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Monday, March 24, 2014
Boston Marathon survivor Jeff Bauman, who lost both of his legs, is engaged and expecting his first child with his fiance Erin Hurley...
CARLISLE, Mass. — A man who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, then helped authorities identify the suspects, is engaged and an expectant father.
Jeff Bauman, 28, and his fiancee, Erin Hurley, 27, told The Associated Press in a recent interview that the baby is due July 14. They don't know if it's a boy or a girl, and they want it to be a surprise.
"My mom loves it. My dad's going crazy," Bauman said. As for himself, "I just want to be a good dad."
The two have been preparing for the baby's arrival by painting a nursery in their home in Carlisle. Hurley said Sunday that she and the baby are healthy and her pregnancy is going well. They became engaged in February and together picked out a white-gold engagement ring. She said they plan to marry next year.
"We've got a lot going on. So we don't need to do everything all at once," she said.
An AP photo of a badly injured Bauman being rushed away in a wheelchair by three rescuers became one of the most memorable images of the April 15, bombings, which killed three people.
He was standing near the finish line waiting to cheer on Hurley as she completed the marathon when the two bombs exploded. Bauman became a hero after he provided a description of one of the suspected bombers from his hospital bed.
Bauman's memoir on his experiences, called "Stronger," is out April 8, one week before the anniversary of the bombings.
15 year old Shiva Nathan develops device that connects the brain via Bluetooth to move an artificial arm...
Shiva Nathan spends a lot of time thinking about a robotic arm. And when he does, the arm begins to move.
A 15-year-old high school sophomore from Westford, Nathan has earned international renown — and a nice chunk of money — by designing an artificial arm that can be moved around by signals from a person’s brain that are transmitted over a wireless Bluetooth device.
For now, the arm only waves from side to side, while its fingers flex in and out. Nathan cannot control it very precisely. But despite its limitations, Nathan’s mechanical arm is winning plenty of praise.
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At last month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, his armwon a $5,000 award for its innovative use of the Bluetooth radio technology found in most cellular phones. And last year, Nathan won $5,000 worth of electronics gear in a health care technology contest sponsored by the Army and Carnegie Mellon University.
Nathan is an avid technologist who writes iPhone apps and takes precollege classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to improve his electrical engineering skills. But his interest in robotics was born in 2012, when he learned that one of his father’s relatives in India had lost both her forearms in an accident some years before.
“I decided to take matters into my own hands and design a prosthetic,” Nathan said.
Nathan’s father, Nanda, owner of Nova Write, a Hampstead, N.H., maker of industrial lasers, was happy to turn his son loose on the project.
“Early on I was thinking I could help him out,” he said, “but I soon realized I was getting in the way.”
Sunday, March 23, 2014
"Dear Future Mom" - a scared expecting mother of a child with Down syndrome is reassured through a touching video...
“I’m expecting a baby,” an expecting mother wrote in an email on Feb. 9 to CoorDown, a down syndrome advocacy group based in Italy. “I’ve discovered he has Down syndrome. I’m scared: what kind of life will my child have?”
CoorDown took this question to 15 people with Down syndrome all around the world. The resulting video, called “Dear Future Mom,” features their beautifully normal answers. In different languages, they each note the typical and wonderful things this expecting mother can look forward to from her child’s life, regardless of the fact he or she may have Down syndrome.
It begins with a young Italian girl. “Cara futura Mama,” she says.
The video has reached nearly 2 million plays on YouTube, and with the World Down Syndrome Day on March, 21, it’s a timely and heartfelt celebration of people with this condition.
Looking for an event to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day in your state? Check out one of the 17 events happening all around the United States this week.
7 year old Josh Hardy bounces back and makes remarkable improvement after taking experimental drug to save his life...
(CNN) -- After just three doses of an experimental drug, Josh Hardy -- whose parents had to launch a media campaign to get him the medicine -- is sitting up, doing homework and playing board games with his brothers, his mother said.
Just last week, Josh was so sick he could barely get out even a few words. He was in heart and kidney failure, and vomited blood several times an hour as his family held a vigil in the intensive care unit of a Memphis hospital.
