I took my 89-year-old great-grandma to prom and she became the star of the evening

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Monica Pop
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The prom night was around the corner and my excitement didn’t match that of most students who consider it the greatest night of their life. At the time, I wasn’t dating anyone and didn’t feel like asking anyone either.

As I was thinking about it, I saw my great-grandmother Alma sitting in her recliner, watching old black and white movies, and then it hit me.

“Granny, you ever went to prom?” I asked her. She looked at me and smiled. “Honey, back in the day, girls like me didn’t get asked to prom.”

“Would you be my date, then?” I asked her. Her answer? – “Let me see what I can wear.”

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A week later, my great-grandma, who’s been through a lot throughout her life, was wearing the most beautiful dress. I made sure I had a matching tie.

Needless to say, the night was as incredible as I anticipated when I decided to take her to prom with me.

To everyone’s surprise, despite her old age of 89, my great-grandma danced through the night.

Her joyful demeanor was a true delight.

The DJ even dedicated a song to her, Always by Ella Fitzgerald. As we danced, all eyes were on us. My friends were eager to dance with my great-grandma, and at the end of the night, she was crowned a honorary prom queen. She even got a makeshift crown and a sash that read “Prom’s Best Spirit.”

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When the night was over, my great-grandma whispered to my ear, “Honey, I’d never dreamed I’d ever have a night like this in my life.”

The following day, the local newspaper wrote about Alma and her incredible experience. Photos of her with the headline Great-Grandma Alma Takes Prom by Storm were shared online, sparking positivity and plenty of comments praising the elderly lady.

This experience taught me that we should always try to make the most of every moment.

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Carville Predicts Trump’s Collapse, Says the White House Is “Hanging by a Thread”

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Bryan Seal
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I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard James Carville’s bold prediction: Carville says Trump’s White House will collapse in just a matter of weeks. Carville, who’s well-known for his blunt political assessments, believes the president’s flurry of dismissals and executive orders—plus a sinking approval rating—are enough to spark a major meltdown in the administration.

Why Carville’s So Certain

According to this 80-year-old Democratic strategist, Trump’s support has gone from low 50s to upper 30s in no time. Carville argues that key Republican allies might jump ship if the economy falters under recent cost-cutting moves by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). From Carville’s perspective, Democrats can simply step aside and watch, since Carville says Trump’s White House will collapse like a house of cards once moderate Republicans grow uneasy.

Trump’s Fiery Response

The president, unsurprisingly, isn’t taking these remarks lying down. On his Truth Social platform, Trump blasted Carville as a “loser” who can’t wrap his head around the president’s supposed “best polling numbers.” Still, Carville doubled down, telling media outlets that the administration’s in free fall and it won’t take more than a month to hit rock bottom. Is the White House really on the verge of crumbling, or is this just another political standoff? Either way, Carville says Trump’s White House will collapse, and that claim is setting off a storm of speculation across cable news and social media alike.

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My 67-year-old sick mother went missing for three days – when she came back, she pointed at my husband

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Monica Pop
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When my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, I took care of her by inviting her to live with me and my family.

My children loved her unconditionally, and despite her disease, she wasn’t a demanding person.

But then, one day, she went missing.

I was four hours away from home, taking my kids to a summer camp, when my husband, Nate, who was supposed to watch over her, called me and told me my mom vanished.

He got up in the middle of the night and noticed she wasn’t there.

The search lasted for three long and agonizing days.

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The police got involved and even our family members and neighbors were looking for my mother tirelessly.

And then, finally, the police knocked at our door, bringing my mom home.

She was frail and confused, but glad she was home.

“Claire-bear,” she said to me, using my childhood nickname. “I’m here now.”

I felt relived, but that’s not how my husband felt. Nate seemed nervous, and his rection was rather odd.

At that moment, my mom pointed at Nate and said, “You need to arrest him.”

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I froze. My mom seemed lucid, it was obvious it wasn’t the Alzheimer’s talking.

“Why, mom?” I asked her.

And that’s when she told me that she saw Nate in the bedroom with another woman. He tried to convince her that she was imagining things, but she was sure of what she had seen.

Trying to play tricks with her mind, Nate told my mother she no longer lived there, that it was no longer her home, and that she needed to leave.

Nate was the one who let her wander off aware of her health condition.

