Lulu Miller

I am.

David's parents, who live outside of Phoenix, and seemed actually just, like, really excited to talk to us about David, I think because...

they don't often get the chance to?

Well, when David was born... This was in 1961.

The doctor said, this guy is going to be a football player.

He had, like, really strong, defined muscles.

Like somebody that had been doing major calf raises at the gym.

Little jacked baby.

Yeah, little jacked baby.

Okay.

But in the first year... He had some problems that I noticed when he started walking.

So, for instance, like most kids... You know how they take their little fat feet and they just sort of plop them down?

Yeah.

When David lifted his foot to take a step... He would halt.

Hesitate.

Then put it down.

Then one day when June noticed he was playing, he couldn't get up off the floor.

So at the age of five, they took David to a doctor who ran some tests and told them that David had muscular dystrophy.

And the doctor was describing what was going to be happening next.

and how he was not going to be able to walk and finally not be able to breathe, and the heart wouldn't work because they're all muscle.