Josh received doses of the drug brincidofovir Wednesday, Saturday, and Tuesday, and tests showed the level of adenovirus in his blood went down from 250,000 copies per milliliter to 367 copies per milliter.
"We expect it will be out of his system by Tuesday," his mother, Aimee Hardy, said Friday. "I'm beside myself with how effective this drug was so quickly."
Already they're seeing results of the waning virus in Josh's system. He no longer has bleeding in his stomach and intestines.
Before receiving brincidofovir, Josh was fighting for his life. The adenovirus was ravaging his immune system, left vulnerable by treatment for cancer, and the only available antiviral drug to treat it wasn't working.
In early February, Chimerix, the company that makes brincidofovir,refused to give Josh its experimental drug. But after reports by CNN and intense pressure from social media, Chimerix and the Food and Drug Administration came up with a plan to get the medicine to Josh and other patients who request it.
Traditionally, drug companies have not been allowed to use so-called "compassionate use" patients like Josh as study subjects, so helping them out has been pure charity work on behalf of the drug company.
Josh Hardy has beaten cancer four times.
But the FDA allowed Chimerix to use data from Josh and others as part of its application to the FDA, helping to get the drug on the market faster.
Seven other adenovirus patients have inquired about being the next in line to get the drug, according to Kenneth Moch, the president of Chimerix, and several of those patients have already received doses.
Even though the virus seems to be leaving Josh's body, his mother says his kidneys are still in danger.
In February, his kidneys were just starting to recover from the damage of powerful chemotherapy. But then the adenovirus struck, and his doctors had no choice but to give him an antiviral drug that further damaged his kidneys.
Now that Josh is taking brincidofovir, he's no longer taking the other drug that hurt his kidneys, but the damage was done: His kidneys still aren't working and he has to undergo dialysis three times a week. His mother worries he might be on dialysis the rest of his life.
Josh Hardy was in critical condition last week.
"What if he has to be on dialysis long-term? If he could have gotten the brincidofovir earlier, it could have been avoided. That will always bother me," she said.
She's also worried about something else -- Josh's state of mind.
As recently as last month, Josh had a "go get 'em" attitude about fighting his illness, his mother says. But now, even though he's getting better, she says he seems to be exhausted after months of being sick and lacks motivation.
"I haven't seen him smile lately," she said. "I try to get him to chant every day, 'I'm as good as new.' "
Saturday, March 22, 2014
"Wiggle your Toes" - 8 year old Boston Marathon survivor Jane Richards gets her new "Cheetah" leg...
From the youngest, most enchanting victim of the Boston Marathon bombings comes a portrait of pure joy.
With her hands planted firmly on her hips and a beaming smile that all but dares the rest of us to be jealous, Jane Richard, barely 8 years old, shows off her new, hyper-cool artificial leg.
It’s called a “Cheetah” and it was a gift made possible by a group aptly called “Wiggle Your Toes.”
The smile on Jane’s face is the smile of a young athlete — confident, eager and ready to get on the soccer field or the basketball court, or any other arena she may choose to compete in.
It is also a smile that epitomizes every ounce of resilience this city has mustered over the past year.
Less than a week after Adrianne Haslet-Davis lost nearly half of her left leg while standing on Boylston Street, this professional dance instructor told me from her hospital bed that she would indeed dance again. A couple of days ago up in Vancouver, she put on a dancing costume and did exactly that.
Does anyone doubt Jane Richard will use her new leg to its maximum potential as she races down the soccer field? The smile on her face tells you all there is to know about this child’s grace and her indomitable spirit. Jane Richard will do whatever her heart desires and there won’t be anything that will get in her way.
For the daughter of Bill and Denise Richard has already been to hell and back. She has endured enough pain, suffering and heartache for several lifetimes. And yet as the first anniversary of her darkest hour approaches, the day she lost her brother, Martin, and nearly lost her parents, Jane Richard can flash the world a smile filled with a child’s joy and a courage known by few adults.
Only God can know why the Richard family was tested in the way it was a year ago. In the midst of a delightful spring afternoon, as they stood together to watch runners finish the marathon, this Dorchester family was savaged. Martin, the Richard’s beloved 8-year-old son, was killed by a homemade bomb that seriously wounded his mother and father and cost his younger sister half of her left leg.
