RE: Wy's first pitch- long

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This is so great that Wyatt got such a great day! He really deserved this

and I am so glad it turned out

so good. I'm also glad that his trip to the ER didn't stop him from his big

day.

Lois

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> To: <Mito >

> Date: 4/17/2005 9:39:23 AM

> Subject: Wy's first pitch- long

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> Sorry it has taken me so long to post his first pitch story. We've

> been dealing with 12-18 seizures a day- ughhh!. We spent the morning

> of his pitch in the Er. I copied and pasted what I wrote in his cb

> journal about the day.

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> Yesterday was AWESOME!!!! and I were so overwhelmed by the number

> of friends and family who came out to support us. It meant so much to

> us to see all of you there. We also know that there were quite a few

> people who could not physically be with us, but were sending us good

> thoughts. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU. Thank you for

> helping make Wyatt's day so special.

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> My Dad and Deb, my sister Jean, and my sister Shelly and her husband

> Bret were able to join us on the field. We arrived on the field

> towards the end of warm-ups. Just walking out onto the field gave us

> goosebumps. There were thousands of people there and they were going

> to watch my son through the first pitch. What an honor. We were all

> like kids in a candy store. Everyone had their cameras out taking

> pictures of the players and taking pictures of everyone taking

> pictures of us. People were coming down from the stands and hanging

> over the railing waving. We had permanent smiles on our face. (We

> still do!)

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> There was so much pre-game activity. There was another boy who threw

> out the first pitch too. However we were told that he was the minor

> one and we were the major one. When he was done, the choir came out to

> sing the Nationl Anthem and then Wyatt was introduced. As were were

> walking out onto the field people were cheering and whistling. I

> looked over to the section where everyone was sitting and could see

> signs being held up for Wyatt. Of course I couldn't read them, but I

> knew they were for Wy. I'm not even sure what the announcer said other

> than Wyatt was from Golden Valley and that his MAW trip would be to go

> to spring training. The announcer said something about Wy not letting

> anything get in his way of doing what he wants to do. Then it was Wy's

> turn to throw out the pitch. put the ball into his hand and the

> announcer played the charge song (I think it was the charge song) and

> Wy threw the ball to the Twins Mascot. Then there was a huge round of

> applause and whistles. We were escorted off the field past the Detriot

> dug out and bull pen. As we were walking off from Detriot

> walked over to Wyatt and shook his hand and said way to go. He was so

> good looking. The twins guy looked at me after I said that and said

> well the 7 figures doesn't help either. We then walked past the bull

> pen and the entire bull pen gave Wyatt high fives. When we walked into

> the tunnel, Wyatt realized what happened and started to vocalize. That

> is when the emotion of it all just hit me. I could feel all of the

> tears welling up inside of me. I am crying right now as I write this.

> It was a first class act done by the Twins and Cold Stone. Then to

> have the Detriot players show genuine interest in my son it was too

> much. Add to that the reason why Wyatt had the opportunity to do all

> of this is because he is so ill, how can the tears not come.

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> Afterwards we made are way around the dome to stop and talk to all of

> Wy's friends that came to support him. There are too many of you to

> mention personally. We know of 64 people for sure that showed up.

> Again we would like to thank you for making this day so perfect for

> Wyatt. As we were walking around 2 strangers recognized Wyatt and high

> fived him. I saw others look over and smile.

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> The Twins had a 9th inning rally to win the game. So Wy has a perfect

> record now. We did get to keep the ball he threw out and we were given

> a Twins jersey. They didn't allow for autographs because there were

> too many people down on the field, but they will be sending us

> autographed memorobillia. That is a big word, not sure how to spell it.

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> The girls had so much fun. They did not want to leave. When we arrived

> home they were running around. They wanted to play freeze tag outside.

> They stayed up until midnight. Wy had his meds, a tube feeding, and

> went straight to bed. He was exhausted from his morning spent in the ER.

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> Okay onto his morning in the ER. It was an interesting one. We were

> put into a room immediately and the doc came to see us. After I

> started explaining a little bit about Wyatt, he realized I knew what I

> wanted and didn't question me anymore. He told the nurse to get the

> dilatin started. It was a 20 minute push and we should have been done

> and on our way. Of couse things don't work that easy for us. Wy's

> blood pressure started to drop dangerously low, 58/38 so we had to

> have an IV to get the pressure back up. He blew the first 3 lines. His

> veins are so beat up from all of the IV's that they just pop. He was

> in so much pain from one of them that he became very agitated and

> ended up pulling the IV out himself. The 4th one took and after an

> hour IV his blood pressure was up and we were on our way home.

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> Geri-Anne and Wyatt, Complex I

> caringbridge.org/mn/wyattc

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