After pulling out the roots of a tree, 17-year-old Muntathar Altaii felt a severe pain his back. In fact, it as so severe that it crippled him. He could no longer walk straight, and he was forced into a permanent hunch. To make matters worse, his leg went numb due to a spinal kyphosis.
Seeking medical treatment, Muntathar visited every doctor he could. For three months straight, he messaged and called any doctor he could get the contact information for. However, every doctor turned him away because they viewed his condition as untreatable.
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After much research and unrelenting perseverance and determination, Muntathar finally found a chiropractic doctor in Australia who would treat him. The teenager then flew from America to Australia where he met with Dr. Ian. Through 10 treatment visits with Dr. Ian, Muntathar regained his ability to walk and soon recovered to full health. He was able to stand up straight and walk without a hunch. His life continued, and he went on to graduate high school.
If not for Dr. Ian, Muntathar confesses that he would not have had the will to live. Being able to be “normal” again meant the world to him, and he proudly graduated alongside his best friends. Muntathar plans on becoming a chiropractic doctor when he graduates college. He wants to help others with their back problems!
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Anders said that he began seeing pennies as a reminder to stop and say a prayer.
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“If I would see a penny when I’m gassing up, on the ground, or in a store, it would be a reminder to stop right there and say a prayer,” Anders said to ABC News. “I never failed to do that. That’s why they had so much value to me.”
At no point during all of his penny-collecting did Anders accept coins as a gift from anyone else.
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“But I never allowed anyone, not even my wife nor children, to give me pennies without being compensated,” he continued. “I wanted the inner satisfaction that God and I acquired this collection.”
“I became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny was an additional God-given incentive reminding me to always be thankful. There have been days where I failed to pray and more often than not, a lost or dropped penny would show up to remind me.”
Anders filled big water jugs with the coins he collected.
He said at one point his goal was to fill up 5 giant water jugs but once he had done that, he felt the urge to keep going.
He needed to go to the bank and turn them in or else he’d never do it.
At the time he finally went to the bank, he had filled 15 5-gallon jugs.
“I wanted to fill five five-gallon water jugs. That was the goal, but I couldn’t stop. … If I hadn’t turned them in yesterday, I was not going to stop.”
In addition to the intrinsic value Anders found in collecting the pennies, they also added up to have significant financial value.
After finding out his homeowner’s insurance policy wouldn’t cover his collection, he called the Origin Bank in Ruston, Louisiana, where he had been a customer for years.
Anders let them know he would be coming in with a large number of pennies.
They were happy to help but it was quite the undertaking.
“We value his business, as we do all of our customers,” said the bank’s Vice President Jennie Cole. “But if we can help Anders with his endeavors, we are happy to do so.”
