Every girl get to the day she has her first period, and it’s quite a normal thing of course, but for Chloe Christos, a Perth, Australia girl, things were very different when she just kept bleeding… Chloe like most other girls looked forward to high school so much, the new things she would be doing, the big adventure that waited for her, and all the happy moments ahead! But soon enough she would soon have to find out something would change her life forever, in the most unexpected way! The tipping point for Chloe was after she had her first period. After this first time, the bleeding just carried on, longer than a week, longer than a month! It turned into five years, wow, poor Chloe was losing about a pint every four days…

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Those five years were so hard, Chloe couldn’t do much of anything at all, she regularly fainted, her blood pressure was constantly low and she wasn’t allowed to go out in the car. Chole said that the most frustrating part of the whole thing was that she loved to be physically active and that she couldn’t be anymore.

Periods were a sort of a taboo subject and Chloe knew it’s typically a personal thing, it was a little embarrasing. She said:

“I knew it wasn’t quite right, but I was also embarrassed to talk about it. I felt very different and pretty alone.”

Five years of suffering was what it took before Chloe found the courage to look for help for her problem. Chloe met frustration again as many doctors dismissed her problem as womens troubles: The doctors wouldn’t take her seriously or treat her and ofter she was completely refused treatment at all even in the ER. As a female she felt she wasn’t being taken seriously at all.

Then, after some time she did manage to find a doctor who was gong to take her issue serioiusly and was going to diagnose her condition. Chloe’s blood has low levels of a protein associated with hemophilia, just like Von Willebrand’s disease. Combined, these indicated bleeding disorders, the kind that make it really difficult for blood to clot!

Chloe continued to suffer as the doctors continued to look for the solution to help her with her condition, they really struggled to do anyhting at all to help her. She was started on a synthetc drug that was made to treat the low protien levels of the protein factor VIII in her body. The drug had really bad side effects but she carried on with it for seven years. The success of it was incinsistent, and she had to take it all the time, she was desperately searching for better alternatives.

One doctor told her that the only option was to remove her uterus! In the end she turned away from doctors and sought help in the Hemophilia Center in Adelaide, Australia. The Hemophilia Center had a little breakthrough and could give her an experimental synthetic drug, which had only previously been given to male patients. Christos said: “It’s the difference between being hospitalized for two weeks of the month and taking two paracetamol and having a heat pack for one day,” Chloe said that, with the once a month injection, her periods are now normal, lasting just four to five days! Chloe has dedicated her life to fighting her abttle and advocating for equal rights for other women with similar issues to her own. She strives to help as many others as she can to recieve a proper diagnosis and traeatment that will work for them too. This story could potentialls spread the word For Chloe and we hope she can reach people far and wide, raise awarenes, and help many others like her. Please SHARE with your family and friends.

One night this couple from Tallapoosa, Georgia, were relaxing, Courtney Waldon was a new mother and with her husband they were around the campfire, a regular thing they enjoyed together. What happened next would impact their lives forever… The fateful day was the 30th September in 2016, Waldon’s life was going to change forever and the lives of her family consequently too! Courtney had an accident that night and the campfire set her alight, covered in flames she suffered horrible burns to more than 40% of her body and her face was really burned badly over. It happened very fast, she was standing near the fire and her husband made a terrible mistake, he stoked the fire with gasoline! As fast as lightning her body was alive with fire, covered in flames and the pain was horrific! Courtney said:

“It was horrible …It was the worst thing I had ever felt in my life.”

“I honestly thought I was going to die.”

