{"id":309746,"date":"2025-09-12T06:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/309746\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:42:20","slug":"celebrating-the-end-of-treatment-with-the-giants-and-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/309746\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the End of Treatment With the Giants and Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Tarun Thiara and his family pose with Buster Posey\"\"Brennan Bernardino of the Red Sox signs Tarun\u2019s baseball<\/p>\n

Tarun Thiara, 17, was sitting in his hospital bed, receiving chemotherapy for Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, when a Stanford Medicine Children\u2019s Health Child Life specialist walked in.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you like baseball?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Tarun and his family smiled. Tarun and his brother, Rohan, both play baseball and they especially love the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually have a photo of Buster Posey from when the Giants last won the World Series outside of the kids\u2019 rooms,\u201d said Michelle Thiara, Tarun\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n

Now, in the same week Tarun completed his cancer treatment, he celebrated in a special way: meeting Posey at a Giants game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn exciting opportunity\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarun went through a rollercoaster of events these past three months. In February, Tarun found a lump in his neck. He went to see his doctor in Merced where he got a blood test, chest X-ray, and ultrasound. His doctor then asked, \u201cCan I refer you to Stanford Children\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n

After they arrived at the Stanford Children\u2019s Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases<\/a>, Tarun was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I was really shocked,\u201d Tarun recalled. \u201cA few hours go by, and then it really sets in. It is emotional, but I knew I just had to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first three rounds of chemotherapy were hard for Tarun.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had major stomach pains and couldn\u2019t eat,\u201d Michelle said. \u201cHis second round, he had severe joint pain and walking around was difficult. He had to use a walker. It\u2019s been hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of his treatment, he had to miss baseball season this year, which is why he jumped at this opportunity.<\/p>\n

Celebrating at the Giants game<\/p>\n

Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, Liam Hendriks, had his own journey with cancer treatment after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma in January 2023. Since then, he\u2019s intensified his outreach efforts to raise awareness for cancer research, treatment, and survivorship. While he couldn\u2019t make the game on Friday, his teammate, relief pitcher Brennan Bernardino, stepped in to deliver a gift bag and visit with Tarun.<\/p>\n

Then, Tarun went to the Giants\u2019 dugout to meet with Posey, who also is committed to improving outcomes for pediatric cancer. When they met, Tarun shared his good news, telling his baseball hero, \u201cI finished treatment this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

To cap off the meet and greet, Tarun stood on the field to signal the start of the game, yelling \u201cplay ball!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarun Thiara and his family pose with Buster PoseyBrennan Bernardino of the Red Sox signs Tarun\u2019s baseball Tarun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,40513,4,40512,40514,40511,40510,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-309746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-maternal-health","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-obstetrics","13":"tag-patient-stories","14":"tag-pediatrician","15":"tag-pediatrics","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-giants","18":"tag-sanfrancisco","19":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","20":"tag-sf","21":"tag-sf-giants","22":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115189969468821653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}