December 8, 2025 • 10 mins
After fighting and beating breast cancer during the pandemic, Ingrid's cancer has returned. Thanks to Treasure Island Resort & Casino and Holiday Station Stores. DONATE to Christmas Wish: www.kdwb.com/wish.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One on one point three, Katie w The Dave Ryan
in the morning shows, Christmas Wish. Good morning Melissa, Good
morning Melissa. You've been listening to kat will you be
for how long?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Since? I was in third grade?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Third grade?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm not a young human.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, you're old now, very stop it, stop it, stop it.
You are you're a teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
An educator, I'm an administrator.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I see, Okay, and so how do you know, Ingrid
that you're doing the wish for today?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Ingrid is an employee at our school and has been
for quite some time. And her children, two of her
four children went through our.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
School as well.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
She's a pair of professional at our school and is
kind of the heart and soul and then also works
in the office in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay. And she's been really going through it lately.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Really going through it lately. Yeah. Just uh. She's on
her second round of cancer head cancer during COVID, fought
it and then it is it's back. Ingrid is one
of the most genuine people you will ever meet. She's
got a heart of gold and is truly the most
positive person. She's kind of the heart of the school
(01:11):
because of her positivity it just radiates every just love
people like that. Yeah, we just love to be around her.
She lights up a room, every room and it's never
a woo is knee situation.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Isn't that amazing? Because there are people who are like that.
Moon Over at KS ninety five was like that. He
was very sick and that guy was just always full
of jokes and how are you? And he would never complain.
There are people like that. We're gonna get on the
phone with her in a second. First, I want to
check in with our boy. We call him Brandon from Uh,
He's sorry, Brandon from College muscle Movers.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hi, Brandon, good morning. What city are you in this morning? Brandon?
I'm in Chaska.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh okay, just down the road from chan happening. Thanks
for doing this. If you want to move, and you're
gonna be, we soon get a hold of Brandon College
Muscle Movers. It's College Musclemovers dot com. Correct, Brandon will
come to your house. You'll pack everything up, he promises
not to break anything and uh and get it all
move to your new location. Brandon, thanks for delivering the
(02:13):
wish this morning. We'll check back if we need you.
We're going to call.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We're gonna call Ingrid's daughter.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Okay, to make sure we get a hold of somebody. Yeah, okay,
So Jenny, if you will call this number right there, Jenny,
that is the number we're gonna call live for Christmas
Wish and deliver the wish as it happens here on
Katie to be.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Top line, top line. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hello, Hello, Hey, it's Dave over at KATOBB Can I
talk to Ingrid?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh? Hi, Ingrid? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Good Ingrid? It's like I said, as Dave over at
KATWB Radio, and I'm here with a coworker slash friend
of yours, Melissa Say hi, Melissa, Hi, Ingrid.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Patty's here too, just so you know. Oh gosh, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Would you have any idea why we're calling? I have
no idea, chelling.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So we do a thing over at Katabu be called
Christmas Wish. We've done it for years, and we try
to find people who are going through something, a challenge,
a struggle, uh, And we want to make your day
a little bit brighter. So we ask people who listen
to the show to tell us about somebody who they
know that could use what we call a Christmas wish.
And that is when Melissa wrote in to tell us
(03:41):
about you, Ingrid, and she wrote us a letter to
tell us your story. If you got a minute, can
I have Melissa read that story to you? Yeah, okay,
whenever you're ready, Melissa. Okay, it's okay, she's got it
on her phone. She's got to find it here. Take
your time. This all happens live. So okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Dear Katie w. B.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I am writing this letter on behalf of our amazing
charter school community for our dear friend, Ingrid. Ingrid moved
to Minnesota from Florida around nine or twenty eighteen as
a single mom so her kids could have an exceptional education.
She applied to work as a para at our small
charter school and has been working with us ever since.
(04:26):
During COVID, Ingrid received devastating news that she had cancer. However,
Ingrid was strong and resilient. She worked the entire time
during her treatment and had the most positive attitude. Ingrid
went into remission. However, last month found out her cancer
was back. As devastating as this news was, Ingrid has
begun her treatment plan once again with positivity and resilience.
(04:49):
Ingrid is one of the most generous people I know.
She would literally do anything for anyone. She is so
critical to our small community and is loved by all.
