Vaping mom left in coma from mystery lung illness
A Texas mom of three says that her vaping habit was to blame for a mysterious lung illness that left her in a coma.
Sherie Canada of Abilene took to social media after a 24-day hospital stint to warn others that e-cigarettes “nearly killed” her.
“You have no idea of how precious [your lungs] are until they aren’t yours anymore and a machine is telling them to breath [sic] for you,” she wrote in Sept. 6 post on Facebook.
The mom of three revealed that she started using e-cigarettes three years ago after getting hooked on the flavors.
“You don’t think about it. Everyone else is doing it,” Canada told news station KWTX.
But around two months ago, she began to experience weight loss, had difficulty breathing and developed a cough.
As her health continued to deteriorate, she went to the emergency room, where fluid and blood clots were found in her lungs.
“I was so scared but more than anything [I was] in so much pain. I was fighting for days already and so tired!” she wrote on Facebook.
She was placed on a medically induced coma on June 18, six days after she was admitted to the hospital.
“When I woke up and one of the doctors told me how bad the vaping was,” Canada wrote on Facebook.
Though she has made a recovery, she said she felt “shame” due to the preventable medical episode.
“I was sent to the ICU on my middle son’s 13th birthday and intubated on my 15-year-old son’s birthday,” Canada told KWTX. “I felt a lot of guilt and shame. I did this to myself.”
Canada said she’s now using the experience to inform others about the dangers of vaping.
“I asked for everyone’s forgiveness for putting them through this pain as well and [I am] just glad to be here today to share my story and my testimony,” she wrote on Facebook.
Canada’s post comes as at least six people have died across the county from vaping-related illness and more than 450 people have been hospitalized.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/09/15/vaping-mom-left-in-coma-from-mystery-lung-illness/
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5-year-old Texas boy fatally shoots younger brother inside family home
A 5-year-old Texas boy fatally shot his 4-year-old brother in the head when the pair found a gun inside their home, police and relatives said.
The boy, who was shot in Fort Worth just before noon Sunday, was pronounced dead at a hospital, Fort Worth police spokesman Gezim Pollozani told The Post.
Investigators are still trying to determine whether the shooting was accidental or intentional. No charges had been filed as of early Monday, Pollozani said.
The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office later identified the victim as Truth Albright, KXAS reports.
Truth was at home with his older brother and mother at the time of the shooting. Homicide detectives and investigators from a unit dedicated to crimes against children were processing the scene late Sunday, police said.
A neighbor told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he didn’t know the family, but regularly saw two boys playing outside the home.
The boy’s mother has five other children, according to an online fundraiser set up to help offset his funeral costs.
Two other children were shot Sunday in separate incidents in nearby Arlington, WFAA reports — including a 6-year-old boy who was in grave condition after being shot in the head by his preteen brother, and an 8-year-old girl shot in the buttocks who is expected to recover in what’s believed to be an accidental shooting.
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Florida couple busted for DUI had sex in back of cop car
A couple busted on DUI charges couldn’t wait to jump each other’s bones — so they had sex in the back of a police car, according to reports.
Ex-cons Aaron Thomas, 31, and Megan Mondanaro, 35, were initially stopped by a deputy after they were spotted riding bikes with no lights and almost being hit by a car in Nassau County, Florida, the Miami Herald reported.
When the deputy with the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office pulled the pair over, he noticed that they reeked of booze and had bloodshot eyes.
Thomas and Mondanaro were placed in the backseat of a patrol car — and that’s when things got hot and heavy.
“While I was outside of my patrol vehicle, Megan and Aaron took their clothes off and started to have sex,” the deputy wrote in an arrest report, according to the Herald.
“When I opened up the door to stop them, Aaron was naked and Megan had her pants down,” the arrest report stated.
Thomas managed to briefly flee, escaping hold of the deputy who tried to remove him from the patrol car.
