December 5, 2024 • 21 mins
We talk to Christmas-lover Dan Heyer and grant his family the first Christmas Wish of the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Believe in the imagic of the holidays. Dave Royan's Christmas Wish,
and we're doing Christmas Wish. We've done this for so long.
You probably grew up listening to Christmas Wish on KTWB.
And we do have our wisher here in the studio
right now, and it's Casey. Hi. Casey, Huh. Did you
(00:23):
grow up listening to kt wdb's Christmas Wish? I did,
But here you are. You never really thought that you
would be on KTBDB doing a Christmas wish. Never, you
could never imagine. But this year, did somebody come to
you right away? When you said, oh my gosh, they're
taking submissions for the wish? Somebody came to you right way.
So what we're going to do is we're going to
(00:43):
call this person. They don't know that we're about to
call them, and sometimes they find out, sometimes they do it.
It's okay, it doesn't matter, it doesn't change anything. But
we always kind of like to make it a kind
of a happy surprise. So we're gonna call this person
now live on the radio. Then you're going to read
them your wish, and then we have Street Team member
(01:05):
Grace standing by to bring all the Wishes live into
their home right now. Hi, Grace, Hi, how are you? Grace?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
About to ride at the door? Well, yeah, don't go yet.
Don't go yet because we'll get you to the door
in a second. Don't go to the don't go to
the door yet until we get this person on the phone. Grace. Okay, okay,
very good, All right, back on hold Grace. But that way,
in case nobody answers the phone, Grace can go beat
on the door and get their attention. You're ready to
make the phone call? Yeah, okay, let's make the phone
(01:37):
call right now on Katie to be here. We go,
And if you don't watch the magic happen the tears,
we're on YouTube live right now, you can search da
Ryan TV.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So how do you know the family? So I work
with Nicole. Okay, got it? So you and but the
Wish we're kind of going to be talking a little
bit more to Dan and yeah, okay, got it. Dave's
calling him right now.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm anxious. Well, Hi, I'm calling for Dan. Please.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This is Dan.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Hey Dan, it is Dave Ryan over at kd WB
Radio and we are on the radio this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That probably comes as a bit of a surprise. I'm
going to.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Guess, yeah, little we got a little heads.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Up, but sometimes and sometimes that happens. Yeah. Well, we
are here with your kat wb Christmas wish, and your
friend Casey is going to read the letter that she
wrote to us that we want to help you and
your family out. So have you got a minute for
Casey to read this wish? Yep, Okay, here we go, Casey.
(02:48):
It's all you whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I am here to nominate Dan Higher for a Christmas wish.
Dan and his wife Nicole had a hard time starting
their family. Their first pregnancy resulted in a tubal pregnancy
and required her to remove a tube, leaving their chances
for a successful pregnancy more difficult. With help in their hearts,
(03:14):
they continued on this journey. Dan and Nicole are the
proud parents of four beautiful girls, Satalie's fourteen, Elsa twelve
by eighth, and Euriahs six.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
This June, Dan became ill.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Originally, the doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia. After not responding
to the medications. He had to have blood work, scans, biopsies,
and surgeries done to see what was going on with
weeks and months of waiting and worrying. In early November,
we found out he had late stage terminal muscle thelioma,
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which has spread throughout his chest, abdomen, pelvis, and lymph nodes.
With ongoing treatment to slow the spread, Dan's life expectancy
is approximately one year. Dan is a Christmas fanatic. This
is his favorite time of the year. I would say
he enjoys Christmas more than anyone I know. I would
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love to make it extra special for him. Although children
get very excited about gifts, the true gift for this
family will be the time they can spend together and
the memories they can cherish here on earth. I would
love if Dan could say this Christmas was the best
Christmas of his life. Dan is a wonderful father, a
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dedicated husband, and a friend to so many. The news
they received is heartbreaking, and although we are all praying
to God for a miracle of complete healing, we are
preparing for the end of so many family traditions and lasts.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
For Dan.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
It is difficult asking for help and support, and this
is one way we can bless them in this challenging time.
