{"id":88294,"date":"2009-12-18T07:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2009-12-18T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:10:37","slug":"giving-the-gift-of-life-wbz-tv-shares-the-story-of-charlotte-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/88294","title":{"rendered":"Giving the gift of life: WBZ-TV shares the story of Charlotte Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3686\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3686\" title=\"charlotte_kelly\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/charlotte_kelly-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"charlotte_kelly\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Kelly is battling neuroblastoma<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WBZ-TV yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/wbztv.com\/video\/?id=84418@wbz.dayport.com\">shared the story of Charlotte Kelly<\/a>, a 3-year-old Children&#8217;s patient who is battling stage IV <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/az\/Site1084\/mainpageS1084P0.html\">neuroblastoma<\/a>. The chemotherapy used to treat Charlotte&#8217;s cancer destroys the platelets in her blood, so she needs regular transfusions to replace them. Her mother&#8217;s colleagues from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonpublicschools.org\/node\/526\">Tynan Elementary School<\/a> in South Boston gave the greatest holiday gift this week when they came to Children&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/about\/Site1394\/mainpageS1394P6.html\">Blood Donor Center<\/a> to donate platelets for Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;re giving gifts this year, don&#8217;t forget to give the ones, like blood and platelets, that don&#8217;t cost a dime but help kids like Charlotte every day at Children&#8217;s and places like it around the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">\n<\/div>\n<p><!--<br \/>\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C<br \/>\nfound at http:\/\/corp.brightcove.com\/legal\/terms_publisher.cfm.<br \/>\n--><\/p>\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\/js\/BrightcoveExperiences.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"myExperience8801714001\" class=\"BrightcoveExperience\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"486\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"330\" \/><param name=\"playerID\" value=\"28704541001\" \/><param name=\"publisherID\" value=\"1875278571\"\/><param name=\"isVid\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"@videoPlayer\" value=\"8801714001\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/this-week-on-thrive-dec-14-18\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: This week on Thrive: Dec. 14 &#8211; 18'>This week on Thrive: Dec. 14 &#8211; 18<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/probing-life-threatening-flu\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Probing life-threatening flu'>Probing life-threatening flu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/how-can-we-help-our-teen-son-manage-media-so-they-dont-interfere-with-his-life\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How can we help our teen son manage media so they don&#8217;t interfere with his life?'>How can we help our teen son manage media so they don&#8217;t interfere with his life?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/childrenshospitalblog\/~4\/LAOvdvnOYps\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Kelly is battling neuroblastoma WBZ-TV yesterday shared the story of Charlotte Kelly, a 3-year-old Children&#8217;s patient who is battling stage IV neuroblastoma. The chemotherapy used to treat Charlotte&#8217;s cancer destroys the platelets in her blood, so she needs regular transfusions to replace them. Her mother&#8217;s colleagues from the Tynan Elementary School in South Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}