{"id":8140,"date":"2019-06-26T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=252429"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:10","slug":"3-year-old-boy-receives-hundreds-of-sweet-birthday-cards-in-the-mail-during-battle-with-leukemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/3-year-old-boy-receives-hundreds-of-sweet-birthday-cards-in-the-mail-during-battle-with-leukemia\/","title":{"rendered":"3-Year-Old Boy Receives Hundreds Of Sweet Birthday Cards In The Mail During Battle With Leukemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">A little boy just had a magical third birthday despite battling leukemia.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Freddie, who has Down syndrome, was diagnosed with leukemia in January.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">He has completed four rounds of chemotherapy since then, and he has a long road ahead of him. His treatment is expected to last at least two more years, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideedition.com\/boy-down-syndrome-whos-battling-cancer-gets-hundreds-birthday-cards-53706\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Edition<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">But Freddie just turned 3 years old, and his mom, Joanne Taylor, wanted to make it special. So she requested birthday cards earlier in the month.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The little survivor received hundreds of birthday cards in the mail in time for the big day. He has been so inundated with mail that Joanne had to set up a special mailing address just for well-wishers:<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Pack &amp; Mail, Attn: Team Freddie,<br \/>1608 Camp Road,<br \/>Charleston, South Carolina, 29412.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cFreddie is loving all these presents and cards!!\u201d Joanne wrote on his Facebook page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teamreadyfreddiego\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Team Freddie<\/a>.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252430\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-toddler-leukemia-cards\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-large wp-image-252430 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/leukemia-1200x627.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/leukemia.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/leukemia-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/leukemia-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/leukemia-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/leukemia-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: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Freddie loves reading with his mom, including the paper, his lab work, and all of those birthday cards.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cSo we open the cards and read them together,\u201d she explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live5news.com\/2019\/06\/13\/sc-family-asking-birthday-cards-boy-fighting-cancer\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WCSC-TV<\/a>.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Even better, Freddie got to go home for a few days for his birthday before starting his fifth round of chemo. It was his first time sleeping in his own bed in weeks.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cIt feels good to be home,\u201d Joanne said.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Plus, Freddie got a fire truck escort to take him home.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Learn more in this video.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-toddler-leukemia-cards\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little boy just had a magical third birthday despite battling leukemia.Freddie, who has Down syndrome, was diagnosed with leukemia in January.He has completed four rounds of chemotherapy since then, and he has a long road ahead of him. His treatment is expected to last at least two more years, Inside Edition reports.But Freddie just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8140","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\/8140","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=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45766,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions\/45766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}