Although it goes largely unacknowledged, there truly is so much work involved in becoming a parent.
Just trying to get pregnant alone can be a real struggle for couples who have to deal with various health issues or complications.
And that’s without taking into account the difficulty of pregnancy and the subsequent childbirth! So it is without a doubt an event of much relief and joy when you finally have your newborn child safe and sound in your arms. Read the full story here ▶
Service dogs are doing very important work and usually must not be disturbed by pets or play, as this can jog them out of their work mindset.
Unfortunately, this is something that not everyone seems to understand. Laura Joos was enjoying her day shopping at Walmart with her service pup when she noticed a mother with her three children walking in their direction.
Having had a service dog for a while, Laura could tell that those kids were likely going to try and pet her dog. Read the full story here ▶
The Daily Mail reports that when a woman’s intense stomach pains landed her in a hospital in Tocantins state in central Brazil she received a huge surprise.
An 84-year-old Brazilian woman who went to the hospital complaining of stomach pains had a 44-year-old fetus inside her uterus.
A hospital in the Tocantins state in central Brazil X-rayed the woman’s stomach and found a calcified “stone baby.” Read the full story here ▶
It’s something most of us don’t consider, but we’d all do well to remember. All it takes is one event to throw things into disarray; joy can become sadness, light can become dark. The day Matt became father, his life was altered forever.
He’d just become a father and was riding a wave of resulting euphoria. The a nightmare occurred that no one could have predicted. Just 27 short hours later, his world had been turned upside down.
Suddenly the future was bleak, his plans were in tatters, and he was alone on a dark path. Then he went to his computer, and things changed again. Read the full story here ▶
The internet has been obsessed with optical illusions lately. Case in point- the dress phenomenon that took the world by storm a few years ago.
Now there’s another photograph that’s confusing people around the world and making them second-guess themselves.
The photo, posted to Instagram by an artist from Switzerland by the name of Tiziana Vergari, shows several girls sitting on a bench with their backs against the wall.
Each girl is clad in a gray dress with their brown locks down in a casual style.
At first glance, it appears there are thirteen girls in the picture.
However, upon closer inspection you can tell that many of the girls look alike.
In fact, it looks like two girls repeated over and over again.
Vergari, who submitted the photograph as part of a weekend contest on Instagram called #Whpidentity, cleared up the confusion with a comment to a perplexed follower.
Responding to @erin.thehuman, Vergari replied, “One think it sure, that I only have two daughter.”
Although it looks like there are thirteen girls in the astounding photograph, there are actually one two.
Vergari had taken her daughters out for a shopping trip and snapped the picture as they were both seated on a bench surrounded by mirrors.
The mirrors created the odd visual effect that has so many wondering how many girls are actually in the photo.
Vergari’s photograph generated so much buzz on social media that she was nominated for a Shorty Award for Instagram Photo of the Year.
How she managed to capture such an incredible photograph shows how much talent this Swiss photographer possesses.
The astonishing image certainly fulfills the definition of an optical illusion as it continues to deceive the eyes of many into thinking there are more than just two girls in the picture.
According to the police officials, the former assistant manager is accused of forcing two women he caught shoplifting to perform ‘indecent favors’ on him!
According to the statement, the 38-year-old manager, Robert, caught the two women shoplifting and took them to a back office.
While in the locked room, he allegedly had the women, 44 and 32, perform se-ual favors on him. He stated that he’d called police and that they’d be arriving soon. However, authorities stated that Robert never made the call. Read the full story here ▶
An Idaho woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violently shaking a 6-month-old baby she was babysitting.
Sarah Kuiper-Boles, 29, had met Simona Contreras through Facebook.
After a while, she was able to gain the mother’s trust and started babysitting her four children several times a week, KTVB reported.
But Kuiper-Boles would soon betray that trust. Contreras came home one day and noticed some strange behavior from her baby son, Julian.
“He did not want me to hold him. He looked really uncomfortable,” Contreras told KTVB. “He looked like he’s been screaming and crying.” Read the full story here ▶
It’s the job of the cashier to pay attention to the actions of customers.
