Texas dad dances in hospital parking lot during his teenage son’s chemotherapy sessions

While most teenagers would cringe to see their parents dance in public, 14-year-old Aiden Yielding of Fort Worth, Texas, actually looks forward to it.

According to a report on CBS News 21, Dallas-Fort Worth, due to the coronavirus, Chuck Yielding can’t sit with his son Aiden – who has leukemia – while he goes through his chemotherapy sessions. Only one person is allowed with each patient and since Aiden’s mother Lori works at the hospital, it made sense that she accompany Aiden.

So, on Tuesdays when his son goes to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth to receive his chemo, Chuck dances below his son’s hospital window – during the breaks in treatment, usually in the hospital parking lot.

Chuck says “We get out here and just try to communicate the best we can, just to see if we can bring his spirits up a little bit…let him know he’s not alone and we’re with him.” Chuck wears a head set while dancing.

Aiden says, while laughing, that it’s funny watching his dad figure out what he’s going to do and it “cheers him up sometimes.” In fact, it cheers the whole family up. And if he has the energy, Aiden dances along at the window.

Aiden’s mother Lori says the weekly dancing has forged a special bond between father and son.

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