But he was caught shortly after behind a nearby Cold Stone Creamery.
Authorities hit Thomas with an additional charge of theft because he took the police handcuffs with him when he ran off, according to the news outlet.
Thomas and Mondanaro were ultimately booked at a Nassau County detention facility on a slew of charges including DUI and exposing sex organs.
Mondanaro’s bond was set at $12,508, while Thomas was being held without bail.
According to the Miami Herald, both Thomas and Mondanaro have lengthy rap sheets.
Thomas previously served 46 days behind bars for assaulting a law enforcement officer and Mondanaro recently served 60 days in jail for a parole violation in connection to a prior conviction.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/09/16/florida-couple-busted-for-dui-had-sex-in-back-of-cop-car-report/
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2-year-old boy dies after choking on candy at Bronx library
FORDHAM MANOR, the Bronx — A 2-year-old boy died in the Bronx Sunday after he choked on a piece of candy while at a library, officials said.
The boy was at the Bronx Library Center with his 14-year-old brother when he choked around 3:15 p.m., police said. He was unconscious and unresponsive when emergency responders arrived.
The boy was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
The boy’s name has not been released.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/09/15/2-year-old-boy-dies-after-choking-on-candy-at-bronx-library-police/
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An Oregon man beat cancer. Twice. Then he won $4.6 million in the state lottery
An Oregon man beat cancer. Then he beat it again. Then he won the lottery.
He seems to be his own lucky charm.
Stu MacDonald of Bend buys Oregon Lottery tickets every week, and every week, his wife Claudia tells him to “get the winning ticket.”
She forgot to tell him on September 7, the Oregon Lottery said. But he ended up buying a winning ticket worth $4.6 million.
“I am a very lucky guy,” he said in a statement. “I survived cancer twice and here I am. This is amazing.”
After taxes, he took home about $1.5 million. A cafe where he purchased the quick pick ticket got a selling bonus of $46,000, the lottery said.
A spokesman for the Oregon Lottery told CNN MacDonald hadn’t agreed to any interviews or to release any images of himself, so you’ll have to imagine the grin on his face when he found out about his winnings.
Winning the lotto is rare. Like 1 in 300 million rare.
MacDonald is lucky, indeed. Winning the lottery is exceedingly rare.
The average person’s odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. That’s about 292,200 times less likely than being born with extra digits (the odds are about 1 in 500).
Unlucky odds won’t stop people from trying to get lucky anyway. For one Canadian man, it worked: After playing the same numbers for 30 years, he finally won $60 million in October. He waited nearly 10 months to pick up his earnings, which he said he’d put away toward a new home and a family vacation.
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Father helps wife deliver firstborn in bathtub after couple says hospital sent them home
CHESAPEAKE, Va. – A father had to deliver his own son in the bathtub of his family’s Virginia home after the hospital told them to come back when his wife’s labor was further along, he told WTKR.
Leo Bienaime took a picture moments after his son was born.
“Everyone that we showed the picture to was like, ‘Wait … why is there shampoo in the background?’” said Leo. “Don’t try this at home.”
The couple said they went to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth on August 23 around 8:30 p.m. and were told to go home about four hours later.
“I was told that I should come back when my contractions were when you can’t really walk and you can’t really talk through them,” said Leo’s wife, LeeAnn.
She said she has a high pain tolerance, and the couple drove 25 minutes home.
“If I could do it again, I would’ve just sat in the waiting room and not left. We would’ve pitched a tent. We would’ve started a fire. We would’ve just straight-up camped,” Leo jokingly told WTKR.
LeeAnn said she kept walking back and forth to the bathroom. She said she felt her son’s head. She said she wanted to hold the labor back and wait for professionals, but she said she couldn’t.
She got into the bathtub, and her husband called 911.
They said less than four hours after they returned home, little Joachim entered the world.
“I had to let instinct take over and just go with it and kind of release myself to the experience,” said LeeAnn.
