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7-Year-Old From Oklahoma Named Children’s Miracle Network’s 2023 Champion
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A bit lady who weighed lower than two kilos when she was born, is now on the brink of have a good time her seventh birthday.
Yearly, the Kids’s Hospital at Saint Francis chooses a Kids’s Miracle Community Hospitals Champion and Ella was chosen this 12 months.
Each a part of Ella’s story includes a mini miracle and her mother mentioned that is precisely what she is; a miracle.
“We expect you’ve got assist syndrome. We discovered protein in your urine. My husband was on his technique to come decide me up they usually have been admitting me on the identical time,” mentioned Amanda Gruenberg, Ella’s Mother. “With Hellp Syndrome your physique is prone to stroking out. Your organs are beginning to shut down.”
Ella was born at simply 24 weeks and weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces.
“That was actually like scary for mommy and scary for daddy,” mentioned Ella.
She was smaller than a ruler.
“She may be very feisty. She got here out crying and kicking and he or she weighed solely 400 grams when she was born. Regardless of being lively and vigorous at delivery, each a part of her was immature. Each organ system wanted our help,” mentioned Dr. Margaret Donahue, Saint Francis Neonatologist.
Her lungs have been like rooster wire with tissue paper, skinny and fragile. Her ribs have been like toothpicks.
“Mainly, her lungs have been simply caught collectively. She additionally had a gap in her coronary heart that was simply pouring blood, so lungs are already collapsed, blood is pouring into her chest cavity. She was in want of transfusions. She required a excessive frequency jet ventilator that gave her 300 breaths each minute. That is not one thing each NICU throughout the nation has,” mentioned Amanda.
Ella was discharged after 98 days.
“We go to hold her in, and we go stroll via our storage door and her alarms all begin going off… You are related to an oxygen tank, so we had her in a bassinet to roll her round the home,” mentioned Amanda. “There isn’t a developmental chart that matches the place she’s at. There’s simply not sufficient info even now with how lengthy micro preemies have been capable of be saved.”
On her first birthday, to provide again, Ella’s mother and father collected and donated books to the NICU, and a 12 months later the NICU Preemie Pajama Undertaking was born.
“Yearly we have been getting infants pajamas and books,” mentioned Ella.
She’ll be seven on March 25, 2023.
“Once I began as a Neonatologist 30 years in the past, a child like this might’ve been held by her mom and we would not even have tried to resuscitate this baby. Solely within the final 7 years would we even attempt to save a child as tiny as Ella was,” mentioned Dr. Donahue. “Cannot stress sufficient to mothers on the market which might be anticipating to get prenatal care. As a result of if Ella’s Mother hadn’t gotten good prenatal care and if Ella had not been delivered when she was, with the issues mother was having, and had not delivered right here at this hospital with the assets we had, Ella would not be alive at the moment.”
“The issues that she’s been via, the quantity of blood attracts and pokes and sticks and surgical procedures that she has had even earlier than us leaving the NICU, you recognize, she has extra docs’ appointments than most youngsters her age that she would not at all times perceive why. The therapies. Simply not at all times with the ability to dwell life like her mates do, that half is tough, however she’s superb. She brings pleasure into each room she enters, her smile, she simply has that magnetic persona,” mentioned Amanda.
Ella’s mother mentioned Ella is extraordinarily empathetic.
“Infants are tiny and also you wish to look after them,” mentioned Ella.
“She simply has that caregivers spirit,” mentioned Amanda.
Which can turn out to be useful in the future, when Ella turns into a vet. “It is okay, I do know it hurts,” Ella mentioned to her stuffed animal.
Ella is accumulating preemie and new child pajamas once more this 12 months for her birthday.
She helps store, fold garments, retains rely, and writes thanks letters, in addition to sends thanks movies.
Click on right here for the Amazon wishlist.
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SEC Shorts Wastes No Time Roasting Texas, Oklahoma in 2024 Premiere
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FRISCO, Texas – Over the past several years, especially since Texas and Oklahoma announced they were coming to the SEC, the team over at SEC Shorts has rarely missed an opportunity to include them in their comedy sketches.
So, with a new football season technically underway with the official entry of the Longhorns and Sooners early this morning and SEC Media Days in Dallas in a couple of weeks, the Alabama based comedic team wasted no time in offering its 2024 season premiere Monday morning. With Texas and Oklahoma the clear focal point of this year’s opening skit, enjoy what will probably be the first of many jabs the group takes at their expense with a slight hint of Arkansas on the side.
Just try to not get too worked up on who officially inducts them into the league.
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Federal judge grants preliminary injunction halting controversial Oklahoma immigration law
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — On Friday, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that puts a pause on House Bill 4156, a controversial law enabling Oklahoma law enforcement to arrest individuals on the basis of immigration status.
The new law, which was scheduled to go into effect on July 1, has been met with opposition from many different organizations, including The Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police and Metro Law Enforcement Agency Leaders, and state legislators.
On May 15, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to Governor Kevin Stitt and Attorney General Gentner Drummond, threatening legal action if HB 4156 was enforced.
Drummond sent a letter in response, reaffirming the state’s intention to enforce the immigration law. As a result, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the state on May 21.
“Oklahoma may have understandable frustrations with the problems caused by illegal immigration…but the State may not pursue policies that undermine federal law.’ Arizona, 567 U.S. at 416. Should more explicit guidance foreclose that conclusion, this Court will listen,” the conclusion of the preliminary injunction order says.
Drummond issued a statement on Friday afternoon expressing his disappointment in the ruling.
“While today’s court ruling is disappointing, I will not stop fighting for Oklahoma and our right to protect our borders,” Drummond said. “The Biden Administration’s complete failure to enforce federal immigration laws made House Bill 4156 a necessity. We intend to appeal today’s decision and defend one of the most powerful tools we have to fight the criminal activity largely being fueled by illegal aliens in Oklahoma.”
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OSU Basketball: JUCO Transfer CJ Smith Announces Commitment to Oklahoma State
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On Saturday night, former Putnam City North (OK) standout CJ Smith announced his commitment to Oklahoma State.
First and foremost, I want to thank God for guiding me throughout this process ! I would also like to thank Coach Lutz and Coach Page for giving me this opportunity. With that being said I will be continuing my basketball journey at Oklahoma State University! #Gopokes 🤠… pic.twitter.com/fkj8shNPke
— CJ Smith (@ImCjsmith) June 30, 2024
After finishing his career with the Panthers in 2023, Smith spent the 2023-24 season at Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, KS. In his lone year at the junior college level, Smith played in 30 games, making 21 starts while logging 23.4 minutes per game.
The Putnam City North product averaged 8.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game while shooting 40.5% from the floor and 30.8% from 3-point range as a true freshman. Smith scored a season-high 16 points against Seward County Community College in February, getting to the free throw line 13 times to help lead the Red Ravens to a 90-79 victory.
Smith followed up the aforementioned performance with a 14-point outing against Barton Community College that saw the athletic wing shoot 4-of-7 from the field, 1-of-2 from beyond the arc and 5-of-6 from the free throw line.
The former Team Griffin EYBL standout knocked down multiple 3-pointers in five different games as a true freshman, four of which came in an eight-game span.
Listed at 6-foot-7 and 195 pounds, Smith is a good athlete and has great size and length on the wing. The Oklahoma City native’s combination of size, length and athleticism gives him the potential to become a solid defender a the Division I level.
Additionally, there is a chance that Smith improves as a shooter under the tutelage of Steve Lutz and company in Stillwater.
If Smith is able to develop into a decent shooter and defender, he could eventually serve an important role for the Cowboys as a “3&D” wing.
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