Did and Nicole have a strong faith and believe in
the power of prayer, so any prayers for their family
would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thank you, Dan. Yeah, I'm just so saddened to hear
about your your journey. And I know you're trying to
be as positive as you can. You got four kids
and you want to make them as give them the
best experience of a Christmas as you possibly can. Some
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but it's probably been very tough. Are you able to
get up and around?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
What is your like? Yeah, so you're up and you're
not working though, I'm gonna guess no.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, I officially retired last month.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Is your tree up? Though? Very important question? Is your tree?
It is up? Okaya tree?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
He loves He definitely loves Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You do love Christmas?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You know, if if you are a praying kind of
a person, this would be a definite opportunity. And I mean, yeah,
I know you are. But if you're listening to the
show and if you're a praying kind of a person,
send up a prayer for Dan and his family. Dan,
have you ever heard of Katie WB's Christmas Wish?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I've heard a little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I guess basically, what we ask people to do is
to write in and tell us about somebody who's struggling
in one way or another. And when we saw this one,
we thought, my gosh, you've got four girls. Probably finances
are kind of a little bit tight right now. You've
got a lot of distractions, you've got probably appointments, you're
probably and what is your wife's name?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Is Nicole?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, and Nicole is probably staying busier than ever helping
with the four girl four girls.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
My gosh, no, well, my wife my rock.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I'm sure she is. And as I've got four kids myself,
I got two girls, and I know how much I
know that daddy daughter relationship is so special, and I
know you want to make your girl's Christmas as memorable
as possible. So for your Christmas wish, we're going to
go through each of the kids one by one. We're
gonna start it with the oldest first, Adelaide. She's fourteen
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years old, so for her first of all, every fourteen
year old wants to go to Target. So we got
a two hundred dollars gift card. Now you can keep
that or put it under the tree, or give it
to her now or whatever you want to do. And
then we have a two hundred dollars Airy gift card.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's it's just like an American eagle kind of vibe.
But I love that place. I buy like sweatpants and stuff.
I'm there, super cozy, comfy clothes.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay, so you can get whatever she wants to me.
Elsa is your twelve year old, right, Okay? We got
her everything. We got her a bunch of stuff here.
We got her a Lululemon black fanny pack. We got
a new com for her for her bed. We got
her fuzzy socks. We got her a nice blanket, pj's.
A flat iron came up somehow, so that's in there too.
Sometimes I look at these gifts and I don't know
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how this came up. But this is under the tree
for her. And a two hundred dollars Dick Sporting Goods
gift card for Elsa. Is she the athlete in the family?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
She is?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okayla Island, Isla. I want to get this right. It's
very important.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
She is.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
How old is Island? She's eight years old. We also
got her a two hundred dollars gift card for Target
to get whatever she wants Pj's and a Disney watch
somehow that came up and Eiah is your six year old?
We got her Disney Surprise character bracelet, Crystal putty, a
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drum set, a drum set. How do you suppose she
got a drum set? Did she wanted? Does she want
to play the drums?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah? For a drum set?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, Oh you're going to regret that one.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, I'm joking, I'm choking. And also one hundred dollars
Target gift card and a robe and pj's And for
wife Nicole. Is Nicole with you? Is she around right now?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
She is?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay? I thought I heard some ruckus in the background.
Are the kids all around you right now too?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, she's trying to make or breakfast. She's putting together
a lunch.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, so she's busy. Well tell her we got first
of all three bottles of red wine. I'm not making
this three bottles of red wine because she hopefully she'll
love that. Two hundred dollars gift card, a lot of
shopping at Target for your family, two hundred dollars home
goods gift card, bath salts, VA vacuum candles, fuzzy socks,
some other cool stuff. And then for you, Dan, We've
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got a couple of things. First of all, a two
hundred dollars Home Depot gift card if you get the
urge to paint or fix or something. One hundred dollars
Gander Mountain gift card. One hundred dollars Dick Sporting Goods
gift card. This is all for you, for you, for
you and your family. Slippers and PJ and a ring camera.
Now again, a ring camera, just something that's you know,
(10:06):
adds a little safety and security to the yard. I've
got one. I love it and if you need any
help installing it, Jenny will come over and help you install.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I'll try my best. Down, I'll try my best.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And are you making a lot of trips back and
forth for medical appointments?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Stand? We are. We Fortunately we don't live too far
away from where the clinics are, so it's like we
do make a lot of trips, but it's putin about
fifteen to twenty miles.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well. The reason I ask is because Christmas Wish is
presented by Holiday station stores and they're bringing you the
gift of ease by gifting you free gas for a year.
