I'm Shankar Vedantham and from Hidden Brain Media, this is my unsung hero.

Stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

I don't know the name of my unsung hero.

And here she was trying to encourage me that it was going to be all right.

Thank you.

You will forever be my own sung hero.

Today's story comes from Betsy Cox of Simpsonville, South Carolina.

In September 2014, Betsy and her husband Steve welcomed their son Blake into the world.

The family didn't have a lot of money at the time and they lived in a townhouse that could get a bit chilly.

So one day, about nine weeks after Blake was born, Betsy strapped him into his car seat and drove over to her local Walmart to pick up a space heater.

It was one of those first cold mornings where everything felt like a struggle and I came in just kind of

downtrodden flustered. I was a new mom at the time and so you know just maybe kind of irritable and of course I went back to the heater section and they were all sold out of heaters. So I was already just you know kind of cranky and wishing that the day

was going differently so I made my way over to one of the cleaning aisles, the sponges and stuff, and all of a sudden, this man just came booming towards me.

So he was a southern man and had a very jelly-like presence, almost like Santa, and just kind of a larger-than-life dynamic to him.

And he said, Rhondaonda calling out to his wife,

you've got to come see the baby.

Can we come look at the baby?

And so his accent was very endearing and he said,

he has the most big beautiful blue eyeballs and I just never

really heard someone say that and it just made me chuckle and kind of immediately shifted

my mood you know so then we chatted a little bit and he said at the end,

God was good to you, darling. God was real good to you. And he said it with such passion it just about knocked me over I can't

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