Four-year-old Wyatt, a Sarasota resident, has had the odds against him since birth, when he was born three months premature, given a four percent chance of surviving, and spent his first year in the neonatal intensive care unit. Chronic lung diseases and other serious medical problems have resulted in 15 procedures (including one less than two weeks ago) and five occasions where doctors told the family to consider letting the critically-ill child go.
With his medical challenges and sensory issues, Wyatt can’t use public play areas, but he’ll now have his own place to increase physical and brain stimulation. Featuring slides, an adaptive swing, rock wall, sand box, sensory enhancements, and a high-tech trampoline, the playground has been custom-designed to meet special needs for a child and family that never gave up.
Wyatt’s wish will be the 12,000th granted by Make-A-Wish Southern Florida since 1983. It is only the fourth chapter in the world to grant that many, with the others all having larger territories and populations to draw from.
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