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The Daily Positive: Woman Has Memory Loss of Wedding; Husband Raising Money for Another Wedding

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Justice just go married. She was happy. Excited. Then, a car accident.

Justice was lucky to survive the crash, but sadly her memory of their wedding day 19 days previous had vanished. In fact, for some time she didn’t even know she was married.

Jeremy, the husband, added this:

“She has memory loss from about five weeks before the wedding,” he said, “which is when we actually started to plan and put the wedding into motion.”

So, Jeremy is now trying to raise money to do it all over again.

Jeremy has so far managed to raise $3,139 out of his $5,000 target and hopes to hold the ceremony on their first anniversary.

Hit the link to find out more about this story and how you can donate.

 

The Daily Positive: Sheriff Rescues Woman from Fire

It’s back, hopefully for a long time. The Daily Positive is a quick post with a quote and a piece of good news.

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An off duty Sheriff deputy helped save a woman from a house fire.

“Due to the intense flames crews were forced to combat the blaze from the exterior of the home,” Gwinnett Fire Lt. Jerrod D. Barrett said.

Prior to the fire department arriving, the Sheriff deputy assisted with rescuing a female occupant from the back porch using an extension ladder.

It doesn’t have to take a badge or paycheck to be a hero. The Sheriff did what he did most likely because that’s just how he rolls.

The Daily Positive: Girl Overcomes Physical Limitations

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A 12 year old is living her life, despite this:

Kennedy was born with Goldenhar syndrome, a rare craniofacial disease in which facial features and the spine don’t form properly.

She has had 19 surgeries over the years and has dealt with multiple medical issues, including scoliosis and chronic sinus infections.

Now, while some girls (and guys) may find this to be devastating, she says “it’s awesome”. A primary focus was that our girl has a clip on ear.

“I’ve seen that it’s given her confidence,” Kennedy’s mother, Amy Hendershott, said of the ear. “I think it’s given her that little extra boost that she’s needed for middle school. She is confident enough whether she wears it or not. And she’s perfect whether she wears it or not.”

You’ll want to read the entire story. I’ll give you this last piece:

Kennedy’s family has preached all along a message of acceptance. We don’t all look the same. We don’t all sound the same. And that’s perfectly fine.

It sure is.

-Dante Writes

 

 

The Daily Positive: Teen Gets Hit By Truck, Still Manages to Save Man

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Wait what?

You read that right. When I saw the headline, I had to give it a click. Maybe there was a mistake. But no, this kid gets hit by a truck, and still goes to save this man.

Here’s how it went down.

Dalton, the teen, pulled up to what was a car accident involving Duane, the 73 year old and another. Next thing you know, Dalton’s car is actually rear-ended. So, we have two accidents on our hands. Dalton and Duane get out of their cars and are standing around when the truck hits one of the cars and then slams into Dalton and Duane.

Our hero was in pain. I guess so! Turned out he had three fractured vertebrae. Holy mother of pain.

Meanwhile, as it turned out, Duane was sent flying to the other side of the road. Dalton, in his pain, went over to Duane and moved him to safety.

You gotta read the entire story.

The Daily Positive: Man Waits for Over an Hour to Return Money

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Ah, the goodness of people. A woman was getting some money from an ATM. She left it by mistake in the machine. A man comes by, notices this, and holds onto the money, with the hopes that the rightful owner would return.

‘I went to pay and there was no cash in my pocket and I realised what must have happened. I went to customer services in the hope that someone had handed it in – but there was nothing. I came outside, trying not to cry, when this man came up to me and said, “have you lost something?” I was gobsmacked. He said to me, “I’ve been waiting out here hoping you’d come out. I did try and follow you but I couldn’t find you in the store.”‘

Ms Lovell said she was so shocked she forgot to ask the man his name, but says he was in his fifties, with short brown hair and brown eyes.

She added: ‘I think the fact he waited such a long time was really impressive. I think he needs recognition for being such a kind man. ‘I’d really like the chance to thank him properly.

I can only hope that Mr. Good Guy didn’t get in trouble with other commitments for waiting for the woman to return.

The Daily Positive: Boy and Father Hiking to Raise Money

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A boy, Landen, and his father, Vince, are trying to raise money for sick kids. Here’s how it started:

To understand why 10-year-old Landen Martinez has such a big, generous heart, you have to go back about eight years to when his father Vince decided to grant a wish on his own and charter a helicopter flight for young man named Ryan who had terminal cancer.

Landen was only a toddler, but he was watching.

Years later, Landen wanted to go hiking with his dad. Vince saw that the weather would be fine. It wasn’t.

He packed plenty of food and water – but no amount of preparation would stop a sudden and violent monsoon storm.

They were alone and terrified.

“I looked him in the eye and I said, ‘hold on to my hand, we’re not going to stop, we’re too far to go back.’ We kept going, we made it to the top – I thought, ‘wow, he never quit!’” said Martinez.

Only six years old at the time, Landen apparently fell in love with hiking after that trip. Now-a-days, he’s hiking for a purpose.

Then a few months ago, Vince had a proposal for his son.

“I said, ‘’let’s hike Mount Fuji, that’s a higher peak. And the first words out of his mouth was, ‘how can I help other kids through this? How can I help other kids with this hike?’” said Martinez.

It was Landen’s first instinct.

“I remembered when I was little; I remembered about the kid my dad took on a helicopter…and then I thought, ‘if I hike Mount Fuji, I could raise money for kids like that,’” said Landen.

“I almost started crying, to be honest with you. Very proud of him, big heart,” said Martinez.

Make-A-Wish Foundation is where the money’s heading. They already have $5,000 raised and plan to raise plenty more.