Karla Taylor-Bauman, 50, spent over 50 days in the hospital, including 21 days on a ventilator in an induced coma. Despite her doctor’s grim assessment of her condition as having been “as close to brain dead as you get without being brain dead”, she miraculously survived. Her recovery is nothing short of a miracle ever since the Lake Villa woman suddenly opened her eyes and whispered “What’s going on? Where am I?” Bauman had remembered seeing strange creatures from outer space dressed in blue space suits and visors floating around her hospital room. These “strange creatures” that Bauman recalled were…
Author: Robert Amoroso
Astute Newmarket mail carrier Kayla Berridge had noticed during her shift on January 27th that the mailbox of one of her elderly recipients had been piling up for the last 4 days. “I hadn’t seen her in a while and I noticed her mail wasn’t getting picked up, so I got a little concerned,” Berridge told CNN Friday. The woman, who is in her 80’s, would sometimes chat with her Berridge said. Berridge noted that it was out of character for the old woman not to take in her mail. Her gut feeling told her something wasn’t right and that…
Medicine has indeed come a long way since December 3rd, 1967, when 53-year-old Louis Washkansky, dying from chronic heart disease, made history as the first human to successfully receive a heart transplant from another human donor. Fast forward to the present, and once again history has been made. This time, with a genetically altered pig’s heart transplanted into a human being. “It’s working and it looks normal. We are thrilled, but we don’t know what tomorrow will bring us. This has never been done before,” said Dr. Bartley Griffith, the director of the cardiac transplant program at the University of…
Every morning around 4:00 am in the city of Taichung, Taiwan, a frail old man awakes, flips on his light, and slowly shuffles out of his two room bungalow with a handful of colorful paints, ready to begin his day decorating the gray dingy cement walls around him. He slowly crouches down on the wooden stool before him, as he’s done for the past 15 years, and slowly begins painting his colorful murals, turning the drab cement walls into a kaleidoscope of color, where vibrant reds, mingle with robust purples and cool blues. Huang Yung-fu is alone and in his…
There’s an old proverbial phrase, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. However, for digital advertising executive Brian Schwartz, getting laid off at the height of the coronavirus pandemic was the last thing the 39-year old New Jersey resident expected. Dejected and depressed, Brian wondered how he was going to pay the bills and make a living in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that had already claimed countless lives, along with millions of American jobs. Similar that old proverbial phrase, Brian began reflecting back to a bygone era and to his late grandfather, wondering how he would have handled…
Returning captive animals back into the wild, according to experts, is nearly impossible. However, for two 12-year old beluga whales that have spent most of their adult lives entertaining humans in an aquarium in Shanghai, China, they’ve found the next best thing to freedom, an open water sanctuary in Iceland. Little Grey and Little White, the names given to the two female whales were captured in Russian Arctic waters when they were about two or three years old, will enjoy open water for the first time since 2011. Andy Bool, head of the charity Sea Life Trust, said; “We’re delighted…
If you’ve been listening to the elite political talking heads of late, then you’re already aware that climate change is the “Holy Grail” of the far left political establishment, attempting to shore-up conflicting scientific data with their own skewed orthodoxy concerning the environment. Regardless of what is taking place millions of miles above the earth’s atmosphere, there’s little doubt that our planet is being directly impacted negatively right here at home due to the growing crisis of plastic waste pollution. According to recent studies, plastic waste pollution is known to release harmful toxins back into the environment once the plastic…
There’s no doubt we have all heard the story of the patent lying in a hospital bed in a vegetated state, about to be taken off life support, when suddenly they wake up and make a full recovery. Perhaps, an individual in a coma at a long-term care facility for decades suddenly awakening. Maybe a person pronounced dead by a physician coming back to life hours later. However, it would be hard to forget someone pronounced dead by three physicians at three different times, who was sent to the mortuary and was hours away from being cut open, suddenly waking…
Perhaps, no two groups have suffered more since the “China virus” was first unleashed almost two years ago than seniors and children, the two most vulnerable groups within most societies. The pandemic initially decimated the elderly population around the world, including hundreds of thousands of seniors in America, dying in hospitals, at home, and within nursing facilities across the country. That is, until health professionals were able to create a series of vaccines to combat the deadly virus within record time. Ironically, while children as a group were somehow immune from the virus, they suffered disproportionately more than any other…
We often hear in the news how a first responder on the scene helped deliver a baby before the mom was able to get to the hospital. In most instances, several people are usually present during the emergency birth and offering their support. Now, imagine for a moment being alone and stranded by the side of a road, going into labor with no one around, and forced to give birth on your own. No doubt a scary scenario. That terrifying moment is exactly what happened to Charlotte Fatoma. She ended up giving birth by the side of Interstate 476 in…
