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In October, Padilla, a two-time all-league baseball player for the Blazers, was diagnosed with Ostersarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Since then, Padilla has been at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Each Tuesday during the NFL season, Wilson and his wife, Ashton, visit children at the hospital. However, the Wilsons haven’t visited a floor that Padilla has been on during their weekly trips.
On Saturday, Hannah Padilla and Amber Lewis – David Padilla’s sister and girlfriend – each posted an initial tweet on Twitter and a post on Facebook around at 7 p.m. Saturday, urging Wilson to surprise Padilla this Tuesday, Jan. 15. Hannah Padilla tweeted, “@DangerRussWilson visit my brother @DavidPadilla5 at Seattle Children’s on Tuesday. He has ostersarcoma and is dying to meet you!” and Lewis had a similar tweet: “@DangerRussWilson visit @DavidPadilla5 at #seattlechildrens in surgical rehab next Tuesday! #DreamComeTrue #PadillaNeedsTheDanger #RT”.
The number of tweets with the hashtag #PadillaNeedsTheDanger has reached the thousands on Twitter with folks tweeting as far away as Alabama and Pennsylvania. Even Andres Gonzales, a PGA Tour golfer and Capital High School graduate, retweeted “please RT for David Padilla. Fighting cancer at Seattle Children’s #PadillaNeedsTheDanger.
Hannah Padilla, a freshman at Washington State University who graduated from Timberline last year, called the responses “amazing.”
“It has definitely got a lot of attention and very fast,” she said. “It is crazy.”