It's a gift card ready for you to use free
gas for a year and just to let you know,
kind of a little sidebar. For every fuel purchase now
through December seventeenth, Holiday will donate a portion of sales
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to Christmas Wish. So while you're at you need to
gas up, you get a gas station on your left
and a holiday on your right. Pull into the holiday. Okay, yeah,
how are you? I don't want to get too personal
because it's none of my business. How are you holding up?
I mean, considering everything you and your family are going through,
how are you holding up?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It was shocking to find out what my diagnosis Wasn't
my wife expectancy and stuff like that. A month ago
on November sixth, that would probably a day that will
always be in our family. And then to come home
and share with the girls, I'll come and stuff like that.
That was just a day. That was a day that
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it was very hard. Since then, I've just between family
and friends, people like Casey, stuff like that. I've just
between prayer and stuff like that. I've just I've had
a sense of just just peace about everything. It's tough
(12:06):
to think about that that I'm not going to be
able to be around as long as I wanted to
be and stuff. I'm also going to be fighting as
hard as I can do stay around and give myself
more time. But I've just kind of had a piece
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about everything, and there's been so many people in our
lives that have been so helpful, between dropping off meals
and taking the girls for a special day or just
different just different things around that has been so helpful.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I think that's kind of what we love about
Christmas wishes is just a little drop in the bucket.
It's just a little this and a little this, and
when come somebody comes by with meals or takes the
girls for a day or whatever. It's just a little
help to make things a little bit easier. And the
people listening, you know, you will never probably get to
meet most of them, You and I may never get
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a chance to meet. But from the bottom of my heart,
I just hope you have such a wonderful Christmas with
your family. And I'm so glad that we got a
chance to know you a little bit and to hear
about your girls and your wife, and we just say
God bless you and just have the best possible Christmas
under the circumstances. Dan, and I will let you say
goodbye to Casey.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Thank you so much. Casey. It's to think of this
sort of thing that was very thoughtful and I just
appreciate it. And you're a great friend.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
We love you so much.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You too.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I hate cancer. I cansume with my every thought.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Please join me in the cause to help melissen her
family this holiday season as she tries to get her
life to back to some sort.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Of norm Melissa lost her high school sweetheart and best friend.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I want nothing more for this family to have a
memorable first Christmas for Lundon.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I can't imagine what two little children are thinking about
losing their mom.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
And she died of unknown causes, but they think it
was a broken heart.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
This type of cancer is very rare. In London's chance
of survival fifty percent with a seventy percent chance of relapse.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Was at home with their four daughters.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You made two trips into the house, running up and
down the staircase to save their four daughters out.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Of the burden. Please help by granting my Christmas wish.
I feel you.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Chris Musa, you never same.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
If you If you'll let us, we'd like to brighten
your holiday a little bit as much as we possibly can,
or some help from your friends and people who listen
to Katie w B.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
They got and they wanted to help. So they're sitting
up your entire family with new beds.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Mommas stays here side us, chander.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Brand.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
She tries to say she's okay for everything.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, everybody wishes we could do more.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Oh my god, very much, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
This is a miracle.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Fill your hot.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Christmas wish on Katie w If you want to make
a nomination, maybe you're now inspired. Maybe you think of
somebody who you could do a Christmas wish nomination for.
Let us know, how do you do that? Send your Basically,
you go to KWB dot com and send your nomination
that way, KTWB dot com slash wish and nominate somebody. Now,
(16:19):
I'll give you a couple of tips. We got to
keep it reasonable. Somebody has asked for a trip to
Disney World. You know what, keep thinking. If you're like, yeah,
the family could really use a trip to Disney World.
I know they could. We do not have that kind
of budget. We wish we did, but think of something.
If they need a trip to Disney World, then maybe
they need something else a little bit more practical, like
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presents for the kids, or gas cards from holiday station stores,
or you know, we do anything from like fixed cars.
We'll give some people an overnight hotel stay. We'll give
people dinners out target gift cards, things like that.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, and we have done certain big items before. It
just depends on the situation. Like I'm pretty sure we've
done like a washer and dryer before because people's washer
and dryers have been broken. And I think we've like
partnered Would Warner Sallion and lots of different places. So
but yeah, like Dave said, you got to keep it reasonable.
