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Scott Thompson operates the Thompson Strawberry Farm in Bristol, located several miles outside Kenosha just west of I-94 between Milwaukee and Chicago. From the road, visitors can see fields of waving yellow sunflowers and people milling through the seas of color. Planting sunflowers was Thompson's wife's idea. He started by planting a small two acre field. That endeavor eventually grew this year into a massive 22 acre sunflower operation with waves of the tall green stalks rising throughout the season. Sunflowers take about 60 days to mature, Thompson said. His first planting started Memorial Day weekend. The last planting was on July 20. Those should be blooming by the end of the month. "We planted one short ones. A lot of people plant tall ones, but they're not really good for pictures," Thompson said. "One of the best things about sunflowers is it makes for pretty awesome pictures. We grew shorter ones for the perfect selfie so you can get that sea of yellow behind you." https://patch.com/wisconsin/mountpleasant/wisconsin-farmer-plants-2-million-sunflowers-make-people-smile HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around.  Elliot Preddie was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disease which leads to blockages that prevent blood from reaching parts of the body.
INDIANAPOLIS — Elliot Preddie isn’t your average 12-year-old boy. “He just couldn’t enjoy life as a kid,” said his mom, Tremesha. Elliot was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disease which leads to blockages that prevent blood from reaching parts of the body. We first met Elliot last year at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. “Because of sickle cell, Elliot was always a kid who struggled with energy level and stamina and he got dehydrated very easily,” said his mom. He was getting a stem cell transplant from a matching donor. “When I was younger, I played sports a lot, but then I got too cold from my sickle cell. That’s why I started quitting all my sports. My baseball and soccer,” said Elliot as he sat on his back porch next to his family. One year later, Elliot is now free of sickle cell disease. “I’m really thankful that things are getting back to some sense of normalcy for all of us,” said Elliot’s father, Terry. Elliot’s doctor said he will continue to be monitored. “Now it’s at a point where he’s really just coming in for monthly checks with our stem cell transplant team,” said Dr. Seethal Jacob, sickle cell program director at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. Jacob said the challenge was finding matching bone marrow and matching blood donors. “Elliott was on chronic blood transfusions every month before he went to transplant and he really needed blood that matched him well enough so that he would not react to it,” said Jacob. About 3,000 Americans die each year because they can’t find a matching donor. African-Americans have about a 25 percent chance of finding an unrelated donor, compared to about 75 percent of whites. https://transplant.newsnetwork1.com/indianapolis-boy-cured-of-sickle-cell-disease-after-stem-cell-transplant/ HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS! I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news! If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around. |
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