Eddy's Good News: A good deed turns into a fortune and a miracle toddler

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26 May 2022, 09:52

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's stories from today below:

Thursday 26th May 2022

Heart warming news from Canada as a good deed for a struggling artist paid huge dividends years later.

Say hello to Irene and Tony Demas, who’ve owned and run a diner in London Ontario since the 1960s and where fifty years ago, they did a good deed deal that’s earned them a small fortune now. You see, they make a mean grilled cheese sandwich, and take pride in the fact they put much love, as well as five year matured Canadian cheddar cheese in it. 

An impoverished artist called Maud Lewis loved these sandwiches so much that one day she bought a selection of her little paintings into the café to see if Irene and Tony liked one of them enough to swap it for a run of her favourite grilled cheese sandwiches. They chose a charming, childlike depiction of a man in a truck over a cheddar coloured background. They got a curious painting and the hungry artist got her melting slabs of joy. Now, fifty years later that very painting has gone under the hammer and in joyous Antiques Roadshow end of show pay-off fashion, the now celebrated folk artist’s work has fetched a gasp-worthy quarter of a million dollars! Yes, sometimes it’s easy being cheesy :)

Via goodnewsnetwork.org

Inspiring news from here in the UK as a toddler stuns doctors who told her she’d never see, or walk or talk again, she’s now doing all three!

Say hello to Evie-Mae Geurts who’s seven years old and top of her class at school, which is amazing, miraculous even, when you stop to think that Evie was registered as blind when she was just a few months old and had a rare brain condition called Hydrocephalus, which makes fluid pressure build up in the brain and causes all kinds of very serious problems. Doctors told her family she would probably never walk or talk, or recover her sight.

But astonishingly, brave Evie-May and her family stayed positive and her sight returned when she was a toddler and within a few years after that, she’d learned to walk and talk and now the hydrocephalus has vanished. No need for tubes to drain the fluid, she’s living a full and normal seven years old’s life and doing incredibly well at school, where she can see perfectly without even the need for glasses. Six monthly eye tests are all she has to monitor her progress now, but she’s 20-20 and 100% awesome.

Via goodnewsnetwork.org