Chan Plante is an amazing 24-year-old woman. She has walked through a den of wolves but has come out alive and thriving. To explain, we need to backtrack to this journey’s beginning with a quick recap. In 2020, Chan caught the original strain of COVID-19. She was lucky, and her mild case cleared up in a week. She went on with her life. At 21, she had just landed a dream job as “the editorial assistant for the editor-in-chief at PEOPLE magazine.” Then, her luck ran dry. She had a stroke that resulted in surgery to have her right eye removed, and her mom has been with her through the entire process. @chanplante Shoutout my mama for being braver than me in this moment #partialblindness #chronicillness ♬ snowfall – Øneheart & reidenshi When Chan Plante had her first stroke in March 2021, months after recovering from COVID-19, she went to the hospital, and they told her she was having an anxiety attack. They sent her home, but her problems continued. In June, she had a second stroke and this one left damage. After an MRI, they diagnosed an ischemic stroke due to the stenosis of her carotid arteries. They placed stents to open the arteries. However, by November, the numbness returned. Testing revealed a mass behind her eye; it wasn’t long before she lost vision in her right eye. Chan moved from New York back to Arizona, where she had a family to offer support. She took her story to TikTok and now has almost half a million followers. About her TikTok page, she says, “My page is about healing and positivity – and dealing with an absurd situation. Many people believe positive humans are just born this way – but I think it’s something I’ve had to practice. I was tired of suffering.” Moving On After Having Her Eye Removed At first, eye removal was not a viable option. Doctors had to get the swelling under control because it was pushing Chan’s eye out of the socket. Now that she has had her eye removed, there are options for prosthetics or other cosmetic procedures. Right after the surgery, Chan was afraid to look in the mirror, so she asked her mom to describe what it looked like. In the video above, you can tell that her mom is also apprehensive, but she has only positive words. Image from TikTok. Her mom’s loving smile and reassuring words were perfect. When her mom described what Chan looked like, she said, “You look like you have two matching freaking eyes … with your eyes closed.” The young woman has a natural beauty that shines through. Chan Plante wears an eye patch occasionally, but she isn’t shy about filming TikTok episodes without it. There is an open GoFundME page to support Chan Plante’s journey. This brave young lady is still facing challenges. You can follow her journey on Instagram and TikTok. After everything that has happened, she has never lost her positive outlook. Having her mom in her corner after having the eye removed is a great plus. If this story touched your heart, please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post After Having Her Eye Removed, Frightened Daughter Asks Mom To Describe What It Looks Like appeared first on InspireMore.

There’s so much that goes into overcoming our fears and anxieties. There’s the internal work we have to do ourselves, of course, but that doesn’t take away from the power of having the support of others. For the entirety of his adult life, Augie Leija has never taken off his shirt in public, even to go swimming. Body positivity is something so many of us struggle with, but it’s only just now something that’s openly discussed. Because of this shift in society, moments like the one Augie experienced in the video below are more possible. In it, Augie is enjoying a day at the beach with his fellow cruise-goers. One man in particular was hyping up the crowd as he playfully showed off his canon ball skills. Only wanting to get his feet wet, Augie inched his way to the shore. Once there, a man began to encourage him to take off his shirt. This encouragement quickly spread, particularly when the man doing canon balls joined. @augiedance #motivation #bodypositivity #bodyimage #motivational ♬ original sound – Augie Leija Understandably, kind folks asked for more details on what prompted so many to cheer, concerned that Augie may have felt pressured. On the contrary, Augie is happy to report that there was nothing but love and positivity on the beach. “That [canon ball] guy was pretty much egging everyone on, but in a really good way,” Augie says, “I don’t know how to explain it. He was just like, ‘It’s okay, man! You can do it!'” Body Positivity Wins When Kind Crowd at the Beach Encourages Man to Take Off His Shirt @augiedance Replying to @BEHEMOTH6674 ♬ original sound – Augie Leija Best of all, Auggie and his main hype man continued to chat and hang out after the video ended. How cool is that!? It goes to show that there are so many ways to have a positive impact or make a new friend. “As a big guy, this made me cry. All I ever want is body positivity because I would never judge anyone’s body,” someone shares in the comments, with another adding, “These are the humans I wanna share this planet with.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Love Yourself: Entire Beach Cheers Along As Man Takes His Shirt Off In Public For The First Time In Years appeared first on InspireMore.

