Six-year-old Dylan is a cheeky, outgoing Kangaroo Flat boy.
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He loves his sports, Lego and racing his twin brother, Caleb.
“He’s determined to do whatever he wants,” says mum Lauren Wagner.
“He knows that he can’t be champion or win or anything like that, but he loves to do it and it just gives him the pleasure to do something.”
Dylan is the oldest of the two Kangaroo Flat Primary School students, and died twice during birth.
But it wasn’t until almost two years later that he had his first seizure, while Ms Wagner was at a sport carnival.
“He just woke up from an afternoon sleep and he had a seizure,” she said.
It wasn’t the first for Dylan and after each seizure, when he recovered, he had a partial stroke.
Doctors eventually diagnosed him with cerebral palsy and found he also had a hole in his head along with global development delay along the right-hand-side of his body.
And while he hasn’t had a seizure for a good two and a half years thanks to medication, he still sees a team of health professionals to build up his muscles and visits The Royal Children’s Hospital every six months for check ups.
This year, the laidback youngster joined Bendigo Little Athletics and is following in the footsteps of his big sister, his mum and his grandfather.
“He is a marvel,” Ms Wagner said.
“Nothing seems to stop him – even though he comes last, he smiles and laughs all the way while running.”
She is sharing Dylan’s story as she wants other people with disabilities to know they too can set out to achieve what Dylan is.
“He would try anything,” she said.
“We watched the Winter Olympics and he wants to do snowboarding now.”