If you ask any of the middle school students who
their favorite person is, it is always Ingrid. She lights
up every room that she enters, and I know the
holidays are causing a burden on her right now. Our
(05:10):
school's Christmas wish is that Ingrid could have some relief
during the holiday season and shower her with love so
her worries and burdens can be lessened. Thank you so much,
Katie w. B for making this wish happen. We love
you so much, Ingrid.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Ingrid, it's obvious that you're just one of those amazing
people that is all about everyone else and never about
you or your challenges, and we love you for that.
And there's obviously a lot of love that your school
wants to share with you, and so we are doing
some things just to make you smile, make the girls smile.
We have Jamie no jameis James a boy, Jamie's a boy,
(05:52):
and Madison is thirteen.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hew.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We have some things for your family just to make
you smile and to make you make it so you
know that you're appreciated and uh and supported and cared for.
So that's what we do with Christmas wish. So let's
start off with Madison. Madison is your thirteen year old
She's fourteen, now, okay, we heard that she loves Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Is this true?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Good? Good, good, good?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So we got her just some things. We got her
one hundred dollars Starbucks gift card and a Starbucks tumbler
and ornament. I guess that you know that's that's what
she's got to have. Also some different nail polishes and
a Shields gift card. So she's into sports athletics.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think Jamie is, but either the whole family.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Okay, good, and we got a two hundred dollars Ulti
Beauty gift card too. For Jamie, your eighteen year old boy,
we got him a two hundred dollars Shields gift card.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's a steeler. Is this Steelers fan? Is this the story?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
He is a steeler?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm sorry. We got no.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
We got Steelers everything. We got Steelers flannel, we got
Steelers this, we got Steelers that, so that'll all be
delivered to the house. We got a like a Nike
hoodie and just some other goodies for the kids, so
they'll have something. I know you'll have some things under
the tree. Do you have a tree up yet, Ingrid.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, it's a Charlie Brown tree, but I like it. Okay, good, good.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So I mean, even with all these things going on,
you're still, you know, concerned about making Christmas wonderful. You're
for your kids, right, absolutely, of course. Well there's things
for you too, mom. We've got first of all, were
gonna send you over to Target. We got a two
hundred dollars Target gift card to pick up whatever you need,
whether it's fun stuff or whether it's tied laundry detergent
and bounced dryer sheets, whatever you need over there. Two
(07:44):
hundred dollars Amazon gift card, a fifty dollars Crumble Cookie
gift card.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The word is you love peanut butter cookies. Is this true? Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And we're going to send you out to Woodhouse to
to do the massage and the spa day and you
can find out more on Woodhouse spas dot com. Thanks
to those guys for helping us out and for the
whole family. We got a two hundred dollars Crispin Green
gift card. That's a lot of salad. Shout at it
(08:17):
is a lot of salad. Shout out to Alex, Talia, Jeremy,
Liz and the entire Crispin Green team over in Chan
Happening and Plymouth for their donation. One hundred dollars Broadway
Pizza gift card thanks to Sarah, everybody at Broadway Pizza,
and then even oil Changes thanks to Aiming and everybody
at Valveelin for that. And one hundred and one dollar
Holiday Station Stores gas card and those are all for you.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Is it going to change your life?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Probably not, But we just want you to feel the
love and appreciation and support from your community and your teachers,
your your fellow educators and everybody here and who listens
to Katie WB to make your holiday a little bit
more bright.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Okay, I really appreciate it and I love them too
very much. We love you, Ingrid, Thanks guys of course.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, how are you feeling today, Ingrid?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I actually I feel really good and I did my
makeup and takes a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Time for time for a duel over. Yeah, And so
you're undergoing you're undergoing the the treatment or you're going
back to treatment.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Is that right? I'm yeah, this is Friday.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Will be my fifth Cara chemo, fourth or fifth chreatment.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yes, okay, Well, we wish you nothing but the very
best in your challenges with your health, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, a lot of people really appreciate you. And the
kids too. Where are the kids this morning?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I have Madison here, Jamie's not present at the time.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Okay, so he's still sleep and get that kid up up.
I'm so glad we get a chance to do this
for you and just hope you feel all the love
and support from your community and your friends.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, thank you so much, guys. We'll see you later.
