This being National Heart month and heart disease being a big part of my own family. An amazing story of heart was recently brought to my attention and I thought you might be inspired as well.

His name is Erik Compton and he is a professional golfer, not the founder of a non-profit. But a man with a very big heart for life and a person who has lived the story of heart disease since he was 12.

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Erik gives a face to thousands who wait for heart transplants each year. President Clinton said last month about Erik, “And you think if someone can overcome all the real problems that he’s overcome to live the life that he’s living, then the rest of us ought to do a better job of staying healthy enough that we don’t bankrupt the health care system and we don’t undermine the ability of our children to raise our grandchildren and we don’t raise the first generation of kids to have shorter lifespans than their parents.”

Like many of us Erik has a family and travels for his golf career but can be found volunteering his time for special events and hospital visitations to meet transplant patients and their families in support of organ donation and transplant awareness. That is a true champion.

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