Ed Hearn's Incredible Story: Faith, Survival & the 1986 Mets

was so exciting man all right Would you, would you have gone through your perseverance here? Never give it up.

What advice would you give to somebody not feeling well illnesses to what did you use to motivate yourself to get to the point where you are right now?

Well, like I said, faith is a very important part for me.

Unfortunately, everybody doesn't have that foundation.

So, but, A part of faith, I believe, and I speak a lot on this subject, about the need to get perspective, the right kind of perspective, especially when times are going tough.

And you like to say, well, how do you get perspective? Well, you know, I'm hurting.

I'm going through this bad illness or injury.

Oh, perspective.

What's that got to do with it? Well, I tell you what.

If you go out there and find somebody who's a little worse off than you are and do something for them, It's going to change your perspective.

You're going to change that person's perspective.

But from that point there, you become a different person in here.

And because there's always somebody worse off than you are.

And I lucked into this.

I learned this.

But I had a shoulder injury in Kansas City at Children's Hospital.

I won't bore you.

It's not a boring story, but, you know, I met a child there that just let me know that going through shoulder surgery was nothing.

compared to what that young person was going through.

And again, when I had the first kidney transplant, I was having a pity party.

And that midnight shift nurse, and I won't, I'm not going, if I tell you too much, yeah, I got to charge you for speaking.

You know that, right? But that nurse came in and she kicked my butt.

And she basically said, you know, she said the saying of, Their mom once told her, she said, and it's like 1 o'clock in the morning.

She's a big old lady.

She's taking my vitals, and she looks like a bull charger.