A baby boy was welcomed into the world at an Ukrainian hospital, but his life wasn’t going to start at the comfort of his home or by his parents’ side. Unfortunately, realizing that he didn’t resemble like any other child, his mom and dad decided to leave him at the hospital. They wanted nothing to do with a baby that experienced health issues right after birth, so they simply gave up on him.
After spending some time with the doctors and nurses who took care of him, baby Dima was eventually taken in by an orphanage for children with disabilities in Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine.
Dima suffered from a condition known as hydrocephalus, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the ventricles (cavities) deep within the brain. This condition is chronic and can be controlled, but at the time being, there is no cure for it.
Luckily, with appropriate early treatment many people with hydrocephalus lead normal lives with few limitations.
When it came to Dima, he didn’t show much progress as time passed by. At the age of four, he was still unable to walk or eat by himself, which worried the staff at the orphanage.
Having in mind the severity of his condition, those who took care of him believed that being alive was an accomplishment all by itself and they didn’t expect much change in Dima’s physical and mental capacities.
Things turned even more hopeless when Ukraine became a not safe place after a conflict with Russia arose back in 2014. Namely, Russia began an annexation of Crimea and many were left fearing for their lives.
Since they lacked food, water, and other necessities, the staff at the orphanage believed that children like Dima would easily die as the result of the war.
However, Dima made it out alive.
As luck would have it, a couple from America, Ernest and Ruth Chaves, who had previously adopted seven children, learned of Dima and wished to provide him with a home in Vermont.
Once with his new parents, Dima showed incredible progress withing just a year. He learned to walk using a walker and started eating all by himself. He’s eager to learn new things and challenges himself every single day.
His name is now Zebadiah and he learned what it feels like to be loved and cared for thanks to his loving adoptive parents.
Today, Dima speaks fluent English and Ukrainian.
We are so happy this sweet boy was given a chance to start his life over.
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Being King of a country like Britain must be one of the most demanding jobs there are, and Charles, the eldest son of late Queen Elizabeth II, has been given the privilege to run the kingdom following the passing of his mother, the longest reigning monarch the country has ever seen.
One would say that having the Queen as a mother made things easy for her children. But for King Charles, that wasn’t always the case.
Ever since he acceded to the throne, King Charles’ popularity started growing. Recent research conducted by the Daily Mail revealed that a whooping 58 percent of Britons believe he would be a great king who would follow into Queen Elizabeth’s footsteps, no matter how hard it is to fill her shoes.
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Besides being a ruler of a powerful kingdom, deep down, King Charles, as well as the rest of the members of the royalty, is just a human being like you and I.
King Charles has been blessed with two sons and five grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Archie, and the youngest of all, Lilibet Diana. That he is a fun and engaging grandpa speaks the fact that most of his grandchildren call him ‘grandpa Wales.’
“It’s a different part of your life. The great thing is to encourage [grandchildren],” Charles told The Telegraph about being a grandfather in 2013.
“Show them things to take their interest. My grandmother did that, she was wonderful. It is very important to create a bond when they are very young.”
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His wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, spoke of the King’s love for his grandchildren.
“He will get down on his knees and crawl about with them for hours — you know, making funny noises and laughing,” she explained.
“We had a picture the other day with Louis pulling on his hair, and he’s not one of those people who says ‘take your hand away’. He loves it.”
Further, the Queen Consort added, “He’s exceptionally good with very small children and babies. He loves to really make them laugh. Getting them out in the garden and showing them things.”
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Royal experts believe that the King’s strong affection towards his grandchildren comes from the fact that his own childhood was ‘heartbreakingly lonely,’ as he spent most of his young years at boarding schools away from home.
“There was never a cozy relationship between Charles and the queen,” Christopher Andersen, author of The King: The Life of King Charles III told US Weekly. “That’s because the [royal] family is not set up to be cozy.”
Apparently, things at school weren’t easy for young Charles.
A new ITV documentary named Charles: Our New King, features John Stonborough, former classmate of the monarch at the boarding school Gordonstoun in Scotland, who claimed Charles was mistreated by some of the other boys.
According to Stonborough, Charles was a target of bullies because they blamed him and his family for some of the strict rules they were forced to follow.
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“One of the mistakes that was made when Charles arrived at Gordonstoun was that we were all told he was just to be treated like everybody else. But he wasn’t everybody else, was he? He was going to be King of England,” Stonborough said in the documentary, as reported by Mirror.
“He had a private detective, we didn’t have private detectives. And when he came, they strengthened all of the rules and it became a stricter school and I think that some people took it out on him.”
The students, who were supposed to be Charles’ friends punched him and teased him occasionally.