And yet from the first moments of their ordeal, Bill and Denise Richard, pillars of their Dorchester community, looked for ways to transcend their enormous loss and transform it into a source of hope and strength.
A team of runners will carry little Martin Richard’s plea of “No more hurting people” into this year’s marathon.
And one day in the not too distant future, look for Jane Richard to run that fabled race in honor of her brother. And my prediction is she will be very tough to beat.
"Celling out for a Cause" - teenagers giving up their cell phones to help out 12 year old Ian Cadden who was recently diagnosed with leukemia...
A teenager’s best friend? Their cellphone. Teens sleep with it, eat with it, peck at it nonstop, texting so fast their thumbs blur. Faced with a choice between their cellphone or, say, their car, a prom date, their right arm, we all know what the average teen would choose. It would be Farewell to Right Arms, gimme my iPhone, my Galaxy, my Android.
That’s why what’s happening in Billerica is nothing short of miraculous. Some 40 teenagers so far — and the number could reach hundreds — have agreed to go cellphone-free, get this, for an entire month, starting April 17.
They could have gone the usual route — done a road race or a street hockey tournament (the idea began with the school hockey players). Instead they opted to make the ultimate sacrifice to raise money for Ian Cadden, a 12-year-old Billerica peewee hockey player diagnosed with leukemia last year. Ian has already spent 22 days in the Children’s Hospital ICU and faces weekly chemotherapy from now until May 2015.
“We call it ‘Celling Out for a Cause,’ ” said Glenn Corbett, the grown-up who came up with the idea.
For these Billerica teens, the ultimate sacrifice will mean time-traveling to 1992 and learning to use the landline in their parents’ home. It will mean looking for pay phones (are there any left?) when they need a ride home. And it’ll mean, as Nick Covino, 16, told me yesterday, “learning to speak to each other in person.”
Oh my God!
It won’t be easy, Nick admits, especially for a young man who texts “probably upwards of 200 times a day.”
“I’ll have to use the phone in the house,” Nick said.
Which means his parents will know who he is talking to? “Yeah,” he said, with an air of resignation.
Nick, who plays left wing, says he’s experienced life without a cellphone before. He got into hot water with his parents for an infraction we will not detail here. What did he miss most? “Not knowing anyone’s phone number,” he said. “They were all programmed into my phone.”
But for Ian, Nick added, “I can live without it.”
“It’s a sacrifice,” said Carissa Gordon, 15, who will have to go to Billerica High’s office to call her parents when she stays late after school.
“I really want to do this for Ian,” added Carissa, a goalie on the hockey team. “I think it would mean a lot to him.
“I know a lot of people who are just so hooked on their phones, they’ve said no (to giving them up for Ian). They use different apps constantly and are just on their phone all day long. I think it’s just better to have the communicating skills without cellphones.”
Corbett says the teens are asking for a paltry $1 per day donation for each of the 30 days they leave their phones at the town police station. “I think Billerica, actually the whole country, needs to hear about Ian and something awesome that the Billerica Memorial High kids are doing,” Corbett said.
Ian’s father, Bill Cadden, was certainly moved.
“It’s just amazing. Ian was ecstatic,” Cadden said at TD Garden, where he took Ian to watch UMass Lowell play Notre Dame in the Hockey East tournament.
“It’s been a tough year for Ian,” who’s lost family and friends to cancer and his grandmother just days ago, Cadden said.
“He knows,” Ian’s dad said, “how precious life is.”
Friday, March 21, 2014
Terminally ill zoo volunteer "Mario" gets to say good-bye to his animals...
A dying cancer patient who worked at a Dutch zoo returned to say goodbye on Wednesday. Lying in a hospital bed placed in the giraffe habitat at Rotterdam's Diergaarde Blijdorp, the 54-year-old man, identified as only Mario, waited for the animals to approach.
In an image now breaking the Internet's heart, one giraffe appears to understand the moment, kissing Mario.
"You could see him totally light up," said Kees Veldboer, founder and director of Ambulance Wish Foundation, which arranged the farewell. "It's very special to see that those animals recognize him, and sense that he isn't doing well," he told Rotterdam newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
Mario, who has a mental disability, spent nearly his entire life as a maintenance man at the zoo, according to the paper.
