This is the story of how Make-A-Wish 18-year-old Josue Hernandez met his idol, Ray Lewis, and got invited into the Ravens’ pregame locker room Monday night in Cleveland.
Growing up in Spain, Hernandez didn’t know the first thing about American football. Like just about everyone there, soccer was his love.
But things changed in 2007 when Hernandez’s dad noticed he started dragging his left leg. He began having trouble walking and stopped using his left hand to eat.
“I didn’t really understand what had happened to me,” Hernandez recalled.
Later that year, Hernandez was diagnosed with a tumor in his back, which was contacting his spinal cord and slowly paralyzing the left side of his body.