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Garbage was formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1993. The band was founded by producer and drummer Butch Vig, who had gained fame for producing Nirvana’s iconic album Nevermind. Garbage is known for blending a variety of genres, including rock, electronic, and alternative music. Since their formation, they have released several albums, such as their self-titled debut in 1995, Version 2.0, Beautiful Garbage, and more, contributing significantly to the alternative rock landscape of the 1990s and 2000s. The band has experienced consistent success over the years, receiving multiple Grammy Award nominations and achieving platinum sales with their albums. They are also The post Complete List Of Garbage Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Most Americans are so dissatisfied with the economy that they think the nation is already in recession. Yet the Biden administration often cites robust job growth as proof that the economy is in great shape.  New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia throw cold water on that claim, however. It shows recent job growth has been 80% less than previously estimated. Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces an estimate for the number of payrolls that businesses added, or subtracted, on net balance. According to those reports, annualized job growth in the last quarter of 2023 was a healthy 1.6%. But that’s likely way off. The Philadelphia Fed takes these data from BLS and compares them with a much more comprehensive estimate of the labor market each quarter. That allows for better estimates of job growth than can be gleaned from the monthly BLS reports. Instead of the 1.6% growth rate previously estimated, the analysis from the Philadelphia Fed showed an anemic 0.3% annualized rate. That difference of just 1.3 percentage points may not sound like much, but it’s a significant gap. In a country of more than 330 million people and more than 150 million jobs on businesses’ payrolls, this amounts to more than half a million jobs. In other words, more than 500,000 jobs that were supposedly added to the economy in the last quarter of 2023 never even existed. Even more troubling, the previous two quarterly reports from the Philadelphia Fed also pointed to overestimation of payroll growth by the monthly job reports. This all adds up to a labor market that is less healthy than what is reported in the news headlines. Disturbingly, there are other official economic metrics that also seem to have deviated from reality in the past few years. In addition to job estimates, the BLS also updates the consumer price index (CPI) each month, a tool used to measure inflation and the cost of living. Some components of the CPI, however, are no longer reflective of the costs faced by the typical American today. For example, the monthly mortgage payment on a median price home in May was 119.5% higher than it was in January 2021—more than double in less than three-and-a-half years. But according to the CPI, shelter costs are only up about 22%. The official metric is off by roughly a factor of five. The magnitude of this error is illustrated by the fact that a family will pay almost $14,000 more each year, for 30 years, to afford the same house from January 2021, when the Biden administration took the helm of the nation’s economy. When jobs are being overestimated and the cost of living underestimated, it’s no wonder people have soured on Bidenomics. Anytime the picture being painted by official data is not reflective of widespread perception, then those data deserve extra scrutiny. In this case, the initial economic data being widely reported are clearly misleading. The massive discrepancies occurring between official data and people’s opinion of the economy are not due to Americans’ having “wrong” feelings about their finances, or a lack of understanding as some pundits keep asserting. Rather, some of the official metrics do not align with reality. Although empirical analysis is considered more objective than something so fickle and ethereal as people’s feelings on a topic, that assumes the empirical analysis is underpinned by reliable data. Take away that assumption and hard data loses its advantage when assessing economic conditions. It’s like gauging the temperature of a room not by observing a faulty thermometer, but by asking the occupants how they feel—and people feel frigid about this economy. Originally published at FoxBusiness.com The post Why We’re Adding Far Fewer Jobs Than the White House Claims appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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