“I actually witnessed one straight attack on Prince Charles during a rugby game when he was in the scrum and one guy pulled his ear and another guy punched him – right in the scrum,” he said, adding that Charles didn’t have a lot of friends.
“He found it difficult to make friends, partly because people found it difficult to make friends with him because they got teased if they tried to be his friend.”
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Apparently, the King himself remembers those days of his life entirely differently.
Some forty years ago, Charles spoke of his time at Gordonstoun and said he was lucky to had attended it.
“I am always astonished by the amount of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless use of ancient clichés used to describe it. It was only tough in the sense that it demanded more of you as an individual than most other schools did – mentally or physically,” Charles said.
“I am lucky in that I believe it taught me a great deal about myself and my own abilities and disabilities. It taught me to accept challenges and take the initiative.”
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Those days of hardship are long gone and Charles will be crowned King on June 6, 2023 during an operation with the code name “Operation Golden Orb.”
It is an event eagerly anticipated by millions of people from all over the world.
We are certain King Charles would serve his country and people at the best of his abilities.
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Elephants are very special creatures. During years of extensive research and observation, scientists have discovered that elephants’ mourning pattern is very similar to that of humans.
Speaking to National Geographic, George Wittemyer, a Colorado State University conservation biologist who has studied elephants for a long time, said, “Elephants have respect for their dead, but their interaction with their dead is not something we fully understand.”
He added that these creatures act upon emotion when a member of their herd dies, which is truly fascinating and speaks of their emotional inteligence.
Twitter user Parveen Kaswan shared a video which proved yet again that elephants are able to mourn death. They not only bury the bodies but show respect to the bones later on.
The video shows a number of people and vehicles parked in the middle of the road. The reason why is that a herd of elephants is crossing the street.
What caught the attention of the bystanders was that one of the elephants was carrying something with its trunk. When they took a closer look, they realized that the animal was carrying a dead baby elephant.
The herd then stopped and placed the body of the dead calf on the ground as the rest of the group gathered around it.
“The family just don’t want to leave the baby,” Kaswan wrote in the caption and added that the sight resembled “funeral procession.”
As they continued their journey, another animal took the dead baby with its trunk.
To see the incredible moment go to the video below.
This will move you !! Funeral procession of the weeping elephants carrying dead body of the child elephant. The family just don’t want to leave the baby. pic.twitter.com/KO4s4wCpl0
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) June 7, 2019
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Amy Schumer revealed that her 3-year-old son Gere had been admitted to the ER this week. The little one was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus or RSV.
The actress and comedian, 41, shared her son’s health update on her Instagram account just hours after hosting “Saturday Night Live.”
“This was the hardest week of my life,” she began in the caption. “I missed Thursday rehearsals when my son was rushed to ER and admitted for RSV. Shout out to all the parents going (through) this right now.
“I got to be with him the whole day at the hospital and the beautiful humans at @nbcsnl couldn’t have been more supportive,” she continued.
She then expressed her gratitude to the doctors and nurses who treated her son.
Schumer concluded her post writing, “A shout-out to all the parents who are currently going through this.”
This virus season, RSV seems to be spreading like crazy among the population, affecting children especially.
The disease typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but it’s not unusual for it to cause more serious symptoms.
Schumer further revealed that Gene is now home recovering and feeling better.
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In today’s world, body shaming is something plenty of people face. It seems that the way someone looks on the outside is all that matters. Sadly, it looks like a lot of time needs to pass until we finally stop being superficial and start appreciating people for who they are, not the way they look.
Mahogany Geter, a young woman from Knoxville, Tennessee, was diagnosed with lymphedema, a long-term (chronic) condition that causes swelling in the body’s tissues due to accumulation of protein-rich fluid that’s usually drained through the body’s lymphatic system. Sadly, modern medicine still hasn’t found cure for this condition.
In Mahogany’s case, the fluids are build up in her leg, which makes it extremely big. As a result, this woman gets mocked by strangers who give themselves the right to judge her and call her names.
Recently, the 23-year-old posted a video as a reaction to the hurtful comments she has been getting on the social media.
In the caption, she included some of the mean words she has been told, such as “Why don’t you amputate your leg, ‘it will look better.’”
As she has lived with the condition her entire life, she got used to the fact that there will always be those who would judge her. “It has been so hard to rise above these mean people, but I have no other choice,” Mahogany wrote.
This young woman has been struggling to “feel pretty” her entire life.
“I used to think God had cursed me,” she said. “I felt ugly, like a freak of nature, and cried in private so many times. Then I decided that I was given this condition because I am emotionally strong and I can handle it.”
In order to feel better, Mahogany uses physical therapy and she spends her spare time listening to music, drawing, and creating content on TikTok and YouTube.
