{"id":10599,"date":"2019-08-13T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=258024"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:09","slug":"dad-with-cancer-escorts-his-autistic-son-to-school-with-the-help-of-his-fellow-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/dad-with-cancer-escorts-his-autistic-son-to-school-with-the-help-of-his-fellow-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad With Cancer Escorts His Autistic Son To School, With The Help Of His Fellow Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first day of kindergarten can be difficult for any kid. It\u2019s a big change in routine and it can be scary leaving the comfort of home, adjusting to a classroom schedule, and trying to make new friends.<\/span>For 5-year-old Carmine Mattaline, who lives in Chesterfield, Missouri, the first day of kindergarten was made extra special. Carmine has autism and needed to have someone hold his hand on his walk to school. However, his dad, Andy, was stuck in the hospital due to cancer treatment.<\/span>But thanks to the support of dozens of people, Carmine had a huge entourage of fans walking him to school on his first day \u2014 including his dad!<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>
\n<\/span>Andy, who is a police officer, had been in the hospital for over two weeks when the first day of school rolled around. He\u2019d had to have surgery to remove his cancer and needed time to heal.<\/span>When talking about his stay at Saint Louis University (SLU) Hospital, Andy choked up. He hadn\u2019t been able to see his children much at all since checking in. He\u2019d seen Carmine only once, and hadn\u2019t been able to see his daughter at all.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>He was devastated to think he would have to miss his son\u2019s first day of school.<\/span>\u201cThis is one of my biggest days and I just didn\u2019t want to miss this,\u201d Andy told KMOV<\/a>. \u201cHe means the world to me. We\u2019ve been through a lot together.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>Luckily, SLU doctors had a surprise in store for the doting dad.<\/span>\u201cWould you prefer to watch it in person? Would you prefer to get out of the hospital and watch it in person? \u2018Cause we can do that for you,\u201d his doctor said.<\/span>Andy\u2019s hand flew to his mouth and he repeated \u201cWhat?\u201d over and over in shock. He was able to leave the hospital for a few hours to see his son off to school.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>
\n<\/span>Andy arrived at his home to another surprise: several of his fellow officers were there to help walk Carmine to school. They had been prepared to step in if Andy had to miss this milestone in his son\u2019s life.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>In all, there were over two dozen people who escorted Carmine to school for his first day.<\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s an overwhelming amount support that I just can\u2019t process right now,\u201d Andy said<\/a>. \u201cI just love the support \u2026 I can\u2019t thank anybody enough.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>Carmine was thrilled with the support as well.<\/span>\u201cThat was awesome!\u201d Carmine said to his family after they arrived at the school.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/KMOV St. Louis<\/span>\u201cI just can\u2019t wait to release him into the world,\u201d Andy said<\/a>. \u201cTo his first step to transition into becoming something we all want to see him flourish into.\u201d<\/span>Learn more in this video!<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first day of kindergarten can be difficult for any kid. It\u2019s a big change in routine and it can be scary leaving the comfort of home, adjusting to a classroom schedule, and trying to make new friends.For 5-year-old Carmine Mattaline, who lives in Chesterfield, Missouri, the first day of kindergarten was made extra special. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10599","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\/10599","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=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44458,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/44458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}