Dog Helps Owner Who Trapped Under Car for Four Days

Dog Helps Save Owner Herbert Schutz, 76-Year-Old Trapped Under Car For Four Days

Boydy, an Australian kelpie, truly is a loyal companion.

After his owner, 76-year-old Herbert Schutz, became trapped under his vehicle in Australia, the dog stayed by his side for four days until help arrived, local news sources report.

According to The Daily Telegraph, Schutz crashed his car Thursday on his Rylstone property after hitting a tree. He was pinned beneath the vehicle until Monday night. Two neighbors began a search for the elderly man when his daughter became concerned that she hadn't heard from him.

"Even when we found him, the dog ran straight to his side and cuddled up to him. He didn't want to leave him even then," neighbor Eric Merritt told The Newcastle Herald.

Though Schutz was lucid when the two men found him around 6 p.m. Monday, he was taken to a local hospital in serious condition. He suffered from a fractured skull, two broken hips and a dislocated shoulder, the Herald reports.

As the Telegraph notes, Schutz "was adamant his dog had saved his life."

"He said his dog lay on him and kept him warm a lot of the time," Merritt told the publication.

Man's best friend has often gone above and beyond to help save people in times of crisis. In October, a Japanese Akita jumped into freezing water in Scotland to keep his owner from drowning. Earlier, in 2011, a 79-year-old Minnesota woman said her dog chased away predators during the night she fell outside her home, and she credited her survival to the pup.

By: Unknown On 19.24

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The World's Best Taxi Driver

Kind cabby lends passenger $20 because she left her wallet at home 

 
Diane was touched by the kindness shown by a taxi driver, who not only trusted her to pay the $15 fare at a later time when she left her wallet at home, but also lent her $20.

The STOMPer is glad to know such a kind soul still exists today.

She said:

"I called for a cab yesterday (April 4) at 3.20pm to get from Yishun to Compassvale and when I reached Compassvale, I realised I didn't bring my wallet.

"I had absolutely no money on me.

"Andrew (Comfort Delgro SH8729L) not only trusted that I would transfer the fare of $15 when I got home.

"He also gave me another $20 as I didn't have any money on me at all, not even my ez-link card.

"What he did really made my day. Without his help, I probably would have had to cab home to get my wallet and I would miss out on a work assignment.

"Such taxi drivers are a rare find especially when there are so many instances of passengers running off without paying their fares.

"Trust and kindness are traits which are sorely missing nowadays and it is heartening to know it still exists."

By: Unknown On 20.36

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Naked Girls for HEROES

Meet the SWAGs (Service Wives And Girlfriends), whose cheeky naked calendar has raised £26,000 for Help For Heroes

 
Their other halves are busy dealing with military assaults. But for these SWAGs - Service Wives And Girlfriends - it's more about full-frontal assaults.

With only strategically placed guns and tanks to spare their blushes, these charity calendar shots have helped raise £26,000 for injured servicemen and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A total of 50 volunteers, all wives and girlfriends of men from the three Armed Services, stripped off to be photographed at bases and training centres in Hampshire. But their modesty was preserved by carefully placed pieces of military equipment.

Glamorous Kelly Monk, 20, is one of the women who features in the racy calendar. Her boyfriend Andrew Mason, 21, who serves in the 2nd Battalion the Princess of Wales's Regiment, came up with the idea for the charity shoot.

Kelly, of Botley, Hampshire, said: 'I got together with Andrew's sister, Sam, to do the shoot and it just snowballed from there.

'We were nervous at first, but then we really started enjoying it and everyone had a laugh. My boyfriend is fine with it.

'He knows that it's for a good cause.'

Lisa Fellows-Patel, 43, who lives near Bath and poses for the April page of the calendar, said she was 'proud' to have shed her clothes in support of the troops.

She said: 'An old schoolfriend is in the Army and was posted to Afghanistan.

'I felt the only way I could truly support him from home was to do charity work for Help For Heroes and as I model for fun a girlfriend suggested I help with the calendar.

'The night before, I was extremely nervous but told myself that if the armed forces are overseas fighting on my behalf I would have the courage to get naked and do my bit.

