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Very, very unhappy information this weekend out of the social media world:
Anna Grace Phelan, a preferred presence on TikTok, handed away on Might 23… a couple of yr after having been recognized with mind most cancers.
She was solely 19 years outdated.
“It is with great sadness to announce that our beautiful daughter, Anna Grace Phelan, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” the household wrote of their publish on Saturday.
“So many of you have followed her journey through a difficult battle with cancer and bore witness to her powerful testimony of faith.”
This message continued as follows:
“Thank you for the countless thousands of prayers for healing and peace. May we all rejoice with the assurance that she is in Heaven now, and she has been healed. Let us also remember that the only path to the promised kingdom of Heaven is through salvation in Jesus Christ.”
Phelan had been candid about her most cancers journey along with her greater than 139,000 followers on TikTok.
In August 2024, she shared that she “started to experience numbness” within the left aspect of her face and in the best aspect of her leg.
“We scheduled an MRI appointment of my brain, and that scan did show a lesion on my brain,” {the teenager} mentioned by way of TikTok on the time.
Phelan defined that her signs began getting “worse,” including, “I started losing my balance. I started having vision problems in my left eye, my numbness in my face and on my leg is still here. … My speech started to seem weird. My head’s very foggy.”
Just a few weeks later, Phelan advised the general public that she had been recognized with a Grade 4 malignant mind tumor.
“This is definitely the hardest news I’ve ever received by all means,” she mentioned in a TikTok on the time.
“This is not easy. Just going to trust in the Lord and try and keep pushing forward. I just want to say thank y’all so much for all the prayers and comments and texts. I really appreciate it. It’s a very hard time for me and my family right now and everything helps.”
In subsequent movies, Phelan gave her followers perception into her radiation remedy and opened up about her worsening signs, which included respiratory issues and dizziness.
“Keep me in your prayers,” Phelan mentioned in Might 14 TikTok footage. “Thank you all so much.”
Concluded the star’s family members of their heartbreaking assertion:
“God bless her beautiful soul. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
The influencer’s household is ready to honor her with a funeral in Georgia on Might 29.
In lieu of flowers, Phelan’s obituary asks mourners for memorial presents to be made to The Pediatric Brian Tumor Basis at http://curethekids.org/.