The couple praised the firefighters who responded to the house and the person who answered their 911 call from the Chesapeake Safety Operations Center.
“She was the sweetest lady. I wish I could get her name and give her some cookies. She was the sweetest lady.”
LeeAnn said several people asked her if she planned to have the baby at home.
“I’m like, ‘No, because he doesn’t look like a doctor. He doesn’t have any experience,'” said LeeAnn.
Thankfully, mother and son were okay.
“We were able to have a healthy birth, a healthy baby boy – that’s why I’m not completely enraged,” said LeeAnn. “I feel like if it had gone another way, it would’ve been a different story.”
LeeAnn encourages other mothers to follow their instincts and to be an advocate for themselves.
Leo said he will be telling this story for the rest of his life.
WTKR reached out to the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth about the situation, and received the following statement:
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth is committed to ensuring the safety of every patient and providing high quality care. Whenever a patient has a concern about their care and treatment, we welcome the opportunity to discuss this with them and resolve any potential issues. Due to HIPAA, we cannot discuss anything specific on an individual’s medical treatment without their authorization. The patient has been contacted directly about her care while here at NMCP.
Shauna O’Sullivan DO, FACP CDR, MC, USN, Director of Strategy and Operations, Acting, Public Affairs Officer
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New Rochelle mom found slumped over, unconscious on twin babies’ stroller with PCP, K2 cigar in hand
YONKERS, NY — A 30-year-old mom found unconscious slumped over her babies’ double stroller in Yonkers allegedly told police she only took a few pills, officials said Monday.
A concerned witness pointed out Jessica Reyes, a New Rochelle resident, to patrol officers on Friday afternoon, police said. The officers found a burnt cigar in Reyes’ hand.
They took the cigar and tried several times to wake Reyes up.
“Don’t take my children,” she said when she woke up, according to police. “I only took a few pulls.”
Her 6-month-old daughters were taken to a hospital for evaluation. They were both in good health and were turned over to Child Protective Services for case management.
Police later determined Reyes’ cigar had PCP and K2 inside, officials said.
Reyes was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Photo Credit: Yonkers Police Department
Abby Lee Miller offers Felicity Huffman prison advice: The first day is ‘the most stressful’
Felicity Huffman, listen to this white woman’s advice.
Abby Lee Miller has some perspective on what Felicity Huffman can expect from her 14-day prison sentence for her involvement in the college admissions scandal.
On Friday, the “Desperate Housewives” star was sentenced to 14 days in federal prison, plus 250 hours of community service and a $30,000 fine for her role in the so-called “Operation Varsity Blues.” She is ordered to turn herself in on Oct. 25.
Huffman, 56, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in May. She confessed to paying an admissions consultant $15,000 to have a proctor correct her older daughter’s answers on the SAT. She wrote that she’d considered the same for her younger daughter but decided against it.
Miller, 52, who completed an eight-month stint in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud in March 2018, told Us Weekly of Huffman’s future behind bars, “Well, the first day going in is the most stressful. Then, after that, she is going to be in a big, huge room with bunk beds, tons of them. That’s where they first put you to get acclimated to the prison life.”
“She’s not going to get a job because she won’t be there long enough. She’s not going to learn how to be a plumber and how to do HVAC, and how to do all the things that you have to do to go over to the men’s prisons and do,” the “Dance Moms” star added.
“That’s why they have camps. That’s why women are in prison, so we can go make lunches when they all get in a fight. It’s ridiculous,” she scoffed. “It is the most absurd nonsense you have ever seen in your life.”
As for her vision of Huffman’s life post-prison, Miller has a pretty rose-colored view.
“She’ll make a huge movie out of it,” she cracked. “She’ll make millions of dollars and I’m the one paying for her health care for the rest of her life privately.”
In April, Miller said of Huffman’s then-potential prison stint, “My advice would be, take a deep breath and if you need a consultant, I’m your girl.” She added, “Be respectful of everyone, keep a low profile, be kind to people. Tell your story, but listen.”