Courtney’s future was firmly tied to the hospital ward, for the next 50 days she was in the ICU burns unit in the hospital, she needed multiple skin grafts and several operations. Over the 24 months that followed she would need twelve more operations, she wouldn’t even recognize herself again the way she looked before. Without looking the physical considerations, even then, she would have to deal with the psychological repercussions of such burns and how she would come to terms with it all. She explained that just two weeks after that when she was released from the hospital, her husband abandoned her and her daughter… Courtney was left with her daughter, Caroline, who was only four years old, to completely look after themselves, with her physical and emotional toll weighing heavy on her and a young daughter to care for it was almost impossible to cope! Caroline, her daughter, said:

“I missed my mom when she was gone in the hospital”

Any 4 years old would be traumatized, but for this young girl, things seemed to get worse and worse. And suddenly, they were homeless. Courtney’s bills that were ever growing were quickly getting out of control, she wasn’t working so she had no income, she didn’t even know if she would ever work again. Her injuries were really bad but especially on her hands, she didn’t know what was going to happen to her, just even in the immediate future. Courtney couldn’t keep the roof over their heads and she had to leave their house, suddenly they were homeless and the pain and suffering were only going to get worse! Something was about to happen to change it all though… The local church and the community all banded together to share their love and support, the people of her community would all come together to help her! Any good person would have done the same for her, but what this community did was of epic proportion, to say the least! The news spread of her plight and her story of what had happened to her, everyone wanted to help her and her daughter. Pastor Jon Ellis said:

“She asked there must be something we could do …When we asked our educators ‘What did Courtney need?’ All of them were in agreement that she needed a house.”

The Pastor went to the local construction guy, Mark Bradley to speak to him about what they could do for her. Mark said:

“When Jon asked me about it, I was like, absolutely …Let’s do it.”

“It’s made me stronger today.”

Courtney’s tragedy has really taught her a lesson it was a hard lesson to learn but she is grateful to be here still. She said:

“It’s made me stronger today”

Her parents are more grateful than anyone to have not lost their daughter in this terrible accident. Courtney’s mom said:

“I was just devastated when she lost her house ..And then, all of the sudden, the community came together…and I knew that was probably the only way that she would ever be able to have her own home.”

Courtney and her daughter really had their faith in people restored, without even realizing they were bringing the community together and motivating people in the community. The Pastor said:

“I just believe that, through Courtney, the building of this house and the process is allowing us to do greater things in the community …After this, our goal here is to build a city of refuge—a place where single moms or battered women, children, [and the] homeless would have a refuge to come to.”

If you love this story as much as we do then please share it with your friends and family, I think it really gives us a new perspective on life and how precious it is!

As most of us know it’s pretty common to see a refrigerator in the workplace or office, it’s shared and very handy, until you feel like you are providing for others when they steal your stuff! It’s also common to hear in workplaces that where people have shared spaces, sometimes people are tempted to help themselves to your stuff, very naughty! Well, one woman had enough if this kind of behaviors in her workplace fridge, her coffee creamer was being used up, she really was disappointed and decided that it was time to take action! The woman kept her coffee creamer in the staff refrigerator, she had an idea to teach the person a lesson that wouldn’t be easy to forget, it was so impressionable that it went viral online!

She taped a note to her coffee creamer container an put it back in the office refrigerator for every single person to see. It said:

“Good Morning!”

“To whomever has been enjoying my coffee creamer all week … Surprise!!!”

“You’ve been drinking my”

“BREAST MILK”

“Hope you’ve enjoyed. Cheers!”

“-B”

“P.S. It’s organic. So no worries”

If it was true or not is anyone’s guess, but you can definitely know that the culprit probably had more than second thoughts about using it again!

Someone on Reddit, called Phantom0591, posted the photo of the note, it really gathered momentum and lots of different reactions! Squabbles123 wrote:

“Best counter to this is to replace it with a new note that says: ‘Refill Please.’”

Heyyouknowmeto wrote:

“This week just keeps getting sweeter. Captain Crunch Coffee Creamer.”

The comments just went on and on like this, it really spurred some reactions, I think that many people can empathize having been in a similar position.   We would have loved to see the person’s reaction was stealing the coffee creamer when they saw the note, that would have been priceless! Some of the responses were really hilarious, and I bet she felt a lot better after she left the note and had a little grin to herself! Other people have had a little fun with her idea, and made some other clear labels for the office place! Have a look:

The main point here is to be considerate of others, don’t be mean, be kind and above all be nice to your work colleagues and don’t steal their coffee creamer! …and if you love this story, please SHARE it with friends and family.

