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It has been twenty years since this clock was hanging in its rightful place at Michigan Central Station – but in light of Detroit’s efforts to restore the city to its former glory, the antique recently resurfaced in a heartwarming way.
A well-intentioned thief who has been keeping the clock safe over the years contacted the Henry Ford museum this weekend saying that the timepiece “wanted to go home.”
The anonymous caller told museum staff that they had carefully wrapped up the clock and left it at an abandoned building for pickup. Museum workers immediately called Ford Motor Land Development Corp – the company that bought the dilapidated station for renovation – and put them in contact with the thief.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the thief texted Dave Dubensky, chairman and CEO of Ford Land, saying: “I only have the clock. No other material. I left it leaning against a burned-out building on Lawton … Please send two men and a truck immediately. It has been missing for over 20 years and is ready to go home.”
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When Dubensky thanked them for the tipoff, they simply replied: “Please have them lay it face up in the truck. The paint is very delicate. You can tell the front from the back by looking at the exposed legs.”
True to the thief’s words, two Ford workers went to the described location and found the clock lovingly wrapped up and protected with packing blankets. Once the clock was successfully transported, the thief sent Dubensky another text saying “Thank you so much. I loved that clock and I loved that station.”
Dubensky says that the thief had most likely taken it upon themselves to protect the antique after the train depot closed down in 1988. Since many of the fixtures of the building were stolen following the station’s closure, Ford is grateful for the clock’s return.
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Even though the anonymous donor was most likely afraid of being arrested for the incident, Dubensky hopes that their gesture will inspire others to come forward with relics of the city without judgement or fear of legal action.
Fittingly, Ford is unveiling their plans for the station’s renovation at a party today that will take place at the depot itself. 5,000 people are expected to attend.
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The world’s first pay-what-you-can grocery store just opened up in Toronto and the shelves are stocked entirely with food that was destined for a landfill.
The Feed It Forward store “sells” food and ingredients that are donated by larger grocery supply chains who aren’t allowed to sell the products.
The produce is usually salvaged because it’s misshapen or bruised in some way, despite being perfectly edible. Other products are donated because grocery stores aren’t allowed to sell the goods if they are too close to their expiration date, even though they may still have a shelf life for several months to come. Some food is thrown out simply because there is too much warehouse stock to accommodate it.
Customers at Feed It Forward, however, are free to fill up their baskets and pay whatever they can afford. If they don’t have any money, they are still free to take whatever they want; although families are only allowed to take home one day’s worth of food in order to ensure that the store remains stocked. Patrons who can afford to pay for their food also have the option to pay it forward and cover the cost of someone else’s groceries.
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The innovative grocery store is the brain child of Chef Jagger Gordon, a renowned Canadian advocate for reducing food waste and feeding the hungry.
Gordon first became inspired to begin the nonprofit initiative back in 2014 when was running his own catering company. Stunned by the amount of food ending up in trash cans, he started opening up popup kitchens across Toronto that exclusively gave away nutritious meals made out of salvaged ingredients.
He made headlines in 2016 for serving over 600 hot meals to hungry city residents on Christmas Eve. In May 2017, he opened a soup bar that became the first pay-what-you-can restaurant in Toronto.
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Additionally, the chef is rallying for people to sign a petition that will demand Canadian legislators to change their food laws.
“The concept behind the store is showcasing how Canadians can utilize the food that’s destined for landfills: perfectly edible food that shouldn’t be thrown out and can be filling the empty bellies of our citizens,” Gordon told The Star.
If you want to donate to the nonprofit, sign Gordon’s petition, or volunteer at the grocery store, you can visit the Feed It Forward website.
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It had been a long day for Donald Carson when he was driving home from work on Sunday.
The off-duty correctional officer had just finished a double shift at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in South Brunswick, New Jersey when he saw a “dazed” woman who had just gotten into a car collision on the highway. More importantly, she was sitting in her vehicle enough though a fire had started under its hood.
“I seen other cars just driving by, so I said, ‘I have to make a decision now,’” Correction Officer Donald Carson told WPIX. “So basically, I just made a U-turn and I approached it and I see her, you know, in shock.”
