{"id":2558,"date":"2019-03-14T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=238713"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:15","slug":"single-mom-has-to-beg-for-rides-to-doctor-for-son-with-brain-tumor-stranger-says-not-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/single-mom-has-to-beg-for-rides-to-doctor-for-son-with-brain-tumor-stranger-says-not-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Mom Has To Beg For Rides To Doctor For Son With Brain Tumor. Stranger Says \u2018Not Anymore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">It wasn\u2019t long after Nikole Osani gave birth to her son, Canyon, that she knew something just wasn\u2019t right. During his infancy, Canyon experienced severe vomiting, and his eyes made uncontrolled movements. His head was also particularly large.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Despite Nikole\u2019s voiced concerns, doctors told her she was just worrying too much.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">But the 23-year-old single mother was right all along. Canyon was very sick. He was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and the cancer began spreading down his spinal cord. He has since undergone at least six surgeries.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Nikole decided to give up her own apartment so she could move back in with her parents and focus on Canyon\u2019s care around-the-clock.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-son-brain-tumor\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238783 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/singlemom-1.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/singlemom-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/singlemom-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/singlemom-1-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/singlemom-1-768x402.jpg 768w\" 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\/WJZ<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The young single mom faced another monumental challenge: she didn\u2019t have a car. This meant she had to depend on others to get Canyon to his crucial appointments at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a nearly two-hour drive from home. Nikole was forced to continually beg her family and friends to drive them to and from Canyon\u2019s chemotherapy appointments\u2026 appointments that he simply could not miss.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Members of Nikole\u2019s community started to catch wind of her story, including a man named Paul Matthews. After Paul\u2019s son, Eli, died from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Paul founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.braveeli.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Seth Matthew\u2019s Leukemia Foundation<\/a>, which supports families with children battling cancer.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Paul was so taken by the single mother\u2019s plight that he reached out to his donors and volunteers to see if anyone could help.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">His inquiry made it to Cynthia Mowery \u2014 a recent police academy graduate with an incredible lifesaving offer for Nicole and Canyon.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch the video to learn more!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-son-brain-tumor\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t long after Nikole Osani gave birth to her son, Canyon, that she knew something just wasn\u2019t right. During his infancy, Canyon experienced severe vomiting, and his eyes made uncontrolled movements. His head was also particularly large.Despite Nikole\u2019s voiced concerns, doctors told her she was just worrying too much.But the 23-year-old single mother was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","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\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45822,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/45822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}