Kayla Price only wanted one good day for her little boy. Her son, Devin, is fighting an aggressive brain tumor that doctors say has no cure, and after a rare stretch where he felt well, she took him and his older brother to the State Fair of Texas to make some happy memories.
By the end of the night, someone had stolen the one thing she could not afford to lose. And then a man she had never met stepped in to make it right.
A Happy Night at the State Fair
Devin has midline glioma, a fast-growing tumor in the brain. He has been through six rounds of chemotherapy and was recently placed in hospice care. But on Tuesday, October 6, he was having a good day, the kind of day his family has learned to treasure.
So Kayla packed up the boys and headed to Fair Park in Dallas. Devin loved every minute. “He was having so much fun at the petting zoo. We rode the Ferris wheel. He loved that. He ate fried Oreos,” she told NBC 5.
For a few hours, it was just a family at the fair. Bright lights, sugar on their fingers, a little boy smiling from his wheelchair. No hospital rooms. No hard conversations.
The Moment Her Purse Disappeared
Around 8 p.m., Kayla tucked her purse into the back of Devin’s wheelchair and turned away for a moment to take care of her older son. When she turned back, the purse was gone.
Inside was about $1,500 in cash. But the money was not what made her heart stop. Also inside were two doses of Devin’s emergency seizure medication, a prescription nasal spray that can stop a seizure once it starts. Families like hers are told to keep it close at all times.
“I needed to grab the purse because I believe Devin was going into a seizure, and I needed that medicine, and I noticed the purse was gone,” she said.
The medication costs around $2,000 to replace, and Kayla said her insurance would not cover a new supply. She filed a report with Dallas police and made an emotional plea on FOX 4 for whoever took the purse to bring the medicine back. “I would do anything for my baby,” she said.
Waiting for the Next Seizure
For a parent of a child with a terminal illness, every day is already heavy. Now Kayla was carrying a new fear on top of everything else: what would happen if Devin had a seizure and there was nothing in her hands to help him?
That fear came true. On Friday morning, Devin suffered another prolonged seizure. It was exactly the kind of moment the stolen spray was meant for.
Through all of it, his mom says Devin is still Devin. He loves to smile. He loves to dance. He loves to sing. That joy is what she is fighting to protect for as long as she can.
A Stranger Who Couldn’t Look Away
Across Dallas, a man named Chris Bailey saw Devin’s story on the news. Bailey is known in the city for starting the “Everybody Loves Everybody” movement after the 2016 ambush on Dallas police officers. He has spent years trying to bring people together through small, real acts of love.
He did not wait for a fundraiser to take off or for the thief to have a change of heart. He reached out to the FOX 4 newsroom to find the family and pledged to cover the cost of replacing the medication.
Then he simply sent Kayla the money.
“I sent her the money yesterday, and she immediately went to the pharmacy and filled it,” Bailey told NBC 5.
No ceremony. No speech. Just one person deciding that a little boy fighting for his life should not have to go one more day without the medicine that keeps him safe.
Peace of Mind for a Mother
For Kayla, the gift meant far more than a refilled prescription. It meant she could breathe again. It meant that the next time Devin’s body started to fail him, she would be ready.
“That medicine gave me a couple more days, a couple of more weeks, hopefully, and I am so glad,” she said.
And Bailey’s kindness may not be finished. He said he hoped to meet Devin over the weekend, with another special surprise planned for the little boy. The family has also set up a GoFundMe to help with the costs of Devin’s cancer journey.
Someone at the fair that night took something that was never theirs. But a stranger reminded a frightened mom that there are still more people willing to give than to take. Sometimes the kindest thing in the world is a person who sees a need and quietly fills it.
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