The internet's combined forces managed to reunite an eight-year-old girl with her cherished pink blanket.
Hayley McGuire suffers from a rare, catastrophic form of epilepsy known as Dravet's syndrome, and the security blanket has comforted her after countless seizures and hospital visits.
When the blanket, named Kiki, disappeared last weekend, Hailey's aunt Nichole took to social media to ask for help. "This is not just any blanket. Kiki came to live with her girl at her very first hospital stay at 4 months old," she wrote on a local news channel's Facebook page. "Kiki has been there for dozens of hospital stays since - not to mention 7 or 8 moves, half a dozen life flights, too many ambulance rides, thousands of seizures, millions of smiles, giggles and memories."
Nichole added that little Hayley would "never understand why it's gone." Another post explained that "[The blanket] is what she asks for every time she comes out of a seizure on when she wakes up in the morning." Hayley's family had searched the internet for another copy of the blanket, but unfortunately the design was no longer in production.
The post was shared over 800 times in just a few hours, and luckily it was soon spotted by a pastor at the church the family had attended on the day the blanket went missing. A quick rummage through the bins revealed Kiki, safe and sound.
"It's being super washed as we speak... I am so greatful and still in shock," said Hayley's mum on Facebook.
Have your kids ever lost a cherished toy or blanket?
