Baby Alida finds comfort from her golden doodle. Aaron and Debbie Knobloch learned of their daughter's rare condition that effects her lungs when she was 6-months-old. Alida started having problems breathing, her breathing would be rapid for no apparent reason. One time she even turned blue. After several visits to different doctors she was diagnosed with a rare lung disease neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy "NEKI." She doesn't get enough oxygen from the air that she breaths. The condition was discovered 7-years-ago and 500 children have been diagnosed. Oxygen would allow for Alida to have a normal life, but how is a child going to walk around with a 6 pound oxygen tank? Alida's father Aaron saw a program about service dogs and he thought that a dog could carry the oxygen tank for Alida. This would permit Alida to have a normal childhood and be free to roam and play. Mr. Gibbs a golden doodle was living with Ashleigh Kinsleigh who trains service dogs near Knobloch's home in Loganville, Ga. The dog had just finished his initial obedience training when the Knoblochs came for the first visit. Alida and the puppy were a perfect match. Teaching him to be a little girls companion is a work in progress, but he's learning. If she wants to go on her bike he must run alongside of her. Some children do grow out of the need for oxygen, but until then, she has Mr. Gibbs her best friend to guide her.
http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/21/10780622-girls-best-friend-is-dog-who-carries-her-oxygen
An Internet site raises money for a boy with a rare condition. Three-year-old Lucas Gonzalez has hyper IgM syndrome a rare condition that doesn't allow his immune system to protect him. A bone marrow transplant could give him a normal childhood, but his parents couldn't afford $50,000. The parents started a website and a group of Internet strangers came together to help. A post from a popular link-sharing website Reddit joined in and raised $44,405 with $31,000 directly form Reddit users.
Reddit has aided in many causes here are just a few.
The site has hosted communities which dedicated themselves to shutting down auto-warranty robo callers, reuniting a mother and son who'd been apart 21 years, raising $500,000 for DonorsChoose.org, donating more than $185,000 to Direct Relief International for Haiti after an earthquake devastated the island in January 2010, preventing suicide, helping promote a large rally in Washington starring Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/05/9225800-reddit-raises-31000-for-childs-medical-care-in-12-hours
Here is a link to learn more about the causes that Reddit helped. http://www.reddit.com/help/noteworthy
http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/21/10780622-girls-best-friend-is-dog-who-carries-her-oxygen
An Internet site raises money for a boy with a rare condition. Three-year-old Lucas Gonzalez has hyper IgM syndrome a rare condition that doesn't allow his immune system to protect him. A bone marrow transplant could give him a normal childhood, but his parents couldn't afford $50,000. The parents started a website and a group of Internet strangers came together to help. A post from a popular link-sharing website Reddit joined in and raised $44,405 with $31,000 directly form Reddit users.
Reddit has aided in many causes here are just a few.
The site has hosted communities which dedicated themselves to shutting down auto-warranty robo callers, reuniting a mother and son who'd been apart 21 years, raising $500,000 for DonorsChoose.org, donating more than $185,000 to Direct Relief International for Haiti after an earthquake devastated the island in January 2010, preventing suicide, helping promote a large rally in Washington starring Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/05/9225800-reddit-raises-31000-for-childs-medical-care-in-12-hours
Here is a link to learn more about the causes that Reddit helped. http://www.reddit.com/help/noteworthy
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