'The finished calendar is fabulous. It's very cheeky but not offensive and I love it.'

Photographer Roy Goodwin, who helped shoot the calendar, added: 'About 50 girls got involved in total and they were all volunteers.

'They put in a lot of work and dedication to make the calendar happen and we even had to smuggle them into an army base for one shot.'

By: Unknown On 01.02

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Tiny Chihuahua Vs Pit Bull

Tiny Chihuahua saves girl, 8, from terrible pit bull mauling
Honey sprang into action, saving Jenna Desrochers from the jaws of a massive pit bull. Despite serious injuries to her forehead and face, the young Canadian girl is expected to pull through.

Jenna Desrochers has been recovering at home since the attack and she may need plastic surgery. The pit bull that attacked her was euthanized the day after the mauling.

When a vicious pit bull ripped into the girl’s face, her grandparent’s tiny Chihuahua flew into action — and saved her life.

Jenna Desrochers, 8, a third grader from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, had her forehead and eyelid ripped open, but will live and heal thanks to Honey, the Desrochers' 4-year-old Chihuahua.

Jenna was searching for bunnies in the back yard when the neighbor's pit bull escaped its enclosure and attacked her on Tuesday, March 19.

"The pit bull took Jenna down at the knees, that's what the owner had told me, and basically went for her face," Anne Marie Desrochers, Jenna's grandmother, told CBC News.

The family’s chihuahua ran to Jenna Desrochers’ aid as she was being attacked and lured the massive pit bull away from the girl.

Honey, 4, sprang to Jenna's aid and barked up a storm to distract the much-larger canine. The savage dog released the little girl from its powerful jaws and chased after the 4-pound hero, giving the owner a chance to collar the pit bull.

Jenna, who was bleeding profusely, held her head as she ran inside the home for safety. The extent of her injuries shocked her grandmother.

"As soon as she moved her hand, I just screamed," Desrochers said to the Windsor Star.

Jenna Desrochers had the skin on her forehead ripped open, exposing her skull, and her eyelid torn in half. Luckily, doctors say she has not lost vision in her left eye.

A flap of skin hung off the girl's forehead and exposed her skull. Her left eyelid was ripped open and she had another bloody wound on the right side of her face.

Jenna's grandparents immediately transported her to Chilliwack General Hospital, where doctors spent three hours sewing her injuries back together with hundreds of stiches.

"Knowing which dog did it, I did not know what I would see when I got there. I assumed it was going to be bad," Jenna's mother, Leslie, told The Province. "I didn't know if she still had an eye — there was just so much blood."

 Luckily, doctors said Jenna did not lose vision in her eye. The girl was due to meet a plastic surgeon on Wednesday and, depending on her progress, she may be able to go back to school next week. Jenna was on spring break at the time of the attack.

Her family said if it weren't for pint-sized Honey, Jenna's injuries could have been much worse.

"I'm so glad that Honey distracted that dog because if it had gone for her throat that would have been the end of her," Jenna's grandfather, Paul Desrochers, told CTV News.

But Jenna was not surprised her four-legged friend came to the rescue. "I thought that she would help me and she did," she told the Windsor Star.

The neighbor agreed to have her pit bull euthanized the day after the attack.

By: Unknown On 22.29

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The Angel from Central Java

Lo Siaw Ging: Doctoring to the rich and poor

 Lo Siaw Ging, usually called Doctor Lo, is a physician of Chinese descent in Surakarta, Central Java.

The 78-year-old man is popular not only for his correct diagnoses and effective medicine, but also for requiring no fixed fees.

Every day except Sunday, dozens of patients pack his waiting room. They come from all walks of life: pedicab drivers, sidewalk vendors, factory workers, private employees, civil servants and businesspeople. They also include patients from surrounding towns.

Dr. Lo is special for making no distinction between treating the rich and the poor. He is even annoyed if a patient insists on paying if under financial constraints.

Lo also helps the poor pay for the medicine he prescribes by asking the relevant pharmacy to collect his bills monthly.

