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Heartwarming moment a runaway dog tracks down cancer-stricken owner in hospital

CCTV captured the amazing footage of this little schnauzer strolling through the doors of a hospital and searching the halls for her best friend. This plucky pooch was on a mission to find her owner, Nancy Franck, who was being treated for cancer, and had already been  at the Mercy Medical Centre for two weeks following surgery. Proving that a dog really is man’s best friend, this audacious canine set off on the mirraculous journey to find her ‘mum’ on Saturday. Nancy’s husband Dale had assumed that Cissy had run away for good when he found that she had gone missing, but his heartache wasn’t to last long as he was told that their beloved dog had tracked down her best pal and turned up at the hospital. Dale said: "I thought she just wanted to go someplace, but I didn’t know where and she had never run away before.” Cissy’s visit was not just a surprise to her owners, but also came as quite a shock to the staff of the hospital. Mercy security officer Samantha...

Baby Born Pregnant With Her Own Twin Siblings

A baby born in Hong Kong was pregnant with her own siblings at the time of her birth, according to a new report of the infant's case. The baby's condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births. It's not clear exactly why it happens. "Weird things happen early, early in the pregnancy that we just don't understand," said Dr. Draion Burch, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Pittsburgh, who goes by Dr. Drai . "This is one of those medical mysteries."  The doctors who treated the baby girl wrote that rather than a teratoma, the tiny fetuses may instead be the remains of sibling twins that were absorbed during the pregnancy. During surgery, which was done when the girl was about 3 weeks old, the surgeons discovered two fetuses between her liver and her kidney. One fetus weighed 0.3 ounces (9.3 grams) and the other 0.5 ounces (14.2 grams) — corresponding to about 8 and 10...

Nick, the boy who never gave up.

Nicholas James "Nick" Vujicic   born 4 December 1982) is an Australian  Christian evangelist  and  motivational speaker  born with  tetra-amelia syndrome , a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs.  As a child, he struggled mentally and emotionally as well as physically, but eventually came to terms with his disability and, at the age of seventeen, started his own non-profit organisation, Life Without Limbs.  Vujicic presents motivational speeches worldwide which focus on life with a  disability , hope and finding meaning in life. He also speaks about his belief that God can use any willing heart to do his work and that God is big enough to overcome any disability. - Wikipeida “Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've fou...

Six-week-old baby suffocated and died sleeping next to parents

The parents of  the child, Paul Pearson, 24, and 22-year-old Emily Lambert, placed their son Noah in a Moses basket next to their bed when they got back to their home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, at 3.30am on May 31. At 5 am, Noah woke up crying, he was fed and carried to bed where he was  cradled  until he fall  sleep between his parents. When the couple woke up at about 8.50am, they found blood coming out from Noah's nostrils. He was immediately taken to the hospital where test showed that he died from Sudden Infant Death syndrome after being deprived of oxygen. Consultant paediatrician Dr Eduardo Moya told the hearing that the parents’ decision to co-sleep with their baby and having consumed alcohol that night may have contributed to their baby’s death. He said "baby Noah was found to have a minor rhino virus, akin to a nose cold". “The not deliberate and unfortunate set of circumstances is well-documented – bed sharing with parents combined with alcoho...

Man Is Swallowed Alive By An Anaconda So He Could Film INSIDE

In the name of science a naturalist, Paul Rosolie, who actually  allows himself to be eaten alive by the anaconda so that he can film the insides, talks about his eendeavor 'I didn’t want to stress [the snake] out too much. I wanted to make sure that the suit was smooth and wasn’t going to hurt the snake,' Rosolie said. ' I really wasn’t scared. We tested this suit and worked on this with experts so we knew I was going to be safe.'  'I wanted to do something that would absolutely shock people,' Rosolie told the New York Post. 'Environmentalists, we love to preach to the choir. What I’m trying to do with this is bring in a bunch of people that wouldn’t necessarily know what’s going on in the Amazon.' 'For the type of attention that this is getting and for the type of emergency that’s going on down there — desperate times, desperate  measures.' He wore an armor to survive being eaten by the snake, this suit protected him from the sn...

Baby falls into toilet

Source: Thanhniennews A baby girl has been placed under intensive care at a hospital in Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, after her mother accidentally delivered her into a toilet last week.  The girl's 22-year-old mother, Bui Thi Han, gave birth unexpectedly when she went to her company lavatory.  Thi Hoa was born two months early. The panicked mother screamed for help while trying to lift the baby out. . Source thanhniennews.com

Pregnant St. Louis woman loses eye after police shoot bean bag at her

Source: Mashable Is the police going too far? A pregnant St. Louis woman,  Dornnella Conner,  lost her left eye after a police officer on Tuesday fired a non-lethal bean bag round at her car on the outskirts of Ferguson, according to reports.  The woman stated on  Facebook  that she had to have her eye removed. She was seated on the passenger seat of the vehicle at a BP gas station on New Halls Ferry Road in St. Louis when the incident occurred -  New York Daily News  reported . “They pulled up while we were coming towards the street, De’Anglas was trying to get away, they blocked us from the side, front and back,” Conners said. Conners says her boyfriend was trying to drive around St. Louis County Police but police say he drove towards them. Police say the officer, fearing for his safety, used his less lethal bean bag round, striking the front passenger window causing it to shatter. Conner went to anoth...