“I noticed when I visited with Doris, she really perked up when we talked about the Kansas City Royals,” Todd said. “So I had a thought about her going to a game; just that thought got the ball rolling.”

Todd said Doris “lit up like a Christmas tree” when asked if she wanted to see the Royals play. “Yes, I do want to go,” Doris told Todd.

From there, things fell into place.

“It really was due to a force greater than myself,” Todd said. “The stars all aligned.”

After running into problems finding tickets, Todd reached out to the Dreamweaver Foundation, an Omaha nonprofit that works to provide memorable experiences to terminally ill seniors. The foundation handles the costs and logistics of the experience, working with the nominator to make the dream a reality.

While Dreamweaver is handling most of the arrangements for Thursday’s trip, the four tickets came from a different source: Royals starting pitcher Homer Bailey.

Doris will be traveling from Grand Island, where she’s lived since October 2018, to Omaha with her nurse, Rose Dinan, and Pat Haag, a nurse’s assistant at Tabitha. Son Larry is driving to Omaha from his home in Louisburg, Kansas, to join them.