He does the same for inpatients at the hospital where he works, Kasih Ibu Hospital. Consequently, Lo has to pay bills worth Rp 8 million (US$860) to 10 million monthly. If the cost of treatment is large enough, like in the case of surgery, he seeks donors who are prepared to contribute anonymously.

“Fortunately many people still trust me,” he said. In the eyes of disadvantaged citizens, Lo is indeed seen as an angel of rescue. He defies the logic of medical charges going beyond the financial capacity of the poor. What he’s doing seems to challenge the current witticism, “The poor must not get sick.”

“I know which patients can afford to pay and which ones can’t. Why should they pay for doctor’s fees only to be unable to buy rice later? Their children should be pitied if they get underfed,” he pointed out.

Speaking in a firm and exacting tone, Lo frequently admonishes his patients for trivializing their complaints. Once, he became angry at a housewife who took her child to him after running a temperature for four days.

“So far many people have retained such an attitude. Illness can’t be relieved without cure so one has to see the doctor immediately. Self-diagnosis should be avoided,” he said.

Yet Lo is loved by many and remains a top medical reference of the have-nots. On the other hand, the graduate of Surabaya’s Airlangga University feels what he has been doing is nothing special and thus needs no exaggeration.

“It’s the duty of physicians to help their patients recover by whatever means. I’m only helping people in need of medical assistance. There’s nothing unusual about that,” noted the doctor, who practices at his residence in Kampung Jagalan, Solo.

Born in Magelang on Aug. 16, 1934, Lo was brought up by a family in the tobacco business. His parents, Lo Ban Tjiang and Liem Hwat Nio, allowed their children freedom to choose what they wanted to be. So Lo attended high school in Semarang, for the same school in Magelang was considered inferior.

After high school, he revealed his interest in studying medicine, to which his father responded by advising him that becoming a doctor and doing business wouldn’t go together well. Lo interpreted the advice to mean that a doctor shouldn’t merely pursue material gain because of the main duty to help people in need.

“Whoever comes here, poor or rich, deserves proper service. Helping people should never show discrimination and the entire work should be done with sincerity. The medical profession helps the sick instead of selling drugs,” he said.

A doctor since 1963, Lo started his career at a polyclinic, Tsi Sheng Yuan, owned by Dr. Oen Boen Ing (1903-1982), a famous physician in Solo. During the New Order, the polyclinic became Panti Kosala Hospital, which is now Dr. Oen Hospital.

Besides his father’s guidance, Lo said he learned a lot from Dr. Oen while working with the man for 15 years. “He wasn’t just a brilliant doctor but also had a high sense of modesty and charity,” recalled the former director of Kasih Ibu Hospital.

His principle of helping people in need was also proven during a critical time. When the anti-
Chinese riots of May 1998 broke out, Lo continued his practice despite his neighbors’ warning of the dangerous situation, particularly for citizens of Chinese descent, prompting them to watch over the doctor’s home.

“Lots of people needed help, including riot victims, how could I reject them? If all physicians had stopped practicing, who would have treated the patients?” asked Lo,.

Until the rioting ended and the situation returned to normal, Lo’s residence remained undisturbed. In fact, many of the houses in the vicinity had been looted and burned down by rioters.

Now nearing the age of 80, Lo still practices daily from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. at home, and sees his patients from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Kasih Ibu. After a two-hour pause, he again opens his home practice until 8 p.m.

“As long as I’m strong enough, I’m not thinking of retiring yet. A doctor will only retire when nothing can be done. My service gives me satisfaction that no money can buy,” said the physician, who has for the last few years used a walking stick.

According to Lo, his wife has had a major role in boosting his career. Without her encouragement, said Lo, he wouldn’t have been able to succeed the way he has. “She is a wonderful woman. I’m lucky to be her spouse,” said Lo about the woman he married in 1968.

In the profession for decades, once even directing a big hospital, Lo has continued to live a modest life with his wife in an old house that is relatively the same as when it was built, except for some new paint. It’s not an imposing and storied mansion like most doctors’ residences either.

“This house is big enough for us both. If I earn more, let it be shared with those in dire need. We just want to live properly. I’m very grateful to be able to reach my age, meaning more opportunity to help others,” added Lo, whose 43-year marriage to Gan May Kwee has been childless.

