Some people possess the ability to touch our soul so deeply that they leave a mark we are never able to erase or forget.
A nurse at the Life Care Center in Kansas City, Isabelle Jennings, is one of those people. Having been part of a nursing home, this incredible woman has always made sure the residents receive way more than just medical care. Isabelle, just like the rest of the staff, does all in her power to always make the day of the people she takes care of.
Although she treats everyone equally, there was one particular patient, Mary Helen Schmelze, with whom Isabelle bonded over the mutual love for singing. Each and every day, Isabelle would sing to Mary Helen, while listened with admiration.
During the last couple of months, Mary Helen’s health deteriorated as she suffered from congestive heart failure. Being on the verge of death, she could forget of her condition when Isabelle treated her with her songs.
When Isabelle got a call one day about Mary Helen’s health situation, which wasn’t the brightest, she rushed to the center and sang a hymn to her one last time.
Mary Helen’s granddaughter, Julie, witnessed the touching moment and recorded it.
Unfortunately, the elderly woman passed away mere days after the video was shot.
Speaking of her patient, who grew close to her heart over time, Isabelle told Today, “I adored Helen and I counted her as a friend and I knew that would be the last time I saw her.”
After Mary Helen’s passing, Julie asked Isabelle for a permission to post the video of her singing the hymn In The Garden to her grandmother online. Isabelle said yes, because she knew it could help other carers to treat their patients the same way, as though they are family.
To see the touching moment go to the video below.
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Every human being is special in their own right, and being different is what makes us unique. Sadly, not many people see beauty in those who do not fit the standards of what societies consider to be ‘normal.’
People who are born with an extra chromosome are known for radiating joy. Having Down Syndrome doesn’t prevent them from attending school, finding a job, getting married, and do everything other people do. The truth is, however, that not many people are able to understand this and they still see those with this syndrome as someone with a disability.
Scott Gavin, a father of six, has a beautiful daughter with Down Syndrome named Megan. This cutie pie brings immeasurable joy to her parents and siblings each and every day.
On the day of her first birthday, Megan was thrown a spectacular party with plenty of balloons and a cake. Gavin was eager to show his family and friends just how happy his girl was so he shared photos of the joyous occasion on the social media.
As he was looking forward to the best wishes, his heart broke down into a million pieces when he noticed a number of mean comments. There were people who called Megan names and mocked her for having Down Syndrome.
“My shock went straight to anger. Obviously, I wanted to go and find these people,” the father explained. But he then thought carefully about it and realized that he needed to turn his aggression into an opportunity for positivity. “So I’ve turned it into a positive thing and decided from now on I’m going to educate the uneducated.”
Instead of getting angry, he shared even more photos of Megan because he wanted to spread the message that people with Down Syndrome have lives as fulfilling as those of the rest of the people.
Messages of love and support came pouring in. “Beautiful people. I have a child of my own who has [Down Syndrome]. She has been a blessing and an inspiration. My pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” one person wrote. “I am truly sorry that there are people in the world that are so cruel, and [I’m] so glad she has a wonderful father like you,” someone else added.
Gavin is a kind of person who wants to see everyone happy. When he won some money on a TV show, he invested it in creating a zoo with exotic animals. His company, Party Central Entertainments, uses the animals to connect with special needs people, lonely elderly citizens, and those jailed in prison. His girl also loves them and enjoys spending time with the beautiful creatures.
“I will never forget the moment an autistic boy broke his five-year silence when communicating with me about one of the skunks — his mum was so happy,” Gavin said.
This story truly serves as an inspiration that we should always embrace the differences with arms wide open.
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That parents face plenty of hardships on their parenthood journey is a fact. Raising a child is not an easy task, yet many people sign up for the role of a parent.
Moms and dads do their best to teach their kids good behavior and how to act in public. But the harsh reality is that besides all the time and effort they put in the long and tiring talks, children will sometimes still do things their way, especially when they are young and don’t take their parents’ words seriously.
A situation described by a Reddit user had people’s opinions divided, while some stood by her side, others called her inconsiderate after she asked a mother to either calm her child down at a restaurant or simply take him outside until he stops shrieking.
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The user explained how she and her boyfriend visited a nicer than a usual, run-of-the-mill restaurant and were trying to have dinner when the child started crying and shrieking.
“While me and my boyfriend were enjoying our meal, the youngest child began SHRIEKING, for a reason that I can’t fathom,” the woman explained in her Reddit post. “When I say shrieking I’m talking about the ear piercing type that is physically painful.”