Now and again in life, we sometimes encounter things that are so unbelievable that we think, no surely not! But sure enough this is one of those stories, it’s just so heartbreaking too! A photographer, called ‘A.J.Laberinto’ took some really sad photos, it will surely make you sad to the pit of your stomach! Around May of 2014, the photographer was walking the streets of Manila in the Philippines, he came across something he really had to capture on film! Even now the photos are difficult to look at, but they do need to be shown to everyone and shared, even if it’s only to raise awareness and to see the darker side of humanity, the side we want to obliterate! This naked toddler was sleeping in the middle of the streets, in public, on a busy staircase, there was not even one person who didn’t just walk straight past the toddler!

The photographer, Laberinto, was lost for words about it, he was shocked at what he had seen with his own two eyes! Not even one person gave more than a passing glance to the toddler as they went by.

All the people are accustomed to seeing homeless children on the streets, and begging on the streets that they all seem to have blinkers to it, like its just a normal everyday occurrence… The photographer said on Facebook:

“There I was, camera–celfone rather, in hand turning around the corner when I saw the child. You see, only recently I’ve been taking pictures of whatever sight was in front of me strolling around Manila though not that many. So there I was, and for several seconds the baby lay there on the floor not dying but rather sound asleep. The passers-by having seen too many too much of street children and beggars knew already how to react: they just walked away.”

“After having finished taking the photos I then asked some familiar faces in the crowd, people who actually lived near those stairs, as to where the parent of that baby was. Lo and behold, a woman somewhat bedraggled with dirty clothes on showed up and immediately carried the baby away. All of this in a span of seconds. I bought the child food, by the way, four days ago and he’s still living in the streets the very bed to sleep in he ever knew.“

The cynicism and the sadness of a people whoa re so used to seeing this on the streets every single day is both touching and terrible! It truly shows the lack of humanity of some people in the world.

With solidarity, we can defeat anything, let’s be against this together, and if you like, please SHARE these powerful images with friends and family.

One consistent thing that seems to happen in all schools, at least to some extent, it’s bullying, being such a common occurrence there are many children who are made to feel awful daily! This distasteful act was happening to seven-year-old Ashley Wastakiewicz, she is in the first grade of school… Ashley was being bullied by an older 11-year-old child in her neighborhood and it wasn’t just verbal bullying, it had started to take an even more serious turn and was becoming increasingly more aggressive towards her. The bully was pulling and pushing Ashley off her bike constantly, and generally tormenting her continuously. Ashley was even in the hospital one day because of the attacks that were happening to her, she was scared and understandably not feeling good about things! The boy that was doing the bullying was charged with assault by the police, but even after that he didn’t care and they denied everything that they could! Ashley’s mom, Christine, said:

“She has felt that nobody loves her, nobody cares about her. She feels alone …She is afraid to come outside to play. She has been cooped up most of the summer because she is afraid to come out and play with the fear of being bullied.”

It was just too much to handle everything going on for Ashley’s mother. SHe posted a desperate cry for help by creating a Facebook page called “Justice for Ashley” she was really just looking to find support and help! Ashley’s mom Christine held out hope to hear from even a few people that knew what to do or were willing to help, but she really never thought about who would show up to help her… There was a group of really caring people who would respond to her, a local motorcycle group had heard all about Ashley’s problem and what was going on. The ‘bikers’ are a unison group, they gathered and decided that they really wanted to help and support her, god bless them! James Dingmon, a motorcycle enthusiast, said: (American Veterans Motorcycle Club of Jackson)

“We got word from other brothers at other clubs and we all met …I don’t believe in bullying. Nobody should be bullied. We wanted a show of force, that she is loved and she’s got people out here that care for her.”

Another biker who wanted to help, John Spencer, wrote:

“We made a difference tonight and helped in the widespread fight against bullying, particularly with a very serious case with a wonderful little 7 year old girl named Ashley, whom has (had) a terrible bully in her neighborhood for quite some time now and has been terrified to play outside her own home after being sent to the E.R. and continuously threatened and hurt.”

