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Cardinals game

What happens when you get ALL good numbers (ok low, but NOT critical) at the cancer clinic? Friends of Kids with Cancer www.friendsofkids.com gives you tickets to the Cardinals game! The best part this organization is it lets kids with cancer be kids, I can not tell you how much that means. If you want to see a happy boy you should have seen it when they told Wil he could go out in public for the first time in almost 4 weeks.

For my #mamabears and those that worry more that I (if that is possible, because I said this was a bad idea about 100 times) he stayed out of the sun, drank lots of water, took breaks in the ac (team store), we took all meds, germx, lysol wipes, and a bag of emergency stuff! He made it about 5 innings which was so awesome, he was in the shade and there was a decent breeze. He was genuinely happy when the Cardinals scored a homerun (yes, his sister and I cried watching how happy he was). We were all living on adrenaline and he is asleep on the couch now.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for letting my kid be a kid!


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