected

Brianna Bodley is pictured here.Photo:Gofundme Gofundme A 6-year-old girl with a rare neurological disease recently underwent surgery in Los Angeles that disconnected half of her brain. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) describesRasmussen’s encephalitis(RE) as “a very rare, chronic inflammatory neurological disease that usually affect only one hemisphere (half) of the brain.” Symptoms include frequent and severe seizures, inflammation of the brain (otherwise known as encephalitis), mental deterioration and the progressive loss of neurological functions such as motor skills, speech and mobility on one side of the body, per NINDS.

6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Southern California, With Impact Felt in Mexico

Photo: USGS HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockA magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Southern California on Thursday, and was reportedly felt as far away as Mexico.The U.S. Geological Survey confirms the quake started at around 10:30 a.m. local time, with seismologists pinpointing the epicenter of the quake as 11 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, California.The epicenter was 109 miles north of San Bernardino and 121 miles northeast of Los Angeles.The quake jolted the area as many began preparations for July 4th celebrations.

6.5K Flyers Were Sent to a Small Town on 9/11 — and Their Story Is in Theaters for the Anniversary

Photo: MDF Productions The moving documentaryYou Are Hereshows the outpouring of love in one corner of the world on Sept. 11, 2001. On Wednesday, it will play in theaters across the nation to mark the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Amid the horror of the tragedy — whichclaimed the lives of 2,997 peopleand forever changed countless others — 38 planes heading to the U.S. were diverted to the small Canadian town of Gander, Newfoundland, known as the eastern-most point of North America.