After the touching encounter, he then bid farewell to his colleagues, the charity reported.
Mike George and his Suitcase Full of Cash from "Deal or No Deal" Gives a Youth Program New Life....
More than 200 students from Cardinal Newman Catholic School, in Brampton, Ontario, filed into the Canadian Broadcasting Centre to cheer on the popular eighth-grade teacher from Room 26. It was January 2007, and Mike George was about to be on television.
The game show “Deal or No Deal” had gone to Toronto, and George applied to be a contestant because he needed money. Not for himself: Half the winnings, George told the host Howie Mandel on the set, would go toward supporting his grass-roots youth basketball program, Characteristics Inspiring Achievement, or C.I.A.
Tyler Ennis, a 12-year-old basketball prospect who was in the audience, could cheer for that. He was in eighth grade at Cardinal Newman, and his father, Tony McIntyre, had recently paired his own youth team, Bounce, with George’s C.I.A.
So George played the game, picking suitcases based on the jersey numbers of his favorite N.B.A. players. He won $144,000. And, as promised, he put half into C.I.A. Bounce.
George and McIntyre bought new uniforms, equipment and gear. They chartered buses instead of piling 10 players into a minivan for trips. They even played in a tournament in France. With better financing, George and McIntyre no longer needed to reach into their own pockets or turn away players who could not pay the entry fee. They could travel beyond suburban Toronto to seek out teams in the United States. And sure enough, within five years, C.I.A. Bounce became one of the premier Amateur Athletic Union programs in North America.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
San Jose Sharks bring 17 year old fan Sam Tageson to tears after fulfilling his lifelong dream as he continues to defy the odds...
Sam Tageson is a hockey player, even if it’s against the advice of his doctors.
The 17 year old was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. At some point, he'll likely need a heart transplant. His mother Lisa Mills told the Mercury News that his doctors told him he “would never ride a bicycle, never do any of that.” Instead, he rides skateboards and plays hockey. “They've given up telling him no,” she said.
But Tageson’s heart condition is, in the end, potentially life threatening. So the Make-A-Wish Foundation worked with the San Jose Sharks Foundation to make his dream come true on Tuesday: Suiting up with the Sharks for a full day as an NHL player.
That included signing a one-day contract with the Sharks, practicing with the team and hanging with the players.
That’s standard Make-A-Wish stuff when it comes to the NHL. Where Tageson’s day with the Sharks becomes extraordinary was before their game against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night. Tageson became the first non-player in the history of the franchise to skate out through the massive smoking Shark head for pregame warmups, and stood with the team during the national anthem.
It was an emotional day, and Tageson couldn’t contain those emotions when introduced to the crowd during the game.
In a roundabout way, Tageson helped the Sharks nearly rally to tie the game. In the third period, trailing by a goal, the Jumbotron showed Tageson inside the arena. The crowd cheered loudly. The Sharks then scored off the next faceoff to cut the Panthers’ lead to 3-2.
In the end, they came up short. As defenseman Jason Demers tweeted: “Disappointing to lose tonight really wanted that one for Sam Tageson... what a great kid and makes you appreciate what you have!”
And he, no doubt, has a deeper than ever appreciation for his favorite team.
Boston Marathon survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis returns to the dance floor...
Adrianne Haslet-Davis, the gutsy ballroom dancer who lost her left foot in the marathon bombings, made good on her Herald front-page vow last April to dance again, performing a rumba yesterday on a bionic leg designed by an MIT brainiac who is himself a double amputee.
“Conquering that out on that stage felt like accomplishing something I have been waiting my entire life to accomplish,” Haslet-Davis told the Herald yesterday. “The feeling is priceless. It took me a long time to even listen to music after the marathon. To dance again is incredible.
“I was always determined to dance again, and I knew that I had to, that I would, and here I am,” she said. “I’m a survivor, not a victim.”
Haslet-Davis and her husband, Air Force Maj. Adam Davis, were standing on Boylston Street cheering on the runners when the bombs went off nearly a year ago. Her left leg was amputated mid-calf. Her husband, just back from Afghanistan, suffered shrapnel wounds.
