# Your feel-good story for the day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110 "2025-04-16T17:37:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/101 "2025-12-19T14:25:22Z")
Very nice - and not the direction I thought that story was going. šŸ˜‰ Loves me some baby cheetahs: > **[Litter of Four Cheetah Cubs Born at Front Royal Campus, Smithsonianā€™s...](https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/litter-four-cheetah-cubs-born-front-royal-campus-smithsonians-national-zoo-and-conservation)** > > Keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia are celebrating the births of a litter of cheetah cubs. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/102 "2025-12-19T16:52:04Z")
I love it! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/103 "2025-12-21T04:20:21Z")
Good news for the Ohio woods: > **[Trail Cam Captures First Confirmed Sighting of Animal Since the 1800s:...](https://www.aol.com/trail-cam-captures-first-confirmed-124000552.html)** > > Don't miss your chance to see a fisher in action. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/104 "2025-12-27T10:18:25Z")
I am astonished šŸ» # **Australian medical history** ā€“ the heart donor who still walks the earth 20 years later [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/qld-domino-transplant-lucinda-simpson-cystic-fibrosis/10612713](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/qld-domino-transplant-lucinda-simpson-cystic-fibrosis/10612713) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/105 "2025-12-27T11:17:00Z")
There was a story on CBC Radio a few days ago that really stuck with me. A young Toronto woman with a rare liver disease was told that she would die without a liver transplant. Patients on the transplant waiting list are prioritized according to a set of criteria called Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) thatā€™s based on blood tests, and those tests gave the woman, Stephanie, a very low score. She was told sheā€™d probably never be able to receive a liver transplant from a deceased donor. She had one other option ā€“ a real long shot. That was to campaign for a live donor ā€“ someone willing to donate part of their liver. It turns out that, in healthy individuals, both donor and recipient regrow the liver to eventual normal size. But who would be willing to risk their life to do this? A pretty young woman (and a mother) from Portland, Oregon named Trisha Beard would. She was a complete stranger to Stephanie, and Stephanie had a hard time believing that this was real. For a while it wasnā€™t ā€“ authorities told Trisha that as an American she didnā€™t qualify. Undeterred, Trisha sent her paperwork directly to the hospital caring for Stephanie. The hospital agreed to take her for the necessary testing, with the Ontario health care system paying her travel expenses. Long story short, Trisha was deemed suitable, and the surgeries were scheduled. Trisha admits to being scared, but that she never once thought about changing her mind. Both surgeries were successful. Stephanie is now well and back to her teaching job at the University of Toronto, and needless to say, the two women are the kinds of close friends that only a sacrifice like this can engender. It still brings tears to my eyes that someone was willing to risk their life and undergo major surgery just to help a total stranger who wasnā€™t even in the same country. **[Full story here.](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/live-liver-donor-from-us-9.6950928)** **[Original radio broadcast here.](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-115-storylines/clip/16179941-her-life-depended-selfless-act-stranger)** ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/106 "2025-12-27T14:56:44Z")
That link led to this. How about just summarizing the story (or copy/pasting text from wherever you read it)? > # Sorry, thereā€™s an error with the website > > **This might be because:** > > - The page you were looking for is temporarily unavailable. > - We are experiencing technical problems. > > **Please try the following:** > > - Refresh the page. > - Try again in a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/107 "2025-12-27T15:01:21Z")
The URL provided by @MacDoc was missing a 2 at the end. Try this URL instead. > **[Lucinda donated her heart to another woman and lived to tell the tale](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-27/qld-domino-transplant-lucinda-simpson-cystic-fibrosis/106127132)** > > Lucinda is a member of an exclusive club ā€” living heart donors, and is the only woman to have a baby after a heart-lung-liver transplant ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/108 "2025-12-27T16:07:05Z")
Thanks! šŸ‘šŸ½ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/109 "2025-12-28T05:37:53Z")
Wow, quite a story! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/110 "2025-12-28T16:04:50Z")
