Day 139

“Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.”

        -J.R.R Tolkien

Day 138

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

        ― George Washington

Day 137

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

        -Abraham Lincoln

Day 136

Hannah Warren, 2-Year-Old Girl, Gets Windpipe Made From Stem Cells 

 

CHICAGO -- A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.
Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow on her own since she was born in South Korea in 2010. Until the operation at a central Illinois hospital, she had spent her entire life in a hospital in Seoul. Doctors there told her parents there was no hope and they expected her to die.
The stem cells came from Hannah's bone marrow, extracted with a special needle inserted into her hip bone. They were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took less than a week for them to multiply and create a new windpipe.

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Day 135

Utah rug man helps Nepalese children by building health clinic

 

 

By Carole Mikita

May 1st, 2013 @ 7:58pm

SALT LAKE CITY — For more than a decade, a Salt Lake City businessman has raised enough money to build a clinic in the country of Nepal and is now open.

Jim Webber owns Foothill Oriental Rugs but became involved in humanitarian work when he traveled to Nepal to find products to sell. He saw a need and knew he had to do something that would change these children's lives.  

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