Baseball really is a great family sport. And one usher proved that recently after going the extra mile for one family.
A St. Louis Cardinals fan took her three-year-old son to a game. When she ran out of milk for her toddler, she asked the usher to point her in the direction of where she could find some.
The usher took them to two different locations (one being where their tickets didn’t grant them access), and then cordially guided them back to their seats. He didn’t have to. He could have pointed in a direction and remained in his appointed section.
Little did he know, he made the biggest impact.
According to This Gutsy Life, the three-year-old had a central line and a feeding tube, and the milk was necessary for his condition.
What you didn’t know is that beneath my son’s Yadi t-shirt there’s a central line and a feeding tube. You didn’t know that the unusual form and function of his little body mean that he dehydrates easily, but also that drinking too much water could ultimately land us in the hospital, and for whatever reason, against most logic, right now milk is the thing he tolerates best.
You didn’t know that for the better part of the last three years it’s been incredibly hard for us to go places on a whim, or that in recent months we’ve vowed not to let his medical needs stop us from doing things, and so taking up our friends on these last-minute Cardinals tickets was a small triumph for us. You didn’t know that we might be facing another big surgery soon that could keep us mostly quarantined to our own house for weeks or months; or that I’d forgotten to grab his milk because I’d received an unexpected and lengthy phone call from his doctor as we were packing up our ballgame bag and had been distracted by talking through the laundry list of changes she wanted us to make in a last-ditch effort to avoid that surgery.
That is a home run.
