Although superstar singer and songwriter, Ed Sheeran has been keeping a low profile since he told his fans he’d be taking a break from social media in December 2015, he surfaced recently to fulfill the dreams of one super fan.
That’s after the two-time Grammy-award winner happily obliged the parents of his young fan, Melody Driscoll, a nine-year-old who suffers from Rett syndrome and has spent 80 percent of her life in the hospital as a result. Rett Syndrome is a rare genetic neurological disorder that starts as early as the sixth and 18th month of a child’s life, and almost occurs exclusively in girls.
It has symptoms of slowed growth, loss of normal movement and coordination, loss of communication abilities, abnormal hand movements, unusual eye movements, breathing problems, agitation and irritability, and other abnormal behaviours.
Nonetheless, her obsession with Ed Sheeran motivated her parents to create a Facebook campaign to get Ed’s attention, hoping that he would come meet Melody and cheer her up. Luckily, Ed Sheeran did not disappoint. He visited the children’s ward of Epsom Hospital, where he joked around with Melody and serenaded her with one of his more emotional songs, ‘Photograph.’
According to Melody’s parents, she’s apparently ‘still on cloud nine‘ and ‘can’t stop smiling.’
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