Inspiring

September 12, 2025

Cancer Survivor Celebrates Her Birthday by Paying for Strangersโ€™ Parking at Hospital Clinic

For her 63rd birthday, cancer survivor Krystyna Locke decided to give back instead of focusing on herself. After a 20-year battle with lymphoma, she knows firsthand how quickly the costs of treatment can add up. Thatโ€™s why she chose to ease the burden for others by covering their parking fees at the London Health Sciences Centre in Canada.

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September 10, 2025

102-Year-Old Man Becomes the Oldest Person to Ever Summit Mount Fuji

Scaling Mount Fuji can be an enormous task at any ageโ€”after all, it stands as Japanโ€™s tallest mountain at 12,388 feet. Despite all that, Kokichi Akuzawa recently defied expectation, becoming the oldest person to ever climb to the top at an astounding 102 years old. Akuzawa embarked upon his record-breaking journey on August 3, 2025, alongside his 70-year-old daughter Motoe, his granddaughter, her husband, and four of his friends from a local climbing club.

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September 5, 2025

Bedbound 23-Year-Old Living With Chronic Illness Is Making Music People Love [Interview]

Imagine that one day you couldnโ€™t make it out of bed. Maybe youโ€™ve experienced that, with something like the flu. It can be miserable, but you know youโ€™ll eventually get better and resume normal life. But what if that wasnโ€™t the case? What if you were never able to get back to running, cooking, or even climbing the stairs? Thatโ€™s the reality for those diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

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September 3, 2025

Dad Gets Tattoo To Match Sonโ€™s Surgery Scar After Life-Saving Heart Operation

Parents will do just about anything to make their kids feel loved. For New York-based Eric Conklin, that meant getting a tattoo to match the scar on his sonโ€™s chest. His little boy, Bennet, was born with a congenital heart defect and spent over a month in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU. In that short time, Bennet went through seven surgeries, which left him with a long scar down his chest.

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