Carson turned his car around and leapt into action. As he approached the car, he found that the 59-year-old woman had rear-ended a tractor-trailer and her wrist was badly broken.
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33-year-old Carson soothed the woman, unbuckled her seatbelt, and scooped her into his arms so he could carry her to a safe distance away from the car. Roughly two minutes later, law enforcement officials arrived on the scene – and the car exploded.
The woman is in the hospital, but she is expected to make a full recovery. The local police department is also praising Carson for his courage and initiative.
“I would describe his actions as heroic,” South Brunswick Police Chief Raymond J. Hayducka Jr. told the news outlet. “Obviously, someone is alive today because of it.”
(WATCH the video below)
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A 15-year-old girl’s ingenious source of renewable energy could bring light and electricity to the poorest, rainiest parts of the world.
Reyhan Jamalova is the founder of Rainergy, a contraption which can generate electricity from rainwater.
According to the ninth grader from Baku, Azerbaijan, rainwater is one of the few renewable energy sources that has not yet been exploited to its full potential. While solar and wind energy is currently dominating the market, both of the industries require extensive manufacturing, investment, upkeep, and maintenance. Rainergy, on the other hand, is a simple design made up of four key parts.
At the top of the instrument is a bucket that collects the rainwater and funnels it into a reservoir. The reservoir is connected to a generator through which the water flows and creates energy. The electricity is then stored in a battery that can be accessed even when it isn’t raining.
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The Rainergy website says that the inexpensive device can generate roughly 3626kWH amount of electricity in a year, which is enough to light up one family-sized home. For the families who are cut off from the main electrical grid in rainier countries like Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, Rainergy could be an invaluable source of light and energy.
Reyhan and her friend spent four months calculating the logistics of the device before building it with the help of their physics tutor. The youngster has already been recognized at the 2017 Model UN Conference in Azerbaijan, as well as the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India. She also made it to the final stages of the ClimateLaunchpad competition in Europe, and she became the first person from Azerbaijan who made it onto Forbes’s 30 Under 30 Asia List.
Reyhan is currently look for investors so she can turn Rainergy into a business that can bring light into the lives of thousands of people around the world.
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This teacher is setting a new bar for what it means to go above and beyond for your students.
Helma Wardenaar was heartbroken to hear that her 10-year-old student, Maggie Vasquez, was unable to go on the class’s 3-day camping trip to Camp Sullivan in Oak Forest.
Since Maggie has cerebral palsy, her walker would be unable to maneuver the rough terrain of the wilderness.
Instead of allowing her student to miss out, however, Wardenaar simply offered to carry the 60-pound student on her back.
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The educator from The Academy for Global Citizenship in Chicago, Illinois had debated the merits of simply renting a pony for Maggie, but since Wardenaar exercises regularly, she decided to buy a special $300 harness that would allow her to shoulder the youngster for the trip.
Wardenaar told PEOPLE: “When I showed it to Maggie her eyes became really big! She was like, ‘Ms. Helma! You found something?’ I showed it to her in the classroom so everybody saw and they were like, ‘Yay! Maggie can do this!’”
In addition to carrying Maggie for the 45-minute hike to the campsite, Wardenaar carried her student for 2 hours every day so they could explore the forest and do nature activities with the class.
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“It was kind of heavy, but I’m strong and didn’t want to give up,” Wardenaar added. “Whenever I had moments when I was tired or huffing and puffing, she would sing songs or say positive words to me.”
While this may be an extraordinary act of kindness for some, Wardenaar says that it is simply part of her dedication to her students.
“We didn’t think twice about doing this for Maggie. It’s ingrained in the culture of our school to help each other and to help make the world a better place.”
If you’re feeling inspired by the teacher’s gesture, her school – which is specifically for special needs children – started a GoFundMe campaign to reimburse her for the harness and to raise money for classroom expenses.