Since she expected to have a nice evening, she simply couldn’t listen to the uncontrollable high pitch sound and decided to do something about it.
“I walked over to the family’s table, and asked if someone could take the child outside until it calms down, since people are trying to enjoy their food.”
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The child’s mother wasn’t happy about the woman’s reaction and told her to show more compassion.
“I responded by telling her that I’ve paid to enjoy my meal, and that if she isn’t going to get her child to be quiet, then she needs to do everyone in the restaurant a favor and take the child outside,” the Redditor wrote.
Eventually, the family left but not before giving the woman an evil look.
Later, she told her friends of what had happened and asked them whether she was right to ask from the mother to take her child outside. Her friends had divided opinions. One of them told her that she should have tried being “kinder and more considerate to the family, since being a parent is difficult.”
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Most of the Reddit users, however, supported the woman and wrote that she had all the right to ask from the mother to quiet down her screaming child.
“While being a parent IS difficult, there are still courtesies that need to be followed. Those courtesies include removing a child from a public place if they are not behaving, crying or screaming,” someone commented.
“Parents with shrieking children do not get to keep eating while their children shriek. They take turns eating and take the shrieking child outside until they calm down. It is unspeakably rude to allow your child to make a disturbance in a restaurant and to make no attempt to remove them to a location where they are not disturbing others,” another person added.
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A woman named Tina suffered a heart attack while hiking with her husband od 30 years, Brian. Her situation was severe and Brian was the first one to perform CPR on her when he noticed she wasn’t breathing. Luckily, he managed to bring her back, but from the moment the ambulance arrived until she was finally transported to the hospital, Tina almost died multiple times. Medics needed to resuscitate her a total of six times. That made Tina being “dead” for 27 minutes overall.
Once doctors provided her with the much-needed medical treatment, this mother of four was still on the verge of death and unable to speak. Brian prayed for Tina day and night. He begged God to save her and return her to him. When doctors told him she finally regained her consciousness, he knew his wish was granted.
Tina was still vulnerable. Gathering strength, she gestured for a pen and paper. The doctors and her family knew she had something very important to say. When they handed her the pen, she wrote something chilling on the piece of paper. Those who were present said her words sent chills down their spine.
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Near death experiences can be both a curse and a blessing. Those who have ever experienced such a unique occurence have a lot to say about the world they saw on the other side.
Whether one believes in the existence of life after death and the concepts of heaven and hell or not, what people who have died and then returned witnessed is chilling, to say the least.
The story of a man named Mellen Thomas Benedict is one of the most studied near death experiences in the world. What he went through has been researched thoroughly, and scientist still face mysteries they cannot find the answers to.
It was in 1982 when Mellen Thomas died of terminal brain cancer and survived to tell the unbelievable story of the things he saw in the afterlife. To everyone’s disbelief and surprise, this man was dead for nearly an hour and a half before he woke up again.
In his book Life after Death, Depak Chopra has dubbed Mellen “the encyclopedia of the afterlife.”
Mellen spoke of his afterlife experience and said: “Before my near-death experience, I tried all sorts of alternative healing methods. None helped. So I determined that this was between me and God. I had never really considered God. Neither was I into any kind of spirituality. But my approaching death sent me on a quest for more information about spirituality and alternative healing. I read various religions and philosophies. They gave hope that there was something on the other side.
“I woke up about 4:30 am and I knew that this was it. I was going to die. I called a few friends and said good-bye. I woke up Anne and made her promise that my dead body would remain undisturbed for six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember, I was fully aware and standing up. Yet my body was lying in the bed. I seemed to be surrounded by darkness, yet I could see every room in the house, and the roof, and even under the house.”
Being an atheist his entire life, Mellen recalled asking God about the religions, and which one was the right one.
“I asked God: ‘What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is right?’ And Godhead said, with great love: ‘I don’t care.’ That was incredible grace.”
He then asked about humans and was eager to learn why they are doomed. The answer he received, according to him, was a shocking one.
For more on this remarkable story of life and death and Mellen’s conversations with God and the light go to the video below.
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No matter how much time they want to spend around their children, most parents need to work and provide for their families and that means being away from home for a good part of the day. This is when babysitters step in. Having them in their children’s lives can be a lifesaver.
Of course, it is important that the person the parents trust their child to is a responsible individual who’d take great care of the little one.
A mother named Nicky Maher from Somerset, Massachusetts, decided to secretly film her daughter’s babysitter and now the video is going viral for all the good reasons.
