Great! Doctor Delivers Then Delivered Her Patient's Twins

© Courtesy Hilary Conway “I was very saddened to think I might not be there to deliver her. My due date was one month prior to hers,” Conway recalls. “At our last clinic visit before my scheduled induction of labour on Dec. 12, 2017, we both expressed sadness that I would likely not be there for the delivery.

An obstetrician, who didn’t want to miss out on the birth of her patient’s twins, stepped in to help deliver them just hours after she gave birth to her own baby.

Hilary Conway, an Obstetrics and Gynecologist at Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic in Washington, gave birth to her second child—Verna Pearson—on the afternoon Dec. 12. 2017 While Conway was resting in her hospital room later that night, she received a text from her patient, Katie Moss, announcing she was in labour.

© Courtesy Hilary Conway As for Verna, Conway says she is doing great post-delivery and is filling out her onesies more and more every day. While looking back on that flurry of events, Conway insists it wasn’t as hectic as it seems. If she’s impressed with anything, it’s with her patient and the hospital staff who helped pull off the successful deliveries.

Conway didn’t see the text until past midnight, so she checked the nurse’s station to see if Moss had been admitted—that’s when she found out that not only had her patient arrived, but she was in the room right next door to hers. Conway—who had been worried about missing her chance to welcome the twins into the world—immediately walked in to give her support to Moss.

Since her patient was only a stone’s throw away, Conway knew there was no way she could miss the big moment. After feeding her newborn and leaving her in the care of a staffer, Conway prepped for the delivery and took over ultrasound duties. The Moss twins arrived during the early morning hours of Dec. 13, 2017—Luke at 4:50 a.m. and Soren at 5:38 a.m.—just 14 hours after Conway gave birth to little Verna.

“It was awesome to be there for the delivery, it’s always a bummer to miss them. Being a healthcare provider is such a huge privilege. Patients trust us with so much, and in OB-GYN, this is magnified,” Conway says. “As doctor and patient, we go through so much together during the pregnancy, it’s a huge disappointment to miss the delivery. So, as soon as I realized that delivering Katie was feasible, I was beyond thrilled for the privilege of being there.”

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The Exceptional life of Rev Billy Graham is Honoured by All.

The funeral procession of Billy Graham made its way through North Carolina to his hometown of Charlotte as thousands came out to say goodbye to “America’s Pastor.”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Admirers took photos on their phones, fire trucks parked on freeway overpasses and police officers saluted as a motorcade carrying the body of the Rev. Billy Graham crossed the evangelist's beloved home state of North Carolina for four hours Saturday from his mountain chapel to namesake library in the state's largest city.

Residents in some of Graham's most cherished places paid tribute to "America's Pastor," starting at the training centre operated by his evangelistic association in Asheville. The motorcade rolled through Black Mountain, where he shopped and caught trains, and Montreat, where he lived.

Well-wishers lined sidewalks and medians as the motorcade reached Charlotte. Pallbearers, followed by family, carried the coffin into the Billy Graham Library, which will serve as a backdrop for the funeral.

Franklin Graham said he was fulfilling a promise to his father to bring the body to Charlotte. He said he was overwhelmed by "the outpouring of love."

Leighton Ford, the evangelist's brother-in-law, said the procession brought gratitude and tinge of sadness.

"I think he'd say, 'It's not about me. It's about the Lord,'" said Ford. "I remember at his last stadium meeting here in Charlotte, the mayor of Charlotte told us he was riding out on the platform with Billy, and everybody was cheering, and Billy said, 'Wait a minute. It's not about us. It's about Him.'"

Graham, who died Wednesday at his home in North Carolina's mountains at age 99, reached hundreds of millions of listeners around the world with his rallies and his pioneering use of television.

A viewing will be held at the library in Charlotte on Monday and Tuesday. Graham will also lie in honour in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday and Thursday, the first time a private citizen has been accorded such recognition since civil rights hero Rosa Parks in 2005.

The procession was part of more than a week of mourning that culminates with his burial Friday.

Adults and children stood behind wooden barricades and yellow tape along a route that included parts of Interstate 40. A man played bagpipes at a highway rest area near Marion, where an overpass was draped with flags from about 15 nations. In Black Mountain, a group sang "Amazing Grace."

"He has never really revelled in all of the celebrity. It's come with the territory," said Joe Tyson, a family friend who runs a furniture store in Black Mountain, where he watched the procession.

The library in Charlotte was closed but admirers came to watch and lay flowers.

"He was so bold, he so boldly confessed the word of God," said Madeline Reid. "And I believe because of his service to humanity, that he's truly gonna be great in the kingdom of heaven."

Ruby Sparks, 85, attended a Graham youth ministry meeting in 1951, when she was a college student in Greensboro, North Carolina, and met him in 1970.

"He was such a wonderful man of God, and a messenger of God," she said.

Asked if there would ever be another force like his, she replied: "I doubt it. Perhaps, in my next, in another lifetime. Not in my lifetime."

Graham will be laid to rest at the foot of a cross-shaped walkway at the library, buried in a simple prison-made plywood coffin next to his wife, Ruth, who died in 2007. His coffin was built by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, who typically construct caskets for fellow prisoners who cannot afford one.

