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Jason Collins details glioblastoma fight in ESPN essay: 'Like facing Shaq'
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Building on his initial announcement, former NBA star and first openly gay active player Jason Collins shared vivid personal insights into his stage 4 brain cancer battle in an ESPN essay, likening the tumor to a 'monster' and his mindset to matchups against Shaquille O'Neal.
Rabiu Suleiman Ibrahim, a 20-year-old resident of Dorayi Unguwar Bello in Kano State's Gwale Local Government Area, survived a stabbing by a phone snatcher. He recounted his ordeal to Daily Trust without anticipating the danger.
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After Japan's surrender in 1945, more than 4,000 Japanese children were left behind in China and raised by Chinese foster parents, earning them the name Japanese 'war orphans'. Tomoji Ohara, one such orphan, was adopted by a Chinese woman at age three or four and did not return to Japan until his forties. He has said that the orphans were not lonely in China, but truly isolated in Japan.
A German mother recounts in a family newsletter her experiences when her husband and daughter with Down syndrome visited the grandparents for a few days. She used the time alone, while her daughter achieved a milestone: riding a bike independently for the first time. The story highlights gratitude for small moments in family life.
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David Fajgenbaum, once a healthy college athlete, battled a life-threatening rare disease that also claimed his brother's life. After multiple relapses and failed treatments, he pursued medicine to research and develop a cure for his own condition. His determination led to a breakthrough treatment that saved him and others.