{"id":3035,"date":"2019-03-22T14:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=239427"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:14","slug":"girls-become-best-friends-in-hospital-reunite-years-later-for-survivors-photoshoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/girls-become-best-friends-in-hospital-reunite-years-later-for-survivors-photoshoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Become Best Friends In Hospital, Reunite Years Later For \u201cSurvivors\u201d Photoshoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago, four little girls met at Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. They discovered they all had a terrible thing in common: cancer.<\/span>But because of the time they spent together at the hospital, something very special happened \u2014 they became best friends.<\/span>Their names are McKinley, Chloe, Ava, and Lauren, and ever since they met each other, they\u2019ve tried to be with each other as much as possible.<\/span>Now they\u2019ve reunited for a \u201csurvivors\u201d photoshoot to celebrate the beautiful fact that all<\/strong> of them are cancer-free!<\/span>The little girls weren\u2019t the only ones who bonded and are thrilled to be reunited. Their moms became friends, too.<\/span>\u201cFrom the standpoint of a mom, too, having other moms to relate to has been phenomenal,\u201d Karen Moore, McKinley\u2019s mom, said. \u201cJust to have other people going through it at the same time as us.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 13 News \u2013 Tampa Bay<\/span>The little girls\u2019 friendship had a powerful effect on their nurses as well.<\/span>Paige Ward is one of the nurses who cared for them during their time in the hospital, and she\u2019s just overjoyed for them.<\/span>\u201cIt gives me chills, it makes me want to cry,\u201d Ward said. \u201cI mean, I love these kids as if they were my own, for sure. They\u2019re awesome.\u201d<\/span>It\u2019s easy to see why everyone is so proud of these girls. They\u2019ve been through a harrowing experience at such a young age, and they\u2019ve not only survived, but gained strong friendships with each other in the process!<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/FOX 13 News \u2013 Tampa Bay<\/span>They\u2019re all done with treatments, so all of them have a full head of hair again. Watching them together, they all seem so happy.<\/span>In 2018, Lauren finally got to ring the hospital bell, and that makes this reunion all the more special. She got to start kindergarten, too!<\/span>The little girls and their moms are planning to reunite every year from here on out, and we think that\u2019s the sweetest thing.<\/span>Learn more about these darling little girls in the video below.<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago, four little girls met at Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. They discovered they all had a terrible thing in common: cancer.But because of the time they spent together at the hospital, something very special happened \u2014 they became best friends.Their names are McKinley, Chloe, Ava, and Lauren, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","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\/3035","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=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45819,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/45819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}