Posted April 23, 201015 yr If this does not bring a few tears to your eyes (read to the very end)... Tonganoxie holds special graduation for a student whose battle against cancer inspires many By LISA GUTIERREZ, The Kansas City Star, April 16, 2010 Connor Olson graduated from Tonganoxie High School on Thursday. He was the only graduate. He brought his parents, his grandma — and his hospice nurse. Connor has spent an exhaustive year fighting bone cancer, with one round of chemo, radiation and surgery after another. Forty weeks in the hospital over the last year. His condition worsened in recent weeks. Then, over the weekend, the 18-year-old, newly minted Eagle Scout suffered a stroke that paralyzed his left side and left him largely unable to speak. On Wednesday, the principal and faculty of the school arranged a spur-of-the-moment graduation ceremony for Connor because he never took his eyes off the prize. His diploma. -- He passed away a few days later on the 21st.
April 24, 201015 yr Damn, this is tough to read without getting teary-eyed especially with the photo and all.
April 26, 201015 yr Stories like this don't so much restore my faith in humanity as much as they make me glad that I don't believe in a god, at least not in the Abrahamic sense.
April 27, 201015 yr People tend to basically good to people they know personally, it's the people that they don't know that usually get the shaft. I hope these kids keep this lesson with them and keep helping those they run across in during their lives that need help. On a related sidenote, we took the kids to Disney World last week because we had a wedding in Tampa on Saturday, lots of sick kids and parents walking or getting wheeled around, it was pretty depressing when I stopped to think about it.
April 30, 201015 yr This is absolutely incredible, the amount of coordination and resources required to fulfill this wish... is amazing. Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day Erik Martin, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle. By Katherine Long, Seattle Times Eastside reporter, April 29, 2010 Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spiderman called. Spiderman happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he's Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light. And Spiderman needed Erik's help.
June 15, 201015 yr Woman's Wallet Returned With More Money Inside Man Returns Lost Wallet, Asks Woman To Pay It Forward WMUR, 14 June 2010 CONCORD, N.H. -- A Concord woman who lost her wallet just days after giving birth received a welcome surprise from a stranger. Nicole Parizo said she assumed her wallet was gone for good until she got a phone call from a man who'd just received a backpack as a gift from Target.
June 30, 201014 yr A touching story, and even more touching photographs... Manny gets ride of a lifetime By Peggy O'Farrell, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 30, 2010 Some kids jump in the minivan when it's time to head to the park. But this morning, Manny Evans hopped on a helicopter to get to a picnic in Sharon Woods. Manny, who has a disease called neurofibromatosis, lives at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
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