Feel Good Stories

[Black Orchid]

A US couple who had been together for nearly 65 years died on the same day at a nursing home.

Jack and Harriet Morrison’s beds were placed next to each other in their final hours, allowing them to hold hands, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

86-year-old Jack died first. Harriett, who was 83, died later on Jan 11.

The couple went on their first date on Halloween of 1955. They married about six months later.

They met as Harriett accompanied her father on a trip with the drum and bugle corp he played in.

Jack was behind the wheel of a charter bus that drove the group to some of its concerts.

Together, the couple ran and grew V-K Bus Lines while raising Wagener and their two sons.

They were active Moolah Shriners, a fraternal order devoted to philanthropy, and travelled the world next to each other, often on Shrine-related trips, including to Europe and Australia.

About a year ago, Harriet tripped while walking their dog, breaking her pelvis and hip, Sue Wagener, a niece raised by the couple, said.

Harriet had dementia and moved into The Woodlands of Arnold nursing home and rehabilitation centre.

Meanwhile, Jack was having trouble living at home.

Wagener said she talked him into moving into a villa at the Woodlands in May.

In September, he also fell, breaking his neck.

He then moved into the nursing home, four doors down the hall from his wife.

Even then, they would nap together, one in a wheelchair, the other in bed - their hands intertwined.

Wagener said she told Jack on Christmas Eve that Harriet had stopped eating and drinking. He barely ate or drank after that.

About 11pm on Jan 10, she got a call from a nurse saying Harriet appeared close to death.

The nurse asked if staff could move furniture out of Jack’s room so the couple could be together.

Wagener said there was nothing she’d love more.

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/us-coupl ... r-c-655518


Awwww it warms the heart.

[Neferti]

Always and Forever!

[Black Orchid]

This teenage girl whose rare and incurable condition caused her to rapidly age making her looks like a 60-year-old woman has been given a new face after crowdfunding helped pay her plastic surgery costs.

Sunline Plastic Surgery Hospital in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province in north-eastern China, revealed the 15-year-old’s new face in front of a stunned media crowd on 20 January.

Named only as ‘Xiao Feng’, the girl from Liaoning’s Heishan County grabbed her nation’s attention last month when she revealed her genetic disorder known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome.

Her progeria, which was inherited from her mother, manifests in symptoms resembling early ageing - and there is currently no known cure.

Despite her otherwise lofty ambitions, stigma brought on by Xiao Feng’s condition forced her to quit school.

She described herself as looking like a 60-year-old “grandmother”, and penned an emotional letter to Chinese philanthropist Guo Mingyi, 61, asking for help.

After several weeks of negotiations and fundraising campaigns, Sunline Plastic Surgery Hospital announced it would be performing Xiao Feng’s operations and waiving 70 percent of her $106,000 bill.

https://7news.com.au/news/world/chinese ... --c-665583

[Texan]

This teenage girl whose rare and incurable condition caused her to rapidly age making her looks like a 60-year-old woman has been given a new face after crowdfunding helped pay her plastic surgery costs.

Sunline Plastic Surgery Hospital in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province in north-eastern China, revealed the 15-year-old’s new face in front of a stunned media crowd on 20 January.

Named only as ‘Xiao Feng’, the girl from Liaoning’s Heishan County grabbed her nation’s attention last month when she revealed her genetic disorder known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome.

Her progeria, which was inherited from her mother, manifests in symptoms resembling early ageing - and there is currently no known cure.

Despite her otherwise lofty ambitions, stigma brought on by Xiao Feng’s condition forced her to quit school.

She described herself as looking like a 60-year-old “grandmother”, and penned an emotional letter to Chinese philanthropist Guo Mingyi, 61, asking for help.

After several weeks of negotiations and fundraising campaigns, Sunline Plastic Surgery Hospital announced it would be performing Xiao Feng’s operations and waiving 70 percent of her $106,000 bill.

https://7news.com.au/news/world/chinese ... --c-665583

That's amazing if true. I hope the results last. She is beautiful.

[Black Orchid]

Yeah it's pretty amazing if it's true. I'm not exactly 100% convinced it's the same person though. Call me cynical.

[Valkie]

Yeah it's pretty amazing if it's true. I'm not exactly 100% convinced it's the same person though. Call me cynical.

I too, am a little skeptical.

The only other facial transplant I remember reading about was a French man.
He had very little feeling for years and it never looked quite right.

You might also note the neck of the woman.
The facial transplant made o mention of neck, yet it also looks much younger.

I wish it were true, and if it is I hope it lasts.
But I suspect it's not.

[Black Orchid]

I believe it was a face lift as opposed to a face transplant.