- The world needs more streakers. There, I said it.
- One of my oldest and closest friends is on my Tuesday night trivia team and last night was his birthday. You may remember me writing about a box of yellow cake mix a week or two ago. Well, since yellow cake with chocolate icing is his favorite, I decided to bake it and bring it to trivia night. When I walked into the restaurant we play trivia at, I was defeated to see that there was already a cake on the table. Thinking he wasn’t going to have a birthday cake, he bought one for himself and to share with the team. That’s my kind of luck.
- I feel incredibly stressed because of the number of tabs I have open on multiple browsers on my laptop and phone.
- This the moment Olympic triathlete Taylor Knibb tells a camera operator during a live TV race: “I just s**t myself… can you not get my ass?”
- Some kids doodle on the church bulletin. Others draw. BoyGeeding works out random math problems. That’s my boy!
- Comedian Tom Green was in the news yesterday about a recent interview he did about leaving Hollywood and embracing the life of a farmer in Canada. Good for him. Some people loved his comedy, you can’t count me as one of them.
- I date a lot, more than I’d like. It’s nice to meet a lot of new women, but I want a relationship full of substance. I told one date last week how someone who was looking after me shared some life advice that I’ve adopted, “Acceptance is the answer to all my problems.” The next day, she shared this. I know a lot of you will recognize the source. But I found it all profound and that I’d share with you in hopes it helps make your life better too.
“When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away. And, acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitude.
- Suicide survivor says he ‘looked like a person again’ after facial transplant surgery
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Pfaff’s 50-plus-hour transplant surgery was performed in February at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, involving a team of at least 80 health care professionals.The team surgically removed the face of a donor and then surgically implanted the donor tissue onto Pfaff to restore his face structure and functions. About 85% of his face was reconstructed and replaced with donor tissue, Mardini said.
- I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to look at your new face for the first time.
Pfaff was told to wait about a month after the transplant before looking at his new face, and in that time, Mardini said, his patient met with a psychiatrist to prepare for the big reveal. “He wasn’t allowed to have a camera, his phone, his iPad,” mom Lisa Pfaff said. “The mirror in the bathroom was covered so he couldn’t see himself.” Exactly 10 years after that fateful night – March 5, 2024 – when Pfaff finally was able to see his new face for the first time.
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- I wish the article mentioned what it must be like to have another human’s face and thoughts and perspectives from the donor’s family. When most folks and their families choose to become an organ donor, no one thinks about their face being the thing that’s being transplanted.