This is one of them.
A thread.
[Hint: It’s about a kid, a hospital, and Canadians doing Canadian things]
(@Goodable)
He lives with a genetic condition that’s so rare, doctors don’t even have a name for it. By the time he was 9, he’d already had 15 surgeries.
That’s not a typo: Fifteen.
Imagine what that does to a kid.
For a kid, Halloween can be a great equalizer. When everyone’s wearing a costume, no one knows that you’re different.
But suddenly, everything changed.
Doctors found another cyst.
In Canada, we have universal healthcare, which is great because you don’t have to pay for surgeries, but you also don’t get to choose the date.
Carter was devastated.
But that's when things got Canadian.
Pretty simple, right?
Here’s what happened next.
Then within a few hours, literally HUNDREDS of people, including random strangers all basically said ‘hell yeah, we’ll do Halloween a day earlier.’
All for a 9-year old kid that they’d never met.
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Great - except for one thing:
Now there were TOO MANY people. Seriously. There was no way Carter could visit all those homes.
So they came up with Plan B.
This is what it looked like.
Hundreds of Canadians, in a parking lot, braving the rain, with candy and costumes – for the sake of a 9-year old boy they'd never met.
This is the exact moment.
(wait, it gets better)
A Ticats player shows up.
And this is the moment Carter finds out he's going to the Grey Cup (it’s Canada’s equivalent of the Superbowl).
When Carter found out about all this, the first thing he said was “mom, I won’t be able to finish all that candy.”
So guess what he’s doing?
(📸 @610CKTB)
Some of them are kids, like himself, who couldn’t go Trick or Treating either.
That’s the thing about goodness. It spreads.
❤
Maybe the world could use more of it.
More kids like Carter, and more @Goodable.
[End]
This is what happened the morning after, when Carter walked into the hospital.
🍁 ❤
And this was Carter just before the surgery, at the hospital.
Look closely: He's still wearing his @Ticats gloves.
(@CFL)