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MEDICINE • Good News Network
Blind for years, she opened her eyes and saw her sonEach eye held half of what the other needed. So they combined them.
Surgeons in Turin have performed what they describe as a world-first: the simultaneous transplant of a complete human macula, cornea and connective tissue from one of a patient's eyes to the other. The patient, a 67-year-old woman named Elena, had been blind for several years after a road crash severed the optic nerve in her left eye while destroying the retina and cornea in her right. Each eye held part of what the other lacked. Professor Michele Reibaldi, an ocular surgeon at Molinette Hospital, resolved to move the working tissue from the left eye into the right, where the optic nerve had survived. The operation ran six hours, which he called a "complicated marathon." Follow-ups confirm the tissues have reattached and that Elena is regaining sight. When she opened her eyes, she recognized her son and Joe, the family dog. The dog, presumably, had waited. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
A stranger sent $3,000 to a mother he'd never met.The bank wouldn't let him help. So he found another way.
A stranger who saw a Bronx mother's story on the local news gave her $3,000 to feed her children and get them ready for school. The two have still never met. Nina Chambers, 36, lost nearly everything in late June when a fire in a neighboring building on East 160th Street forced her and her three children out of their apartment. They moved into a hotel. At one point her bank account went overdrawn. Scott Evans, watching from hundreds of miles away, decided he could do something about it. He first tried to deposit money directly into her account, but the bank turned him away, so he went through the news station instead. "He didn't ask me for anything except, how can I help you?" Chambers said. Eight weeks later, she has a new apartment and a degree in human services. She still hopes to meet him one day.
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KINDNESS • Upworthy
Twin 8-year-olds threw their birthday party at the hardware storeThey could have picked a bowling alley. They picked the hardware store.
Twin sisters Eliza and Jade turned 8 in Seattle with a birthday party at Maple Leaf Ace Hardware, complete with 25 friends clocked in as employees for a day. The girls could have picked a bowling alley or an ice rink. They wanted the store they already loved. Their mom, Hillary, worked at that Ace about 20 years ago, and the family still drops by often. On those visits, the twins close store bins and tidy stray items off the floor. They take the work seriously, as if someone were paying them. "I really did not think that they would say yes," Hillary told Seattle's SPIRIT 105.3. John, the store's owner, said yes in a heartbeat. Guests got tiny aprons with personalized name tags, planted their own flower pots, and wired up small battery-powered fans. The party favors were sturdy Ace buckets packed with goodies. The dirt from the potting won over the doubters fast. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Upworthy
Fights fell from 130 to 10 with a Harry Potter ideaThe school couldn't keep a principal. Then it read Harry Potter.
Pittsburgh Arlington PreK-8, a public school of 360 students, recorded more than 130 fights during the 2024-25 school year. Last year there were 10. Principal Crystal Caldwell and her staff got there by borrowing an idea from Harry Potter. Students are sorted into houses across grade levels, each with its own mascot and colors, earning points for good behavior in friendly competition. Older students end up mentoring younger ones. The school paired that with morning "safety huddles," where teachers flag a struggling kid before a bad day becomes a fight, and with restorative practices that swap suspension for repair. A student who vandalizes a hallway cleans it. "We let the kids talk it out, and they come up with their own way to apologize and say how they will do better," Caldwell told TribLive. The reputation used to be, as she put it, "don't send your kid there." The district is now rolling houses out to dozens more schools. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
A 90-year-old wanted a lap dog. Mocha knew the job.She asked for a lap dog. A blind Chihuahua needed exactly one lap.
Donna James, 90, asked her family for one thing: a lap dog. Her exact words were, "I just would like to have a lap dog. What would you think about that?" Her daughter reached out to Pawportunities, a foster-based rescue in Blue Springs, Missouri, and executive director Carrie Siems already had a candidate. Mocha, a Chihuahua, was not born blind but lost her sight suddenly one day, and now wants to be in someone's lap all the time. The two met on video that later went viral. Donna held Mocha in her wheelchair, and the dog dozed off in her arms. The multigenerational household already had a cat, which was not the companion Donna had in mind. To keep Mocha bonded to everyone, the daughter now brings her along on daily coffee runs. "People think a small dog will automatically become a lap dog," Siems said. This one already knew the job. Read the full story → | |||
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