Thursday, January 12, 2012

Matt smilng at his beautiful camaro

Matt was pacing Monday morning.  He couldn't wait to pick up his camaro.  They called in the afternoon to let Matt know the car was ready.  Matt, Casey, Keith, Ryan, Jen,  Nate and I went up to West Bend to pick up Matt's camaro. Matt was so excited Monday and nervous at the same time.  They had a surprise for him and he had no clue what that could be.  We headed up to West Bend around 3:40.  We got up there a few minutes after 5:00.  All the guys that worked on Matt's car were hanging around to see Matt.

 Matt walked in and couldn't believe how nice his car looked.  The had cleaned it from the inside out!
It looked absolutely beautiful.


Matt's shinning new Camaro!

Matt saw his car and couldn't believe how nice it looked.  They opened the hood and Matt saw all
the new parts he had purchased inside of his car! Matt had Wegner Cnc porrted 243 head, cop cam, push rods, sip ail pump and timing chain, Spec clutch, poly motor mounts and Pace Setter long tubes with off road y pipe.  Then Brad from West Bend Dyno called Casey Wegner from Wegner Motorsports a call and Casey gave Dyno a great deal on a set of personalized custom  cnc'd billet valve covers.


These covers say, Krueger Z camaro.

Matt couldn't believe his eyes.  They had took his engine out cleaned it up, added all his new parts and they took a lot of pictures.  Brad from West Bend Dyno  helped Matt a few years back with his truck and when he came back in this year asking if he could install the parts he had purchased for his Camaro Brad was shocked on how skinny and yellow Matt looked.  He said he had a hard time to keep tears back.  He was happy to install these parts for Matt.  He also knew someone who writes for a magazine.  They found out about Matt's story and wanted to put him in their magazine.  Matt's story will be in Camaro Performance Magazine in two months.  It is a quarterly magazine.

Here are a few more pictures of Matt's car.

Under Matt's camaro hood.  These means alot to all guys but to most Mom's it is just an engine.



Here is Matt, Brad, Brian and Mac from West Bend Dyno  some of the guys that worked on Matt.s car.

Here is Matt getting into his Camaro for the first time!  He had such a huge smile on his face!

Here are some of us that went up with Matt,  Uncle Keith, Casey, Matt, Nate, Myself (Kitty) and Ryan.


Here is what that new customize cover in Matt's car looks like.


This is a link to a youtube the guys took of Matt's car while they were working on it.

Matt was on cloud nine!  Matt drove the car as far as Slinger on the way home with Uncle Keith in the car.  We stopped for a bite to eat and then Matt let Ryan drive with Matt in  the driver seat.  Matt had a
destination at a gas station to stop again.  This time Uncle Keith and Matt drove the rest of the way home and around Watertown that night.  Matt had a couple of friends that came over to see his car.

The next morning Matt tried to sleep in some.  We got up and had lunch with Lyle from J & L tire.  Matt wanted to show off his car.  After lunch we stopped in at Johnson Creek Cancer Center.  Matt parked in the way back.  He pulled up to the back doors of the building and reved it up!  The nurses and even Dr. Eastman was wondering what that noise was.  They all came out into the hallway and could see Matt in his car, SMILING!  Matt came in and explained all the new parts he had gotten installed on his car.  After that we went to Rob's Honda so he could show a friend his car. Then we had to go to Bumper to Bumper in Watertown to show off Matt's car  again.  By this time Matt was getting tired.  We headed home. 

Matt tried to sleep but did not have a good night.  Matt noticed his tube to his bag that is on his right kidney was not filling up.  Then earlier in the morning Matt developed abdominal pains.  When I got
there in the morning Matt told me how he was feeling and about his bag.  He had gotten up a number times in the middle of the night to go to the rest room and there was nothing in his bag to empty.  I called Maria from Rainbow Hospice and she came right over.  Matt was not feeling well and couldn't get out of bed.  Maria flushed his bag and then tried to flush the tube entering Matt's back.  It was definitely blocked.  Maria worked at it for awhile and seemed to get it draining again. 

Maria left at 10:00 and Matt felt better by lunch.  Matt got up and ate some lunch.  He lounge around for awhile.  Matt again told me his bag was not filling up.  Maria happened to call just as we were talking about it.  This was at 4:00.  Matt told Maria there was nothing draining in his bag again. Matt asked Maria to come out at 6:00.  At this time Matt was feeling okay. Maria came at 6:00 and flushed his bag again.  Then she worked at trying to flush the tube in Matt's back. It took a little while but all of a sudden it started to drain again.  Matt was on pins and needles all day watching his bag.  He regularly empties his bag every two to three hours.  He went from 10:00 to 6:00 without having to empty his bag and this made all of us very nervous. 

I went home and Matt and Casey could enjoy the rest of the night.  This morning Matt and his brother Nate are still sleeping.  I have a feeling they stayed up to late last night.  I found a list of things Matt had written down that he would like help doing today.

Thank you to everyone for all your continued prayers!






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