When we got to the hospital I went inside to register on the computerized screen. “Date of Birth?” the computer asked. It happened to be
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8-Year-Old Girl Saved Her Pocket Money for a Year Just so She Could Buy Christmas Presents for Sick Children
An eight-year-old girl saved up a year’s worth of pocket money so she could buy Christmas presents for sick children. She even remembered to buy
On the Road: A Tough Teacher’s Alter Ego
As part of the continuing series “On the Road,” Steve Hartman meets the students of St. Francis High School near Los Angeles These students thought
A Letter To Tina In The Hospital Canteen
Evening approached swiftly on the shortest day of the year. The hospital restaurant was nearing closing time as I heaved open the door and shoved
When the Gentle Whispers & Loving Hugs of a Stranger Meant so Much
Eleven years ago, when I was a freshman in college, my boyfriend at the time fainted and busted his head pretty bad on the concrete
These Construction Workers Gave A Sick Little Girl The Gift Of Friendship
Construction workers get a reputation for being pretty tough dudes. They work in all sorts of weather, slam hammers into things, and lift heavy stuff
NEVER Underestimate What a Little Kindness Can do.
Big ripples are made from even the smallest pebble… Such a simple gesture from a stranger gave Farah those final moments, with her father, to
The Gift of Life – by Felicity Rooney
Every day my husband parked his car in the same open-air car park in Zimbabwe. On this particular day, he had been running to his
A Stranger’s Small Act of Kindness Helped One Woman to say Goodbye
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One Nurse Re-Imagines The Precious Neonatal Babies She Cares For
Nurse Jessica Wright spends her days caring for peaceful looking patients, but she knows the babies in her neonatal intensive care unit are quietly fighting
A Short Story of Innate Human Kindness
A Short Story of Innate Human Kindness by Dom Two seriously ill gentlemen occupied the same hospital room. The first man’s treatment required him to
A Dying Man’s Wish Was To Be Reunited With His Beloved Dog One Last Time.
As we get older and our kids move away, it becomes more likely that the ones we see and love on a daily basis aren’t
The Kindness of Strangers was a Welcome Comfort [Letter]
The Kindness of Strangers was a Welcome Comfort [Letter] by Patricia K. Severinsen On Aug. 27, I was taking my husband to his cardiologist to
A Dying Policeman has a Final Visit from his Beloved Horse.
LOTL Rescue wrote: “Hospital allows a dying policeman to have a final visit from his beloved horse.”
Paralysed Saudi Arabian man’s tweet asking for someone to visit him in hospital becomes most retweeted message in Saudi Arabian Twitter history
For Ibrahim, life was bleak. Bedbound and paralyzed as the result of a car accident over half a year ago, he had not had a
Friendship Finds a Way
Redditor ‘grownupboy’ posted the photo below. “Where there is a will there is a way. Calebs buddy Ike missed him very much, I went to
Dylan Benson Welcomes Healthy Preemie After Wife’s Fatal Aneurysm
In a previous post we shared how a Canadian man, Dylan Benson, whose brain dead pregnant wife was being kept on life support until the
Kind Strangers Help to Try and Save Dylan Benson’s Unborn Son
Dylan Benson is fighting to save his unborn son, Iver. A CANADIAN whose brain dead pregnant wife is being kept on life support until the
Bald Really is Beautiful
In June, after feeling ill and tired for weeks, first-grader Zac Gossage was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a fast growing cancer of the white
The True Meaning Of ‘In Sickness And In Health’
The year 2013 was full of highs and lows for Redditor ‘wellyjup’ and her husband. ‘wellyjup’ shared what happened: Full story: we met, and it
Peter Pan Just Keeps On Giving
The creator of Peter Pan, JM Barrie, gave the rights for his original book to London’s Great Ormond Street children’s hospital, meaning any and all
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