The most life-saving thing you can do for a family member you love is to NEVER leave their bedside if they’re ever admitted to hospital.
Every hour you’re allowed to be there— watch over everything like you are doing the biggest test of your life. Take turns with other family members if you need to.
Every medicine, every health professional who walks in the room, any symptom your loved one experiences.
Be present. Speak up. Ask questions.
Don’t give a ___ if any unprofessional staff member tries to make you feel like you shouldn’t be there or dismisses you. The health of your loved one is too important.
Be perfectly polite and cordial but make it clear that you demand the highest standards and attentiveness.
As a doctor who has worked in dozens of hospitals in the USA and Europe— trust me when I tell you this could save your loved one’s life one day.
Be a supportive ROCK advocate at the bedside.
🚨Please share this with the girls and women in your life. It could SAVE THEM if they experience this!
WARNING ⚠️:
Anyone with GIRLS… please read!! “Friday morning, Kelci was with a friend and had started getting, what she thought, was car sickness. Later, she had started to run a low grade fever. By the time we got home, it was 103.
When we got to the ER, they pushed two fluid bolus to try and raise her BP. And in the mean time, Kelci had started to turn red and they decided to transfer her to St. John’s Children’s Hospital in Springfield.
After lots of testing, 3 IVs, 1 arterial line and 1 central line and an extremely long night….we figured out what was wrong with our girl.
She had multiple organ failure. Our girl was dying. A parents worst nightmare. She had contracted Toxic Shock Syndrome, not from misuse of tampons, but because she wore one while swimming in the Lake at the Ozarks. The dirty water had absorbed through the string and the bacteria in the water caused Staph Infection, which led to the Toxic Shock Syndrome. She had also become septic (causing the shutdown).
Thank goodness her PICU Dr was able to recognize the red skin syndrome that is a sign of toxic shock.
The first night, our girl was hooked up to at least 5 antibiotics, pressers and still getting fluid bolus. The dr and 5 nurses stayed in her room from the time we got there Saturday, until 4:30am Sunday. They were wonderful!
She is still recovering, but drs say she will make a full recovery with no lasting effects to her organs or body!!”
**Shared with permission from Ashley Anthony
🚨🚨THIS IS BEAUTIFUL🚨🚨
THEY JUST RE-CREATED THE ICONIC SCENE FROM THE MOVIE SANDLOT AT THE 2026 #MLB ALL-STAR GAME.
They had all the star players on the field as kids rode onto the field on their bikes… with fireworks going off.
CHILLS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was at urgent care with an infected cut when a kid walked in holding his arm at a weird angle.
His dad was right behind him looking pale.
Receptionist: What happened?
Dad: He broke his arm.
Kid: I didn't break it.
Dad: Your arm is literally bent wrong.
Kid: It's fine.
Receptionist: How did this happen?
Dad: He jumped off the roof.
Me: (looked up)
Receptionist: Your roof?
Dad: Our roof. Two stories.
Kid: I had an umbrella.
Everyone in the waiting room went quiet.
Receptionist: You had an umbrella.
Kid: Like a parachute.
Dad: He watched Mary Poppins yesterday.
Kid: It works in the movie.
Dad: YOU'RE NOT MARY POPPINS.
The kid seemed genuinely confused about why the umbrella didn't work. Like he'd done the math and couldn't figure out what went wrong.
Receptionist: Okay, let's get you back.
They called him in pretty fast. The dad sat down next to me and put his head in his hands.
Dad: I was mowing the lawn.
Me: You didn't see him climb up?
Dad: I saw him on the roof. I yelled at him to stay put while I got the ladder.
Me: And?
Dad: He said okay.
Me: But?
Dad: Apparently okay meant he'd wait until I was getting the ladder from the garage.
Me: Then he jumped.
Dad: With my wife's good umbrella. Which is also broken now.
Me: That's what you're worried about?
Dad: You haven't met my wife.
A nurse came out twenty minutes later.
Nurse: Dad?
He went back. I heard the kid explaining to someone that penguins can't fly because they don't have umbrellas.
They came out an hour later. Kid had a blue cast and was eating a popsicle.
Kid: They gave me drugs.
Dad: Please don't say it like that.
Kid: I'm high as a kite.
Dad: (to the nurse) Is he supposed to be this honest?
Nurse: It'll wear off.
As they left, the kid stopped and looked at me.
Kid: Don't try the umbrella thing.
Me: Wasn't planning on it.
Kid: Everyone says that.
Dad: Let's go.
Kid: I'm gonna try a bigger umbrella next time.
Dad: There's not gonna be a next time.
Kid: That's what you said about the trampoline.
The dad looked at me.
Dad: We don't have a trampoline anymore.
They left.
The receptionist looked over at me.
Receptionist: Some kids just wake up and choose chaos.
Me: Think he'll actually try again?
Receptionist: Oh absolutely.
I got my cut cleaned and left.
Saw them in the parking lot. The kid was trying to open the car door with his casted arm while explaining something about eagles.
That dad deserves an award.
🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...
...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY
He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."
His name is Rishi Sharma.
He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.
He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.
He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...
...FOR FREE
So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.
Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.
He does it out of pure gratitude.
In his words:
"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."
As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:
"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."
THAT is America.
250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...
God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
What is that moving in the fairway?
Cedarbook Golf Course is changing the game by using autonomous, battery-powered mowers from Husqvarna.
They're quiet and cost-effective. You'll stop to marvel at the hard-working robots between shots.
The best moment of the 2026 NFL draft.
Navy RB Eli Heidenreich saluted the mirror after his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers drafted him.
It's enough to make a grown man cry ❤️
Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”
Shoppers who grew up on disposable fast fashion are enlisting tailors and seamstresses to give off-the-rack purchases a custom fit or personal flair, to revive secondhand finds or to extend the lives of their wardrobes. But creating and fitting garments to individual specifications hasn’t attracted enough entry-level workers over the years to replace the professionals retiring. AP's retail reporter Anne D'Innocenzio learned to hem a pair of jeans by Nordstrom tailor Marco Lema.
Greensburg Central Catholic senior Abby Dlugos talks about winning a PIAA state championship after the Centurions took down Holy Redeemer 52-41 in the Class 3A final Thursday. @GCCHSAthletics@GCC_GBB