Young Ohio State Fan Gets Heart Surgery At U Of M And Asks To Not Become Michigan Fan
By: Mike Sullivan
@mikesullivan
10-year-old Ivan Applin of Toledo, Ohio had a recent heart procedure done at Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan.
Applin is an Ohio State fan and had some reservations about coming up to Ann Arbor and heading to campus.
So much so that he even asked the doctor if he could kindly not change his heart from a Buckeye fan to a Wolverine fan:
"As pediatric cardiologist Dr. Ronald Grifka showed 10-year-old Ivan Applin the wire-framed device that would be used to fix the holes in his heart, the Toledo fourth grader had just one burning concern. "He asked if the Michigan doctors were going to make his heart love University of Michigan instead of Ohio State," his mother Jennifer laughs."
The procedure was successful and one thing the doctors certainly couldn't do is change the young boy's college football fandom.
