Do you know someone whom you consider a kind of super hero?
And what makes him that?
Of course I mean both male and female and other genders.
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Well, my son, really. He’s such a neat, neat guy. He’s a great dad and he’s always ready to help people out. He’s the head of maintenance at a retirement compound in town and the old folks just love him.
Firemen.
They do so many dangerous things, and really never hurt anyone, like the police occasionally do…
@MrGrimm888
They do sometimes start their own fires.
There currently is not a single class of people on this planet, that I would even remotely consider a “super hero”.
Pete Seeger. He was a fighter for progressive values, a folksinger and activist and always true to his values throughout his whole life.
That Dr. Pimple Popper is close to one. I’d say paediatric oncology doctors and nurses, though.
Yes. Oncology nurses. My god, what they see….
I had an acquaintance who fought to overturn wrongful convictions. She freed people off death row, and people who had served long sentences, sometimes 20 years or more. She passed away a few years ago.
I also know two couples who have taken in kids who could use an alternate home. Not by any formal adoption or anything, but simply saying, “come stay with us” for some stability. Usually for short stays, but in one case they raised a young teen until he left for college.
^^Guess that last paragraph makes me a superhero too!
My mother, she gave me life…nuff said.
Oh & chef, the things he does with a souffle & means I don’t have to suffer the wife’s, err…cooking?
And I’m a super hero X2!!
God,Jesus. But mom and dad would do just as well.
My friend and his wife took in their abused 12 yr old niece recently, having no kids and both with FT jobs, they made the decision after learning of the abuse and being asked by the state if they wanted her.
She could barely read, mind was turning to jelly and sleeping on a pee stained mattress. Now after only a few months in tutoring and with them helping, she has moved up several grades, grown almost a foot and has come out of her shell of ignorance.
She told me that she was just grateful to have food and until she got to their house she never even had clean socks to wear to school. They changed their entire lives for a kid they barely knew and stepped up when they didn’t have to. Not to mention all the appointments like a dentist, eye doctor, therapy, etc… So ya, that’s what I call heroes.
I so agree. I just don’t understand how it could take so long to discover it, especially if she was in school all of that time. But I know that it does. :( We lose so many kids through our system.
@Dutchess_III Schools pass so many kids anymore, especially with terrible parents. Literally took this girl to lunch at a deli and I asked what she wanted and she just looked at me. I said, ‘you can have anything you want’ and pointed to the big deli board. She looked me straight in the eyes and said “I can’t read it” I said “Oh okay, do you need glasses?” She says “No, I just don’t know how to read”. I was floored, literally didn’t know what to say for a minute, so I just asked the kind of deli things she liked and went on to order for her.
She has said she wore the same dirty clothes to school, all kinds of things you wouldn’t imagine. The only reason it got handled eventually was because the father told DFS (childrens services) to F off when they came to the house and he got in a lot of legal trouble. All is well now, for her, but so many kids live like that.
But you would think that being stinking filthy would be an even bigger flag to the schools.
My 6 year old Granddaughter is a reading fool (just like her Gramma!.) It breaks my heart that a 12 year is missed out on such riches.
@Dutchess Our teachers are tired, this school is inner city and they probably deal with worse. I cant imagine it either.
Hilarious how @MrGrimm888 got 4 great answers for repeating what I wrote. Hilarious.
Perhaps the Dr Pimple Popper comment threw them off the rest of your post.
Has anyone been watching her work? She really does good work and helps folks.
Ha! 4 of my GA’s, were votes from illegal aliens, that Obama snuck in to the pond….
It’s for my post where I was agreeing with @ScienceChick , and the two posts touch. Perhaps it was the addition of what they see? Not sure.
@ScienceChick . I wouldn’t get too bent out of shape. It’s just the way the forum works. Some read the whole thread. Others skim. It’s possible that the simple fact “oncology, ” was capitalized, so it stuck out more to the skimmers? My firemen answer only has 5…
@MrGrimm888 Yeah, I’m starting to understand the troglodyte culture that permeates the place.
^It’s a great place. The lurve is just for kicks. If you knew how it works, you’d care even less about it. Lots of lurve won’t add to a jelly’s total. You can only give each jelly a certain amount of lurve. Then, it’s just a sign of agreement with the post…
@ScienceChick I’m one of the members who gave @MrGrimm888 a GA and not yours. Here is why.
I had no idea who Dr. Pimple Popper was. It sounded silly. I don’t know any oncology doctors. @MrGrimm888’s response to yours was specifically targeted at oncology nurses. I do know one of them: my cousin.
Ann followed in her mother’s footsteps by becoming a nurse via the army. For years, she worked at a veteran’s hospital before becoming a paediactric nurse. She spent many years caring for children with cancer. She still receives kind notes from some of the parents of those she helped.
I once asked her how she and her co-workers handled it emotionally. Ann said that some nurses didn’t last long due to the emotional toll and moved into other areas.
So @ScienceChick, that is why I gave @MrGrimm888 a GA. The question targeted oncology nurses, and it made me think of my cousin. In hindsight, it was marked as such in haste.
Last night, I watched an episode of Dr. Pimple Popper. It is not for those with a weak stomach. Is she a superhero? Perhaps, in the eyes of some of her patients. The tv show portrays her that way. Do either of us know her? I don’t.
Well, I could tell you the full story of a young boy named Owen who went through the agony of being treated for cancer twice before his 8th birthday. I think he and his mom and the nurses and doctors are all heroes. The bone marrow doner was most certainly a life saver and a hero in their own right. There are still lingering effects from the chemo (he’s had to have cataracts removed from his eyes this summer), but he’s a funny, cool kid and I’ve been friends with his mom for a long time and they’re doing great now. Oh, I forgot to add, Owen is obsessed with the Dr. Pimple Popper stuff. So… that’s why my brain when there.
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