Six-year-old battling leukemia is youngest UPS driver [Video]

• Mateo Toscano, six years old, was diagnosed with leukemia so he was always indoors.
• His little form of entertainment from inside the house was watching the delivery drivers who come around with packages — making him realize he wanted to be like them.
• So, The Make-A-Wish Foundation granted his wish and he experienced being a UPS driver, with complete uniform and even a truck of his own!

Mateo Toscano, a six-year-old from Stockton, California, has been diagnosed with leukemia, constraining him from going outdoors to enjoy his formative years. Then COVID-19 happened, and he was all the more restricted from going outside and playing with other kids.

But Mateo found a way to keep himself entertained. The little boy would keep himself busy with watching people outside from his living room windows. And his favorite sight? Delivery drivers who come around with packages.

That little routine made Mateo realize something: he wanted to be like them and bring joy to people who receive the packages! Even with his condition, Mateo thought of helping and wanting to make others happy. Little did he know that his wish would come true!

On Thursday, The Make-A-Wish Foundation granted Mateo’s little wish, to which all he could say was “I really liked it. It was so cool!”

“When Mateo’s wish came true, he did more than deliver packages, he delivered hope to the entire Stockton community and beyond … and that’s the incredible power of a wish,” Jennifer Stolo, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish Northeastern and Central California & Northern Nevada, said in a statement to GMA.

Mateo was all set for his day’s duty, starting with his custom UPS uniform and all the way to driving his own fully operational miniature UPS truck, which he of course drive-tested.

Along with an adult UPS driver, Mateo delivered packages to many Stockton city officials, local police and others.

Just like a real employee, Mateo took a lunch break before delivering the Mother’s Day gifts he picked for his mom and grandmother: candles, bath towels, and flowers.

“My mom and I were both so touched by his Mother’s Day gifts to us, and were very surprised by the pretty flowers!” Cynthia Toscano, Mateo’s mother, told GMA.

Mateo’s doctors advised that there shouldn’t be any cut flowers, wreaths or trees in the Toscano’s house during his treatment. And so, Cynthia thought that “the flowers were a very nice way to signal the end of a very, very dark period. Hopefully, the brighter times are here to stay.”

We hope so, too, little UPS driver.

Source: GMA