# Inspiring

Dying Hospice Patient Gets One Last Ocean Hurrah Thanks to Officials

A hospice nurse recalled last week a sunny day back in August when everything came together to give Jim, a dying cancer patient, a brilliant return to his beloved ocean one last time. The nurse, Cathy Betham, discovered during Jim Handy's final days that his wish, as a resident of Cape May, New Jersey, was to once more dip his toes in the ocean, so she set out to try to make it happen.

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Cop Buys a Shoplifting Mom's Groceries

A police officer in south Florida was so moved by the plight of a struggling single mother who was caught shoplifting that she helped her out. Miami-Dade Police Officer Vicki Thomas purchased $100 in groceries for Jessica Robles, who admitted she made a decision to shoplift groceries out of desperation.

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100 Facebook 'Friends' Show Up to Back Bullied Student

After a Facebook post about a teen being demeaned for having no friends, 100 people in cars arrived at the school the next day, one after another, clogging the parking lot to rally their support.

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Man Picks Up Restaurant Tab After Overhearing Diagnosis

A Boston area waiter said he was asked to perform an anonymous act of kindness for a restaurant patron on Tuesday night. The photo he posted as proof is warming hearts across the internet.

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Record $390,000 Pours In for Cancer Patient Struck by Paralysis

After being dealt one devastating blow after another, a record-breaking number of donations has changed the life of a former cancer patient who suddenly became paralyzed after aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. At 29, Melissa Smith, who had beat cancer twice, was hit with a rare disease that paralyzed her from the waist down. Her sister, hoping to raise money badly needed to help Melissa, relentlessly urged a charity site, Chive, to intervene. It turns out, strangers around the world were waiting to help too.

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Quadriplegic Woman on the Love Behind Her 31-year Marriage

Joni Eareckson from Agoura Hill, California, has been wheelchair-bound since the age of 17, after severing her spinal cord in a diving accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down. She met able-bodied Ken Tada in her early 30s. She jokes that she knew Ken was the one when he willingly changed her urine bag on the first date. She loved his sense of humor about her disability.

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Mail Carrier Saves Man Who Went 3 Days Without Medication

For two decades Mickey Wheeley has delivered the mail to the same residents every day, so he knows something about these apartment dwellers. The observant letter carrier became suspicious when the mail began piling up in one of the boxes, which included the resident's medication. It was lucky he did - and took action.

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Blind Man Builds His Own House, Fulfills Dream

48-year-old Thomas Graham is building a house in Texas pretty much by himself. And although that job alone isn't remarkable, just imagine trying to put up a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch without any blueprints -- and doing it in total darkness. Thomas says he started dreaming of this shortly after the day he went blind at the age of 18