Anyone out for a night stroll in Burlington’s residential cul-de-sac of Myers Lane on Friday night can be forgiven for thinking that they somehow went back in time a week.
The glowing pumpkins on most front doors, the elaborate and ghoulish graveyard displays in the front gardens, and the variety of witches, superheroes, and Disney characters trick-or-treating would have any observer think it was. Halloween. all over again.
In fact, that’s exactly what it was.
When 4-year-old Wyatt Tomson’s neighbors learned that the light brown-haired boy was admitted to Sick Kids during Halloween while doctors were trying to figure out the best way to treat his epileptic seizures, they decided to remedy the situation.
Knowing that Wyatt had been looking forward to the October 31 festivities and dressed up as his favorite superhero, Spider-Man, for weeks, street residents simply kept all of their decorations for another week, or took them out again, and remade. Halloween on Friday night, so Wyatt doesn’t miss out on the experience.
“There is an overwhelming amount of love that comes from these people…. Watch this! “Wyatt’s mother, Lauren Tomson, said tearfully to the dozens of costumed neighbors who came out to make sure her son didn’t miss out on the Halloween experience.
“They have been so supportive, caring and loving our family as if it were their own, to be honest.
“They are just amazing humans.
“We are so lucky.”
Spider-Man, also known as Wyatt, confirmed his mother’s feelings when he raised his thumb after picking up a huge bag of candy along with his two-year-old sister Wonder Woman, also known as Sloane, at stops at almost every house in town. your street. .
“It’s been a tough few weeks and months for (Wyatt), and for him to be able to go out, and for us to be able to do this together, it’s amazing,” said neighbor Ashley Sittler, whose three children, ages two, four and six, have grown up with Wyatt and his sister. “Halloween this year, for my kids, was the first year that I think they really got it. And they had so much fun going from house to house, knocking on doors and saying “trick or treat.” So that Wyatt can do this with his little sister is very important. “
Wyatt’s father Derek Tomson, dressed as Deadpool, struggled to hold back tears as he described how the Halloween cutback came about. It was last weekend and Wyatt, who was diagnosed with a defiant form of epilepsy in May, had been on Sick Kids for a couple of days. While doctors were testing and working to determine the proper combination of medications and dosages, it appeared that Wyatt would not be home in time to trick-or-treat.
So his father posted a message on an online group chat from the Myers Lane families and asked if he could deliver candy that the families could deliver to Wyatt when he returned home from the hospital.
“Everyone immediately said, ‘We’re going to put together a package for him. We’re going to get dressed again for him, and you tell us when and we’ll all be there. ‘ Everyone was excited to do it, ”Tomson said, expressing amazement that even people who weren’t in the group’s thread and who had put away their Halloween decorations decided to take it all out again when they found out about Wyatt.
“Everything for a four-year-old. We really feel like we live on the best street in the world. “
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