Here’s a social media trend we can get behind:  People are leaving $100 gift cards in boxes of diapers at department stores, just to help out new parents…………. Clowns might seem creepy to some, but a study found they can actually help kids leave the hospital faster.  The term for the kind that visit sick kids is a “medical clown“, and they go through all sorts of special training. The study found kids hospitalized with pneumonia were able to go home in an average of 43.5 hours if they spent just 30 minutes with a clown.  The average for kids who didn’t get the clown treatment was 70 hours. So like they say, laughter really can be the best medicine……………And finally…………….. 

49-year-old Utah woman Krissy Miller met a random guy out hiking last year . . . found out he needed a kidney . . . and offered him one right there on the spot.  Shiller Joseph has lupus and had been on dialysis for three years. It turned out Krissy was a match, and the surgery happened this spring.  They just met back up a year after they met to talk about the experience and encourage more people to donate.