This is pretty awesome
Was about to go to bed as early flight at stupid oâclock but had to log on to upcite some of these stories ⌠must be tired as eyes seem to be wateringâŚ
Awesome?? Awesome doesnât go anywhere near it.
Iâm trying to write something to express how shit life is and I canât really find the words.
Iâm giving up, I canât find the words, Iâm slightly drunk, 2 of my pool team mates are arguing over shit and you want to grab them and tell them that thereâs more to life than they knowâŚ
You have to hang in there BT. The world culture may have become obsessive with âselfâ and âlook at meâ and all the shit storm politic of the self obsessed cunts, but stories like the ones above show that there are still times when people show their better side and that they do actually care. Hang on to that when the world being shit depression kicks inâŚ
Fuck sake @goatboy , just seen this!
Good job my eyes are streaming from my cold otherwise people in my office would think Iâm softâŚ
Not only that, just been reading an article that says that highly processed foods, like chocolate, can cause cancer!
Well done centreparcsâŚ
I got a hug and a kiss on the cheek from a gran for helping sort some accommodation for her daughter fleeing DV with her little baby today.
Donât know if this is cheerful but it appealed to meâŚ
I done a little cry.
Iâd of got rip grandadâs old phone and text back. âJust been chatting with Jesus and he says to make your dad a cheese sandwich.â
Not only an amazing (& humble) story, but probably going to become a cracking feel good movie
Once a month ÂŁ10 a hand Poker player from Bridlington takes his bucket list dream a step further than expected then goes back to his old life
I think this belongs here.
I have had the real privilege of working with a couple of these wonderful examples of the richness of the human species.
And, just as in Iceland, pre-birth testing will soon ensure that these mistakes of nature are extinct in the UK.
The world will be slightly more âperfectâ and yet slightly more flawed.
Over the years MS sufferers have come to expect little in the way of relief.
So many false dawns over the years butâŚ
Are they âimprovingâ the testing then @saintbletch ?
When we were told that the girls had larger then normal nuchal folds we were offered the choice of 2 tests, amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, both had a chance of causing miscarriage so we declined. Our neo-natal doctor kept pushing for us to have the tests. We werenât given any advice on top of that!
The girls are 8 at the end of this month and Iâm glad we decided not to have any tests, theyâre hard work but theyâre worth it.
Yes, @btripz , DNA profiling will now give a 99% accurate, non-invasive screen at 12 weeks.
Currently in the UK, 90% of people given a Downâs Syndrome diagnosis chose to terminate.
In Iceland over the last 5 years 100% of diagnoses result in termination. Put another way, Downâs Syndrome births no longer happen there.
There is now a very real possibility that the UK will head that way too.
If you havenât seen it, this itâs a great documentary made by Sally Philips (who I have a huge crush on anyway) who has a Downâs Syndrome boy.
A statistic that shocked me from the film was that there are only 40,000 people with Downâs Syndrome in the UK.
If you didnât already know it, your girls are very, very special - and they are beautiful too BTW, but thatâs obviously down to Mrs B.
Aye @saintbletch I have seen that documentary, I must have missed the bit about the DNA screening though.
Apparently twins with Downs is a 1 in 2,000,000 occurence, so yes they are indeed very special
Their beauty without is certainly not down to me, however their internal beauty is all mine