This is an I stories, and as you know, we tell stories about everything here on this show,

and we love hearing from you, the listeners.

Your stories are some of our favorites.

Our next story is brought to us by Ryan Buck in Des Moines, Iowa,

home of our great affiliate, 1040 W.H.O. It's called The Hope Story of John Humphrey because it was

made for the Humphrey family and their friends at the Lutheran Church of Hope, their home church

in West Des Moines. We will be hearing from John, his mother,

Jennifer, and his father, Mark. Let's take a listen.

I've played baseball since I was three or four years old.

I've always loved it.

I play it every single summer.

It makes me happy.

I feel good when I play baseball, especially when I pitch.

Pitching is my favorite thing about baseball.

My mom is a nurse, and she listened to me one day and she thought

something was wrong. He came in from playing basketball one day and he was like

why my heart feels like it's beating like really hard. So I grabbed my stethoscope

and listened to him and I could hear it. And so I went into the doctor

to get that checked out. And while he was there, he said, you have a family history of heart problems.

I want to get you into a cardiologist just to see. And Dr. Law walked in and brought his mentor with him from the University of Michigan.

And they both looked at John and they looked at Jennifer and I, and they said,

John has a very serious arrhythmia that could take his life at any moment.

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