Mar. 15, 2025
Chance and Max Moore.Photo:Courtesy of Mandie Moore
Courtesy of Mandie Moore
When Mandie Moore’s 8-year-old son Max complained that his legs hurt during short walks in spring 2020, she worried something was wrong. Soon he had trouble getting down the driveway of their Roswell, Georgia, home.
After two years of visiting doctors and traveling to hospitals around the country, he was diagnosed withROHHAD syndrome, an ultra-rare disorder that affects the respiratory, nervous and endocrine systems, according to the theNational Association for Rare Disorders.
Mar. 15, 2025
Joanne Law before (left) and after her 100-lb. weight loss and subsequent plastic surgery.Photo:Kennedy News and Media
Kennedy News and Media
A mom of two who flew to Turkey for a cheap cosmetic procedure is warning about risks of medical tourism after she says she’s left with painful scars and eyes that won’t closeJoanne Law, 56, returned to Turkey after a successful gastric sleeve surgery; however, the second procedure, a face list, left her with eyes that don’t close and painful scarsLaw says she wants to “scream to other girls and say don’t do it,” sharing that now she’s too self-conscious to leave the houseA mom of two underwent a facelift after a 100-lb.
Mar. 15, 2025
Clair Honeywood; her with partner Danny Burch.Photo:Clair Honeywood/SWNS
Clair Honeywood/SWNS
A mother, whose inoperablepancreatic cancerwas initially mistaken for irritable bowel syndrome, is now raising money to marry her partner of 21 years during the remaining time she has left to live.At the end of last year, Clair Honeywood, 45, experienced stomach pain and thought it was a flare-up of IBS, agastrointestinal disorderthat causes an irritable bowl and manifests with cramping, bloating and pain.
Mar. 15, 2025
Olivia Armao with her son Salvatore and the rest of her kids.Photo:Athena (Feldshon) Hays; Empiria Studios, 2024.
Athena (Feldshon) Hays; Empiria Studios, 2024.
When Olivia Armao was placed in hospice care in mid-October just two weeks before her son Salvatore’s wedding, her family wasn’t sure if she would be able to make it to the nuptials.
The 62-year-old mom of four from Long Island, New York, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in the early 2000s.
Mar. 15, 2025
From Left: Melissa Guinn and her husband, Jamie.Photo:Facebook
Facebook
Melissa Guinn was sheltering inside their Minneapolis, N.C., home with her husband, Jamie, and son River on Sept. 27 as Helene unleashed devastation through the western part of the state, Jamie toldNBC affiliate WRALandFox News. Then havoc broke out around 11 a.m. local time,The Charlotte Observerreported.
Their home, which overlooked a river, suddenly began tumbling down, according to Fox News.
Jamie told WRAL that he could hear his wife screaming from where the house originally stood.