Ryan | Hillary Clinton

She looks at me the way I always wanted to be looked at by everyone. I have a rare form of gorpism known as Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita syndrome. As an infant I had a lot of medical issues, a lot of surgeries. We were one of seven families that were chosen to go testify at a congressional hearing in Washington D.C. We learned that at that time First Lady Clinton was going to be at this congressional hearing. I don't know what it was about our family that she spotted right away and came over and walked over to my parents. I've had the most wonderful times at these Health Ride events because I always get to hear from people and meet people who I think are the real heroes and the real people of courage in America. And all during the events of this morning, Ryan has been just smiling up a storm. He has been nodding at everything every senator has said in obvious agreement. And throughout it all he had an expression on his face that I can only describe as beatific. He has just been remarkable. Which is, we had to muck it up. Since then we've just kind of kept in contact. She sat aside an hour just for our family. Took us around the White House, showed us a bunch of different rooms, and she said I have something for you. Like what? This is just such an amazing experience already, you know, what would that be? And Hillary brought in a picture of her holding me in her speech. She said, I just wanted to let you know that this has been hanging in the White House in my office for the past two or three years. I'm just like, so my picture's been in the White House. She said, I want you to hang this in your hospital room because I was having surgery the following day, you know, in Boatsworth. Her and President Clinton both signed a picture, wrote a really nice note, and both just offered just such words of encouragement. I was pretty scared, you know, that it was going to be a big surgery. And just to know that the President and First Lady had my back, so to speak, was just so comforting. It wasn't like she had breasts or, you know, wanted pictures taken of us or anything like that. She wanted to just connect with me and our family. There's no ulterior motives to having a friendship with us for over 20 years. Yeah, even if she got 100% of the dwarfism vote, I don't think that would move the needle much, so to speak. What do you think you've given her? What does she think? I hope that she has seen that the countless hours and just the effort that she has put forth has not been in vain because a person like me, who has had a lot of trials and difficulties through life, she has helped make me into the person that I am today.