{"id":10315,"date":"2019-08-07T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=257128"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:10","slug":"garbage-men-finally-meet-cancer-free-toddler-after-bonding-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/garbage-men-finally-meet-cancer-free-toddler-after-bonding-from-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage Men Finally Meet Cancer-Free Toddler After Bonding From Afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Every week, a trio of sisters from Minneapolis would run to the living room window in anticipation. Grace, Rose, and Sophia Evenson would stop whatever they were doing to look out for the garbage truck that would soon make its way toward their house for trash collection.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Over the course of the following year, the Evenson sisters developed a close bond with the two garbage men, Brandon Olsen and Taylor Fritz.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">With kids of their own, the men came to rely on the girls\u2019 friendly smiles and excited waves. They truly enjoyed the cute weekly exchanges from across the yard, even if they took place on either side of the big glass window.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">When Halloween came, they\u2019d leave treats for the girls. The girls would draw colorful pictures for them in return.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">One day their mom, Angie, wrote the trash collectors a short note of gratitude \u2014 but it also included some heartbreaking news.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The note read, \u201cWe may miss you some Thursdays upcoming, our 3-year-old girl was diagnosed with cancer and has chemo on Thursdays.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257129\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-rose-cancer-garbagemen\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-large wp-image-257129 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/garbagemen-1200x627.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/garbagemen.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/garbagemen-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/garbagemen-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/garbagemen-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/garbagemen-1000x523.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/WCCO \u2013 CBS Minnesota<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In September of that year, 3-year-old Rose had been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer that had spread to her lungs.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">She started spending many days away from home in the hospital, which meant she couldn\u2019t see her beloved garbage collectors as often as she hoped. Brandon and Taylor couldn\u2019t shake the unexpected bombshell.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">One week later, Angie received a note from Brandon and Taylor that left her speechless: they were going to collect their garbage every week free of charge from now on.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In the video below, you\u2019ll see life has changed a whole lot since Rose\u2019s story first went viral.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Take a look!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-rose-cancer-garbagemen\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, a trio of sisters from Minneapolis would run to the living room window in anticipation. Grace, Rose, and Sophia Evenson would stop whatever they were doing to look out for the garbage truck that would soon make its way toward their house for trash collection.Over the course of the following year, the Evenson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44461,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions\/44461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}