Ingrid all right, seeing a few Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You're going to go to work today. Can't you give
her the day off?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I try always a day off.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Thank you, Bingrid. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Merry Christmas.
One on one point three, Katie w The Dave Ryan
in the morning shows, Christmas Wish. Good morning Melissa, Good
morning Melissa. You've been listening to kat will you be
for how long?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Since? I was in third grade?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Third grade?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And I'm not a young human.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
No, you're old now, very stop it, stop it, stop it.
You are you're a teacher.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
An educator, I'm an administrator.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I see, Okay, and so how do you know, Ingrid
that you're doing the wish for today?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Ingrid is an employee at our school and has been
for quite some time. And her children, two of her
four children went through our.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
School as well.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
She's a pair of professional at our school and is
kind of the heart and soul and then also works
in the office in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay. And she's been really going through it lately.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Really going through it lately. Yeah. Just uh. She's on
her second round of cancer head cancer during COVID, fought
it and then it is it's back. Ingrid is one
of the most genuine people you will ever meet. She's
got a heart of gold and is truly the most
positive person. She's kind of the heart of the school
(01:11):
because of her positivity it just radiates every just love
people like that. Yeah, we just love to be around her.
She lights up a room, every room and it's never
a woo is knee situation.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Isn't that amazing? Because there are people who are like that.
Moon Over at KS ninety five was like that. He
was very sick and that guy was just always full
of jokes and how are you? And he would never complain.
There are people like that. We're gonna get on the
phone with her in a second. First, I want to
check in with our boy. We call him Brandon from Uh,
He's sorry, Brandon from College muscle Movers.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hi, Brandon, good morning. What city are you in this morning? Brandon?
I'm in Chaska.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh okay, just down the road from chan happening. Thanks
for doing this. If you want to move, and you're
gonna be, we soon get a hold of Brandon College
Muscle Movers. It's College Musclemovers dot com. Correct, Brandon will
come to your house. You'll pack everything up, he promises
not to break anything and uh and get it all
move to your new location. Brandon, thanks for delivering the
(02:13):
wish this morning. We'll check back if we need you.
We're going to call.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We're gonna call Ingrid's daughter.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Okay, to make sure we get a hold of somebody. Yeah, okay,
So Jenny, if you will call this number right there, Jenny,
that is the number we're gonna call live for Christmas
Wish and deliver the wish as it happens here on
Katie to be.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Top line, top line. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hello, Hello, Hey, it's Dave over at KATOBB Can I
talk to Ingrid?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh? Hi, Ingrid? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Good Ingrid? It's like I said, as Dave over at
KATWB Radio, and I'm here with a coworker slash friend
of yours, Melissa Say hi, Melissa, Hi, Ingrid.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Patty's here too, just so you know. Oh gosh, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Would you have any idea why we're calling? I have
no idea, chelling.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So we do a thing over at Katabu be called
Christmas Wish. We've done it for years, and we try
to find people who are going through something, a challenge,
a struggle, uh, And we want to make your day
a little bit brighter. So we ask people who listen
to the show to tell us about somebody who they
know that could use what we call a Christmas wish.
And that is when Melissa wrote in to tell us
(03:41):
about you, Ingrid, and she wrote us a letter to
tell us your story. If you got a minute, can
I have Melissa read that story to you? Yeah, okay,
whenever you're ready, Melissa. Okay, it's okay, she's got it
on her phone. She's got to find it here. Take
your time. This all happens live. So okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Dear Katie w. B.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I am writing this letter on behalf of our amazing
charter school community for our dear friend, Ingrid. Ingrid moved
to Minnesota from Florida around nine or twenty eighteen as
a single mom so her kids could have an exceptional education.
She applied to work as a para at our small
charter school and has been working with us ever since.
(04:26):
During COVID, Ingrid received devastating news that she had cancer. However,
Ingrid was strong and resilient. She worked the entire time
during her treatment and had the most positive attitude. Ingrid
went into remission. However, last month found out her cancer
was back. As devastating as this news was, Ingrid has
begun her treatment plan once again with positivity and resilience.
(04:49):
Ingrid is one of the most generous people I know.
She would literally do anything for anyone. She is so
critical to our small community and is loved by all.
