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A while back, when I got into my little Fiat for the forty-minute drive to my six-month checkup and check in with my oncologist. I was a little “hinky” as I always am prior to returning there, but the facility and its staffers are an amazing bunch of healthcare professionals who go out of their way to treat patients as they deserve to be treated. A concept that should not be an exception to a rule, but often is, unfortunately.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a Japanese naval engineer who made it through the atomic bombs of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese government has officially acknowledged him as the sole individual to have survived both bombs, despite at least seventy others being injured or killed.

Today, the word "gaslighting" and being "gaslit" have been used in abundance. What most do not realize is that the word is actually being used out of definition and context. gaslighting: psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting.

Juliane Koepcke was a newly-graduated seventeen-year-old who wanted to return home after graduating high school. She was heading towards the biological research station of Panguana which her parents founded deep in the Amazonian forest.

Experiencing a traumatic event like cancer can make it arduous to imagine what lies ahead in the future. Shelly Battista always believed that motherhood was her calling, but shortly after giving birth to her first daughter, she discovered a lump in her breast while nursing. Initially, she believed it to be a blocked milk duct, but was surprised to find out that it was, in fact, triple-negative breast cancer, leaving the mother from Arlington Heights, Illinois in a state of shock.

Tragedy struck central Florida today as two small planes collided in mid-air over a lake, resulting in the loss of four precious lives. The incident occurred at approximately 2:04 pm when a 9-1-1 call was received at the Winter Haven emergency center reporting the in-air collision between the two aircraft.

Heather Boswell was a 19-year-old teenager in 1994 when she was savagely attacked by a monstrous Great White shark while taking a dip in the ocean with friends. At that time she was working on a research ship when what was supposed to be a day off from work to be spent frolicking in the water quickly turned into a bloody nightmare.

*This is a work of nonfiction that was witnessed or experienced by myself and others. Everything you read has been written with permission and based on real life situations. Trauma has a way of following us through life… it affects relationships, communication abilities, trust issues, and our outlook on the future. There are millions of individuals suffering with mental illness related to suffering through abuse, abandonment, sexual assault… the list goes on and on. It’s how we choose to deal with those emotions that’s the most important in shaping the rest of our lives. From personal experience, it took a long time for me to understand how important therapy can be. Finding a counselor (be it through professional establishments or religious institutions) is only the first step. The second step is a little more challenging… there needs to be a level of comfort when talking to that person. After all, divulging your deepest and most emotional trauma is a challenging feat to undertake.

Who says miracles don't happen? Dwayne Johnson's mother, Anna Johnson, was involved in a car accident on Wednesday night that totaled her vehicle. But, thankfully, The Rock has revealed that his mother is fine and survived the accident. The former WWE star took to Instagram to share the news, posting a photo of his mother's red Cadillac, which was involved in the accident. Despite the fact that the front passenger side was completely crushed, Anna survived with flying colors.

Juliane Koepcke was 17 when she survived a plane crash and fell 3km to the earth. Juliane and her mother were on a flight from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa on December 24, 1971, when the plane was struck by lightning.

In 2013 Harrison Okene was a cook on Tugboat Jascon 4, a boat off the Nigerian coast. It consisted of a 12-man crew, and on May 26, 2013, the boat capsized at 4:50 am. At that time, Harrison was in the bathroom when he realized the boat was turning over.

Paul Richard Alexander has become known as the last surviving person living in an iron lung. Paul was born on January 10, 1946, and contracted polio at age 6 in 1952. Polio is an illness that affects the nerves in the spinal cord or brain stem, and in severe cases, it can cause paralysis and breathing trouble and lead to death. Polio is contagious and spreads mainly through contaminated water and fecal particles.

According to research by the Abortion Survivors Network (ASN), data on the failure rate for abortion indicates that for every 1,000 abortions committed, 2.1 babies survive. Extrapolating based on the Guttmacher Institute’s most recent annual abortion reports in the U.S., this means that an estimated 1,900+ children are potentially surviving abortions every year in the United States alone. Their ultimate fate, however, is unknown.

The Donner Party has become famous for cannibalism, but they did not start their journey thinking they would have to eat humans to survive. Instead, the party started like many others, headed west to make their fortunes and for a better life, except the Donner party made a few mistakes along the way that led to their gruesome ending and one of the greatest tragedies in the migration west.

Edith Eger is a 93 years old holocaust survivor and is now a clinical-based psychologist living in La Jolla, California. Edith was born September 29, 1927, in Kosice, Slovakia, to Hungarian Jewish parents.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only officially recognized survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings during WWII. He is only one of approximately 260,000 people who survived the attacks, but the only one who registered with the Japanese government.

A Hoover, AL man that fell overboard from a Carnival Valor cruise ship survived for 20 hours by floating in the Gulf of Mexico among sharks and jellyfish and had to eat a bamboo stick to survive the ordeal. He believes there is a reason he survived, and it is nothing short of a miracle.

Nagasaki, 1945Photo byU.S. National Archives and Records Administration; Public Domain Image. A Japanese man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916 - 2010) was known for being the only official survivor of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.