A 2-year-old girl was thrown from a pickup truck during a crash on a bridge and landed in the cold water 25 feet below.
At first she was floating on her back, but within seconds she rolled over and was face down in the bay.
Jonathan Bauer was driving across the bridge with his daughter when he saw the crash and heard people screaming.
He ran to the edge, saw the little girl below, took off his shoes and jumped roughly 25 feet into the water.
Jonathan landed about 15 feet away, swam to her and pulled her onto his shoulder. She wasn’t responding, so he firmly tapped her back until she coughed up water and opened her eyes.
A nearby pontoon boat helped get them to shore, and the little girl was airlifted to the hospital. She was released the next day, doing well.
Jonathan didn’t know that child. He just saw a 2-year-old floating face down below a bridge and jumped in after her. So let’s share this story and give Jonathan the recognition he deserves. 💙
A dad invited his son’s whole class to a birthday party.
21 kids. He sent the invites two and a half weeks early. He asked them to RSVP by the 10th.
Not one showed up.
Then the parents told him the quiet part: they’re not really his friends.
You can hear it in his voice. The anger. The heartbreak. A man who says he tries so hard to give his boy a good life, standing in a decorated pavilion with cake, gifts, and empty seats.
Then the local police and firefighters walked in.
They didn’t send a card. They showed up.
They became the party.
A kid should not have to learn, on his birthday, that nobody is coming. A dad should not have to thank the police so his son has someone to blow out candles with.
They did it anyway.
𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐒: 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐𝟒
Mamba Mentality included pranks apparently 😂🐍
Everybody has a Kobe story but Chandler Parsons has one of the best of all-time.
A man was released from a prison in São Paulo, Brazil, and the first thing he did when he stepped outside the gates was kneel and give thanks to God.
The most beautiful part of the video is that his entire community came out to welcome him.
In 2014, the Cincinnati Bengals cut Devon Still.
Then they immediately signed him to the practice squad, for one reason only. So his health insurance wouldn't stop.
His four year old daughter had just been given a 50/50 chance to live.
June 2, 2014. Doctors walk into a waiting room and tell Devon Still that Leah, his four year old, has stage four neuroblastoma. A pediatric cancer. Fifty fifty odds.
Still was a defensive tackle fighting for a roster spot. He missed most of training camp to be at the hospital, and when cuts came, he didn't make the 53 man roster.
For most players that's the end. No team, no salary, and critically, no insurance.
The Bengals signed him to the practice squad anyway. Not because they needed him. Because it kept his family covered, and gave him the freedom to fly to Philadelphia to be with his daughter whenever he needed.
Then head coach Marvin Lewis and the organization did something else.
They started selling Devon Still's number 75 jersey, and announced they would donate ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the proceeds to pediatric cancer research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
A backup defensive tackle's jersey.
It became the best selling jersey in the NFL. Fans of other teams bought it. Rival organizations ordered them in bulk. Opposing players wore them.
The Bengals eventually handed Cincinnati Children's a check for $1.3 million.
Leah, meanwhile, was fighting. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Surgery to remove a tumor. Stem cell transplants. Her father documented all of it publicly, because he decided that if his family had to go through it, other families shouldn't have to feel alone in it.
Then on March 25, 2015, Devon Still posted this:
"June 2, 2014 and March 25, 2015 are days I will remember for the rest of my life."
296 days after the diagnosis, Leah Still was in remission.
There was one more scare, a serious complication from the transplant that summer. She beat that too. By December 2015, her scans showed no evidence of disease at all.
She got a Wheaties box. She and her dad won the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the ESPYs, and she recorded a video message thanking everyone who helped her beat up cancer, because she was too sick to attend in person.
The Bengals eventually released Devon Still for real in September 2015.
And they made sure his medical insurance would stay active for five more years anyway, whether or not another team ever signed him.
Leah is a teenager now. Healthy. She and her dad have written children's books for kids going through what she went through.
Her advice to those kids: "You're not fighting this alone."
An NFL team spent a roster spot on a dad instead of a player.
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