Just a week after the blast,
Haslet-Davis told the Herald from her hospital bed that she would dance again. Last night, she said her steely determination to hold onto that dream came from one source.
“I knew if I didn’t hold onto it, that (expletive) would win,” she said, adding she has never spoken the names of accused marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
“It’s been a long road,” she said. “It really has been a road, so today is extra celebratory
because it has really come to fruition. We thought we could do it,
we planned to do it, and we did it.”
The road for the former Arthur Murray ballroom instructor began when she met Hugh Herr, director of the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab. A climber who lost both legs to frostbite in a blizzard on Mount Washington in 1982, Herr told Haslet-Davis he believed he could create a prosthetic leg that would mimic the movements of the body while dancing.
“He said, ‘I think we can do this, I think we can make this happen, and the next week I was in his lab and it was ‘Game on!’” she said.
Haslet-Davis’ proud mom, Chauni Haslet, on vacation in
Hawaii with her husband while her daughter was taking the stage in Vancouver, said, “It’s beyond belief. She has proven she can do anything she puts her mind to. It’s unbelievable.
“We’re so excited. I love her,” said Adrianne’s dad, Bill Haslet. “She’s an inspiration. ... All along she’s been thinking about the city of Boston. She’s done a good job.”
Haslet-Davis’ performance stunned the crowd at yesterday’s TED conference, where techies had come to hear Herr’s talk on his prosthetic breakthroughs.
“In 3.5 seconds, the criminals and cowards took Adrianne off the dance floor,” Herr said. “In 200 days, we put her back.”
Haslet-Davis performed a rumba with Christian Lightner, a Boston dancer who is her best friend’s regular dance partner.
“Her body looks lithe and unimpaired. Her bionic foot is encased in a white dancing slipper, just like her right foot. It’s a stunning moment. ...” the TED blog reported.
“Oh my gosh, grown men were bawling,” Haslet-Davis said. “Some of them came up to me and said it was the only time they cried other than at the birth of their children. I got a standing ovation when I came out onstage and one when we finished. ... It meant the world to me.”
Haslet-Davis had hoped to run the marathon this year, but she isn’t ready. So her twin brothers, Timothy and David Haslet, 37, will run in her honor. As will best friend Stacy Friedman, who is raising funds for Limbs For Life, which has helped Haslet-Davis and other marathon survivors.
“We’ve all received so much support but I know there are a lot of other people out there who are dealing with what I’ve dealt with,” Haslet-Davis said, “so if I can be any kind of a stepping stone for them, then that’s wonderful.”
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Lena Paahlsson's wedding ring 'found on carrot' after 16 years...
Lena Paahlsson says the ring was on a small carrot she was about to discard
A Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.
Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter.
The white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen in 1995, she told the paper.
Although the ring no longer fits, she hopes to have it enlarged so she can wear it again.
Mrs Paahlsson and her family live on a farm near Mora in central Sweden.
She took the ring off to do some Christmas baking with her daughters, but it disappeared from the work surface where it had been left, she explained to Dagens Nyheter.
The family searched everywhere and years later took up the tiling on the floor during renovations, in the hope of finding the ring.
It was not until 16 years later when Mrs Paahlsson was pulling up carrots in her garden that she noticed one with the gold band fastened tightly around it.
Lena Paahlsson and husband Ola say it is incredible that the ring has been found
"The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible," her husband Ola said to the newspaper.
The couple believe the ring fell into a sink back in 1995 and was lost in vegetable peelings that were turned into compost or fed to their sheep.
"I had given up hope," Mrs Paahlsson told Dagens Nyheter, adding that she wanted to have the ring adjusted to fit her.
"Now that I have found the ring again I want to be able to use it," she said.
Misty Shaffer loses 100 pounds to surprise her Army specialist husband Larry...
(CNN) -- Misty and Larry Shaffer have been together since high school. She went to his senior prom; he went to her junior and senior proms. They got married in October 2008.
He never said anything about her being overweight.
When Larry, an Army specialist, was deployed to Afghanistan for a year in 2012, Misty decided she wanted to get in shape.
She weighed about 260 pounds when he left, and less than 155 pounds when he returned.
"I just sat in bed one night and was like, 'I can do this,'" she said. "'I need to do this.'"
