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❤️ He was a British soldier serving in Bosnia when he learned about a 4 year old boy who desperately needed help.That me...
08/30/2026

❤️ He was a British soldier serving in Bosnia when he learned about a 4 year old boy who desperately needed help.
That meeting would connect their lives for decades.
In 2003, Sergeant Wayne Ingram met Stefan Savić, a little boy born with an extremely severe facial cleft that had pushed his eyes apart and dramatically affected the development of his nose and face.
🥹 Stefan needed highly specialized surgery that his family could not afford.
Wayne could have returned home and simply remembered him.
Instead, he started fundraising.
His efforts eventually helped bring Stefan to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, where surgeon David Dunaway and his team performed an extraordinary 12 hour operation to reconstruct parts of his face. ❤️
But one surgery wasn't enough.
As Stefan grew, he returned for further reconstructive procedures, while Wayne continued raising money and supporting him.
Over roughly 13 years, the fundraising eventually reached around £160,000.
By 2016, Stefan had completed another major stage of his facial reconstruction.
And Wayne was still there.
🥹 What began as one soldier seeing a photograph of a child in Bosnia became a friendship that continued long after the uniform and hospital rooms were gone.
More than 20 years later, Stefan is an adult, plays music and remains in contact with the man who decided that simply feeling sorry for him wasn't enough.
❤️ Wayne wasn't Stefan's doctor.
He wasn't family.
He simply saw a little boy who needed a chance and decided to do something about it.
How many lives could change if more people refused to walk away when they realized they had the power to help?

💔 At 15 years old, Bah Median was shot multiple times in the face.Eight years later, she is still fighting to rebuild th...
08/30/2026

💔 At 15 years old, Bah Median was shot multiple times in the face.
Eight years later, she is still fighting to rebuild the life that changed in seconds.
In April 2018, Bah was inside her family's home in Cameroon when armed men entered during the country's Anglophone conflict.
She was shot in the leg and repeatedly in the face. Her injuries were so devastating that people around her initially believed she was dead.
🥹 But Bah was still alive.
Unable to speak, she used her hands to signal for help and was eventually taken to a hospital.
She survived, but lost much of her teeth, part of her tongue and normal function of her nose and jaw. Eating, speaking and breathing became daily challenges.
Then strangers and one humanitarian organization refused to forget her.
❤️ Since 2018, the Ayah Foundation has supported Bah through treatment and reconstructive surgeries in Cameroon and abroad.
Fundraising campaigns helped pay for her care, and at one stage she was able to travel overseas for further treatment.
But her journey is not over.
As of 2026, doctors say Bah still needs seven major reconstructive procedures to improve her breathing, jaw, teeth, speech and ability to eat normally.
Despite everything, she still speaks about returning to school and pursuing the dream she had before the attack.
Becoming a doctor. ❤️
Bah cannot erase what happened to her in 2018.
But with every operation, donation and person who refuses to look away, she has another chance to decide what happens next.
If you survived something that changed your entire life at only 15, where would you find the strength to keep believing in your future?

Happy birthday to my daughter! Some heartless people won’t congratulate her just because she is different.
08/30/2026

Happy birthday to my daughter!
Some heartless people won’t congratulate her just because she is different.

A bloodshot eye was the first sign that something was terribly wrong with 9 month old Nuala.At first, her mother Megan w...
08/27/2026

A bloodshot eye was the first sign that something was terribly wrong with 9 month old Nuala.
At first, her mother Megan was told it could be a harmless broken blood vessel.
Then Nuala's eye began changing shape and pushing forward.
Tests revealed something doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital had never encountered in that location before: alveolar soft part sarcoma, an extremely rare cancer growing behind her left eye.
Nuala was only 10 months old.
Surgeons first tried to remove the tumor while saving her eye. But cancer cells were still found at the edge of the removed tissue.
Her parents were then faced with two painful options.
Radiotherapy, which could seriously affect the development of that side of her face, or surgery to remove the eye and surrounding tissue.
They chose the operation they believed gave their daughter the best chance for the future.
Two weeks after her first birthday, Nuala lost her left eye.
By January 2024, she was able to ring the hospital's end of treatment bell.
But doctors still had another challenge.
Traditional prosthetic eyes often require making a physical mould of the eye socket, something extremely difficult for a toddler.
So specialists from Alder Hey and Aintree developed another solution.
Using MRI scans, CT images and photographs, they digitally recreated the shape of Nuala's face and designed a custom prosthesis without putting her through the invasive moulding process.

