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Thursday, Oct 22 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
Strangers kept her alive until paramedics reached the riverHe had never used a defibrillator in a real emergency. He stepped forward anyway.
Kaley Koppa, 43, collapsed on a bench during a morning run along the Brisbane River last week, and strangers kept her alive until paramedics arrived. Security footage shows her slowing down and clutching her left arm before she went down. She was in cardiac arrest. Doctors later said she had clinically died. One bystander called emergency services. "Her face is blue ... She's just saying she's not breathing," the caller told dispatchers. Others began CPR. Staff from the nearby Star Casino spotted the scene and ran over with a defibrillator, among them a security worker named Trevor Tyrna, who had never used one in a real emergency. He stepped forward anyway. Roughly one in ten people survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which is why the minutes before an ambulance matter so much. "I can't believe I am still alive," Koppa said of the people she had never met. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
He's spent 37 years welding a boat for AlaskaHe started in 1987. He never stopped.
An 86-year-old man named Dale has spent nearly four decades welding a 62-foot steel boat in his front yard in Mineral Wells, Texas. He started in 1987 with one plan: finish the vessel and sail it to Alaska. It has four staterooms and is roughly 75% complete. At his age, he can no longer build alone, and a steep hill sits between the boat and the road, meaning heavy machinery will be needed to move it. The story spread after three English visitors, including content creator Laurence Benson, stopped by unannounced and heard him talk. Dale climbed a ladder to show them the deck, something he had not done in years. "The second he started talking about the boat, you could see it. He's as passionate now as he was 40 years ago," Benson wrote. He launched a GoFundMe, which raised more than $41,000 from over 1,500 donors within days. The goal is to see her on the water. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Google News Human Interest
Five teens braved 70 mph winds to carry a climber homeThey thought they'd spend another night on the mountain. Then the sky cleared.
Five Marin County teenagers helped carry an injured climber down Mount Shasta on Tuesday, battling 70 mph winds and falling rocks as part of a 30-person ground rescue. The 39-year-old from Florida had summited on Sunday, then followed his GPS off course onto Whitney Glacier, broke through a snow bridge at about 12,600 feet, and fell into a crevasse. He had told no one where he was going, and his car was parked on the far side of the mountain. The teens, all trained rope technicians with at least two years on the team, started hiking at 5:45 a.m. carrying a litter and warming gear. Some members were hit by rocks the size of soccer balls. By late afternoon, rescuers were exhausted and a few showed signs of mild hypothermia. Then, around 5:30 p.m., the weather cleared just long enough for a helicopter to land. Cody Davis, 17, was back out that night. A different county needed help.
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KINDNESS • GreaterGood
She found the cat hiding, cold and barely moving. Now she's hers.She went looking for the cat a family. Then she stopped looking.
Diana Pereira found the cat hiding in a washroom, barely able to move, cold and in pain. A vet in Medellin, Colombia, diagnosed pyometra, a serious uterine infection that can turn fatal without surgery. Pereira launched a crowdfunding campaign to cover the operation, and her friends pitched in without hesitation. The plan afterward was straightforward. Find a family willing to take the cat and cover her ongoing care. Pereira started the search, then quietly abandoned it, because she had already fallen for the patient she was supposed to hand off. She took time away from work to nurse the cat through recovery, week by week. The cat now lives with her, playing as though none of it happened. "Now it's so satisfying to watch her move and jump around," Pereira said. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Reader's Digest
Turns out you wake the dog, not the other wayYou blame the dog. The monitors disagree.
Dog owners who blame their pets for a bad night's sleep may have it backwards, according to a study from the University of Toronto Mississauga published in PLOS ONE. Researchers fitted 25 people and their 38 dogs with sleep monitors and tracked who moved first during the night. In 61% of the pairs, the human and dog shifted together at some point. When someone broke the stillness, it was usually the person, in 45% of cases. The dogs stirred first only 18% of the time. Objective measures showed co-sleeping had no real effect on either party's rest, though people with more than one dog reported sleeping worse. The study was small, and the authors say larger work is needed. One finding stood out: dogs sleeping in the same room but not on the bed were more likely to wake their owners. The dogs on the bed, it turns out, were mostly just along for the ride. Read the full story → | |||
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