“Sheila is struggling. She needs our help. Let’s all go over there and unpack her apartment for her. Bring food. Let’s make it fun.”
‘They showed up. They took over. They didn’t ask.’: Friends swoop in to help depressed woman when she needed them most
‘Before I put her to bed, her face turned pale. She was screaming in pain. My husband read the word ‘leukemia,’ and I had this sickening feeling. The inevitable truth was seeping into our lives.’ Mom gets hit with triple diagnosis: Down Syndrome, Leukemia, & Typhlitis
“A few hours after going to the doctor, I was out shopping with my husband. He handed me the phone. ‘It’s the pediatrician.’ My heart stopped. Why was he calling so soon? And why was HE calling and not the nurse this time?! Then, he said the words I’d been fearing since Tessa’s birth. I didn’t have the strength to stand. I fell to my knees. I had no idea how to move forward.”
‘With both of us active duty soldiers, we’ve learned to adapt to spending more time apart than together, and live for the quiet moments.’
“I had just flown back from halfway across the globe, feeling as though my heart and soul had been drop-kicked across the Pacific. I spent the last of my savings to get home, with divorce papers clutched in one hand and the last of my dignity in the other.”
I Did Not Like My Children When This Photo Was Taken (Thanks To PPD)
“Turns out, I was one of MILLIONS of women experiencing these feelings.”
‘I cost my parents thousands of dollars in medical bills because I was not ready to admit my problem.’: Woman overcomes severe eating disorders after finally admitting sexual assault
“When I was 13 I was sexually assaulted and hid it from my family. I gained more than 100 pounds to hide myself from the truth I didn’t want to believe. I was so bitter and angry for so long, but I survived each version of myself, and I’m better for it.”
‘Do you remember that crazy pact we made about getting married if we were single after 50?’: Couple follows through on their pact to get married
“He laughed and said ‘yeah, I do.’”
‘I couldn’t process it. Twin 2 was born without an eye, ear, nostril’: Single mom ‘plunged into a pool of guilt for something I was convinced I had caused’
“When Harry was almost 3-years-old he was also diagnosed with Autism and my guilt and grief intensified.”
‘Not a single person was there to say goodbye. He was frightened by the sound of his own giggle. But for the first time, he was shown love. He was going to learn just how loved he really was.’
“We stared at the babies on the website for almost a year, saying we will adopt ‘one day.’ Then I saw the picture of a precious baby boy. He was only a few months old, abandoned to live his life in an orphanage because he had an extra chromosome.”
‘The story of a girl, a baby and her first ever C-section.’: Mom’s HILARIOUSLY CANDID, all-too-real birthing experience
“I get into the operating room and it’s got more people than an over-30’s nightclub. Everyone is introducing themselves and what they do, but I only paid attention to the person with the drugs, her name was Emma. (I think.)”
‘Hey – I need to talk to you. We are switching seats. NOW.’: Stranger’s selfless act of kindness for woman being ridiculed for her weight on airplane
“He proceeded to text someone that he was sitting next to ‘a smelly fatty.’ Before I knew it, I could feel hot, salty tears coming down my face. I sat and cried silently. I was so hurt.”