We most likely can't get anyone a car, unfortunately, oh unfortunately,
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but we do the best we can.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So think about if you think of somebody who needs
a car, maybe you think about, well, they probably need
something else too. And also here's another tip for you.
We got to keep them local. We've had nominations from
I think I was reading a bunch of wishes last night.
One was from Virginia, one was from California, and one
was from Michigan. And I love that people listen in
all these far off places, but we just don't have
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the way to drive out there. And give them a
Christmas wish. Other than that's kind of free game. If
you know somebody who needs something, you cannot nominate yourself.
And the more details you give us, the more likely
your chance of it being nominated. Yes, of a being granted,
very much so. But go on katwb dot com. Don't
donate today. Do not donate anything today, not today, not today.
(18:00):
What are you saying because tomorrow Treasure Island match day.
So whatever, you donate tomorrow, and we're going to start
early in the morning, like six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Start.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah, we'll start at six, and.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
We're going to try to get like I don't know,
if we get five thousand dollars with a match, that's
going to be Treasure Islands now on the hook for
another five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Right, Treasure Island.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We love them so much, but they hate to see
us coming on match day because we are coming out
them hard, all right. They're like, oh yeah, We're like,
come on, guys, we got lots of money, you got
a match.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's funny. They love doing it and they are pulling
for you too. So what tomorrow will remind you match
day and more Christmas wishes? You got any questions on it,
send me a quick text at KDWB one five three
nine two one. There are a lot of local business
owners who offer like, hey, I want to do this,
and I want to do this and whatever, and we try,
but a lot of the time is kind of hard
to coordinate. So the easiest thing is to make a
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cash donation. So but I did get for example, brought
the shout out to Broadway Pizza.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Anybody got over there.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
They sent me like twenty Broadway Pizza one hundred dollars
gift cards to get out with Christmas wishes. Yeah, they're
not for you, Jennifers into a bunch, No, I known't.
I don't want any.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I want them to all go to the families.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But send those in and we will be We read
every single one of them. Are we doing Monster's the
Pot in a minute.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, we'll do that, coming up.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, we'll take that, take a break, we'll come back
with Vnster in the pot. Bailey update, anybody want to
give a Bailey? Anybody heard from Bailey this morning?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yes, she actually just texted me, but yeah, she was
texting me about work stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But yes, she is alive and well.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I did tell her to not like worry about the show,
go get your rest and stuff. But the update is
just that she was very sick and she went into
urgent care yesterday and found out she had a kidney infection.
So she is taking the day off today. Maybe she'll
be off again tomorrow, but I know she's got She
got to prescribed something.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I don't know how you get her a kidney injection.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's like an antibiotic injection in her leg. And then
she had to go down to the CVS pharmacy to
pick up the drugs too. Hopefully she'll be doing better.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
She just thought there getting wild, like how how does
one get a kidney infection?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It dims from a UTI? And how do you get
a UTI?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Always? It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Not all.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Have you ever had a UTI?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dave, No, But I've had chlamydia before before, which yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Don't have it now.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I've never had chlamydia, but I have had a UTI
and they are awful.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
They're so awful.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You feel like you got to pee every two seconds,
and then you go to the bathroom you can't and
it burns so well.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
That's on your enemy.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
One afternoon yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
A great day off right now, if that's what's happening
to her.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Somebody asking you a text message just now, they said,
how far the cities are out of the cities are
you willing to go? Not that far, honestly, because there
are plenty of people here in the Twin Cities that
I would say probably no more than five ten miles
outside of the outer loop like this six ninety four
four to ninety four loop, no more than ten miles out.
So if you know somebody who lives in Hutchinson, love Hutchinson,
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We're just not able to drive out that far. If
you know somebody who lives in Hudson, maybe maybe you
know what I mean. And sometimes it really is dependent
on the wish it does. So we look at it
and go, oh, we got to help this, and then
we'll drive a little bit farther. So we kind of
just you know, we'll play it by ear, send that in,
we'll be right back on. Katie
Believe in the imagic of the holidays. Dave Royan's Christmas Wish,
and we're doing Christmas Wish. We've done this for so long.