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I looked at Nate, who was shocked. He started assuring me that my mom was talking nonsense, that she wasn’t in her right mind, but I knew my mom was well aware of her words.

Not only he cheated on me, but he was willing to risk my mom’s life in order to protect himself.

I no longer recognized the man I loved and shared my life with.

It didn’t take long before Alzheimer’s took over my mom again, but at least she could warn me of my husband.

In the days to come, I packed my belongings and left Nate for good.

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Alec Baldwin says he will have Elon Musk removed from the US within the next 24 hours ‘Because he doesn’t deserve to stay’

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Monica Pop
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Oscar nominated actor Alec Baldwin showed his support for Kamala Harris during the elections that saw Donald Trump a winner.

Alec Baldwin endorsed Trump’s opponent publicly.

He spoke to the camera and gave an insight into his political views back in November 2024.

According to Baldwin, who played President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live, and won an Emmy for it, stated that Harris would lead the country better than her political opponent.

“Today is Sunday, two more days is the election – I think nearly all of us know what’s at stake,” he said back in the day. “People say, ‘Oh, the future of the country is at stake,’ and that might be true, but what’s at stake is the next four years.

“In terms of certain problems we have with – yes, the border and yes, what our military is gonna be asked to do and what we’re gonna pay for that – but the environment is the most important thing to me right now, because you can’t undo it”

Alec Baldwin then made some comments about the Tesla and SpaceX owner, who supported Trump’s political campaign with millions of dollars and earned himself the position of the leader of the government efficiency initiative known as DOGE.

“Elon Musk comes up with ideas which are apparently great ideas, people love their Teslas; Elon Musk comes up with ideas but none that I know of are going to solve our environmental problem,” Baldwin said. “Maybe the Musks of the world could turn their attention toward solving those problems on a grand scale, that would be great.”

The actor stated that Harris’ views on environmental issues were better than those of Trump.

Allegedly, Baldwin now threatens to discover Musk’s secrets, saying the tech billionaire doesn’t deserve to stay in the country. However, no reliable media has confirmed this to be true.

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My daughter found a picture in her dad’s suitcase – It made me faint

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Monica Pop
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My husband was finally getting home after the long business trip, and I was looking forward to a nice family dinner. The entire house smelled of homecooked food, the table was all set, and the coziness of our lovely home only added to the beauty of that evening – which soon turned into a nightmare.

“Honey, I’m home,” Jack yelled from the front door. And before I could get downstairs, our 5-year-old daughter was already all over her dad’s suitcase, looking for “tiny” treasures and asking “Dad, what did you get me?”

Jack was too exhausted to be able to play with Emma, who couldn’t stop bouncing around her dad’s suitcase in excitement.

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And then, she came running to me. “Mom, look what I’ve found.”

I was oblivious of the tiny pictures she had in her tiny hand, but when I took a closer look I realized it was an ultrasound. The initials written on the bottom didn’t ring a bell.

When I turned it around, I almost fainted. “Hi Daddy, I’m coming soon. —T ❤️,” were the words written on it.

Never in a million years did I suspect Jack could be having an affair. He has always been so loving, caring, and thoughtful.

My hands were shaking as I was holding the proof Emma found in her dad’s suitcase.

I wanted to confront Jack. But then, I thought it would be for the best if I made him confess everything himself, so I printed a fake picture of an ultrasound with my initials on it.

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The following evening, I gave it to him. “Surprise!” I yelled, pretending to be excited about becoming a mom again.

Jack, on the other hand, was shocked.

“What’s wrong, honey?” I asked. “Aren’t you happy? We are going to have another child.”

Jack couldn’t hold it any longer. He looked at me and said, “You know everything, don’t you?”

Of course I knew, but I pretended I had no idea what he was talking about.

Jack couldn’t keep his secret any longer. As tears started rolling down his face, he said, “I don’t love her. It was a mistake,” confessing another woman was carrying his child.

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And then, he said, “Maybe we can raise the babies together?”

“What BABIES, Jack?” I asked, furious. “I’m not really pregnant. I just knew you’d reveal your secret under so much pressure.”

Jack did everything to make me forgive him. But I couldn’t. All I could think of was that he was with another woman whenever he was saying he was taking business trips.

The ultrasound picture Emma found in her dad’s suitcase shattered my marriage, but it also made me realize the truth about the man I trusted so much.