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18-year-old Delaney Wilson, who takes care of Maher’s child while she’s at work, is a talented young lady with an enchanting voice. The thing is that she’s too shy to let the world learn of her vocal abilities as she doesn’t believe she sounds that good.
One day, as Maher entered the place and heard the captivating melody of Disney’s song Part of your World from The Little Mermaid, she just knew she needed to put that beautiful moment on tape.
At the start of the recording, Maher could be heard whispering, “this is our babysitter.” As Maher quietly enters the room, Wilson, who is not aware she’s being filmed, lets her voice loose. Her singing becomes more powerful and more profound and Maher can’t hold back her emotions.
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Speaking to Fox News, Maher explained that she had already been aware of the babysitter’s voice before she filmed her. “I was like, I want her to hear herself when she knows nobody’s watching. I was blown away to tears, cried the first time I heard her sing. So, I said Delaney, you have such an insane gift.” Maher wanted to know why Wilson didn’t sing as often and in front of other people. “That’s when she said to me, ‘I just overthink it and I never feel like I sound good enough and I just don’t always feel confident in the way I look,’” Maher explained. “And it just broke my heart.”
Maher asked Wilson if she had a permission to post the video on TikTok, and Wilson agreed. In no time, it vent viral and gathered the attention of a huge number of people.
“It’s not that she didn’t know she had a talent that so many people have already told her she had,” Maher said. “It’s that she didn’t hear it without knowing she was trying or that someone was watching. So that’s why the video was so beautiful.”
It is so beautiful when you are the reason for someone’s talent to shine.
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A genuinely loving person with a heart of gold, late Robin Williams, the iconic actor and comedian, left this world way too early, but he left incredible legacy behind.
Williams was born in 1951 in Chicago. As a child, few could have guessed that he would embark on a career that would make him one of the greatest actors there are. When he graduated from high school, he was voted by his classmate “Most Likely Not to Succeed,” but also the “Funniest” one.
One thing Williams was always very aware of was that he wanted to pursue a career as an actor, so he dropped from the Claremont Men’s College in California where he studied political science and enrolled at a community college where he studied theater for three years. This helped him get a full scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York and it didn’t take long before everyone there realized that Williams was something special.
Robin Williams performs at the Universal Amphitheater on July 1, 1979. Tony Barnard/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
”I first knew he was more talented than the other kids when he played Fagin in ‘Oliver!’ We were having light board issues and by midnight had only made it through half the musical. At one point he started talking to a baton he was carrying, and the baton talked back. It cut the tension and he had people laughing in hysterics. I remember calling my wife at 2 a.m. and telling her that this young man was going to be something special,” one of the drama professors, James Dunn, told The Marin Independent Journal in 2014.
Despite his immense talent, he didn’t get an acting job after graduating from the prestigious school. It was during the mid 70’s when he returned to San Francisco that he first tried himself as a stand-up comedian, something that fascinated him at the time.
Robin Williams backstage before performance.; circa 1970; New York. Photo by Art Zelin/Getty Images
Williams had his big breakthrough with the sitcom Mork & Mindy, a spin-off of Happy Days, where Williams had a very successful guest role in an episode.
Mork & Mindy was a huge success from the start and it was Williams’ incredible acting and his ability to change his voice and attitude smoothly that played a huge part in that.
Williams was reported to had earned $6,000-a-week at the beginning, but ended being paid $75,000-a-week when the series’ popularity reached its peak.
What followed were some iconic movies which are still popular until this very day such as Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets Society, which helped him find his place under the Hollywood sky, Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire, Hook, Jumanji, and Good Will Hunting, among the many.
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Aladdin grossed $500 million worldwide box office, and Disney used Williams’ voice in order to do merchandising, something the actor specifically stated he didn’t want them to do. As a result, he didn’t work with Disney for many years.
“Not only did they use my voice, they took a character I did and overdubbed it to sell stuff. That was the one thing I said: ‘I don’t do that.’ That was the one thing where they crossed the line,” the actor explained on the Today Show.
Robin Williams at “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” at the NBC Studios in Burbank, Ca. Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002. Photo by Kevin Winter/ImageDirect.
Williams’ movies grossed about $5.1 billion worldwide. He, however, experienced financial issues towards the end of his life mostly due to the two pricey divorces he went through. Reports were that the late actor was forced to pay both his exes around $30 million in total.
Asked whether he had lost all his money in divorces, Williams told Parade in 2014: ”Well, not all. Lost enough. Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it “all the money,” but they changed it to “alimony.” It’s ripping your heart out through your wallet. Are things good with my exes? Yes. But do I need that lifestyle? No.”
