During the horrific dog attack, Ryder lost half his face and had his teeth, arm, and one lung crushed.
Ryder Wells from North Carolina is a nearly seven year old boy who had to overcome a lot during his short life and is still fighting. When the boy was only 21 months old, he and his family were visiting friends for Thanksgiving when Ryder was brutally attacked by two 100-pound Rottweilers.
The terrific incident resulted in sweet Ryder losing half of his face. He also had his teeth crushed and suffered from a broken arm and punctured lung. Doctorsâ prognosis werenât bright, but the little fighter survived. Over the course of 5 years, Ryder had to undergo around 50 surgeries to reconstruct his face.
Until he gets mature, he will need to have more surgeries, including nose and teeth reconstruction.
Ryderâs family is proud of their hero son, but they are at the same time concerned for him because he now attends kindergarten and is always starred at, not only by his little friends, but adults too. And although heâs still very young, he is aware of everything. Speaking to The Mirror, his mother Brittany said how âHe wears glasses and a cap and sometimes heâll hang his head to hide his face. But I just tell him every day that heâs beautiful, different is beautiful and itâs ok to be different.â
Recently, the family was at the park when a child pointed at Ryder and started yelling, âmonsterâ, before he ran away. This didnât happen for the first time. âOut shopping the other day someone shouted âewâ at him. Itâs hard and it breaks my heart as a parent that after everything heâs been through, people arenât always nice over something he canât help.â
Brittany is afraid that things could get even worse once Ryder starts going to school because no matter now innocent children are, they are not really considerate.
She fears her sweet boy may easily become a victim of bullying and is doing all in her power to raise awareness about the effects of bullying on someone like her son. She wants everyone to think twice about how they treat people who are different and hopes her son will be accepted by the society. âI just reassure him as much as I can but Iâm absolutely terrified about when he goes to school. There are always going to be a couple of kids who arenât kind,â she adds.
We should all teach our children to embrace differences and always treat everyone with respect because that would help children like sweet Ryder have a better life.