{"id":32813,"date":"2022-12-29T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=32813"},"modified":"2022-12-29T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T10:04:00","slug":"saving-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/12\/saving-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Buffalo woman rescued a stranger who was stranded outside during the deadly snowstorm that has left at least 31 people dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a Facebook post and video on December 25, Sha&#8217;Kyra Aughtry said she found a man with special needs screaming for help on the street on the morning of December 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aughtry and her boyfriend decided to take the man \u2014 who has been identified as Joe White \u2014 into her home, bathing, feeding, and tending to his injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I currently have a 64-year-old white man in my house,&#8221; Aughtry said in the video, adding that the man &#8220;was being blown up and down the street \u2014 it was out of control.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aughtry said White suffered injuries from the extreme cold, including having &#8220;hands with ice balls&#8221; on them. She said White had a tote bag frozen to his hands and that she had to blow dry the ice off of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also said she called emergency services for help, but that no one was able to come to their aid. &#8220;They keep telling me I was on a list. But I don&#8217;t want to be on no list,&#8221; Aughtry said. &#8220;This man is not about to die over here,&#8221; she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It took two days before White could be transported from Aughtry&#8217;s home to ECMC Hospital in Buffalo, where he is currently being treated, per a GoFundMe page White&#8217;s coworker Chris Dearing set up to help White cover his medical bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dearing wrote on the page that White, who is mentally disabled, &#8220;did not understand the true severity of the storm.&#8221; As of December 28, the GoFundMe had raised nearly $75,000 \u2014 far outpacing its goal of raising $20,000. White is in stable condition and &#8220;in good spirits,&#8221; but it&#8217;s unclear if he will have lasting damage to his hands, per the GoFundMe page.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 03:33:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/12\/saving-a-life\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32814,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813\/revisions\/32814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}