A cryptic cell phone message from a Seattle Kraken fan is credited with possibly saving the life of the Canucks assistant equipment manager, Brian “Red” Hamilton, during a NHL game on October 23rd, 2021. The fan, Nadia Popovici, typed the message on her smartphone in a large font and pressed it against the plexiglass, warning Hamilton that the mole on the back of his neck was cancerous and that he needed to get it checked out…ASAP. “I saw his and I was like, wow, that is a picture perfect example of what a melanoma looks like,” Popovici said. As it…
Hari Roberts is a 19-year-old self-confessed daredevil who enjoys an action-packed life of climbing, horseback riding, swimming, and running. He’s also been blind since birth. That hasn’t stopped the outgoing teen from Anglesey, Wales, from continually surprising strangers who initially didn’t caught on that he’s blind and astounding them with his “can do” attitude. “I have just done a high-roped climbing course with my dad, I’ve been horse riding since I was nine years old, I’ve been skiing and I’ve gone on to do a triathlon to raise money, and I like running, swimming and walking. “I’ve shown from a…
We all know that air travel is one of the safest modes of transportation available today. In fact, a recent study conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that (on average) over 46,000 people die in auto accidents annually, compared to 137 deaths in 2020 due to air travel accidents. Dr. Barnett of MIT compared the chance of dying from an airline accident versus dying from an auto accident, and determined you are 19 times safer in a plane than in a car. It’s no doubt for those of us who perhaps need that extra adult beverage before we…
All throughout high school, Collette Divitto had a dream of someday opening her own cookie company. “So actually, I always loved baking, since I was 4 years old. From high school, I had been taking baking classes,” said Divitto, 31. “It was a hard time for me. I had no friends; I didn’t have a social life. I got bullied, I got picked on. And that’s why I had been taking baking classes.” Things didn’t improve much, even after Collette graduated from Clemson University in South Carolina. She never considered that her disability with Down syndrome would prevent her from…
Melody Megginson is, without a doubt, a walking miracle. By all medical reasoning, the 26-year-old mom should be dead or, at the very least, barley alive within a vegetative state. Yet, the young woman from Birmingham, Alabama, is slowly and painstakingly recovering from a tragic and terrifying event, picking up the pieces and attempting to live as normal a life possible with her two kids and a bullet still lodged in her head. Melody’s ordeal began the moment she met her ex-boyfriend, John Nealy III (38). The two quickly became a couple and within less then two months from their…
It appears that Christmas came early last year when Candace Pimentel received a surprise Christmas gift two weeks before the big day from an “angel in a pickup truck”. The young mother of two boys had just left church services in Gardendale, Alabama, and was heading home when her 9-year old son Raylen suddenly began choking while sipping his juice. Pimentel immediately pulled over into the disabled lane and parked her car, while simultaneously attempting to render first aid to her son. Raylen had something lodged in his throat and was gasping for air. Terrified and stricken with fear, Pimentel…
The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence estimates that 10 million individuals within the United States are victims of domestic violence annually, with as many as 1-in-4 women and 1-in-9 men becoming victims of domestic abuse every year. The surge in domestic violence, especially during COVID lockdowns, has increased over 51% according to recent data provided by the National Domestic Violence Hotline. With those staggering numbers on the rise, what are victims of domestic abuse to do? The obvious answer is to immediately leave that dangerous environment before suffering additional physical abuse. However, in many instances, housewives and stay-at-home…
Meet Bronx native Latanya DeVaughn, an enterprising mother of three who believes every neighborhood deserves a quality bookstore. Even if that bookstore happens to be within the most impoverished borough within New York City where the median income is around $30,000. As a young girl, Latanya drew inspiration from her grandmother who instilled in her a thirst for knowledge and a love of reading. “My grandmother was an educator in the South Bronx,” Latanya tells us. “She read to the people in our community who couldn’t read for themselves. She read prescriptions, leases…some people’s lives depended on the information she…
If you’re a history buff, then you no doubt know what the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution that was ratified in 1919 provided for. The landmark amendment granted women the right to vote, and more importantly “equality” with their male counterparts. This continued well into the future with the 1965 Voting Rights Act that once again reaffirmed the 15th Amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of “race” and “gender.” Fast forward to the present, we’re now witnessing South Africa mirror our own checkered history regarding civil rights, thanks to females like Refilwe Ledwaba, South Africa’s first black…
Millions of men and women cope with different types of mental disorders and trauma each and every day of their existence. Many living lives of quiet desperation, hoping that somehow they could make it through another day without the use of mind-altering drugs. Jaylo Miles, a 39-year-old dad from Llandaff North, Wales, is one of those individuals suffering from traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a complex mental condition that renders individuals with suicidal thoughts and severe bouts of anxiety. For years, the Cardiff resident had endured abusive foster homes, several years of homelessness, and drug addiction, all of which left him…