(WATCH the sweet interview below)
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Quote of the Day: “All of man’s problems stem from his inability to sit alone in a room for any length of time.” – Blaise Pascal, philosopher born 395 years ago today
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It was just a routine traffic stop when a state trooper pulled over a guy in New Jersey, but though the violation was minor, they discovered a connection between them that was major! Hear The Good News Guru tell the inspiring story (from the June 15, 2018 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5 radio).
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In a world first, cannabis-based drugs are being compared to fentanyl as an alternative to breakthrough pain.
The clinical trial is being facilitated by Santé Cannabis, an independently credentialed research organization based out of Montreal. The study will compare the effects of cannabinoids produced by Tetra Bio-Pharma, a biopharmaceutical leader in cannabinoid-based drug discovery and development, in comparison to fentanyl, an opioid that is linked to hundreds of accidental overdoses in Canada.
According to a statement from Tetra, there were at least 2,923 apparent opioid-related deaths between January and September 2017. Of these overdoses, 92% were accidental and 72% of them involved fentanyl or fentanyl analogues.
Fentanyl is used as a treatment for “breakthrough pain”: a specific kind of “severe pain that erupts while a patient is already medicated with a long-acting painkiller.” This usually occurs in connection with cancer.
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The National Institute of Drug Abuse have called the opioid’s misuse a “crisis” that needs to be addressed.
“Patients suffering from breakthrough pain require fast relief. Overdosing from fentanyl may occur in patients who exceed the recommended dosage in the hope of obtaining a more rapid relief. The development of a THC-based alternative would help provide a safer option to these patients and help prevent overdosing on fentanyl,” said Dr. Antonio Vigano, an attending physician and professor at McGill University and the Research Director of Santé Cannabis where he is a Principal Investigator in a Phase 3 clinical trial for pain associated with advanced cancer, in addition to a phase 2 trial for chronic pain.
“[The PPP001 drug] has the potential to become the long-awaited alternative to opioids for the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients. Through this trial, we are going to gather more evidence-based data on the safety, efficacy, and ease of administration of inhaled cannabinoids as the complementary therapy of choice for cancer-related pain.” said Dr. Vigano.
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One organization in Mexico City is making their city into a better place one concrete pillar at a time.
Via Verde is a project that is working to convert at least 1,000 grey highway pillars into vertical gardens that can soak up pollution and smog.
The gardens are an innovative way of beautifying urban spaces, and absorbing CO2, heat, and city noise. The greenery has been shown to relieve symptoms of stress and anxiety in city residents, and the structural material used to make the gardens are constructed entirely out of recycled plastic.
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The project is also sustainable in more ways than one. The self-sufficient irrigation system of the gardens ensures that the plants are efficiently maintained by collecting rainwater, instead of clean drinking water. The plant species are also specially chosen for their urban benefits, such as having low water consumption and high resistance.
Once the project is completed, the gardens will contain roughly 2.2 million plants for Mexico City’s growth.
Additionally, the gardens are being utilized as a source of social rehabilitation and job experience for local inmates. Men and women from The Santa Marta Acatitla Women’s Social Reintegration Center and the Oriente Men’s Preventive Detention Center are responsible for weaving the hydroponic textile substrate, which provides them with valuable training and employment opportunities.
(WATCH the video below)
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When Sarah Haycox found a small commemorative plaque dedicated to Edwin T. Pratt, she was curious as to why he lived such a short life. Now upon learning about his life and achievements, there is not a single person in her city who will be ignorant to his identity.
In 2016, 10-year-old Sarah, who lives in Shoreline, Washington, had just finished up a soccer game at a local park when she noticed a small memorial dedicated to Pratt. Even though she had never heard of him, she was particularly struck by how the marker indicated that he had died at the age of 39.
The youngster did some researching and found that Pratt had been a civil rights activist and the executive director of the Seattle Urban League. During his life, he advocated for desegregation and fair job and housing opportunities. He was even the first black person to move into Shoreline.
Until he was assassinated on the front porch of his house in 1969.
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Inspired by his career, Sarah wondered how she could properly honor Pratt beyond a little plaque. She then noticed that an early learning center was being built across the street from her school. More importantly, it did not yet have a name.