You probably grew up listening to Christmas Wish on KTWB.
And we do have our wisher here in the studio
right now, and it's Casey. Hi. Casey, Huh. Did you
(00:23):
grow up listening to kt wdb's Christmas Wish? I did,
But here you are. You never really thought that you
would be on KTBDB doing a Christmas wish. Never, you
could never imagine. But this year, did somebody come to
you right away? When you said, oh my gosh, they're
taking submissions for the wish? Somebody came to you right way.
So what we're going to do is we're going to
(00:43):
call this person. They don't know that we're about to
call them, and sometimes they find out, sometimes they do it.
It's okay, it doesn't matter, it doesn't change anything. But
we always kind of like to make it a kind
of a happy surprise. So we're gonna call this person
now live on the radio. Then you're going to read
them your wish, and then we have Street Team member
(01:05):
Grace standing by to bring all the Wishes live into
their home right now. Hi, Grace, Hi, how are you? Grace?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Good?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
About to ride at the door? Well, yeah, don't go yet.
Don't go yet because we'll get you to the door
in a second. Don't go to the don't go to
the door yet until we get this person on the phone. Grace. Okay, okay,
very good, All right, back on hold Grace. But that way,
in case nobody answers the phone, Grace can go beat
on the door and get their attention. You're ready to
make the phone call? Yeah, okay, let's make the phone
(01:37):
call right now on Katie to be here. We go,
And if you don't watch the magic happen the tears,
we're on YouTube live right now, you can search da
Ryan TV.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So how do you know the family? So I work
with Nicole. Okay, got it? So you and but the
Wish we're kind of going to be talking a little
bit more to Dan and yeah, okay, got it. Dave's
calling him right now.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm anxious. Well, Hi, I'm calling for Dan. Please.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
This is Dan.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Hey Dan, it is Dave Ryan over at kd WB
Radio and we are on the radio this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That probably comes as a bit of a surprise. I'm
going to.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Guess, yeah, little we got a little heads.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Up, but sometimes and sometimes that happens. Yeah. Well, we
are here with your kat wb Christmas wish, and your
friend Casey is going to read the letter that she
wrote to us that we want to help you and
your family out. So have you got a minute for
Casey to read this wish? Yep, Okay, here we go, Casey.
(02:48):
It's all you whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I am here to nominate Dan Higher for a Christmas wish.
Dan and his wife Nicole had a hard time starting
their family. Their first pregnancy resulted in a tubal pregnancy
and required her to remove a tube, leaving their chances
for a successful pregnancy more difficult. With help in their hearts,
(03:14):
they continued on this journey. Dan and Nicole are the
proud parents of four beautiful girls, Satalie's fourteen, Elsa twelve
by eighth, and Euriahs six.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
This June, Dan became ill.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Originally, the doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia. After not responding
to the medications. He had to have blood work, scans, biopsies,
and surgeries done to see what was going on with
weeks and months of waiting and worrying. In early November,
we found out he had late stage terminal muscle thelioma,
(03:55):
which has spread throughout his chest, abdomen, pelvis, and lymph nodes.
With ongoing treatment to slow the spread, Dan's life expectancy
is approximately one year. Dan is a Christmas fanatic. This
is his favorite time of the year. I would say
he enjoys Christmas more than anyone I know. I would
(04:18):
love to make it extra special for him. Although children
get very excited about gifts, the true gift for this
family will be the time they can spend together and
the memories they can cherish here on earth. I would
love if Dan could say this Christmas was the best
Christmas of his life. Dan is a wonderful father, a
(04:41):
dedicated husband, and a friend to so many. The news
they received is heartbreaking, and although we are all praying
to God for a miracle of complete healing, we are
preparing for the end of so many family traditions and lasts.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
For Dan.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
It is difficult asking for help and support, and this
is one way we can bless them in this challenging time.
Did and Nicole have a strong faith and believe in
the power of prayer, so any prayers for their family
would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thank you, Dan. Yeah, I'm just so saddened to hear
about your your journey. And I know you're trying to
be as positive as you can. You got four kids
and you want to make them as give them the
best experience of a Christmas as you possibly can. Some
(05:42):
but it's probably been very tough. Are you able to
get up and around?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
What is your like? Yeah, so you're up and you're
not working though, I'm gonna guess no.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, I officially retired last month.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Is your tree up? Though? Very important question? Is your tree?