With expensive drugs, frequently unsatisfactory hospital service and mostly materialistic doctors, the presence of Lo is indeed like refreshing dewdrops. Only a few physicians like Dr. Lo can be found today.

By: Unknown On 21.03

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A Dad With Brain Cancer Wins Marathon

 Iram Leon, Dad With Brain Cancer, Wins Marathon While Pushing Daughter In Stroller

Iram and Kiana cross the finish line.


Iram Leon was the first runner to cross the finish line at the Gusher Marathon in Beaumont, Texas on Saturday with a time of 3:07:35. But Leon, who has brain cancer, insists that his 6-year-old daughter was technically the winner -- he pushed her in a stroller the entire 26-mile race.

"Here sore, reflecting and grateful, I still can’t believe that I won a marathon. Well, I came in second behind Kiana," Leon wrote on his blog.

Leon, now 32, was diagnosed with a Grade 2 Diffuse Astrocytoma in Nov. 2010, shortly after his 30th birthday. "Life goes downhill fast after you turn 30,” he joked in an interview with The Huffington Post. Doctors have told Leon that he is not going to beat the cancer, but their goal is for him to live until he's 40.

His daughter, Kiana, knows that Dad is sick. Leon and Kiana’s mother are divorced and the first-grader lives with him the majority of the year. She has seen him suffer seizures. They practice "911 drills" at home. But Leon struggles with how much information to divulge to Kiana while she is still so young. “There’s no good balance between protecting a kid from this and sharing it with them,” Leon said. Through counseling, he has learned that he shouldn't alarm her, nor should he underplay how serious his disease is. "Daddy has a boo boo on his left temporal lobe," isn't the right approach, he explained.

Since the diagnosis, Leon's perspective on parenting has changed tremendously. “The one thing I'm not going to say on my death bed is, 'I wish I spent more time with my kid,'” he told HuffPost.

And so, six months after he found out he had cancer, when Kiana was 4, Leon decided that he no longer wanted to run -- an activity he's enjoyed since third grade -- without taking her along for the ride. Because of his cancer, which affects his memory and language skills, Leon isn't able to drive a car, work, or play contact sports like soccer. But running is "just one foot in front of the other," he said.

They completed their first half-marathon together in October 2012. Leon convinced his mother, who was then 60, to run with him and Kiana in a stroller too. Since then, father and daughter have competed in half a dozen races. On Saturday, at the Gusher, they took their first marathon medal home.

Before the race even started, Leon faced challenges. Marathons don’t typically permit strollers; he was turned down four different times before the Gusher said it was OK. Over the phone, he stressed that he was uncomfortable with the special treatment, but said the most important thing was being able to compete with Kiana.

Leon detailed what the race was like on his blog, noting several setbacks, including a flat tire on the stroller, strong winds and an untied shoelace. But Leon also took advantage of a teachable moment during the race. At one point, three bikers were cycling next to the pair. "Kiana asked why are they hanging out with us and why is everyone waving at us. I kept having to barrel down because of the wind and so I just told her to be polite and wave and say hi to anyone saying hi to her," he wrote on his blog.

One of the bikers captured video (above) of Leon singing Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" while pushing Kiana.

Kiana usually teases her Dad about placing behind her, but this time, Leon said, the girl was cheering "we won" when they crossed the finish line, instead of her usual "I won."

Still, Dad is always proud to give the credit to his daughter. "At the awards ceremony, I immediately placed [the medal] on her neck and like every other race she’s been part of it that medal hangs in her room," he wrote. Since the win, the two were featured in a local newspaper and on Outside Magazine’s website, and a photo of them was splashed across The Wall Street Journal's sports section. The Sports Society for American Health which hosts the Gusher Marathon has set up a college fund for Kiana with a goal of $30,000.

But perhaps the most touching keepsake from the race was made by Kiana, who loves to draw. She sketched her and her father running the Gusher, and he posted it on Facebook with the caption, "Kiana's version both better than the newsprint and my blog."

By: Unknown On 19.16

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