Dec. 6, 2024

Incredible Recoveries, Record-Breaking Donations, and Quirky Events

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In this episode, host Johnny Mac brings five uplifting news stories. The remarkable recovery of a man from Locked-In Syndrome, setting a medical precedent. A Texas woman sets a Guinness World Record for donating breast milk, benefiting thousands of infants. Conservation efforts succeed with the birth of a critically endangered antelope in the UK. A Missouri thrift store discovers World War II love letters, uncovering a historical romance. Finally, a humorous tale of a moose causing chaos in a Swedish garage.

00:00 I Shocking Recovery Story
01:31 Record-Breaking Breast Milk Donation
02:19 Critically Endangered Antelope Born in Captivity
02:41 Mystery of WWII Love Letters
03:36 Moose Causes Havoc in Swedish Garage

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Caloroga Shock Media. Oh wow, a man labeled brain dead

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has become the first ever to recover from an extreme

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form of locked in syndrome, which had paralyzed him. He

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couldn't even blink. Oh Wow, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Back in twenty seventeen, Jacob was living

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a normal life. He was a chef in Boston. All

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of a sudden, he was diagnosed with a toxic syndrome,

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which progressed into full un locked in syndrome. Locked in

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syndrome can be caused by brain trauma, infection, or exposure

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to toxins. Jacob ended up paralyzed and unable to talk

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or blink for a few months. He said, by month five,

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I was at stage four, which they said no one

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ever recovers from. They told me I'd enter into a

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coma and pass away. Yikes. So you're just sitting there

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and somebody tells you this. Jacob said, everything is changed

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after what happened. Everything is much more positive in all regards.

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He said, it's like being trapped. Your brain is totally intact,

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but you can't communicate with anyone. After ten months, some

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of the nurses noticed him moving his wrist. The doctors

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came in and they said do it again. That was

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my one shot. I focused everything I could on moving

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my wrist. He regained the ability to blink, which allowed

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him to communicate for the first time in a year.

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His first words to his family were I Love you.

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Eighteen more months he got some basic movements and how

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to talk again. He then regained his ability to walk

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with the help of surgeries in physical therapy. He says, now,

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even with all the challenges, I appreciate the little things.

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It's been a little strange and traumatic period. It would

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take a long time to get over. Boy. Wow. A

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woman in Texas has claimed the Guinness World Record for

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most amount of breast milk donated by a single person.

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Alise says donated about seven hundred gallons of breast milk

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when she had her son, Kyle in twenty ten. She

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was told she could donate extra milk she was producing

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to women who wanted to breastfeed their infants but were struggling.

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Alise says, I have a big heart, but at the

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end of the day, I'm not made of money, and

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I can't give away money to good causes over and

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over because I have a family to sport. Donating milk

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was a way I could give back. I was over

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producing and throwing away milk. Unaware overproduction was unique and

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other mothers struggled. Our first child, Kyle, was in the hospital.

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I was filling the nurse's freezer. Nurse asked if I

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was donating. I didn't know that was possible. The Mother's

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Milk Bank of North Texas told Elise that every leader

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of milk can feed eleven premature babies, which by her math,

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means that her milk has fed three hundred and fifty

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thousand infants across Texas. In the UK, a type of

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antelope list that has critically endangered in the wild has

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been born in captivity in the UK. Scientists believe there

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are fewer than one hundred Eastern Mountain bongos in the wild,

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so the first time the species has been born in

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the park in more than ten years. Head of Reserve

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Tom said, we're hoping in the future our new calf

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will travel to another wildlife collection and start a breeding

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group of his own. A Missouri thrift store is trying

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to figure out where these World War II love letters

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came from. They showed up in the donation. Bin Tina

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is the manager of the Salvation Army Family Store. She

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was going through the donation she found the letters sent

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by Chester to his wife Alma, while he was stationed

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in the Philippines during World War II. The letters d

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eight from between September eleventh, nineteen forty four November twenty seventh,

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nineteen forty five. Tina told local TV, there's a lot

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of history, so I wanted to find who they belonged to.

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She teamed up with a local journalist to solve the mystery.

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They discovered that the original couple had reunited after the

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war to raise three children. In the letters, Chester had written,

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when we get back together, we're going to open a business.

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We're going to do these things. And that's what they

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wind up doing. And when you look at their obituary

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and you look at the pictures, all of it came true.

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They tried to track down relatives of the couple. They

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found an address that might belong to their son. They

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have sent a letter to the address. They're waiting on

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a reply. Close the garage door, will you Why do

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you say that? John A Moose wandered into a garage

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in Sweden and trampled over three BMW's, causing about twenty

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thousand dollars worth of damage. Victor is a BMW specialist.

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He was working in the garage and he heard some

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strange noises. He looked and saw a moose and wanted

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into the garage and was climbing all over a trio

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of park BMW's, including a restored BMW eight fifty I.

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The company a shared video of the incident at on YouTube,

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and they point out no humans or animals were injured

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during the moose's visit, and the moose left on its

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own after causing twenty thousand dollars worth of damage. John Hell,

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is that a good news story? I don't know either.

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Sometimes I just need something fun and quirky to end

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the show with. So you got four good news stories

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and a story about a moose that you're gonna tell

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your friends anyway. All right, if you'd like this show

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