Article via FoxNews
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Wendy Williams Is Back With, With A Beyonce Revenge Dress
Wendy Williams is back on TV and better than ever. The talk show host strolled into her studio while wearing a sensational, sunshine yellow dress that commanded attention.
Wendy Williams was all covered in lemonade before spilling the tea. The Wendy Williams Show host, 55, headed into the taping of her first show back from hiatus, on September 16, looking like a ray of sunshine in a huge, yellow dress. Wendy shined in the voluminous gown that showed off her arms and ample cleavage, but kept the rest of her killer body under wraps. She accessorized with an armful of bangles, a sparkly choker, and aviator shades. And she added a cool touch to the outfit by pairing it with a pair of white sneakers. Once inside, she changed into a tight, red minidress to tape her morning show episode. The duality of this woman!
Wendy Williams is back on TV and better than ever. The talk show host strolled into her studio while wearing a sensational, sunshine yellow dress that commanded attention.
Wendy Williams was all covered in lemonade before spilling the tea. The Wendy Williams Show host, 55, headed into the taping of her first show back from hiatus, on September 16, looking like a ray of sunshine in a huge, yellow dress. Wendy shined in the voluminous gown that showed off her arms and ample cleavage, but kept the rest of her killer body under wraps. She accessorized with an armful of bangles, a sparkly choker, and aviator shades. And she added a cool touch to the outfit by pairing it with a pair of white sneakers. Once inside, she changed into a tight, red minidress to tape her morning show episode. The duality of this woman!
Her ruffled, tulle dress is reminiscent of Wendy’s favorite piece of clothing, a giant, hot pink tulle jacket that she refers to as her “pouf.” Like a loofah, but make it fashion. She wears it everywhere and anywhere, and with everything — from casually walking into her studio, to rocking it on a luxury trip to Miami. She usually styles it the way she did with her yellow dress, throwing on a pair of chunky sneakers and something sleek underneath. The yellow number is also giving off some serious Beyonce in Lemonade vibes, don’t you think?
Wendy’s first episode back from hiatus was both emotional and joyous for the host. She revealed some exciting news: The Wendy Williams Show was officially renewed for two more seasons, meaning we’ll be listening to some sizzling Hot Topics through 2022. She’s going into her 11th season of the talk show, and she told her Wendy Watchers that she’s not about to go soft. In fact, she vowed to go “even harder” going forward!
“We will never stop working very hard to bring our dedicated Wendy Watchers and audience ‘co-hosts’ the freshest national daytime television. I heart you for watching,” she wrote in a statement.
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Kevin Hart Sued by Sex Tape Partner for $60 Million … Claiming Kevin Was in On Recording Liaison
Kevin Hart‘s sex tape partner claims Hart conspired with a friend to secretly record their encounter, and now she’s suing him for $60 million.
Montia Sabbag claims in a new lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, her 2017 encounter with Hart in a Vegas hotel room was all planned by Hart and JT Jackson — his friend who later was arrested for extortion. She says Hart was motivated by publicity … the need to get more — especially with an upcoming comedy tour — and that’s why he and JT allegedly hid the camera.
The suit claims Hart allowed Jackson into the Cosmopolitan Hotel suite so he could set up hidden video recording devices to capture the liaison. Jackson was later charged with 2 counts of extortion relating to alleged efforts to get money out of Hart to keep the tape under wraps. Jackson denied ever extorting the comedian.
Hart has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of the recording … claiming he, too, was a victim of Jackson’s extortion attempts. You’ll recall Hart later apologized for his infidelity and was adamant nobody should profit off his mistake.
TMZ broke the story … Kevin and Sabbag got up close and personal while partying at Marquee nightclub in Vegas. Sabbag, who back in September 2017 said she’s a crime victim herself, is suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.
Article via TMZ