A grieving family’s desperate plea has gone viral on social media after a stuffed elephant containing their son’s ashes was lost during a trip to Disney World with his surviving brother last month.

“Our son, Gabryel passed away before we could make it to Disney. For his birthday this year we took our surviving son, Sebastyan, on the trip,” Liz and Ande Atkinson wrote alongside photos of the blue stuffed elephant. She also shared an outline of everywhere the family went during their trip, hoping that someone may have seen it.

“Gabryel was given this elephant in the NICU and it was at every surgery/procedure (over 50) and hospitalization (too many to count) with him. He slept with it every night and since his passing my husband and I have had it in our bed with us,” they wrote. “His name is Bruce.”

A small bag of Gabryel’s ashes were inside a pouch on Bruce’s back, the family said. They brought it on vacation, which included trips to Disney Springs and Cocoa Beach, beginning April 22.

“Grief brain kicked in at some point with all of the emotions, making me really struggle with simple memory tasks,” Liz Atkinson wrote. “Because vehicles get messy on trips, I kept thinking maybe he was just mixed in somewhere (very unlike me, I know where everything is 100% of the time even on trips, thank you grief) but once we got home May 1 I searched EVERYWHERE. Every bag. He’s gone.”

“I’ve called each of the places listed above and filled out a lost and found form on Disney’s page. No one has found him,” Atkinson wrote. “I feel sick, struggling to sleep. I’m desperate.”

In an update, Bruce’s possible location was narrowed down, ruling out Cocoa Beach.

“He would have made it to Disney Springs with us, which we know he didn’t go into with us because he was not packed in the 1 bag we brought in,” Atkinson wrote. “This means he either fell out in the orange parking ramp there, somewhere at the palazzo, or if he made it into [Art of Animation]-potentially was mixed into bedding that was changed by housekeeping.”

The family is asking to be contacted via private message on Facebook if anyone finds the stuffed elephant.

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