Today’s Good News 10-19-23

Today’s Good News 10-19-23

A 50-year-old U.K. man, Michael Lock, celebrated his 20th anniversary living with inoperable brain cancer.  Turns out, working on his day off saved his life. He worked at a hospital in 2003 and woke up with a headache.  It was supposed to be his day off, but someone called in sick, so he went in last-minute, then started having numbness in his arm, so they rushed him to the E.R. He’s been living with the tumor ever since, but could have died if he didn’t come in that day………The charity Move for Hunger crushed a world record by toppling 12,952 cereal boxes like dominoes at the arena where the Detroit Pistons play.  The previous record was 6,391, so they more than doubled it.  All the boxes of cereal they used are being donated to food banks…………And finally……………… 

A Swedish woman named Karin has become the first person to ever receive a below-the-elbow prosthetic that fuses bone with metal and electrodes. Engineers and surgeons from Sweden, Australia, and Italy used ‘osseointegration,’ a process where bone tissue and titanium create a  bond and enable connection with the nervous system via electrodes implanted in the nerves and muscles. Karin says the robotic limb has increased her independence, and, due to the highly advanced integration between her residual limb and her bionic one, has also massively relieved her pain. 

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