Jonathan King feels most at home on a playing field. 

The 27-year-old competes in basketball, softball, and flag football through the Special Olympics. Sports have been a constant throughout his life, despite health challenges. King was born with a single heart ventricle, a serious congenital heart condition that has required multiple open-heart surgeries, some of which were complicated by strokes. 

Still, he never saw himself as limited by his condition. 

That changed in October 2025. 

A new game plan 

A routine ultrasound revealed a benign tumor on King’s liver, connected to complications from his congenital heart condition. The finding forced King to trade practices and games for medical appointments and tests.  

Jeremy Rucinski, 45, has managed anxiety, depression, ADHD, and being on the neurodivergent spectrum since he was a kid. He tried to stay ahead of his symptoms with one-on-one therapy, but when a new job pushed him past his breaking point, he knew he needed something more. 

"Getting a call center job exasperated what was already underlying,” he said. “Call, call, call, call all day long got my anxiety going.” 

He turned to his primary care provider and tried medication in hopes of finding relief. 

"I tried maybe 8 medications, and they would all make me feel too weird to work. I was either woozy or had mental fogginess, or they would maybe work for a month or two and then the symptoms would come back.” 

Jeremy took a leave from work.