When my son was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, my world wasn’t destroyed, but it did shrink. Instead of focusing on my family, friends, and the world around me, he suddenly became the center of my universe, and anything…
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Having surgery didn’t scare me. It terrified me. I’d never been put under with anesthesia before, and that, combined with my love of horror stories, didn’t help. I envisioned waking up during the procedure, just like the unfortunate characters in…
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Brandi Hicks said she learned selflessness and the spirit of giving from her adoptive parents starting from when she was 6 months old and they took her in. Thirty years later, she’s giving back by donating her kidney to the…
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Kathy Beitz has been legally blind since she was a child, and she desperately wanted to be able to see her son on the day he was born. So the eSight Corporation — a company that produces special glasses that…
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Georgie Craig, of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in England, was diagnosed with global development delay when he was 1 year old, according to his fundraising page. The disability affects his movement and ability to communicate, leaving Georgie, now 3, unable to…
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Highlighting a few of the remarkable people around the country who put their own lives on pause to tend to friends and family who have fallen ill. This installment features those who care for parents.