If you ask any of the middle school students who
their favorite person is, it is always Ingrid. She lights
up every room that she enters, and I know the
holidays are causing a burden on her right now. Our
(05:10):
school's Christmas wish is that Ingrid could have some relief
during the holiday season and shower her with love so
her worries and burdens can be lessened. Thank you so much,
Katie w. B for making this wish happen. We love
you so much, Ingrid.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Ingrid, it's obvious that you're just one of those amazing
people that is all about everyone else and never about
you or your challenges, and we love you for that.
And there's obviously a lot of love that your school
wants to share with you, and so we are doing
some things just to make you smile, make the girls smile.
We have Jamie no jameis James a boy, Jamie's a boy,
(05:52):
and Madison is thirteen.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hew.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We have some things for your family just to make
you smile and to make you make it so you
know that you're appreciated and uh and supported and cared for.
So that's what we do with Christmas wish. So let's
start off with Madison. Madison is your thirteen year old
She's fourteen, now, okay, we heard that she loves Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Is this true?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Good? Good, good, good?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So we got her just some things. We got her
one hundred dollars Starbucks gift card and a Starbucks tumbler
and ornament. I guess that you know that's that's what
she's got to have. Also some different nail polishes and
a Shields gift card. So she's into sports athletics.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think Jamie is, but either the whole family.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Okay, good, and we got a two hundred dollars Ulti
Beauty gift card too. For Jamie, your eighteen year old boy,
we got him a two hundred dollars Shields gift card.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
He's a steeler. Is this Steelers fan? Is this the story?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
He is a steeler?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'm sorry. We got no.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
We got Steelers everything. We got Steelers flannel, we got
Steelers this, we got Steelers that, so that'll all be
delivered to the house. We got a like a Nike
hoodie and just some other goodies for the kids, so
they'll have something. I know you'll have some things under
the tree. Do you have a tree up yet, Ingrid.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, it's a Charlie Brown tree, but I like it. Okay, good, good.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
So I mean, even with all these things going on,
you're still, you know, concerned about making Christmas wonderful. You're
for your kids, right, absolutely, of course. Well there's things
for you too, mom. We've got first of all, were
gonna send you over to Target. We got a two
hundred dollars Target gift card to pick up whatever you need,
whether it's fun stuff or whether it's tied laundry detergent
and bounced dryer sheets, whatever you need over there. Two
(07:44):
hundred dollars Amazon gift card, a fifty dollars Crumble Cookie
gift card.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
The word is you love peanut butter cookies. Is this true? Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And we're going to send you out to Woodhouse to
to do the massage and the spa day and you
can find out more on Woodhouse spas dot com. Thanks
to those guys for helping us out and for the
whole family. We got a two hundred dollars Crispin Green
gift card. That's a lot of salad. Shout at it
(08:17):
is a lot of salad. Shout out to Alex, Talia, Jeremy,
Liz and the entire Crispin Green team over in Chan
Happening and Plymouth for their donation. One hundred dollars Broadway
Pizza gift card thanks to Sarah, everybody at Broadway Pizza,
and then even oil Changes thanks to Aiming and everybody
at Valveelin for that. And one hundred and one dollar
Holiday Station Stores gas card and those are all for you.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Is it going to change your life?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Probably not, But we just want you to feel the
love and appreciation and support from your community and your teachers,
your your fellow educators and everybody here and who listens
to Katie WB to make your holiday a little bit
more bright.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Okay, I really appreciate it and I love them too
very much. We love you, Ingrid, Thanks guys of course.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, how are you feeling today, Ingrid?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I actually I feel really good and I did my
makeup and takes a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Time for time for a duel over. Yeah, And so
you're undergoing you're undergoing the the treatment or you're going
back to treatment.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Is that right? I'm yeah, this is Friday.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Will be my fifth Cara chemo, fourth or fifth chreatment.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yes, okay, Well, we wish you nothing but the very
best in your challenges with your health, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, a lot of people really appreciate you. And the
kids too. Where are the kids this morning?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I have Madison here, Jamie's not present at the time.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Okay, so he's still sleep and get that kid up up.
I'm so glad we get a chance to do this
for you and just hope you feel all the love
and support from your community and your friends.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Okay, thank you so much, guys. We'll see you later.
Ingrid all right, seeing a few Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You're going to go to work today. Can't you give
her the day off?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
I try always a day off.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Thank you, Bingrid. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Merry Christmas.
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