When customers go to a thrift store, they will often get several items that they might not purchase if they were in a typical retail store because they know that they are getting a better deal.
A customer was in a thrift store one day and saw a teenager buying a few coats.The teen wasn’t buying one or two coats that some teens might purchase. Instead, the teen had six coats in the cart. Read the full story here ▶
There is a road nicknamed amongst the locals of Tennessee – Tail of the Dragon, which is a path hidden in the midst of the Smoky Mountains and is unfortunately, a huge fan favorite among motorbike enthusiasts.
The 11-mile long road is notorious for its dangerous path, with over 300 twists and turns.
Four men decided to try their bikes out along the tricky path. Two out of 4 men did not make it down the road safely and crashed, while the other died. Read the full story here ▶
After suffering several health problems, one man discovered that he was dying and Doctors quickly learned that he needed a new kidney to survive. However, after waiting for years for a match to be donated, his wife was tested and approved to donate hers to her husband.
Unfortunately, after she gave him one of her own organs – he repaid her by doing the absolute unimaginable and is officially labeled the world’s worst husband because of it.
Simon Burke has a condition called reflux nephropathy, “a condition in which the kidneys are damaged by the backward flow of urine into the kidney,” according to NLM.
Unfortunately, his condition progressed and he was told that without dialysis he would die. His wife, Tracey, was absolutely devastated when she heard the news and immediately began hoping the doctors would be able to find her hubby a match.
“He was so poorly he couldn’t work and most days he was so weak he wasn’t even able to get off the sofa,” Tracey explained, according to The Sun. “I gave up my cleaning job to take care of him. I was terrified for the both of us.”
Unfortunately, after four long years on the transplant list, Simon still hadn’t been given a match. “That is when I had my eureka moment,” Tracey recalled. “I told Simon I would give him one of my kidneys.”
After getting a test to verify whether she could give her kidney to her husband – she went ahead and scheduled the surgery to save her man’s life once she had been approved. The extremely risky procedure was carried out at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. Fortunately, everything went smoothly and the couple “cried tears of joy” when their nightmares were finally over.
Simon’s health immediately showed improvement and their relationship was finally able to return to as it was before his procedure. In fact, shortly after, the couple was able to announce that they were pregnant and eventually welcomed their son, Mitchell, to the world. Simon knew he owed his life to his wife and eventually he would repay her – but in the most unimaginable way possible.
The Burke Family before baby Mitchell (Image Source: The Sun)After Simon returned to his job, he worked extra hours to get financially caught up. However, time would pass and he would spend less and less time with Tracey and their kids. Tracey recalls that he began a strange attachment to his cell phone which worried her.
Eventually, she grew very concerned and took a look at his phone while he was sleeping. Unfortunately, she discovered an array of sexy text messages from another woman. Simon was having an affair.
“One text written by Simon read, ‘Wish I was sleeping with you, baby’. She’d replied, ‘You’re so cute, you melt my icy heart’, and he had added, ‘King Kong could not stop me seeing you’. I moved out, taking the children,” Tracey said, “To betray me after everything I’d done for him was unforgivable.”
Simon admitted that he had messed up, but he excuses the texts as just “banter” with another woman. However, Tracey didn’t care and called it off – considering she had given him everything, including her kidney, and he could only think to repay her by betraying her.
“I didn’t ask for that kidney at all, she’s obviously neglected to tell you that,” Simon admittedly said, further proving that he is the world’s worst husband. “She also walked out on me over a stupid text message. If a woman loves you, she won’t walk out on her family, would she? All it was was text banter.”
If you are alive today as a result of someone you love giving you one of their organs, you owe them your life — not a knife in the back. The fact that this man even thought for a second that he could do this to his devoted wife only proves what kind of person he truly is.
Marriage is hard, but it’s even harder when the one you’ve chosen to spend your life with is a selfish idiot. I don’t think anyone would blame her for getting out when she did; what he did was absolutely appalling.