“I still remember the day we bought this toy. She did NOT want to part with it. ‘What’s donate, mamma?’ she asked. My heart was SO FULL.”
‘I want to give this toy to them.’ I couldn’t believe my ears.’: Mom shares daughter’s act of kindness, offers advice on raising kids full of ‘kindness and gratitude’
‘My heart exploded at the thought I might help them.’: Cancer warrior donates hair to kids in need
“I felt an already enlarged lymph node get larger while we learned to navigate the newborn phase in the midst of biweekly chemotherapy treatments.”
‘As I passed over bags filled with frozen milk, I knew this was huge.’: Woman donates breast milk to moms in need
“How you feed your child is nobody’s business but yours.”
‘Leave what you can, take what you need.’: Woman builds charity boxes to serve community, ‘Kindness is for everyone’
“Someone out there cares about you and believes we will get through things together.”
‘How do I make it stop?’ For weeks, I’d been dedicatedly pumping milk. Now, I was presented with an opportunity.’: Grieving mom donates 600 ounces of breastmilk in son’s honor
“In the hours after my son’s death, my breasts began to ache. Elias was gone, but my body didn’t know any different. I thought of all the bottles of milk I had stored in the freezer.”
‘I want to do more!’ I begged my mom to let me make them all a Love Blanket.’: 11-year-old makes blankets for kids who ‘need a little bit of extra love’
“The very first blanket we made went to a little girl who was autistic and had been bullied in school. I can’t fix the problems they are dealing with, but I can make them a Love Blanket and let them know they’re loved.”
‘It’s all for you, bud! It’s all for you!’ He wiped tears from his eyes.’: Woman surprises ‘joyful’ Wendy’s employee with 40,000 dollars, ‘The world needed him’
“I had to come up with some kind of lie to meet up with him. ‘This is crazy! Oh my gosh!’ I had no idea how powerful his spirit truly was.”
‘We think you had a heart attack.’ I knew what was coming, the URGENT TRANSPLANT LIST.’: At 28, woman suffers heart failure and sepsis, ‘It’s HER heart that keeps me alive’
“My heart was failing. I couldn’t even get out of bed. I threw up instantly and then fainted. ‘I can’t be sick forever. I can’t live like this.’ The coordinator came in to tell me there may be a heart for me — her heart. I wasn’t scared. I was ready.”
‘If you want to say goodbye, you’d better come now.’ She’d only had a bad cold. She died before she hit the floor.’: Mom dies suddenly of congenital cardiac arrhythmia, leaves behind 3 toddlers
“She was just lying there with medications keeping her heart going and a ventilator breathing for her. All I could do was hold her hand and talk to her, tell her how much I loved her, how much those three babies need her, and beg her to come back to us. “
‘What do we do with the remaining embryos?’ We signed away the parental rights. I was in for one more shock: TWINS!’: Couple donates extra embryos to family battling infertility, ‘They were put in our path for a reason!’
“We decided we were done having children, but still had 6 embryos frozen. I created a Facebook profile in hopes of finding a deserving family. I didn’t expect much. Within hours, we had EIGHT families interested. Kate and Seth were put in our path for a reason.”