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When he accepted the job with The Crazy Ones, he said he needed a steady job because there were bills to pay. He was also forced to sell his “Villa of Smiles” ranch in Napa for $18 million in 2016 after he failed to get the amount of $35 million that he was hoping for.
At the time of his death in 2014, it was reported that he had a net worth of $50 million.
Robin Williams was one of a kind and probably one of the greatest comedians who have ever walked this Earth. His three children, Zachary, Zelda and Cody, never miss a chance to pay tribute to their much-adored father.
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In a high-profile defamation case closely followed by the media and the wide public that exposed details of her tumultuous marriage, the Aquaman star, Amber Heard, was initially ordered by a Virginia court to pay her ex-husband Johnny Depp $5 million in punitive damages and $10 million in compensatory damages.
Depp sued Heard on the grounds that she damaged his career after she referred to herself as “a public figure symbolizing domestic abuse” in an op-ed she penned for The Washington Post in December 2018. Although she never mentioned his name, his lawyers claimed the article implied she was speaking about him.
During the trial, the ex-spouses both witnessed that the other one was the abuser and some of the details that emerged in the media left many in shock.
According to reports, Heard’s attorneys plan to challenge the result as well as any decisions made by the judge following the verdict, such as declining Heard’s motion to vacate the judgment, dismiss the case, or order a new trial.
“We think the court erred, preventing a just and fair judgment in accordance with the first amendment. As a result, we are appealing the decision,” a Heard representative said in a statement. “While we are aware that today’s filing will set Twitter ablaze, there are steps we must follow to ensure justice and fairness.”
On the other hand, the statement released by Depp’s representatives said that the jury “listened to the considerable evidence given during the six-week trial and came to a clear and unanimous decision that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in several instances.” It added: “We continue to believe that our case will be upheld, and this judgment.”
Heard claimed that all the backlash and all the negative comments about her on social media led her to miss on many job opportunities. No one can say that studious won’t hire her because of the court case, they just don’t want someone who has bad press around them.
The position she has found herself in may force Heard to file for bankruptcy as her career seems to be ruined at this point in her life.
Heard appears to be making sacrifices in order to be able to pay the $8.4 million in damages she owes her ex-husband.
Just recently, she was spotted shopping at the retail TJ Maxx.
To learn how exactly did she reach this point, go to the video below.
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Girl with Down Syndrome is mocked for eating 1st birthday cake, her dad can’t ignore the mean comments
Every human being is special in their own right, and being different is what makes us unique. Sadly, not many people see beauty in those who do not fit the standards of what societies consider to be ‘normal.’
People who are born with an extra chromosome are known for radiating joy. Having Down Syndrome doesn’t prevent them from attending school, finding a job, getting married, and do everything other people do. The truth is, however, that not many people are able to understand this and they still see those with this syndrome as someone with a disability.
Scott Gavin, a father of six, has a beautiful daughter with Down Syndrome named Megan. This cutie pie brings immeasurable joy to her parents and siblings each and every day.
On the day of her first birthday, Megan was thrown a spectacular party with plenty of balloons and a cake. Gavin was eager to show his family and friends just how happy his girl was so he shared photos of the joyous occasion on the social media.
As he was looking forward to the best wishes, his heart broke down into a million pieces when he noticed a number of mean comments. There were people who called Megan names and mocked her for having Down Syndrome.
“My shock went straight to anger. Obviously, I wanted to go and find these people,” the father explained. But he then thought carefully about it and realized that he needed to turn his aggression into an opportunity for positivity. “So I’ve turned it into a positive thing and decided from now on I’m going to educate the uneducated.”
Instead of getting angry, he shared even more photos of Megan because he wanted to spread the message that people with Down Syndrome have lives as fulfilling as those of the rest of the people.
Messages of love and support came pouring in. “Beautiful people. I have a child of my own who has [Down Syndrome]. She has been a blessing and an inspiration. My pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” one person wrote. “I am truly sorry that there are people in the world that are so cruel, and [I’m] so glad she has a wonderful father like you,” someone else added.
Gavin is a kind of person who wants to see everyone happy. When he won some money on a TV show, he invested it in creating a zoo with exotic animals. His company, Party Central Entertainments, uses the animals to connect with special needs people, lonely elderly citizens, and those jailed in prison. His girl also loves them and enjoys spending time with the beautiful creatures.
“I will never forget the moment an autistic boy broke his five-year silence when communicating with me about one of the skunks — his mum was so happy,” Gavin said.
This story truly serves as an inspiration that we should always embrace the differences with arms wide open.
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