{"id":10703,"date":"2019-08-15T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=258889"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:09","slug":"breast-cancer-survivor-and-teenage-son-hand-sew-neck-pillows-to-bring-comfort-to-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/breast-cancer-survivor-and-teenage-son-hand-sew-neck-pillows-to-bring-comfort-to-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Survivor And Teenage Son Hand-Sew Neck Pillows To Bring Comfort To Cancer Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The Fox Chase Cancer Center got a special donation from a special person. Kat Kramer, a breast cancer survivor, makes handmade neck pillows to provide comfort to cancer patients currently in treatment.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cI just wanted to do something to give back,\u201d Kat said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Four years ago, Kat sat in the very same cancer center getting chemotherapy.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIt\u2019s devastating, it\u2019s hard, it wears away at your soul,\u201d Kat said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re going through chemo or your radiation, you just kind of have a little support for your neck, \u2019cause you\u2019ve got to sit there for three or four hours. [It\u2019s] a little something to cushion, make you feel better.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Her son, Alex, who watched his mom battle cancer when he was a kid, is now a 13-year-old who helps his mom sew these special pillows.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">For him, it\u2019s a lesson in giving back.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cSo other people can be happy and have hope,\u201d Alex said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Fox Chase Cancer Center distributes the pillows throughout the hospital.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cWe are just so grateful for the generosity,\u201d said director of volunteer services, Helen Gordon.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258892\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-survivor-sew-neck-pillows\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-large wp-image-258892 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kat_kramer-1200x627.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kat_kramer.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kat_kramer-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kat_kramer-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kat_kramer-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kat_kramer-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: CBS Philly<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Cancer patients receiving the pillows, like 33-year-old breast cancer patient Bonnie Ettenger, are grateful for the kind act as well.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201c[You\u2019re] in a very bad, uncomfortable, sad thing, and when people want to pay it forward, it just makes you really happy,\u201d Bonnie said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">In the end, Kat just wants to do what she can to bring a little bit of comfort to an overwhelming situation.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIf I could do just one little thing to make it that much more comfortable and bring them some hope, then I\u2019m there,\u201d said Kat. \u201cI\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch the video to see Kat and Alex pass out pillows to current patients.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-survivor-sew-neck-pillows\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox Chase Cancer Center got a special donation from a special person. Kat Kramer, a breast cancer survivor, makes handmade neck pillows to provide comfort to cancer patients currently in treatment.\u201cI just wanted to do something to give back,\u201d Kat said.Four years ago, Kat sat in the very same cancer center getting chemotherapy.\u201cIt\u2019s devastating, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10703","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\/10703","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=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44454,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/44454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}