Cancer survivors reunite, hairstylist helps detect skin cancer

In this "Dear David" installment, CBS News contributor David Begnaud highlights puerility crab survivors Ellie Koerner and Dawson Nailor reuniting successful aesculapian schoolhouse and an Arkansas hairstylist who spotted tegument crab connected a lawsuit during a regular appointment.

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Childhood crab survivors reunite 17 years aboriginal successful aesculapian school

Two first-year aesculapian students astatine the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine discovered an bonzer transportation during orientation: they had erstwhile battled the aforesaid cancer unneurotic arsenic 4-year-olds.

Ellie Koerner and Dawson Nailor were some diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia successful 2007 and were treated astatine the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The 2 had not seen each different since their treatments ended 17 years ago.

Their reunion came during a societal lawsuit astatine orientation, erstwhile Nailor felt helium recognized his caller classmate.

"I kept looking astatine her and I was similar 'I cognize this miss from somewhere,'" Nailor said.

When helium approached Koerner, the infinitesimal rapidly became unforgettable.

Koerner recalled that Nailor tapped her connected the enarthrosis during the lawsuit and introduced himself. As they began talking, she realized helium was asking astir a shared past — their clip arsenic leukemia patients. 

"He said, 'We were treated together.' And I was conscionable like, speechless," Koerner said.

The 2 instantly snapped a photograph and sent it to their mothers, who remembered each different from the days their children underwent treatment.

Koerner and Nailor had grown up lone 10 minutes isolated successful South New Jersey but ne'er crossed paths aft their recoveries.

"We cognize each the aforesaid doctors. We were treated astatine the nonstop aforesaid outpatient facility. That's however helium remembered me," Koerner said.

Koerner's crab went into remission successful 2008, allowing her to instrumentality to competitory gymnastics. She aboriginal captained her precocious schoolhouse lacrosse and tennis teams.

Nailor's attraction lasted longer earlier helium underwent chemotherapy for 2 and a fractional years and went into remission. He was "cancer-free connected October 1st, 2010," helium said. He returned to shot aft his recovery.

Even arsenic children, some worked to enactment crab patients and their families done fundraising efforts.

Now, the brace stood broadside by broadside arsenic they received their achromatic coats — a rite of transition into the aesculapian assemblage that erstwhile saved their lives.

"Seventy-five percent of the crushed I privation to beryllium a doc is due to the fact that I privation to beryllium the benignant of doc that treated me," Koerner said.

"I consciousness similar it's benignant of been a lifelong calling successful a consciousness to myself, you know, calved retired of conflict and shaped by my experiences," Nailor said.

"And we've gone our abstracted ways successful life. And present beingness has brought america backmost to going to aesculapian schoolhouse and wanting to beryllium doctors," Koerner added.

Hairstylist catches tegument crab connected client's scalp, saves her life

A regular hairsbreadth assignment successful December turned into a life-changing infinitesimal erstwhile a hairstylist noticed thing antithetic connected her client's scalp.

Cathy Burds was astatine Hoyt's Salon successful Morrilton, Arkansas, with her work dogs, Sully and Bogart, erstwhile her relative and stylist, Elizabeth Hoyt, spotted a concerning mark.

"It's not raised similar a wart… this is thing altogether different," Hoyt said.

Burds, a bladder crab survivor, had already had the spot treated doubly by her household practitioner, who froze it disconnected each time. But erstwhile the people returned, Hoyt pushed for much action.

"Girl, you amended perceive to me, bash what I said. Go to a dermatologist!" Hoyt told her client.

A dermatologist aboriginal confirmed Hoyt's suspicions: the spot was skin cancer.

Hoyt said her adjacent interaction with clients gives her a unsocial position to announcement wellness changes.

"You don't spot your doc but erstwhile a year. She's present astir each 3 months. That's capable clip wherever I could've seen a difference, and I did," Hoyt said.

Burds aboriginal wrote astir her experience, praising the relative who spotted what doctors had missed.

"She is 1 successful a million, successful my opinion. I americium fortunate she does her job. She saves lives," Burds said.

After country successful March, the crab was successfully removed. Burds said what Elizabeth gave her volition past forever.

For Hoyt, watching retired for her clients' wellness is simply portion of the work.

"We instrumentality attraction of each different but this is portion of our job. It should be. I anticipation it is," Hoyt said. 

102-year-old throws ceremonial archetypal transportation astatine Cubs game

A chance meeting astatine a Chicago airdrome earlier this twelvemonth has catapulted a 102-year-old pistillate to viral fame.

Beatrice Steiber told "CBS Mornings" successful June that the effect was overwhelming, and it didn't conscionable halt astatine instrumentality connections from each implicit the country.

The Chicago Cubs called Steiber and invited her to propulsion retired the ceremonial archetypal transportation astatine Wrigley Field.

It conscionable proves that gratitude ne'er gets old.

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David Begnaud loves uncovering the bosom of each communicative and volition proceed to bash so, highlighting mundane heroes and proving that determination is bully quality successful the quality with his exclusive "CBS Mornings" series, "Beg-Knows America." Every Monday, get acceptable for moments that volition marque you grin oregon adjacent shed a tear. Do you person a communicative astir an mean idiosyncratic doing thing bonzer for idiosyncratic else? Email David and his squad at DearDavid@cbsnews.com