Shaffer, now 25 and living in Leland, North Carolina, has struggled with her weight her whole life, even as a child.
Each time she had tried dieting in the past, she would relapse. Before she became pregnant with her daughter, Nevaeh, she took diet pills and lost 60 pounds. But all that -- and more -- came back after she stopped taking the pills. At her heaviest, she weighed around 300 pounds. She's 5 feet 6 inches tall.
"I would eat when I was bored. I'd eat three huge meals a day, and then snack in between. Sad or happy, I'd turn to food for everything."
Shaffer felt tired all the time. People picked on her. She wanted to surprise her husband, and work toward a better life for herself and her family.
Her primary mission: Cut out all the junk. She stopped drinking soda, and tried to limit her liquids to water and coffee.
The first three to four months were the hardest, she said. Once she got past that, she started craving more healthy foods and water. It got to the point where, if she drank a diet soda, it made her so thirsty that she didn't even want it.
Shaffer's job presented its own challenges; she's a personal shopper at a supermarket. At lunch time, the hot fried chicken "just smells so good," she said. But the supermarket also offers a large, well-kept salad bar, as well as warm vegetables on the hot bar and oven-baked chicken.
A typical breakfast for Shaffer is oatmeal with fruit or a cereal bar. On her days off, she'll cook up sausage, eggs or pancakes, but she'll watch her portion size. Around 10 a.m. she has a snack, such as fruit or carrots.
Lunch is a salad or half a sandwich with some kind of vegetable or fruit. An afternoon snack might be yogurt.
For dinner, she eats a lean meat (like ground turkey or a boneless, skinless chicken breast), a vegetable and a very small portion of starch.
The big day, Larry Shaffer's return, was May 15, 2013. The soldier had never seen his wife weigh less than 220 pounds, even in high school.
When she saw him at the airport, Misty Shaffer didn't know what to say or do. She just ran and jumped into his arms.
Her husband was speechless, uttering only one word: "Wow."
It was the first time he had ever picked her up. Before, he hadn't been able to lift her off the ground even a little, she said.
That moment was worth everything.
"A lot of people look at it like, 'Why is that such a big deal?'" she said. "But (when) you never thought you'd see that moment, that somebody can pick you up ... it is a big deal."
The other big part of the surprise: She had bought a new house while he was away.
Since then, Shaffer has been able to keep the weight off.
When her husband left she was a size 22 to 24; now she can wear a women's size 6. She's especially loving how much money she saves on smaller clothes. Khakis, for example, used to cost $80, but she found a pair for her new physique for only $7.
She said her husband's eating habits haven't changed much; he likes her cooking, but he'll help himself to ice cream or cake afterward. Sometimes she will join him. But she's not too tempted to go back to her old ways of eating.
"I've seen how hard I worked, and what I had to go through to get to this point," she said.
She's still in disbelief when her husband picks her up.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Gerdi McKenna was diagnosed with cancer - what her friends did next is amazing....
South African woman Gerdi McKenna was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago, and her friends decided to do something amazing to display their love and support.
In February, McKenna's friends sent an email to Caring Daises, a local charity, in hopes of planning a photo shoot for McKenna, who was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months earlier, Jacaranda FM reported. They planned to surprise McKenna by shaving their heads in a sign of solidarity and photographing the process.
The organization was able to get photographer Albert Bredenhann to help capture the moment. He shared the heartwarming event in a Vimeo video, titled "Anything for Love."
"My heart is full and I am doing it for my sister," one woman told the cameraperson before getting her hair sheared. "She is one amazing person. That is the least I can do. If I can do just a little for her to feel better, I will do it with love."
"I am nervous, but I know it is the right thing to do," another said. "I am giving up my pride for a friend that is going through much, much more."
Afterward, the group posed for photographs. Then they threw a party and surprised McKenna, who burst into tears upon seeing her friends' beautiful gesture.
“It was an honor as [a] photographer to capture these memories forever,” Bredenhann told photography blog Peta Pixel about the Feb. 28 event. “I never thought being a photographer could be so satisfying and rewarding. As portrait photographers, we should always remember that we are working with people, feelings and emotions.”
All of the hair was donated to the Cancer Association of South Africa.
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