Incredible Recoveries, Record-Breaking Donations, and Quirky Events

0:03 Caloroga Shock Media. Oh wow, a man labeled brain dead has become the first ever to recover from an extreme form of locked in syndrome, which had paralyzed him. He couldn't even blink. Oh Wow, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Back in twenty seventeen, Jacob was living a normal life. He was a chef in Boston. All of a sudden, he was diagnosed with a toxic syndrome, which progressed into full un locked in syndrome. Locked in syndrome can be caused by brain trauma, infection, or exposure to toxins. Jacob ended up paralyzed and unable to talk or blink for a few months. He said, by month five, I was at stage four, which they said no one ever recovers from. They told me I'd enter into a coma and pass away. Yikes. So you're just sitting there and somebody tells you this. Jacob said, everything is changed after what happened. Everything is much more positive in all regards.

0:57 He said, it's like being trapped. Your brain is totally intact, but you can't communicate with anyone. After ten months, some of the nurses noticed him moving his wrist. The doctors came in and they said do it again. That was my one shot. I focused everything I could on moving my wrist. He regained the ability to blink, which allowed him to communicate for the first time in a year. His first words to his family were I Love you. Eighteen more months he got some basic movements and how to talk again. He then regained his ability to walk with the help of surgeries in physical therapy. He says, now, even with all the challenges, I appreciate the little things. It's been a little strange and traumatic period. It would take a long time to get over. Boy. Wow. A woman in Texas has claimed the Guinness World Record for most amount of breast milk donated by a single person.

1:37 Alise says donated about seven hundred gallons of breast milk when she had her son, Kyle in twenty ten. She was told she could donate extra milk she was producing to women who wanted to breastfeed their infants but were struggling. Alise says, I have a big heart, but at the end of the day, I'm not made of money, and I can't give away money to good causes over and over because I have a family to sport. Donating milk was a way I could give back. I was over producing and throwing away milk. Unaware overproduction was unique and other mothers struggled. Our first child, Kyle, was in the hospital. I was filling the nurse's freezer. Nurse asked if I was donating. I didn't know that was possible. The Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas told Elise that every leader of milk can feed eleven premature babies, which by her math, means that her milk has fed three hundred and fifty thousand infants across Texas. In the UK, a type of antelope list that has critically endangered in the wild has been born in captivity in the UK. Scientists believe there are fewer than one hundred Eastern Mountain bongos in the wild, so the first time the species has been born in the park in more than ten years. Head of Reserve Tom said, we're hoping in the future our new calf will travel to another wildlife collection and start a breeding group of his own. A Missouri thrift store is trying to figure out where these World War II love letters came from. They showed up in the donation. Bin Tina is the manager of the Salvation Army Family Store. She was going through the donation she found the letters sent by Chester to his wife Alma, while he was stationed in the Philippines during World War II. The letters d eight from between September eleventh, nineteen forty four November twenty seventh, nineteen forty five. Tina told local TV, there's a lot of history, so I wanted to find who they belonged to.

3:08 She teamed up with a local journalist to solve the mystery. They discovered that the original couple had reunited after the war to raise three children. In the letters, Chester had written, when we get back together, we're going to open a business. We're going to do these things. And that's what they wind up doing. And when you look at their obituary and you look at the pictures, all of it came true. They tried to track down relatives of the couple. They found an address that might belong to their son. They have sent a letter to the address. They're waiting on a reply. Close the garage door, will you Why do you say that? John A Moose wandered into a garage in Sweden and trampled over three BMW's, causing about twenty thousand dollars worth of damage. Victor is a BMW specialist. He was working in the garage and he heard some strange noises. He looked and saw a moose and wanted into the garage and was climbing all over a trio of park BMW's, including a restored BMW eight fifty I.

3:58 The company a shared video of the incident at on YouTube, and they point out no humans or animals were injured during the moose's visit, and the moose left on its own after causing twenty thousand dollars worth of damage. John Hell, is that a good news story? I don't know either. Sometimes I just need something fun and quirky to end the show with. So you got four good news stories and a story about a moose that you're gonna tell your friends anyway. All right, if you'd like this show without commercial interruption, there's a link of the show notes. The other thing you can do if you're on Apple Podcast, there's a banner it says uninterrupted listening. Click on that. Take a thirty day free trial. After that, it's four ninety nine a month. You have an awesome day, and again close the garage door.