Twenty-two years ago, Roy Brownson Jr. had a heart attack and was treated in the intensive care unit at Ogden Regional Medical Center. It was then that he felt it was time for him to give back, and that’s exactly what he has been doing for the past two decades.
“I enjoy meeting with people. I’ve met so many wonderful people here,” Brownson told FOX 13 News Friday on his last day volunteering. “This is hard for me. But I’ve had… I’ve worked with so many wonderful young ladies and young men.”
“I didn’t think I did a whole lot,” he said through his tears — but fellow volunteers and staff at the hospital sure thought he made an impact.“He just has a true heart. He’s genuine,” volunteer coordinator Trudy Peterson said. “He does it because he wants to. He doesn’t do it for the notoriety, for fame — he does it because he has a good heart. He’s a good, kind person.”
“I had to go to the ICU once in a while, and I’d see little kids with their mothers just sitting there," he explained."They’d have nothing to do but just sit there. So I go in [the gift shop], and they had little balls in there that light up, and I thought, 'What the heck, I’d just buy them and give them to the kids.'”
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