Neighborhood celebrates Halloween early for 4-year-old boy set to undergo surgery
In a warm gesture, the residents of the Goshen Meadows neighborhood in Edwardsville, Illinois celebrated an early Halloween for a four-year-old boy, who is scheduled for surgery on Friday, so that he would not miss on the festivities.
Reports state that the young boy, Sonny Mead, loves Halloween and he was disappointed that he would miss the holiday because of his surgery.
Sonny's grandmother, Josie Mead, while talking to Fox2 Now, said: "When we found out that they were doing this, we just thought it was absolutely amazing for people to care about somebody we care so much about." The child was diagnosed with craniosynostosis in February 2015. Craniosynostosis is a birth defect which causes one or more of the fibrous joints between the bones of the skull to close prematurely before the brain has fully formed.