Doctors weren't sure Jaxon Buell would survive his first week.He went on to live for more than five years. ❤️Jaxon was b...
08/22/2026

Doctors weren't sure Jaxon Buell would survive his first week.
He went on to live for more than five years. ❤️
Jaxon was born in Florida on August 27, 2014, with an extremely rare brain malformation called microhydranencephaly.
The condition had severely affected the development of his brain and skull. His medical needs were enormous, and during infancy he experienced seizures, feeding difficulties and repeated health scares.
There was no clear roadmap for what his life would look like.
So his parents, Brittany and Brandon Buell, focused on the moments they did have.
They shared Jaxon's life online under the name Jaxon Strong, and people around the world began following his progress.
He smiled.
He made eye contact.
He learned to roll over and reach for things.
His parents even described the sounds he made as his own way of communicating with them. 🥹
Doctors had once struggled to predict whether he would live beyond his earliest days. Instead, Jaxon celebrated five birthdays and became known far beyond his home in Florida.
In March 2020, his health deteriorated and he entered hospice care.
Jaxon died peacefully on April 1, 2020, at age 5, surrounded by his family. His father later said he was holding him in his arms when he passed.
People first discovered Jaxon's story because of an extraordinarily rare medical condition.
His family wanted them to remember something else too.
Behind every diagnosis was their little boy.
A son who was loved for every day he was here. ❤️
Do you think stories like Jaxon's can change the way people see children living with severe disabilities?

Ray Lucas couldn't see his hand in front of his face.But somewhere inside that smoke-filled Michigan home were his 18-mo...
08/21/2026

Ray Lucas couldn't see his hand in front of his face.

But somewhere inside that smoke-filled Michigan home were his 18-month-old twin daughters.

In July 2021, Lucas and his girlfriend, Shi'Ann Brown, returned from a short trip to a nearby store and found the Eastpointe house engulfed in smoke and flames. Milan and Malaysia were still inside.

Lucas went in.

The smoke was so thick that he later said he had to navigate by memory, following the route he knew through the house until he reached his daughters. He carried both girls back through the smoke and outside.

The twins survived, although both suffered serious burns and required hospital treatment.

Lucas was badly injured too. He suffered second- and third-degree burns to areas including his face, neck and arms, and damage to his corneas left him temporarily unable to see.

For roughly three days, he didn't know whether his normal vision would return.

It did.

Reports also say that after getting his daughters out, Lucas helped his niece escape from an upstairs window.

The family lost their home and possessions, but thousands of strangers stepped in to help. A fundraiser that initially sought $40,000 eventually collected more than $495,000.

When Lucas described what drove him into the house, his reasoning was remarkably simple: his babies were inside.

Sources: FOX 2 Detroit, The Washington Post, CNN/KTVZ, GoFundMe.

What do you think takes over in a moment like this - courage, instinct, or simply being a parent?

At Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen, a pair of premature twins needed skin-to-skin contact. Their mother was still recove...
08/21/2026

At Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen, a pair of premature twins needed skin-to-skin contact. Their mother was still recovering and couldn't hold them yet.

So their dad stepped in. He took off his shirt, and the medical team placed one of the twins on his bare chest. But there were two babies and only one dad.

That's when his older son climbed up, took off his own shirt, and held the other twin against his chest.

The photo shows a small boy sitting on his father's lap, cradling a tiny premature baby against his skin, while his dad does the same with the other twin beside him. Both babies are pressed against bare skin. Both are being held by someone who loves them.

Skin-to-skin contact, sometimes called kangaroo care, is one of the most effective things you can do for a premature baby. It regulates their temperature, heart rate, and breathing. It helps them gain weight. It reduces stress. Hospitals around the world use it as standard practice in neonatal care.

Swedish Professor Uwe Ewald, a leading advocate for the practice, was at the hospital at the time. In his approach, even extremely small premature babies are regularly taken out of the incubator for skin-to-skin contact with family members.

Nobody asked the boy to do it. He saw his dad holding one baby and knew the other one needed the same thing.

He just took off his shirt and held his sibling 💛

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