CONNECTIONS

The world is becoming increasingly interconnected. The Worldwide Internet population is rapidly approaching four billion active users. Facebook™ boasts global monthly users in excess of 1.5 billion. Google™ performs billions of searches daily. Tens of millions of “Tweets” are initiated daily around the planet. The younger generations evaluate their popularity based on the number of online “Followers” and “Friends” they have; or the number of “Likes” they receive. Traditional mass media daily news broadcasts now provide real-time statistics regarding what is “Trending” and what topics of interest are going “Viral”. It has been estimated that more than 50 million computer servers exist in the world, interconnecting more than one billion personal computers worldwide.

Perhaps the most amazing statistic of them all is that the human brain is comprised of more than one trillion cells, with one hundred trillion unique connections.

Our daily lives abound with connections…some good…some not so good.

This is a story about all of those connections…and so much more!

During a three week period in March, 2018, a number of young children were admitted to various hospital emergency rooms around the United States. In each situation, the child had supposedly experienced severe trauma as a result of a unique accident. In every case, when the child arrived at the hospital, he or she was in a deep coma.

None of the children possessed identification. No one reported any of the children missing. Neither the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children nor the Federal Bureau of Investigation Missing Children Database contained information regarding any of the children.

The tragic events befalling each child were seemingly disconnected…or were they?