They all decided to meet up, the bikers and Ashley and her mom… They decided to meet at a local playground, the first-grader told her story… Afterward, the whole group of motor enthusiasts escorted Ashley back to her home with dozens Harley Davidson bikes right to her doorstep! The bikers also put on a show of solidarity by driving to the bully’s house, just to let them know that they were supporting Ashley! Ashley said:

“I’m not scared anymore”

These bikers might seem a bit threatening, but their actions and who they are is absolutely lovely people! Please SHARE this with your friends and family.

Most of us love a surprise at Christmas, the thrill of getting something and not knowing what it is, but for 25-year-old Max from Maryland that is nothing further from the truth… Max really wants to get the same gift, 17 years in a row in fact and whilst it sounds unoriginal and unimaginative, that is exactly what he wants to happen. During the last several years Max’s sister Cassie Greshel, 30 years old, has given him a Tonka truck, but this is by no means a plain old ordinary Tonka… What she gives him precisely is a Fire Rescue Hummer, which was made back in 2000, unfortunately, the truck has been discontinued and you can’t get it easily, apart from thorough searching long and hard on eBay, but it’s harder each year! This Christmas was even harder, she really struggled to find one, and having no luck with finding that truck on eBay, Cassie shared her dilemma on Reddit! Max is special, and being mentally and physically disabled his pleasures in life are quite specific, he really loves playing with Tonka Trucks!  

Cassie used to have no problem finding the discontinued trucks online, but after many years of buying them on eBay, it looked like they were running aground there too now! She said:

“They used to be really easy to find because we would just get orange ones, and then I made the mistake of finding a blue one on eBay, and now he only wants blue ones”

Max loves his Tonka toys plays with them for hours every day, making convoys of Tonkas!

His sister said that she has tried some other ways, like painting trucks or making resin copies of parts of the truck, but Max knows straight away that it’s not right. She has alerts to her phone whenever a Tonka Hammer is Listed on eBay Max is registered blind and, for him, that means he is visually impaired… the family tried to give his different models of Tonka that are easier to find, but the model he actually wants, Cassie calls it the “holy grail for a visually impaired kid”, is really hard to get now! He spends so much time playing with all of his trucks that a few of them are just kept for spare parts now, retired from service!

Cassie got hundreds of replies to his post on Reddit, she had asked if people could put their old Tonkas on eBay, but instead and very sweet, people said they would look for Tonkas for her! Some people even said that they would send Cassie their own Tonka Trucks! She wrote on Reddit:

“I’m not sure how Reddit is so much better at finding this truck then I am!”

Not only did good people she didn’t know reach out to Cassie, but they also reached out to Tonka. Redditors shared all about Cassie’s story and her search to find a specific truck for her brother a Tonka Hummer, they are really excited to help her and her brother. Jessica Gonzalez, owner of Tonka said:

“As soon as we received the first email, no one at this office batted an eye, and we began searching for the toy immediately”

Jessica said that the task of finding the Hummer would be hard because it was such an old toy, but also that she was positive and very hopeful that after searching the company warehouse in USA and China that they could find something for Max! Jessica said:

“…we plan on sending her as many of those hummer trucks we can find, as well as some additional Tonka trucks …Since he has special requests like no rubber wheels, action levers, and a need for bright colors (he’s legally blind), we plan on making some custom adjustments to some other vehicles in hopes that he’ll like those as well.”

This Christmas Cassie really isn’t going to have to worry about scouring eBay to find one of these toys for her brother!

The family has an emergency backup, a red hummer hidden in a closet for a backup, this year they really won’t have to worry about Max being let down and disappointed. Either a vehicle from a Redditor or a surprise from Tonka he will at least have one present to open at Christmas! Cassie said:

“It’s like an all-year mission, but we haven’t failed him yet!”

We hope Cassie, for your brother that you get enough Toys for many Christmases to come and that your brother will really enjoy this special time of year! If you enjoy this awesome story then please SHARE it with friends and family!