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Monday, Oct 26 · Five good things · Three minutes
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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
A wrong turn put a stranger at their door in timeA wrong turn. A house on fire. He could have kept driving.
A GPS error sent a driver named Casey down Highway 114 near Lyerly, Georgia on Saturday night, a road he had never traveled. At the top of a hill, he saw flames coming from a house where James and Larita Burke slept with their 11 children and one grandchild. He stopped. James woke in his recliner to a stranger standing in his living room. "The next thing I know, some guy was telling me in my living room, 'Hey, you've got to get out of here. Your house is on fire,'" James recalled. Casey went into the burning home and helped carry the children out, then flagged down firefighters. Everyone survived, though the house and most of what was in it did not. "If it had been another five minutes, it would've been a different situation. We wouldn't have made it," Larita said. By morning, the phone would not stop. Neighbors called to ask what the family needed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Read the full story → | |||
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MEDICINE • Nice News
A new incubator let them hold their twins at lastThe machines kept the twins alive. Now the parents can hold them too.
A couple at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston recently became the first in the U.S. to use a wearable incubator that lets parents hold their preterm babies without interrupting the machines keeping them alive. Tiffany Ikwuagwu and Dorian Ojemen had their twins at just 26 weeks in August. For about 10 days, they could not hold them at all. The Skincubator, built for infants under 4.4 pounds and granted FDA Breakthrough Device designation last December, keeps feeding and airway tubes secured while a retractable pad lowers the baby onto a parent's chest. Ikwuagwu, an obstetrician herself, called it a great invention. Ojemen told CNN that holding them changed something. "You can feel them breathe, like, that immediately makes you feel like, wow, I'm a parent." Skin-to-skin contact stabilizes a newborn's heart rate and breathing. It also, as one researcher put it, turns on the part of the nervous system that handles feeling calm. Read the full story → | |||
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KINDNESS • Upworthy
She almost complained upstairs. Now Carole calls her granddaughter.She climbed the stairs to complain. She stayed to help.
Heidi Widmer spent her first weeks in a Culver City apartment convinced the person upstairs was bowling at midnight. The heavy thuds went on for weeks, and the 35-year-old teacher, newly arrived from Buffalo after a divorce, was ready to march up and complain. Then she met her neighbor in the hallway. Carole, 86, British, and living with Parkinson's disease, was carrying recyclables and shaking so badly she dropped them outside Widmer's door. The noise had been her walker. Carole had lived alone for years, too proud to ask for help. Widmer began taking out the trash twice a week and cooking for her once a week, got the landlord to replace the fridge and stove, and set up a GoFundMe that has raised more than $93,000. Carole spoke to ABC7 by phone. "Heidi has come into my life, and I am deeply grateful," she said. They have settled on terms. Carole calls Widmer her granddaughter. Read the full story → | |||
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DELIGHT • Woman's World
The Book Lady gives trick-or-treaters something that lastsThe neighborhood gives out candy. She gives out the next book in the series.
Judy Newman hands out books instead of candy on Halloween, and has done so from her Montclair, New Jersey front yard for 30 years. A former Scholastic executive, she started what she calls Trick-or-Read in the 1990s after running her kids' school book fair and noticing how many children owned no books at all. The first year drew hundreds of trick-or-treaters, who picked from piles sorted by age and topic. Now thousands come, some traveling from nearby counties, and many sit down in the yard to start reading before they leave. Kids return yearly to report back. Some loved last year's pick and want the next in the series. Some admit they didn't like it, and Judy helps them find another. One boy who first came at age eight returned years later, pushing his own baby in a stroller. Judy, now founder of the United States of Readers, still becomes the Book Lady every October 31st. Read the full story → | |||
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SCIENCE • Google News Human Interest
Drones now fly blood to trauma scenes in three minutesThe golden hour used to start at the hospital. Now it starts sooner.
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue and Tampa General Hospital launched the nation's first EMS-driven drone program to fly whole blood directly to the scene of a trauma, with live operations beginning in October. Two drone systems will cover roughly 70 square miles and deliver blood in under three minutes on average, letting first responders start transfusions before a patient reaches a hospital. When a 911 call involves severe blood loss, crews can request a drone the moment they are dispatched. "The golden hour of trauma care has always started at the hospital door, until now," said Michele Moran, senior vice president for emergency services at Tampa General. The program runs out of Station 9 near Sabal Park and Station 37 in Riverview, the areas with the highest volume of hemorrhagic injuries. A drone took flight at a recent demonstration. It carried blood, not packages, which is a newer thing for a drone to be good at. Read the full story → | |||
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