“I want you to know how much admiration and respect I have for you, but I also want you to know this…”
‘For the caretakers who are left behind: Those amazing, beautiful, selfless souls who dedicated their lives to the welfare of another human being.’ What this grieving wife wants you to know to help you heal
‘You’re so small.’ ‘Aren’t pregnant women supposed to gain weight?’: Mom gives birth to 2-pound preemie after umbilical cord complications
“My doctor kept looking at my pregnant belly with a look of concern. ‘How much did you weigh before this pregnancy?’ she asked. The umbilical cord was giving our son nutrients, but not enough. His body was being starved. Every day was a gamble that the umbilical cord would stop working.”
‘I screamed out, ‘I can’t lose my baby!’, with tears streaming down my face. But deep down I knew.’
“After 296 days in the hospital we got to bring our son we nicknamed ‘Tough Hough’ and ‘Texas Tornado’, home for the first time in his life. He’s flourishing and hasn’t looked back once.”
‘Had I known a mere 13 weeks was all I had with this child, I would have said ‘good night and good morning’ more often.’
“I am sorry but I can’t find a heartbeat’ said the sonographer empathically.”
‘Our daughter no longer had a heartbeat. I threw up and cried all at once.’: Best friend steps in as surrogate to give heartbroken couple ‘last chance for a baby’
“I will make sure there isn’t a day that goes by our Faith doesn’t know how special she is; how her life gave my life meaning again, and about the very special person who helped give her life.”
‘He was both deaf and blind. That’s when this lovely young woman came into the picture.’: 15-year-old helps stranger aboard flight to make sure ‘his needs were met’
“It was a beautiful reminder, in this time of too much awfulness, that there are still good, good people who are willing to look out for each other.”
They Say You Only Have 18 Summers With Your Kids, And I’m On Number 18
“My head knows this is a good thing, but my heart? It just hurts.”
‘I was part of the ‘human rights violations’ taking place on the border.’ Confessions from a paramedic on the border
“Through the course of my career I have spent, off and on, 15 years working as a medic on the border.”
Having A New Baby Is Like Starting A New Job
“You start off with the three month probation period, the most difficult three months in your career. Your boss is basically a jerk. He told you the hours were flexible and ‘family friendly,’ but what he meant was you’d be working overnight without double time or a toilet break.”
‘We were only together a few months when I changed jobs. I quit because they weren’t treating me fairly. I was young and stupid.’
“‘Men don’t just quit their jobs, Brad… they find something else first and they stick it out. That’s just what adults do.’ She was worried because I wasn’t.”