@PDGHammer @LeaveEUPronto I’m from immigrant parents, went to a multi racial school in north London at that time. We integrated and got on, knowing each other’s cultural difference, we had a few hiccups but nothing forced down our throats. Those arriving now have an agenda and it’s not living in harmony
The man who co-directed Airplane! spent the 1990s watching his baby son have a hundred seizures a day.
Jim Abrahams gave the world "Surely you can't be serious." Then his eleven-month-old, Charlie, developed an epilepsy so violent the seizures came in the dozens, sometimes a hundred in a single day, while he was already on a fistful of medications.
The specialists were not short of opinions. The family visited the best neurologists in America. The verdict was a life of continued seizures and what one doctor called progressive retardation. Brain surgery was floated. More drugs were floated. A change of diet never came up, because not one of those specialists thought to raise it.
Jim, being a man who had spent his career refusing to take things at face value, went digging through the medical literature himself and found a treatment that had been sitting in the textbooks the whole time. A high-fat, near-zero-carbohydrate diet, used since the 1920s, gathering dust because it could not be bottled and sold.
He took Charlie to Johns Hopkins, one of the last places in the country still bothering to use it. The seizures stopped within days. Charlie stayed on the diet for five years, went back to eating normally, and never had another seizure in his life. He turned thirty a few years ago. He became a preschool teacher.
Jim was so quietly furious that a cure had been hiding in plain sight that he and his wife Nancy founded the Charlie Foundation, and he made a film about it, First Do No Harm, starring Meryl Streep. His estimate of how long the foundation would need to exist before the obvious caught on was about a year.
That was 1994. The foundation is still going. Funny how slowly the obvious travels when nobody profits from you knowing it.
Wow this was in Poland the polish people taking the knee for Henry Nowak! 🇵🇱 🇬🇧🙏👏❤️
Just human beings recognising the loss of another human being.
In a world that can often feel cold and divided, moments like this restore a little faith in humanity.
Sizden bir ricam olabilir mi?! Filistin hakkında konuşmayı bırakmayın lütfen... Algoritmayı bozmak için nokta bırakın.
Destek için takip etmeyi unutmayın. 💔🇵🇸