{"id":132869,"date":"2017-12-20T12:28:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=132869"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:30:48","slug":"patients-wishes-come-true-thanks-cancer-center-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/12\/patients-wishes-come-true-thanks-cancer-center-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient\u2019s Wishes Come True Thanks to Cancer Center Generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breast cancer patient and mother of three, Andrea Bailey, has had a devastating few months. Along with juggling work and her cancer diagnosis, her two-year old daughter recently underwent open-heart surgery. On top of that, her home flooded which left them with little. Andrea was worried she wouldn\u2019t have anything for her daughters for Christmas. But the cancer center staff joined forces and collected not only toys but household items and furniture. Watch the video to see how the staff recently surprised the family with their gifts and even Santa showed up for the festivities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Christmas Surprise for UConn Health Cancer Patient in Need\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o873_REsRU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neag Cancer Center staff at UConn Health joined forces and collected items for a patient in need. They recently surprised the family with their gifts and even Santa showed up for the festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":132872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-132869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:13:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/132872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132869"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=132869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=132869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}