'YOUR WORLD IS CRASHING DOWN': Waylon Brice Taylor loved to sing, make people laugh, and go on trips. He was five years old when he died from an aggressive and rare form of brain cancer. His mother, Paityn Richmond, said Waylon was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) in June 2024 after she noticed something wasn't right. "His leg would stay kind of stiff, and his arm would draw up to his chest whenever he would be running or something; and so that wasn't normal for a child," Richmond said. Doctors performed a CT scan followed by an MRI the next morning. "They diagnosed him with DIPG," Richmond said. DIPG is a rare brain cancer that grows in the brain stem. Like many other children diagnosed with the disease in southeastern Kentucky, Waylon was given six to 12 months to live. Read more on LEX18.com. #DIPG #DIPGAwareness #KentuckyNews #LEXNews