It is up? Okaya tree?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
He loves He definitely loves Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You do love Christmas?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You know, if if you are a praying kind of
a person, this would be a definite opportunity. And I mean, yeah,
I know you are. But if you're listening to the
show and if you're a praying kind of a person,
send up a prayer for Dan and his family. Dan,
have you ever heard of Katie WB's Christmas Wish?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I've heard a little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I guess basically, what we ask people to do is
to write in and tell us about somebody who's struggling
in one way or another. And when we saw this one,
we thought, my gosh, you've got four girls. Probably finances
are kind of a little bit tight right now. You've
got a lot of distractions, you've got probably appointments, you're
probably and what is your wife's name?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Is Nicole?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, and Nicole is probably staying busier than ever helping
with the four girl four girls.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
My gosh, no, well, my wife my rock.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I'm sure she is. And as I've got four kids myself,
I got two girls, and I know how much I
know that daddy daughter relationship is so special, and I
know you want to make your girl's Christmas as memorable
as possible. So for your Christmas wish, we're going to
go through each of the kids one by one. We're
gonna start it with the oldest first, Adelaide. She's fourteen
(07:23):
years old, so for her first of all, every fourteen
year old wants to go to Target. So we got
a two hundred dollars gift card. Now you can keep
that or put it under the tree, or give it
to her now or whatever you want to do. And
then we have a two hundred dollars Airy gift card.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's it's just like an American eagle kind of vibe.
But I love that place. I buy like sweatpants and stuff.
I'm there, super cozy, comfy clothes.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay, so you can get whatever she wants to me.
Elsa is your twelve year old, right, Okay? We got
her everything. We got her a bunch of stuff here.
We got her a Lululemon black fanny pack. We got
a new com for her for her bed. We got
her fuzzy socks. We got her a nice blanket, pj's.
A flat iron came up somehow, so that's in there too.
Sometimes I look at these gifts and I don't know
(08:08):
how this came up. But this is under the tree
for her. And a two hundred dollars Dick Sporting Goods
gift card for Elsa. Is she the athlete in the family?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
She is?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Okayla Island, Isla. I want to get this right. It's
very important.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
She is.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
How old is Island? She's eight years old. We also
got her a two hundred dollars gift card for Target
to get whatever she wants Pj's and a Disney watch
somehow that came up and Eiah is your six year old?
We got her Disney Surprise character bracelet, Crystal putty, a
(08:49):
drum set, a drum set. How do you suppose she
got a drum set? Did she wanted? Does she want
to play the drums?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah? For a drum set?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, Oh you're going to regret that one.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, I'm joking, I'm choking. And also one hundred dollars
Target gift card and a robe and pj's And for
wife Nicole. Is Nicole with you? Is she around right now?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
She is?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Okay? I thought I heard some ruckus in the background.
Are the kids all around you right now too?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, she's trying to make or breakfast. She's putting together
a lunch.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, so she's busy. Well tell her we got first
of all three bottles of red wine. I'm not making
this three bottles of red wine because she hopefully she'll
love that. Two hundred dollars gift card, a lot of
shopping at Target for your family, two hundred dollars home
goods gift card, bath salts, VA vacuum candles, fuzzy socks,
some other cool stuff. And then for you, Dan, We've
(09:46):
got a couple of things. First of all, a two
hundred dollars Home Depot gift card if you get the
urge to paint or fix or something. One hundred dollars
Gander Mountain gift card. One hundred dollars Dick Sporting Goods
gift card. This is all for you, for you, for
you and your family. Slippers and PJ and a ring camera.
Now again, a ring camera, just something that's you know,
(10:06):
adds a little safety and security to the yard. I've
got one. I love it and if you need any
help installing it, Jenny will come over and help you install.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I'll try my best. Down, I'll try my best.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And are you making a lot of trips back and
forth for medical appointments?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Stand? We are. We Fortunately we don't live too far
away from where the clinics are, so it's like we
do make a lot of trips, but it's putin about
fifteen to twenty miles.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well. The reason I ask is because Christmas Wish is
presented by Holiday station stores and they're bringing you the
gift of ease by gifting you free gas for a year.
