FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Elsa Mendoza is the mother of Heisman Trophy winner and newly crowned CFP National Champion Fernando Mendoza, the Miami-native quarterback of Indiana University.
She was smiling in her wheelchair at Hard Rock Stadium on Monday night as her son became a national champion, while also shining a light on a disease that affects over a million Americans.
Dr. Luis Compres Brugal, the director of the neuroimmunology and multiple sclerosis program at Baptist Health, explained how MS attacks something called myelin, which protects brain cells…