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My dying neighbor asked me to open a wooden box

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Monica Pop
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My next door neighbor, Rebecca, had been part of my life for as long as I remembered. She wasn’t just someone living next door, but a loving and caring woman who always offered cookies and never forgot anyone’s birthday.

Rebecca never married and never had children – at least that’s what I had been told.

She was part of my family while I was growing up, while out of town to attend college, and even after I moved to my childhood neighborhood after staring my own family.

“Come and taste these cookies,” Rebecca would often say. “I think I perfected the recipe this time.”

Needless to say, I always enjoyed her sweet treats.

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Some two months ago, I noticed Rebecca’s health decline.

She became fragile and whenever I insisted she needed to see a doctor, she’d say she was fine, it was just her age.

When she finally agreed to go to the hospital for a check-up, she was told she had cancer; terminal.

My neighbor was only given weeks to live.

One day, she called me on the phone and urged me to get to her house.

“Maggie… please, come. Urgently.”

I ran to her place and saw her in her bed.

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“Maggie, open the drawer and take out the wooden box,” Rebecca said, “Open it!”

I could feel something unexpected was going to happen. But I did as I was told.

Inside the beautifully craved wooden box was a picture of Rebecca from her young days. She was pregnant. “But she never had children,” I thought to myself. But then, I noticed a tiny hospital bracelet with my name and my birth date written on it.

I froze. “What’s this?” I asked, confused.

Rebecca lifted her head and said, “Please read the letter and you’ll understand.”

The letter in the wooden box was worn at the creases, as if it had been opened and refolded countless times over the years.

In it, Rebecca wrote of her love for me. She wrote that she became pregnant at very early age and couldn’t take care of a baby herself. And then she met my parents, a wonderful couple who couldn’t have children on their own.

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She decided to give me up for adoption, but on one condition, to moved next door and see me grow.

I couldn’t believe what I was reading. When I turned to Rebecca, I saw tears rolling down her face.

It was then that I understood why she was always there and why she took care of me throughout all those years.

Rebecca wrote that she cherished every moment spent with me, even from a distance.

She asked me to forgive her, and I did. She was a kind woman who did what she thought was the best for me, and yet, she remained part of my life.

Unfortunately, Rebecca died the following day.

Her funeral was small, but everyone from the neighborhood attended it.

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There, I stood by the two people who raised me, saying the final goodbye to the woman who gave me life.

Following the funeral, my mom and dad shared stories of how Rebecca would often stop by after I went to bed just to stay by my side and see me sleeping. They told me she loved me unconditionally, and even helped them financially, but they never said anything because she made them promise to keep it a secret.

I wasn’t mad at my birth mom. On the contrary, I was thankful for everything she had done for me, sacrificing her life to watch me grow and be there for every milestone I’ve ever reached, being happy for every success of mine while watching from the distance.

The wooden box she gave me contained more letters that I re-read whenever I think of that incredible woman.

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Alarmed Americans express their worries as Donald Trump targets a popular medication

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Monica Pop
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One of the missions of the “Make America Healthy Again” platform set by the newly appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is addressing childhood chronic diseases.

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order relating to this issue that according to the White House affected 30 million children in 2022 only.

“Autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 in 36 children in the United States — a staggering increase from rates of 1 to 4 out of 10,000 children identified with the condition during the 1980s.  Eighteen percent of late adolescents and young adults have fatty liver disease, close to 30 percent of adolescents are prediabetic, and more than 40 percent of adolescents are overweight or obese,” the White House writes.

They relate some of these issues with the increased prescription of medications.

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As reported by MedPage Today, RFK Jr. will address the causes of childhood chronic diseases based on “unbiased science.” 

He said, “We will convene representatives of all viewpoints to study the causes for the drastic rise in chronic disease.

“Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized — the childhood vaccine schedule; electromagnetic radiation; glyphosate; other pesticides; ultra-processed foods… SSRIs [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors] and other psychiatric drugs; PFAS [per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances]; PFOA [perfluorooctanoic acid]; microplastics — nothing is going to be off-limits.”

In his speech to his employees RFK Jr. said, “Let’s use protocols that we all agree on in advance and not alter the outcomes of studies when they’re halfway through [because] they look inconvenient. Let’s all depoliticize these issues and reestablish a common ground for action, and renew the search for existential truths with no political impediments and no preconceptions.”

The executive order Trump signed says the aim is to “re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease.”