It's a gift card ready for you to use free
gas for a year and just to let you know,
kind of a little sidebar. For every fuel purchase now
through December seventeenth, Holiday will donate a portion of sales
(10:58):
to Christmas Wish. So while you're at you need to
gas up, you get a gas station on your left
and a holiday on your right. Pull into the holiday. Okay, yeah,
how are you? I don't want to get too personal
because it's none of my business. How are you holding up?
I mean, considering everything you and your family are going through,
how are you holding up?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It was shocking to find out what my diagnosis Wasn't
my wife expectancy and stuff like that. A month ago
on November sixth, that would probably a day that will
always be in our family. And then to come home
and share with the girls, I'll come and stuff like that.
That was just a day. That was a day that
(11:44):
it was very hard. Since then, I've just between family
and friends, people like Casey, stuff like that. I've just
between prayer and stuff like that. I've just I've had
a sense of just just peace about everything. It's tough
(12:06):
to think about that that I'm not going to be
able to be around as long as I wanted to
be and stuff. I'm also going to be fighting as
hard as I can do stay around and give myself
more time. But I've just kind of had a piece
(12:27):
about everything, and there's been so many people in our
lives that have been so helpful, between dropping off meals
and taking the girls for a special day or just
different just different things around that has been so helpful.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I think that's kind of what we love about
Christmas wishes is just a little drop in the bucket.
It's just a little this and a little this, and
when come somebody comes by with meals or takes the
girls for a day or whatever. It's just a little
help to make things a little bit easier. And the
people listening, you know, you will never probably get to
meet most of them, You and I may never get
(13:08):
a chance to meet. But from the bottom of my heart,
I just hope you have such a wonderful Christmas with
your family. And I'm so glad that we got a
chance to know you a little bit and to hear
about your girls and your wife, and we just say
God bless you and just have the best possible Christmas
under the circumstances. Dan, and I will let you say
goodbye to Casey.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Thank you so much. Casey. It's to think of this
sort of thing that was very thoughtful and I just
appreciate it. And you're a great friend.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
We love you so much.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You too.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
I hate cancer. I cansume with my every thought.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Please join me in the cause to help melissen her
family this holiday season as she tries to get her
life to back to some sort.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Of norm Melissa lost her high school sweetheart and best friend.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
I want nothing more for this family to have a
memorable first Christmas for Lundon.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I can't imagine what two little children are thinking about
losing their mom.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
And she died of unknown causes, but they think it
was a broken heart.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
This type of cancer is very rare. In London's chance
of survival fifty percent with a seventy percent chance of relapse.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Was at home with their four daughters.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You made two trips into the house, running up and
down the staircase to save their four daughters out.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Of the burden. Please help by granting my Christmas wish.
I feel you.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Chris Musa, you never same.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
If you If you'll let us, we'd like to brighten
your holiday a little bit as much as we possibly can,
or some help from your friends and people who listen
to Katie w B.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
They got and they wanted to help. So they're sitting
up your entire family with new beds.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
Mommas stays here side us, chander.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Brand.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
She tries to say she's okay for everything.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, everybody wishes we could do more.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Oh my god, very much, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
This is a miracle.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Fill your hot.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Christmas wish on Katie w If you want to make
a nomination, maybe you're now inspired. Maybe you think of
somebody who you could do a Christmas wish nomination for.
Let us know, how do you do that? Send your Basically,
you go to KWB dot com and send your nomination
that way, KTWB dot com slash wish and nominate somebody. Now,
(16:19):
I'll give you a couple of tips. We got to
keep it reasonable. Somebody has asked for a trip to
Disney World. You know what, keep thinking. If you're like, yeah,
the family could really use a trip to Disney World.
I know they could. We do not have that kind
of budget. We wish we did, but think of something.
If they need a trip to Disney World, then maybe
they need something else a little bit more practical, like
(16:40):
presents for the kids, or gas cards from holiday station stores,
or you know, we do anything from like fixed cars.
We'll give some people an overnight hotel stay. We'll give
people dinners out target gift cards, things like that.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, and we have done certain big items before. It
just depends on the situation. Like I'm pretty sure we've
done like a washer and dryer before because people's washer
and dryers have been broken. And I think we've like
partnered Would Warner Sallion and lots of different places. So
but yeah, like Dave said, you got to keep it reasonable.