Sarah launched a 15-month campaign to have the facility named after Pratt. She gave presentations in classrooms and churches; she served on committees; she spoke with school board members and officials; and she even went door-to-door so she could collect over 2,000 online and in-person signatures for a petition.
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Finally, the school board unanimously voted last month to name the new school The Edwin T. Pratt Early Learning Center.
Though the accomplishment was a dream come true for Sarah, she is still working tirelessly in Pratt’s honor. She has started a GoFundMe campaign to pay for the Pratt family’s travel expenses so they can attend the center’s opening ceremony, and so that she can finance a mural on the building’s exterior.
(WATCH the video below or our international viewers can watch the clip on the CBS News website)
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Fewer and fewer women are dying from childbirth than ever before – but the declining mortality rate is most notable in India.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new report on the country’s “groundbreaking progress” in decreasing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). According to the article, India’s MMR has fallen by roughly 77% over the last two and a half decades. This translates to 130 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016, as compared to the whopping 556 deaths per 100,000 live births from the 90s.
There are a host of factors that have contributed to the exciting decline – but the most fascinating approach to preventing maternal mortality is the outreach work being facilitated by international nonprofit Save The Women.
The organization’s outreach work has had the most notable success in the village of Purabgaon, in the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh. The region used to experience the highest rate of maternity death in the world, largely because village women had poor diets and high rates of anemia. Save the Women started training and deploying teams of 20 village women who would then educate their own communities on reproductive health.
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One such team leader told The Guardian that she has had great success in her outreach by changing the lyrics of romantic folk songs to reflect facts about nutrition, breastfeeding, birth control, and maternal health care.
Since Save The Women has expanded their efforts to over 1,100 villages across India, their collective maternal mortality rate has fallen by a staggering 90%, with infant mortality down by 60% as well.
The village of Purabgaon has not experienced a single maternal death, which is reflected in the sign that they have hanging in the community reading, “We no longer die in childbirth.”
The Indian government has taken several other legislative steps to protect their mothers, too – there is now more coverage of maternal health and pregnancy services than ever before, which has led to three times as many deliveries in public health institutions, rather than home births. Additionally, the state now funds free transportation and on-site delivery resources, which closes the gap between rural and urban pregnancies.
Social factors, such as literacy and female empowerment, have also accounted for how women approach their pregnancies and health choices.
Collectively, WHO says that these preventable measures have brought the MMR “below the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target and puts the country on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of an MMR below 70 by 2030.”
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A Yorkshire terrier is being hailed as a little hero for his part in rescuing a 3-year-old girl who went missing from her home on Thursday night.
When Remy Elliott first disappeared from her home earlier this week, her mother Timber tried walking around their Qulin, Missouri property, calling the youngster’s name, but to no avail.
The concerned mother-of-three then called family and friends to help look for Remy. When members of the community caught wind of the situation, however, the search party eventually grew to include 100 volunteers and law enforcement officers.
Due to the density of the corn, the search was called a “stressful and emotional” time. Even with helicopters flying over head, the crew spent hours searching the cornfield until their flashlights started to die and they decided to call it a night.
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“The corn feels like razor blades cutting you, especially for a child,” one volunteer rescuer told KFVS. “And you don’t hear well in the corn either, so when somebody is yelling your name you can hear them but you don’t know where it is coming from.”
The next morning, the crew renewed their efforts at 6AM. Two hours later, their search dogs were barking in the midst of the cornfield when they heard a tiny canine voice bark in response.
The rescuers finally found Remy roughly half a mile from the house curled up on a patch of broken corn stalks. More importantly, her dog, Fat Heath, had been there to keep an eye on her. If he had not been there to call the rescue dogs towards their location, the search may have taken a lot longer.
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“They said that she was asleep when he picked her up,” Timber told the news station. “She was definitely exhausted, hot, really sweaty and it took a while to drink anything. She said she wasn’t scared because Fat Heath was there. If he wasn’t I think she would’ve been terrified.”
Apart from some mosquito bites, the child is unharmed – and it’s probably pretty safe to say that Fat Heath will be getting a steak for being such a good boy and watching over his companion through the long night.
