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Medical Students Understand the Power of  Baby Shark Song Sometimes caring for a patient calls for an impromptu song. God bless these medical students for comforting this scared little guy before surgery! Teaching Financial Literacy, A Wonderful Idea Kindergarten teacher Allera Padgett teaches her students about financial responsibility using weekly pay checks, bills like rent that are due, and bonuses for excellence. Wish this was more common throughout the school system. And The Blind Shall Run Track With the help of a sighted male runner this blind female athlete sets a record in her event and shows viewers just how much the human race is capable of! Not Something You Can Bring to Show & Tell She had a bright idea for show & tell but mom got suspicious and had to investigate. Watch and see what this little girl decided to stow in her backpack for the trip to school. Literal Good Samaritan Helps Man on Side of Road A literal embodiment of a Good Samaritan, this woman noti...

 We all need help from someone. More often than not the people we rely on are specially qualified for the task. It could be due to education, experience, special skills, maturity, credentials & certifications, or just earned trust over a period of time. A combination of these factors come into play with Austen MacMillan and his therapist Jason Piquette as their three year relationship continues to grow strong. The two were in a session together using the family pool as part of that day's therapy exercise when the unthinkable happened. Jason went under water and did not come back up. Suddenly a twelve year old boy who relies heavily on the help of this grown man is faced with a role reversal requiring quick thinking and action for survival to be an option. Jason & Austen sharing their story Austen, though panicking, managed to dive under and pull Jason to the surface and move him over to the sunbathing shallows making sure the man's head stayed above water. He then exite...

 One minute you are sitting at an intersection waiting your turn, on the way to the gym for a morning work out, the next minute you are two lanes over in a pile of rubble with blood everywhere and in shock from what must have been an impact. Loud noises of metal against metal, a transformer on the nearby electric pole blows up and your tongue doesn't seem to work or want to form words after your teeth nearly bit it in half. Imagine all of that happening in a split second. Even as an adult the chaos of it all would be jarring, confusing, and downright scary. Now imagine being a sixteen year old teenager who probably doesn't even know where his insurance card is or what accident protocols to follow. Yancey & Cole recounting their experience That's exactly what happened to Hudson Yancey just a few weeks ago as another motorist smashed into his vehicle. In addition to biting through a large portion of his tongue his teeth also went through part of his lower lip plus he suff...

 There is an expression that says, "a coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." Have you ever felt like that? Most people experience a wide range of coincidences where things just seem to work out in an unexpected but pleasant way. But when it comes to the story of Brenda Rivera and Isiah Stern the coincidence was not a small one and it actually started with a Bible verse. You see Rivera was trying to send a friend an encouraging scripture via text quoting from Philippians 2:  do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourself. Wrong number leads to marriage & kids After hitting 'send' the message actually went to Stern as Rivera typed her friends number but was one digit off. Seeing the scripture on his phone from an unknown number he couldn't help but reply so Isiah said, "Amen to that. Who is this?" Soon the mistake led to conversations. Conversations led to a growing trust. Trust...

 There are few places worse for something to go wrong than in the ocean. Even fewer places where you would want to be alone, facing challenges like fatigue, thirst, starvation, drowning, or even being on the menu for a whole host of man-eating predators. But that is exactly where Dylan Gartenmayer wound up during a free dive adventure on one of his favorite reefs. As he dove down and honed in on his next target for the spear-fishing harpoon, a rogue wave and its associated current pinned him to the ocean bottom and moved him along the sea floor at a rapid rate. Dylan out spear-fishing By the time Dylan surfaced for a much needed breath, the boat that was hosting the adventure was almost out of view and definitely out of earshot. His cries and screams for help were left in the wind and no one was able to see where the man had been swept. Though proper procedures were followed with the Coast Guard alerted, when news of Gartenmayer's predicament reached his family, they were not willi...

Perez on The Price Is Right  Who wouldn't want to be part of the studio audience for the Price is Right? Even if your name isn't called, the iconic gameshow formerly hosted by legend Bob Barker is an epic opportunity. But what if your name is called? And what if, as a member of contestants row, you also win your bid and get to go onstage to meet the new host, Drew Carey continuing to play for more prizes? This was exactly the good fortune experienced by Danielle Perez, an aspiring comedian who had been disabled after a tragic trolley car accident in San Francisco. The incident left Perez falling under the car with her feet being run-over and sadly amputated. So imagine being in a wheelchair on a gameshow and not only playing for but winning a treadmill. In our sometimes overly sensitive, politically correct world, some might cringe at best or engage in some kind of cancel culture of the show at worst. Neither of those scenarios occurred nor anything in-between as Danielle hers...

A normal traffic accident is scary enough. But add high speeds, a bridge over water, and an ejected baby into the mix and you have a scene straight out of a horror movie. A multi-car collision occurred on the Ocean City, Maryland bridge leaving a pickup truck (pictured below) turned on its side hanging over the edge. The velocity of the impact caused an 18 month old little girl to eject from the vehicle and into the water. Jonathan Bowers, a fellow motorist on the bridge, witnessed the jaw dropping event and quickly went to the railing to look into the bay below. Upon doing so he recalled, "when I looked over, I saw the car seat, some other items, and about six feet away was a little girl. She was on her back, completely floating, head above water, arms moving and legs kicking."  Realizing her ability to stay afloat would not last long Jonathan jumped over the railing plunging two stories down into the bay waters, swimming after the child. Upon retrieving the young one, Mr. B...