> **[Friday, December 26, 2025](https://www.wbez.org/the-rundown-chicago-news-podcast/2025/12/26/friday-december-26-2025)** > > This holiday season, the Evanston Symphony Orchestra hosted a new kind of concert. The so-called ā€œbarrier-freeā€ performance was designed for people with disabilities and their loved ones. That includes accessible parking, an ASL interpreter and a... (8-minute news item) I love how this arose as an explicit ā€œfuck youā€ to Trumpism. Warning: have a Kleenex handy. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/111 "2026-01-12T08:30:30Z")
> **[Mattel launches its first autistic Barbie](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/12/mattel-launches-its-first-autistic-barbie)** > > Company says doll is the latest expansion of its commitment to representation and inclusion ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/112 "2026-01-12T18:30:50Z")
A _Star Wars_ flash mob at the Maul, er, mall: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpyfoJr38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfpyfoJr38) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/113 "2026-01-12T21:14:13Z")
Heck yeah! ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/114 "2026-01-13T04:38:45Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > [Mattel launches its first autistic Barbie | Autism | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/12/mattel-launches-its-first-autistic-barbie) Just watched **Season 48 of Survivor** and there is a truly inspiring autistic finalist on there that had Jeff in tears for the first time in nearly fifty seasons. Her story is fantastic as were the reactions of her fellow finalists as to what her actual accomplishments were ā€¦just insanely talented but what she overcame is incredibly inspiring. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/115 "2026-01-19T11:02:52Z")
She got her revenge in the end ā€¦what disgraceful behavior [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/porter-airlines-deaf-service-dog-1.7363838](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/porter-airlines-deaf-service-dog-1.7363838) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/116 "2026-01-19T22:20:35Z")
Weā€™ve just booked a few days away in Bristol (the one in England). The significance of this is that we had a must see list of three destinations, and this was the last one (the others being Prague and Alsace - now we can make a new list!) You would think that Bristol would be the easiest to do, being a few hours drive away, but things just seemed to get in the way. Why Bristol? Wellā€¦ First, Iā€™ve never been. Second, it has a reputation for being a cool place. Thirdly, there was that Edward Colston thing, and I really donā€™t know how well that is known outside the UK, so Iā€™ll recap. Back in the day, the city elders erected a statue of Edward Colston, noted philanthropist and - uh - slave trader. Yeah, for a while Bristol was a real big player in the slave trade. However, as you might have imagined, in more recent times there has been a degree of hostility towards the statue. Bristol has an extremely diverse population, which was annoyed (read: furious) that the city council was basically sitting on their hands over the matter. So that when Black Lives Matter erupted, a crowd neatly resolved the situation by tearing the statue down and throwing in the harbor. Four people were identified and prosecuted (ā€œThe Colston Fourā€). And hereā€™s the thing: despite the fact that they very obviously did it (something they didnā€™t even deny - though they did seek to justify it) the jury refused to find them guilty. So now Iā€™m have my chance to make a visit to the plinth on which the statue stood, and pay my respects to the good people of Bristol and the fine jury which put human decency above the letter of the law. > **[Colston Four trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colston_Four_trial)** > > R v Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Jake Skuse and Sage Willoughby, known as the Colston four, was a British court case surrounding the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston, involving four defendants accused of criminal damage in relation to the removal and dumping in the harbour of the controversial statue in Bristol in 2020 during a protest. > The four defendants were acquitted by jury after a trial. > On 7 June 2020, during the global protests following the murder of George Floyd in the Unite... j ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/117 "2026-01-20T17:39:31Z")
Beware the tool using cowsā€¦ šŸ§ > **[Cow astonishes scientists with rare tool use](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0n127y74go)** > > The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/118 "2026-01-20T22:36:32Z")
That was a very moooving story. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/119 "2026-01-20T23:23:03Z")
Udderly inspiring. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/120 "2026-01-20T23:31:42Z")
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