“It does get frustrating dealing with flare-ups because I just want to live my life more freely, and it feels like I can’t,” she says.
It is her wish to be able to buy a house for her mother and to raise awareness about the condition she suffers from.
Considered the “Goddess of Pop” by the media, Cher, who is an incredibly versatile woman, has had her fair share in a number of different areas of entertainment. She has adopted a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career and stunned her fans over and over again.
At the age of just 16, she married her first husband, Sonny Bono, with whom she stayed together for six years before calling their marriage quits. Cher welcomed daughter Chasity Bono who transitioned into a man later in life.
Just four days after she officially divorce Sonny, Cher married her second husband, Gregg Allman, with whom she has son Elijah Blue Allman, professionally known as P. Exeter Blue, the lead vocalist, guitarist and lyricist of the industrial metal band Deadsy.
She then went on to date other people and her most recent relationship has caused quite a stir.
Rumors were that the 76 years old singer has been dating music producer Alexander Edwards, who is 40 years her junior.
Cher herself confirmed those rumors to be true.
Last week, she tweeted, “One part of my life is SO AMAZING,” which made her fans curious. Shortly after, she posted a photo of Alexander and added a heart emoji.
She confessed she had already introduced him to her family and added that “love doesn’t know math!”
The couple reportedly met during Paris Fashion Week in October and started dating shortly after.
As her fans are happy she found love, many seem to be overly protective of the singer and see Alexander as a potential trait. In response to those comments, Cher wrote, “As we All Know …I WASN’T BORN YESTERDAY,& What I Know For Sure…There Are No Guarantees. Anytime you make a Choice You Take a Chance. I’ve Always Taken Chances…It’s WHO I Am.”
Cher remains one of the greatest female vocals the world has ever seen, and Alexander is pretty famous and successful in his own right. At just 36, he is the vice president of A&R, the famous record label which boasts a roster of musicians including Rihanna, Nas, Public Enemy and Justin Bieber.
He shares a child with former partner Amber Rose, a model. They split in 2021.
What do you think of Cher’s new love?
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Jenny Marr was 34 when she and her husband decided it was time for a baby. But things didn’t go as planned and they only learned they were expecting a year later.
They would have been more than happy with one baby, but what life had in store for them shook their world for the better.
When the time came for them to hear their little one’s heartbeat for the first time, Dr. Murray revealed something extraordinary.
“Dr. Murray began doing the sonogram, and all of a sudden she got this funny look on her face and turned the screen away from us,” said Jenny. “I immediately started thinking something was wrong with the heartbeat. I told her it was okay and that she could tell me if there was a problem.”
“Oh no, there’s definitely a heartbeat,” the doctor responded. “Actually, there are three babies in there.”
A week later, another sonogram revealed yet another baby. The Marrs were about to become parents of four.
“It sounds horrible to say, but I don’t know if it was necessarily tears of joy. We were completely overwhelmed and frankly, terrified,” Chris Marr, Jenny’s husband, said.
“The fact that we didn’t have any medical intervention, and no history of multiples in either of our families, made the news a total shock,” Jenny added.
They didn’t use any fertility treatments but conceived naturally and the chances for that are extremely slim. What is even rarer is that the babies, Harrison, Hardy, Henry and Hudson, are identical monochorionic quadruplets. So far, there have been only 72 such cases recorded in the world’s medical literature.
We are so happy for this beautiful family of 7, yes, the family’s dog Zeke makes another member.
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Becoming parents is what most couples dream of so when they learn they are expecting, they are overjoyed and looking forward to the new chapter in their lives.
Jocelyn and Ignacio Robertson, a couple from North America, were about to become parents for the first time. Jocelyn fell pregnant shortly after tying the knot.
The pregnancy went well and each ultrasound showed the baby was developing the way it should. But then, just days before she was supposed to give birth, Jocelyn noticed she was bleeding.
As she got concerned for the baby, she called her husband and asked him to get home as soon as possible. He rushed her to the hospital, but there, they received shocking news. The baby’s heartbeat wasn’t present. As they couldn’t believe what they heard, they asked for a second opinion but the outcome was the same. The baby died in the womb in the ninth month of pregnancy.
Jocelyn was then forced to undergo a C-section.
She was devastated and had a hard time accepting the reality.
But then, something extraordinary happened. Something doctors dubbed a miracle.
Once the baby was out, they could hear he was breathing. In a matter of minutes, the little one was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit where his breathing and heartbeats improved even further.
When they first held it in their arms, the proud parents said, “We just became aware of it at that time. It is a miracle that Noah is here, and I will be eternally grateful.”
Just days later, he was able to be taken home by his mom and dad.
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