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.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geri-Anne and Wyatt, Complex I

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