This is what #Community looks like. Law enforcement, 1st Responders and community volunteers coming together to find a missing child. Her dog stayed by her side all night. #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/aIDMtG6JTW
— MSHP Troop E (@MSHPTrooperE) June 15, 2018
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Quote of the Day: “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In a heartwarming update, I received photos from the funeral that Good News Network fans largely funded for a homeless veteran. The man’s daughter was so touched by your generosity that she praised GNN in both the memorial program and booklet—and in the obituary published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
– By Geri Weis-Corbley, Founder and Editor-in-Chief
In the fall of 2016, we posted a story about Steve Knoke, who was living on the prosperous streets of Santa Barbara and, in his words, was “doing fine.” I struck up a conversation with him, so he sat next to me on a park bench. A young woman walked up to him and gave him her pizza restaurant leftovers, and I watched as he happily shared his good fortune with three other homeless folks who saw he had food and asked for a hand-out.
Steve Knoke was a military veteran and an artist—I bought one of his pictures that day—but, most importantly, he was kind and sober about life.
Only a few months had passed when I got an email out of the blue from the man’s daughter, April. First, she thanked me for publishing the article (which she discovered after googling her dad’s name). It had illuminated for her family the years of his life that they had no knowledge of, or connection to whatsoever.
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“Without your article,” Ms. Knoke wrote, “we wouldn’t have had this glimpse of who he was for the last 17 years.”
And then she told me Steve had suddenly died, soon after moving back to Minnesota and reuniting with his brother and daughters.
April mentioned they had no money for a funeral and had set up a Go Fund Me campaign. I jumped at the chance to let GNN readers, by way of donating, express their appreciation for the way this 63-year-old man lived his life.
We also posted photos of Steve as a young man and, as a result, with a couple thousand dollars flowing in from people they’d never met, April said they were able to arrange a “quaint funeral.”
“I read the story on GNN, and saw the amazing pictures,” wrote Thomas Casserly, who donated money. “Condolences on Steven’s passing and I hope this helps you honour him in the way you desire.”
“Love his art drawing and poem in the GNN article,” added Melvin Canas, another donor. “Always sad to see a fellow human with great heart and talent move on from this life. But his soul is now resting and he has left inspiration for the rest of us still here.”
“I just have to thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for everything you and the Good News Network Community did,” she wrote in an email this month.
“I can’t thank you enough. You are truly a miracle.”
This young pitcher may have won the big game for his high school’s baseball team, but his true character shined forth after he threw the final pitch.
Mounds View High School was winning 4-0 against the Totino-Grace team in the final game of the season. Whichever team ended up on top would move on to the Minnesota state championships.
Senior pitcher Ty Koehn was on the mound with just one more batter to beat before they would win the game. When Koehn successfully struck out the batter, his teammates rushed onto the field in celebration—but the hurler did just the opposite.
He ran towards the plate so he could comfort the batter.
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He had been friends with Jack Kocon since they played in Little League together. Even though they ended up going to different schools, they stayed friends over the years.
When Koehn’s pitching ended the season for Jack last week, he said that he “instinctually” ran towards his dejected friend and wrapped him up in a hug, offering encouragement.
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As Koehn recalled the incident to WCCO, he remembers telling Jack: “You had a great season, you’re a great player and don’t let this situation, don’t let this outcome affect our friendship… I told him I loved him and he’s my brother and our friendship will always last longer than this silly game.”
The encouragement did not fall on deaf ears, either.
“In 20 years I’m not gonna remember the score of that game. But I’m gonna remember him coming up to me after that and just kind of being there for me when I needed someone,” Kocon told the news outlet.
(WATCH the heartwarming video below)
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It was just a routine traffic stop when a state trooper pulled over Matthew Bailly on a New Jersey highway earlier this month. The violation was minor, but as they talked for a few minutes they discovered a connection between them that was major.
Probably hoping for mercy, Bailly quickly brought up the fact that he was a retired police officer from Piscataway. Officer Patterson replied that he, too, was from the same town, some 40 miles away.
Making more small talk, the driver asked the young trooper where he grew up. After hearing the name of the street—Poe Place—he said he knew that exact road because 27 years ago, a woman had suddenly gone into labor there.
