I hope you’re doing well. The IRS warns that tax refunds will be much lower this year, impacting inflation-hit Americans who filed early with smaller refunds on average. By February 2, the average refund was $1,395, a 29% drop from last year.
In other news, farmers across the West are actively protesting against ‘Green Policies’ they argue hinder farming practices. Despite these protests originating from various fronts, a deeper examination reveals a shocking truth.
From New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas comes a riveting new film challenging audiences to take a stand in the face of evil. “Letter to the American Church” is a documentary adaptation of Metaxas’s latest book of the same name.
Metaxas guides audiences through the striking similarities between the church in Hitler’s early 1930’s Nazi Germany, the political regimes of Mao and Stalin, and modern day America and her church. Audiences will see that silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Metaxas and his colleagues agree that this is the hour of the American church.
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Woman Wakes Up From Coma Laughing at Her Mom’s Joke 5 Years After Horrific Car Crash
A mom of three who survived a car crash and spent five years in a coma has woken up laughing at one of her mom’s jokes, shocking her doctors and earning herself the chance to reconnect with her beloved sons.
On the fateful morning of Sept. 25, 2017, Jennifer Flewellen of Niles, Michigan, was driving to work at Bittersweet Pet Resorts after dropping her sons at school, when her vehicle collided with a utility pole. During Ms. Flewellen’s almost five years in the hospital, her mom, 60-year-old Peggy Means, visited her bedside every day, hoping for change.
Incredibly, Ms. Flewellen woke up in August 2022, laughing at a joke told by her mom. Eighteen months later, Ms. Flewellen, 41, is in rehabilitation for speech and mobility, and her mom recalls the incredible moment that her daughter came back like it was yesterday.
“When she woke up, it scared me at first, because she was laughing and she had never done that,” Ms. Means told People. “Every dream came true. Today’s the day I said, ‘That door that was closed, that kept us apart, had just opened.’ We were back.”
Ms. Means sent a video of the miraculous moment to family and friends. The next day, Ms. Flewellen’s three sons, Skylar, 21, Daeton, 19, and Julian, 17, went to the hospital to see their mom. It was bittersweet.
“I told her I was Juju and her eyes lit up, like, ‘Wow, it’s my Juju bean!’ But when she actually found out our ages and things like that, it broke her heart. She started to cry,” Julian told People.
Ms. Flewellen could nod and emote but not yet speak. Her physician, Dr. Ralph Wang, told the news outlet that her waking was “so rare,” claiming that only 1 to 2 percent of coma patients “wake up and make progress this far out.”
As the months went on, Ms. Flewellen slept a lot and gradually gained strength. Her mother advocated for speech therapy, even though some hospital staffers thought she was “crazy.” They allegedly doubted Ms. Flewellen would make progress at first, according to the report.
But the mom of three was determined, first experimenting with blowing air, then with whistling, then vowel sounds. Ms. Means gifted her daughter a kitten named Huey to help her practice her vowels. By October 2023, Ms. Flewellen was ready for a major milestone: attending a Niles High School football game to watch her youngest son, Julian, play.
“She was my biggest supporter,” Julian told People. “So to have my biggest supporter back on the sidelines, cheering me on, it was a surreal moment. … We’ve talked about the time that she’s missed, and we try not to, because it makes her upset. But my grandma always tells her, ‘You can’t sit here and be sad, because being sad is not going to get you moving forward.’”
Ms. Flewellen’s goals are to relearn speech and regain the ability to feed herself and sit up unassisted—with her ultimate goal being to walk again.
Ms. Means told WNDU News, “You know, people reached out and became more aware of her, and what a miracle I already knew she was, but to share it with other people and to know miracles do come true; I mean, they really do.”
Ms. Flewellen’s family is running a fundraiser to help buy a van and pay for some adaptive home remodeling.
On Jan. 13, the mom of three graduated from the Mary Free Bed Adult Inpatient Rehabilitation program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the hospital celebrated her milestone in a social media post.
“Jenn’s positivity and resilience have been the shining stars in her remarkable recovery journey at Mary Free Bed,” they wrote. “Congratulations, Jenn! Your journey is a true celebration of resilience!”
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