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California family celebrates healthy holidays after 3 heart transplants

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy affects up to 600,000 people in the U.S. alone and is a leading cause of sudden death among young athletes, said Dr. Gregory Perens, one of the boys' pediatric cardiologists at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA. Many don't …
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A Christmas miracle for baby Zack's family

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A newborn baby who was moments from death after suffering severe heart failure at just two weeks old is celebrating his first Christmas as a happy, lively eight-month-old. … “He wasn't coping. His body had had enough.” Zack was taken to Leeds via …
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Question by xtremist151: Why is there a “step” in a step-parent?
I’m not asking about the definition of a step-parent, but instead, asking about why there is the word ‘step’ in step-parent?

Who originally coined the phrase step-parent and why use a word like ‘step’ when you could easily say “fake-parent” or something…

What are they? A step up or a step down?

What are your thoughts?

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Answer by BOUND
The earliest recorded use of the prefix step-, in the form steop-, is from an 8th century glossary of Latin-Old English words. Steopsunu is given for the Latin word filiaster and steopmoder for nouerca. Similar words recorded later in Old English include stepbairn, stepchild and stepfather. The words are used to denote a connection resulting from the remarriage of a widowed parent and are related to the word ástíeped meaning bereaved, with stepbairn and stepchild occasionally used simply as synonyms for orphan. Words such as stepbrother, stepniece and stepparent appeared much later and do not have any particular connotation of bereavement. Corresponding words in other Germanic languages include: Old High German stiuf- and Old Norse stjúp

Question by haley92700: I want to try for another baby but he doesn’t. How do I honor his wish without compromising myself?
We lost our daughter on 6/27/08. She was born prematurely due to complications with the pregnancy. We both wanted that pregnancy. Now, I want to try again, but he doesn’t. He wants me to wait until he feels he’s ready (which could be 2 years from now for all I know). But the thought of waiting drives me crazy. If we don’t see eye to eye on having children, is that a deal breaker? I want to honor his wishes, but I don’t want to sacrifice mine in the meantime. Any suggestions? Thanks 🙂

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Question by digs_harleys: How does “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain connect to the war in Iraq?

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Question by Thurn: How do parents overcome this grief or find reason to be happy?
When their young child is raped and brutally murdered?

Knowing that their once beautiful baby is simply rotting in the ground and the scumbag who committed the crime has fulfilled his life’s goal and is now willing to go get lethal injection. He has a smile on his face and is fully content and proud of his victory over purity, innocence, and beauty. He will die happy, the parents will die with a piece of their souls missing. Other scumbags somewhere in the world will get the same victory and there is nothing anyone can do to stop them all. They have guaranteed victory.

How does a parent come to terms with this?
Maybe they can distract themselves by doing good deeds, but do they ever come to terms with the reality and the horror of it all?

Question by ? Primus ?: Anyone have any magic words to help me get over putting my cat to sleep today?
My heart is breaking. He was 14 and I’ve had him since I was 8 yrs old. He was actually born in my bed. 🙁 He just started having seizures Friday morning and his health declined dramatically in the last two days. I had to go have him put to sleep and I’m dealing with this all alone. I’ve always had my mom with me in the past, but now I live hours away from any family. I just need some kind words, I know it’s lame, but I just can’t keep crying all night.
This is my baby: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/primus567/pumpkin.jpg
His name is Pumpkin.
Thank you all for the kind words. I can’t choose a best answer. So many were helpful.

So let the voting begin 🙂