Bailly, who was just a rookie cop four years into his career, arrived on the scene and, while receiving directions from a doctor over the phone, actually delivered a baby.
The memory was so meaningful to him, he could recall everything about the incident—from the color of the house to the name of the baby: Michael.
Through the window of the car, the trooper then shook Bailly’s hand and said: “My name is Michael Patterson, sir. Thank you for delivering me.”
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The New Jersey State Police Department posted photos of the two men to Facebook, saying “We’re not sure what the odds are of this happening—maybe they’re close to the odds of a hole-in-one, winning the lottery, or being struck by lightning—but it happened.”
It was October 1991, when Patterson’s mother was out shopping and suddenly went into labor—and barely made it home. Now that the family was reconnected with the cop who delivered their boy, they invited him over for a reunion that was long overdue—and both families were ecstatic about the meeting.
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The police department added, “After all, as a police officer, you don’t always get a chance to have a moment like this with people you once helped in your career!”
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Not many people are fond of needles, but for some patients, there is no technique or distraction that can ease their anxiety for those dreaded shots.
But one Australian hospital has published a study on a new procedure that has shown great success for helping needle-phobic patients.
Between the years of 2012 and 2016, the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne experimented with delivering nitrous oxide to patients with anxiety and developmental disorders, who were looking for a way to calm down.
The treatment was only used as a last resort for when distraction techniques and play therapy failed. The suggested nitrous approach had a success rate of 95% – and the 5% of patients who did not endure the shots were those who simply rejected the nitrous treatment. The median age of the patients who elected the nitrous procedure was 13 years old, and 59% of them had been officially diagnosed with a phobia of needles.
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Sonja Elia, who is a co-author of the study and a nurse practitioner in the hospital’s immunization department, says that she hopes that nitrous can be more widely implemented for patients who cannot be calmed – although, she emphasized that the treatment should only be used when all other techniques have failed.
“Working through needle phobia requires flexibility and the implementation of a range of techniques, escalating up to sedation,” she told Pharmacy News. “Once these techniques prove unsuccessful, we would then consider nitrous and oral sedation, depending on the level of anxiety.”
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Quote of the Day: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
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A well-prepared meal can do wonders for your mood—and when it is delivered only for you by a stranger, it arrives like an angel of mercy.
That’s why, when a restaurant worker went above and beyond the call of duty to deliver a special meal to Rick Rhoads’s sick father, the grateful son felt compelled to thank the employee in person.
Rick, who lives in Michigan, was distraught after learning that his 86-year-old father in Pickering, Ontario, was in need of heartier food.
Dale, who has been battling pancreatic cancer while temporarily living at an assisted living home, told his son that he really missed eating some of his favorite foods – primarily cheeseburgers and fries. But since he was unable to leave the facility, Dale could only reminisce about the delicious dinners of his earlier days.
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Hoping that a special meal would cheer up his father, Rick called every burger restaurant in Pickering to ask if they could deliver for a local senior. A dozen establishments told Rick that they could not.
Finally, Carmen Kolandjian, the owner of Kips Flamin’ Burgers, picked up the phone and heard the desperate plea.
At first she hesitated to take the time during her own day to make any food delivery. Then, Rick explained his dilemma.
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“After I explained the circumstances of my father’s failing health, and concerns of his recent eating habits, she took it upon herself to extend her compassion and heart to help the son of a man whom she never met before. She finished her shift at work and drove the food to the local assisted living home, asking for nothing in return,” Rhoads told The Star.
True to her word, Kolandjian hand-delivered a burger, french fries, and a side of gravy with a note reading: “Hi Dale, this is from your amazing son, Rick. Enjoy your meal.”
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“It just tugged at my heart strings when he told me about his dad,” said Kolandjian. “I always try to do a good deed. I have a soft spot for the elderly.”
Her kindness did not go ignored by Rick. The man traveled from Michigan to Pickering so he could visit his father and stop by the burger joint to personally thank Kolandjian for the gesture – because as he told The Star, “people like that need to be recognized.”
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