The MAHA Commission, which constitutes of representatives from multiple federal agencies and offices focused on health — including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has a goal to revise the policies on “nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety.”

Further, the Commission is charged with protecting “expert [scientific] recommendations from inappropriate influence” and “increasing transparency regarding existing data.” 

The order calls for the assessment to address the “threats posed” by “over-utilization of medication, certain food ingredients, certain chemicals, and certain other exposures,” as well as examining the prescribing practices for SSRIs, antipsychotics and stimulants.

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As reported by The Seattle Times, “several Washington physicians agree with the premise of monitoring prescribing practices” but they also believe that the order signed by Trump may stand on the way of the doctor-patient relationship.

Dr. Lelach Rave, interim executive director of the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics addressed this issue.

“Any parent who has a child who is struggling with depression or anxiety or psychosis, it’s a scary place to be. And there’s a lot of harm that goes with having untreated illness,” he said, as per The Seattle Times. “Not that you discount the risks of medications because they’re real as well, but there is real risk with disease.”

A 100 days after the order was signed, the new commission is expected to submit an initial report including an assessment of “the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.”

Critics fear that a one-size-fits-all federal policy may lead to delays or denial of treatment for children who truly require it.

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12 signs of low blood sugar people fail to recognize

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Monica Pop
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Managing blood sugar is crucial for people diagnosed with diabetes. However, it’s important to note that both high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) and low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) pose significant risks.

Having type 2 diabetes itself doesn’t directly increase the risk of hypoglycemia, but people who take insulin or other insulin production medications may be more prone to low blood sugar.

What triggers hyperglycemia at these individuals are factors such as skipping meals, consuming fewer carbs that needed, or engaging in increased physical activity.

As per NHS, hypoglycemia happens when the blood sugar (glucose) is below 4mmol/L.

This condition is accompanied by certain symptoms. Below, we’ll discuss some of them.

Starting to Sweat

Sudden sweating that is not related to the weather conditions may be a sign of low blood sugar levels. At people with diabetes, these sweats can appear during the night.

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Feeling Irritable

The University of Michigan states that symptoms of hypoglycemia can mirror certain mental issues such as irritability, anxiety, and worry. This shouldn’t come as a surprise as the brain runs primarily on glucose.

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Feeling Hungry

The feeling of hunger appears when our blood sugar levels drop and the cells lack energy. While sugary drinks and starchy carbs can boost our sugar levels, this effect is short-lived. Instead, we should consume whole grains, healthy fats, high-protein foods, and non-starchy vegetables to stabilize our blood sugar levels.

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Nightmares

One of the signs of nocturnal hypoglycemia, as reported by people diagnosed with diabetes, is having nightmares. It is of crucial importance to consult a doctor about the right prebedtime routine to avoid your sugar levels drop during the night.

Lack of Focus

Struggling to focus or concentrate may be due lack of energy that comes from glucose. This can be triggered by skipping meals in both children and adults.

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Feeling Dizzy

Low blood sugar levels can affect the nervous system, causing dizziness, weakness, and lightheadedness. Also, people suffering from diabetes may also experience headaches if their blood sugar levels drop.

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Feeling Shaky

Sometimes, in case of hypoglycemia, people can feel shaky because the body releases adrenalin to remind you to refuel it. Feeling shaky after a meal may indicate experiencing idiopathic postprandial syndrome (IPS), a condition that sometimes mimics the symptoms of hypoglycemia.

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Affected Vision

When blood sugar levels drop, people, especially those with diabetes, may experience blurred vision, double vision, or “black” spots.

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Slurry Speach

If glucose levels drop below 40 mg/dL, a person can experience slurred speech, muscle twitching, difficulty walking steadily, and emotional changes.

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Disturbed Sleep

Experiencing troubles falling asleep can be a sign of insomnia, but also of hypoglycemia.

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Seizures and Coma

While moderate symptoms of hypoglycemia can be fixed with regular healthy eating, some of the more serious consequences are seizures, fainting, or even brain damage. As with extremely high blood sugar levels, people with diabetes can experience diabetic coma from hypoglycemia.

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Heart Palpitations

Rapid heartbeat, heart palpitations, and fluttering can be a sign of hypoglycemia.

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*Disclaimer: This information is for informational purposes only and not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or healthcare provider with any questions about your health or medications. Do not disregard professional advice based on this information. Please fact-check with your doctor before acting on anything provided.

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