This Dying Child Planned His Own Quirky Funeral. But That’s Not Even The Unbelievable Part.

Deryn Blackwell, a 14 year-old boy, didn’t think he had long to live. He had leukemia and was fighting another rare cancer. Last December, he was told he only had days to live. Deryn began planning his own funeral, his coffin was to be driven in the same hearse that once carried Winston Churchill. Then, he wanted to be brought into the crematorium to the sound of Move Your Feet. He also wanted to be laid to rest wearing a suit and having a styled pink mohawk. But then, everything changed.

Deryn was told he wouldn’t see Christmas. When he was 10 years-old he was diagnosed with leukemia. Then, he was diagnosed with the extremely rare Langerhans cell sarcoma.

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Doctors attempted to give Deryn bone marrow. All of the surgeries failed and his body was being attacked by multiple infections.

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He even had a superbug that caused three of his fingers to go black and necrotic. He and his parents were told, “This is the end.”

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He accepted his own death. Deryn had been fighting hard for four years and he just wanted an end to the struggling.

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He went home that December, thinking he wouldn’t see Christmas. But then Christmas passed. And New Years. In the second week of January, Deryn accidentally tore a bandage off one of his fingers. It wasn’t decayed down to the bone. It was healed.

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His immune system was completely shot, he was taken off drugs at the very end and doctors don’t know HOW he was able to fight off so many infections. But he did.

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No one can explain just how Deryn survived, other than it being a miracle. “Two months ago we were getting ready to cremate Deryn and now they are telling us that his treatment is over,” his mother said.

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Now, as strange as it sounds, Deryn is coping with life. He had been so ready to die and give up his battle with cancer, he is now unsure what to do with his new lease on life. This is truly a miracle and we hope that Deryn learns to live again, even though things were so dark for so long. Source: Daily Mail He used to think about his life in hours or days. Now, Deryn can really think about his future, his schooling and even a career. Share his miracle recovery with others and spread positive thoughts about Deryn, his survival is an incredible miracle.

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This Tammy Bruce point puts NASA’s privatizing in brutal perspective

http://twitter.com/#!/ABC/status/511875669051994115

What was the major announcement?

#NASA is outsourcing its work to private industry — And it’s about time. http://t.co/DubBH5b1cK #space

— B. Wayne Hughes, Jr. (@BWayneHughesJr) September 17, 2014

Wait, what?! We thought the private sector was bad and stuff. Surely they didn’t, and can’t, “build that.”

NASA taps Boeing to lead return to human spaceflight … http://t.co/g6KcfWMJ0i

— MyNorthwest.com (@Mynorthwest) September 17, 2014

Honored to be chosen by @NASA to be part of America's human spaceflight program pic.twitter.com/mTuCcEIE3X

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 16, 2014

Radio host and author Tammy Bruce made a point that puts this move in brutal perspective.

So we privatize space flight because it's more efficient, right after the Fed decides it's taking over all healthcare. Got it.

— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) September 16, 2014

Bingo.

@HeyTammyBruce @SeeTac7 You can't buy votes with space flight

— Dave in Texas (@DaveinTexas) September 17, 2014

@HeyTammyBruce @hale_razor Tammy, the president can't control the entire American public w/space flight. He CAN w/insurance.

— Hariette Petersen (@selahvtoday) September 16, 2014

And an exit question for the Obama administration:

@HeyTammyBruce Brilliant! What has the gov ever done efficiently? @Jami_USA @peddoc63 @AmyMek @SuePalmers @petefrt @WSCP1 @Patriotic_Me

— ChadHarvey (@ChadHarvey7) September 17, 2014

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/09/17/this-tammy-bruce-point-puts-nasas-privatizing-move-in-brutal-o-care-perspective/

Hashtag hilarity ensues as Page Six reports Monica Lewinsky shopping for a book deal

http://twitter.com/#!/PageSix/status/246244338860965889

Not quite a week after Bill Clinton gave his, ahem, factually questionable speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention comes news that Monica Lewkinsky is shopping around for a book deal, with the details unsurprisingly being kept top secret.  This is certainly not good for the former president, who has been basking in the warm and fuzzy afterglow of mainstream media praise about his 50-minute DNC tirade as part of his Rehab My Reputation 2012 tour.

But while it surely will not be welcome news for the former president, it definitely has been for conservatives who have had to endure an infuriating week of fawning Clinton admiration from journalists and pundits alike.  So to take a bit of a breather from all of that, conservatives decided to have a little fun today by starting the #MonicaLewinskyBookTitle hashtag.  The humorous results include but certainly are not limited to:

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle How Government Brought Me to My Knees: The Monica Lewinsky Story

— Right In Planning (@RightInPlanning) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle Secret Services

— Shilo Anderson (@ShiloAnderson1) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle On bended knees

— Brent (@brento76) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle Close, But No Cigar

— Karen Jones (@SnakebiteJones) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle Crouching Intern, Hidden Cigar

— WitCoHE (@E__Strobel) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle Hillary Got First Ladyship, I Got The Bill

— 'Teahadist' h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle Feminist Women's Guide to Pleasing Abortionist in Chief

— Skip Dunn (@NonStopSite) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle: My time in the Oval Office-The Long and Short of it.

— Tom (@swissrules) September 13, 2012

Tuesdays With Billie – #MonicaLewinskyBookTitle

— TJ Thompson (@_TJThompson) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle "How To Get That Raise"

— O.G Wave Goddess (@SkunkeeBrewster) September 13, 2012

#MonicaLewinskyBookTitle IS is the hardest word

— twiez07 (@twiez07) September 13, 2012

Tomorrow is another day when the battles begin anew.  But for tonight … just for a little while,  relax and let yourself laugh at Bill Clinton’s expense.  Because few people deserve it more than he does.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/09/13/hashtag-hilarity-ensues-as-page-six-reports-monica-lewinsky-shopping-for-a-book-deal/