We most likely can't get anyone a car, unfortunately, oh unfortunately,
(17:17):
but we do the best we can.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So think about if you think of somebody who needs
a car, maybe you think about, well, they probably need
something else too. And also here's another tip for you.
We got to keep them local. We've had nominations from
I think I was reading a bunch of wishes last night.
One was from Virginia, one was from California, and one
was from Michigan. And I love that people listen in
all these far off places, but we just don't have
(17:39):
the way to drive out there. And give them a
Christmas wish. Other than that's kind of free game. If
you know somebody who needs something, you cannot nominate yourself.
And the more details you give us, the more likely
your chance of it being nominated. Yes, of a being granted,
very much so. But go on katwb dot com. Don't
donate today. Do not donate anything today, not today, not today.
(18:00):
What are you saying because tomorrow Treasure Island match day.
So whatever, you donate tomorrow, and we're going to start
early in the morning, like six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Start.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah, we'll start at six, and.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
We're going to try to get like I don't know,
if we get five thousand dollars with a match, that's
going to be Treasure Islands now on the hook for
another five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Right, Treasure Island.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
We love them so much, but they hate to see
us coming on match day because we are coming out
them hard, all right. They're like, oh yeah, We're like,
come on, guys, we got lots of money, you got
a match.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's funny. They love doing it and they are pulling
for you too. So what tomorrow will remind you match
day and more Christmas wishes? You got any questions on it,
send me a quick text at KDWB one five three
nine two one. There are a lot of local business
owners who offer like, hey, I want to do this,
and I want to do this and whatever, and we try,
but a lot of the time is kind of hard
to coordinate. So the easiest thing is to make a
(18:49):
cash donation. So but I did get for example, brought
the shout out to Broadway Pizza.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Anybody got over there.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
They sent me like twenty Broadway Pizza one hundred dollars
gift cards to get out with Christmas wishes. Yeah, they're
not for you, Jennifers into a bunch, No, I known't.
I don't want any.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I want them to all go to the families.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But send those in and we will be We read
every single one of them. Are we doing Monster's the
Pot in a minute.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yeah, we'll do that, coming up.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, we'll take that, take a break, we'll come back
with Vnster in the pot. Bailey update, anybody want to
give a Bailey? Anybody heard from Bailey this morning?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yes, she actually just texted me, but yeah, she was
texting me about work stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
But yes, she is alive and well.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I did tell her to not like worry about the show,
go get your rest and stuff. But the update is
just that she was very sick and she went into
urgent care yesterday and found out she had a kidney infection.
So she is taking the day off today. Maybe she'll
be off again tomorrow, but I know she's got She
got to prescribed something.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I don't know how you get her a kidney injection.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's like an antibiotic injection in her leg. And then
she had to go down to the CVS pharmacy to
pick up the drugs too. Hopefully she'll be doing better.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
She just thought there getting wild, like how how does
one get a kidney infection?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It dims from a UTI? And how do you get
a UTI?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Always? It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Not all.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Have you ever had a UTI?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Dave, No, But I've had chlamydia before before, which yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Don't have it now.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I've never had chlamydia, but I have had a UTI
and they are awful.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
They're so awful.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You feel like you got to pee every two seconds,
and then you go to the bathroom you can't and
it burns so well.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
That's on your enemy.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
One afternoon yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
A great day off right now, if that's what's happening
to her.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Somebody asking you a text message just now, they said,
how far the cities are out of the cities are
you willing to go? Not that far, honestly, because there
are plenty of people here in the Twin Cities that
I would say probably no more than five ten miles
outside of the outer loop like this six ninety four
four to ninety four loop, no more than ten miles out.
So if you know somebody who lives in Hutchinson, love Hutchinson,
(21:01):
We're just not able to drive out that far. If
you know somebody who lives in Hudson, maybe maybe you
know what I mean. And sometimes it really is dependent
on the wish it does. So we look at it
and go, oh, we got to help this, and then
we'll drive a little bit farther. So we kind of
just you know, we'll play it by ear, send that in,
we'll be right back on. Katie
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