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7-Year-Old From Oklahoma Named Children’s Miracle Network’s 2023 Champion
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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Oklahoma football has one more shot to close out its 2024 season on a high note.
The Sooners (6-6) take on Navy (9-3) in the Armed Forces Bowl at 11 a.m. CT Friday in Amon G. Carter Stadium, located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas, with a chance to finish 2024 with a winning record. Oklahoma earned a clutch upset victory over Alabama on Nov. 23 to become bowl-eligible and keep alive the second-longest bowl streak in the nation.
The last time the Sooners played, LSU defeated them 37-17 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The team will look to bounce back and close out coach Brent Venables’ third year with a winning record. He has a 22-16 record with Oklahoma.
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Navy defeated Army 31-13 to earn the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy on Dec. 14, having defeated Air Force earlier in the season. The Midshipmen are seeking their first 10-win season since 2019. Navy is 1-0 all-time vs. Oklahoma, earning a 10-0 win on Oct. 2, 1965, in Norman.
Here’s how to watch the Oklahoma vs. Navy game, including time, TV schedule and streaming information:
What channel is Oklahoma vs Navy on today?
- TV channel: ESPN
- Livestream: ESPN app | Fubo (free trial)
The Sooners will take on the Midshipmen on ESPN. Courtney Lyle (play-by-play) and Rene Ingoglia (analyst) will be on the bowl matchup broadcast.
The game can also be streamed on the ESPN app (with a cable login) or Fubo, which carries the ESPN family of networks and offers select users a free trial.
Oklahoma vs Navy time today
- Date: Friday, Dec. 27
- Start time: 11 a.m. CT
Oklahoma and Navy will play at 11 a.m. CT at Amon G. Carter Stadium, located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas.
Oklahoma vs Navy predictions, picks, odds
Odds courtesy of BetMGM as of Thursday, Dec. 26
- ODDS: Oklahoma (-3)
- O/U: 43.5
- Moneyline: Oklahoma (-155) | Navy (+130)
Prediction: Oklahoma 24, Navy 20
Oklahoma football schedule 2024
- Friday, Aug. 30: vs. Temple (W, 51-3)
- Saturday, Sept. 7: vs. Houston (W, 16-12)
- Saturday, Sept. 14: vs. Tulane (W, 34-19)
- Saturday, Sept. 21: vs. No. 6 Tennessee* (L, 25-15)
- Saturday, Sept. 28: at Auburn* (W, 27-21)
- Saturday, Oct. 5: BYE
- Saturday, Oct. 12: vs. No. 1 Texas* (L, 34-3)
- Saturday, Oct. 19: vs. South Carolina* (L, 35-9)
- Saturday, Oct. 26: at No. 18 Ole Miss* (L, 26-14)
- Saturday, Nov. 2: vs. Maine (W, 59-14)
- Saturday, Nov. 9: at No 24 Missouri* (L, 30-23)
- Saturday, Nov. 16: BYE
- Saturday, Nov. 23: vs. Alabama* (W, 24-3)
- Saturday, Nov. 30: at LSU* (L, 37-17)
- Friday, Dec. 27: vs. Navy (Armed Forces Bowl)
- Record: 11-2, 2-6 SEC
* Denotes SEC game
Navy football 2024 schedule
- Saturday, Aug. 31: vs. Bucknell (W, 49-21)
- Saturday, Sept. 7: vs. Temple* (W, 38-11)
- Saturday, Sept. 14: BYE
- Saturday, Sept. 21: vs. No. 23 Memphis* (W, 56-44)
- Saturday, Sept. 28: at UAB* (W, 41-18)
- Saturday, Oct. 5: at Air Force (W, 34-7)
- Saturday, Oct. 12: BYE
- Saturday, Oct. 19: vs. Charlotte* (W, 51-17)
- Saturday, Oct. 26: vs. No. 11 Notre Dame (L, 51-14)
- Saturday, Nov. 2: at Rice* (L, 24-10)
- Saturday, Nov. 9: at South Florida* (W, 28-7)
- Saturday, Nov. 16: vs. Tulane* (L, 35-0)
- Saturday, Nov. 23: BYE
- Friday, Nov. 29: at East Carolina* (W, 34-20)
- Saturday, Dec. 14: vs. No. 18 Army (W, 31-13)
- Friday, Dec. 27: vs. Oklahoma (Armed Forces Bowl)
- Record: 9-3, 6-2 AAC
* Denotes AAC game
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Oklahoma State has plenty of talent to replace next season, but no one will be more difficult to replace than its star receiver.
Over the past few years, no one has embodied the OSU program better than Brennan Presley. Since he stepped on the field for the first time in 2020, he has been a symbol of consistency for the Pokes.
Although he has played significant roles on a couple of OSU teams that made the Big 12 Championship, he had no issues staying focused throughout the three-win campaign in 2024. In a season where it was easy to find the negatives in just about everything the Cowboys did, Presley remained a bright spot. Entering the season on the Biletnikoff watch list, Presley finished his final collegiate season with 90 catches for 767 yards and seven touchdowns.
The reason Presley will be so difficult to replace is not only because of his impressive numbers each season but also because of how consistent he has been at putting those numbers up.
His consistency led to him breaking the Cowboys’ all-time receptions record in 2024, becoming the first player to cross the 300-catch mark in an OSU uniform by ending his career with 315.
Without Presley out there to be a reliable target next season, there will be some growing pains for whoever suits up under center. Along with always being available for a pass, Presley could be used in a variety of ways.
While it wasn’t his best ability, Presley was also occasionally used as a rusher throughout his career. He ended his OSU tenure with 30 rush attempts for 160 yards and six touchdowns, with most of his carries used as a wrinkle near the goal line.
Of course, the five-year Cowboy was well-known for his ability to return on special teams. His most notable was a kickoff return touchdown in Bedlam in 2021, and 1,667 kick and punt return yards helped him break 5,000 career all-purpose yards.
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An 8-year-old Oklahoma girl is still missing in Texas after floodwaters carried away the family SUV on Christmas Eve.
According to local reports in Sherman, Texas, the SUV ran off the road into a drainage ditch before succumbing to the flood. The Sherman Police Department said six people were inside the vehicle when it crashed.
Four family members were rescued. CBS News reported that the missing girl’s father, Will Robinson, did not survive. Robinson was a coach for the Durant High School Lady Lions basketball team.
By the afternoon of Christmas Day, searchers had covered seven miles of creek in the area without success.
“We are shifting our focus into the county, targeting some possible locations where we have not looked to as yet,” the department wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “Our search will continue until dark today, then we will resume searching again (Thursday) before daylight.”
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