{"id":13330,"date":"2019-10-03T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=278946"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:07","slug":"child-cancer-patient-and-his-dad-have-a-little-fun-when-they-start-a-nerf-war-with-the-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/child-cancer-patient-and-his-dad-have-a-little-fun-when-they-start-a-nerf-war-with-the-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Cancer Patient And His Dad Have A Little Fun When They Start A Nerf War With The Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a child with cancer isn\u2019t easy. Aside from battling an intense and scary illness, children also miss out on a lot of the fun parts of being a kid.<\/span>Drew Esposito is a 5-year-old patient at Norton Children\u2019s Hospital in Kentucky. Drew is being treated for medulloblastoma, a rare form of cancer that requires extensive chemotherapy and long hospital stays.<\/span>\u201cLittle Drew is the light of any room that he walks into,\u201d nurse Taylor Bergman explained to Inside Edition<\/a><\/em>.<\/span>Drew\u2019s treatment has required him to be isolated many times. He\u2019s found a way to keep a positive attitude despite that, usually by engaging with the nurses.<\/span>Taylor explains that Drew will often hit the call button and surprise nurses with Nerf guns when they come to check on him.<\/span>Drew upped the ante with his dad\u2019s help.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span>\u201cWe were not prepared for him to be suited up in a superhero outfit with his dad helping him as well,\u201d Taylor explained. \u201cThe costume was half-practical. Drew\u2019s treatment requires him to be isolation, which requires us to wear gowns and masks quite often.\u201d<\/span>Nerf gun battles aren\u2019t the norm in the children\u2019s hospital, but the staff sees it as part of Drew\u2019s care.<\/span>\u201cWe don\u2019t have Nerf battles every shift and hour, but while we\u2019re providing medical care and tending to his needs, it\u2019s important for this age and all children that we treat to keep developing them, and part of that is play,\u201d Taylor explained. \u201cAnytime we can be superheroes and make a game out of taking medicine or achieving care goals is a really great day at work.\u201d<\/span>Thankfully, Drew\u2019s dad, Jeremy Esposito, reports that he\u2019s doing better since his latest round of treatment.<\/span>\u201cHe\u2019s heads and shoulders above where he was a few short weeks ago,\u201d he said.<\/span>Learn more in this video.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a child with cancer isn\u2019t easy. Aside from battling an intense and scary illness, children also miss out on a lot of the fun parts of being a kid.Drew Esposito is a 5-year-old patient at Norton Children\u2019s Hospital in Kentucky. Drew is being treated for medulloblastoma, a rare form of cancer that requires extensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13330","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\/13330","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=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44423,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions\/44423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}