Angel Myers speaks about Sophia’s battle

Eight-year-old Sophia Myers and her battle with a rare brain tumor captivated the hearts and minds of many here on the Gulf Coast. After Sophia sadly passed away in October, her mom is fighting for change.
News 25 was on hand as Angel Myers spoke to the Ocean Springs Lions Club about the family’s fight with the incurable disease.
Angel Myers is still standing, but she carries a heavy heart daily. “Everybody says grief is like waves and it really is and you know it depends on the moment and I never knew taking things minute by minute was a thing. I had said it to so many people, just take it minute by minute, but it’s a thing and Josh and I just take it minute by minute.”
Step by step, as this grieving mother turns the heartache of losing her child into her message. Sophia died just three months ago from a rare terminal brain cancer, the same disease that also killed two other children from Ocean Springs. Angel Myers wants to know why? “Having three in a small town, just common sense wise, just makes you kind of wonder and I think there needs to be an environmental study and maybe with the foundation if we have the money to do it and it’s not just DIPG, there is a lot of cancer on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.”
Sophia’s life will leave a legacy in Ocean Springs and along the Gulf Coast no matter what, but now her family has a plan to carry that on. “I want to use every forum available. We will talk. We will travel. We will education everywhere that we can. This is a life’s work that Josh and I and our families have now.”
Work that will carry on as others, inspired by the Myers’ message, decided to lend a helping hand. Just ask Nick Garbin. He plans to turn his love for video games into a fundraising event aimed at finding a cure. “I am going to have Super Smash Brothers there, but I am also going to have ping pong and pool and a bunch of other hand-eye coordination activities to get kids out of the house, wanting to go play Nintendo right and we could have a music festival one day and just all these different things celebrating life and celebrating the fact that we are alive because that’s what it comes down to and what this disease made me realize is that not everyone gets to live.”