The funeral will be held in a tent in the main parking lot of Graham's library in tribute to the 1949 Los Angeles tent revivals that propelled him to international fame, family spokesman Mark DeMoss said. About 2,000 people are expected at the private, invitation-only funeral.

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Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Tom Foreman Jr. in Charlotte contributed to this report.

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There is a Special Heaven for Women that help other Women.

When a young mother boarded a packed plane with her 4-month-old daughter en route to surprise her military husband, she never realized what an impact her flight would have on other people. In fact, Rebekka Garvison was so trepidatious about flying alone with her young daughter, she asked the flight attendant to let her change seats when she saw exasperated looks on the faces of the older couple seated beside her. That seat switch made all the difference.

As Rebekka shared on Facebook, she moved to a row with two empty seats, but despite the extra room, baby Rylee wouldn't stop crying. That's when a stranger sitting next to her offered to try to calm the baby — and that woman was nothing short of a baby whisperer. Not only did Rylee stop crying, but she also fell asleep in the woman's arms and remained there for the entire flight.

Rebekka's post has gone viral with more than 65,000 people sharing it. But it is the response of the woman who held little Rylee that struck me. Nyfesha Miller shared the post and thanked everyone for posting such kinds words about her, saying:

Extra special thanks to new mommy & military wife, Rebekka Garvison, who I had the honor, privilege & blessing to meet and assist. She's truly a sweet, loving mommy & wife, who deserves all the accolades. God Bless you all!!

Proof that there are still good in the world — you just have to find it!

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Human Trafficking Situation Was Prevented By A Miracle

Their intervention prevented what could have been a fatal situation.  (FOX 40)

Two teens were saved from becoming victims of a human trafficking story on Fox News - https://goo.gl/CnUAay by nothing less than a miracle — literally.

The two young girls had approached an American Airlines ticket agent — whose name is Denice Miracle — at Sacramento International Airport, trying to board a flight to New York with no identification or return tickets. Miracle, however, felt something was wrong.

Miracle immediately notified sheriff's deputy Todd Sanderson, and the two are now being celebrated as heroes for saving the 15- and a 17-year-old female from a possible human trafficking incident, Fox 40 reported.

"I fully believe she probably prevented these girls from becoming victims," Sanderson told the outlet of the Aug. 31 incident.

According to KTRK, Miracle felt uneasy when the girls approached her ticket counter armed only with two first-class tickets and small luggage. Apparently, a man they called "Drey" connected with them on Instagram, promising them $2,000 for modeling and performing in music videos.

Miracle discovered that the teens' flights were one-way tickets paid for with a fraudulent credit card, which authorities say the girls were “shocked” to realize. The girls were soon reunited with their families, who had no idea they intended to travel to the Big Apple.

American Airlines applauded Miracle for her quick thinking, KTRK also reported, stating that her training may have saved the girls' lives. As for the human trafficking suspect, there is no word yet on whether he has been caught, or what charges he may face.

In July, American Airlines amped up their efforts to prevent human trafficking and child sexual exploitation by teaming up with End Child Prostitution and Trafficking USA to train the airline’s 120,000 employees, initiate corporate policies and educate travelers, The Dallas Morning News reported.

 “People think this is only happening in other countries. They don't realize it could be happening on a domestic carrier on a domestic flight,” said Michelle Guelbart, director of private sector engagement at the nonprofit.

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First Gerber baby with Down Syndrome, 1-year-old Lucas Warren

Photo: Courtesy of Gerber / Cortney Warren

My husband Oliver and I had been trying for quite a while to get pregnant, so when we did, we decided around 11 weeks to opt into a noninvasive prenatal test in order to find out the gender. Or so we thought. The following week, the results came back positive for trisomy 21, the most common type of Down Syndrome. Because that was just a screening test, we went through the diagnostic process and around 12 or 13 weeks, we finally had the confirmed diagnosis. We both cried.

Throughout the weeks and months that followed, as we tried to process the diagnosis, we were on a fact-finding mission, in search, mainly, for what the potential quality of life would be for our child. We read about every possible challenge: 50 percent of babies born with the extra copy of chromosome 21 have a heart defect that needs to be operated on within the first year of life; problems with vision, hearing, and the thyroid could arise. And, while the one in 691 children born with Down Syndrome in the United States each year faces different challenges, both mild and severe, the hard fact of the matter is, a majority of pregnancies that are identified prenatally with trisomy 21 are ultimately terminated. At the time, it was really hard to process, and I felt separated from the pregnancy for a while. We were reading scary thing after scary thing, and it wasn’t until we participated in the First Call Program in Massachusetts, where we spoke to other parents with kids with the condition, that we came to the conclusion that above all, the potential for a high quality of life and fulfillment and happiness was the same for any other child. I think that’s when Oliver turned to me and said, “I know it’s weird, but I feel like we were meant to have this child. And I believe we can provide for her.”

Tenley at 3 months-old with her father, Oliver Foley - Photo: Courtesy of Kinnon Foley / @kinnonmf

We turned the corner together, and at 20 weeks, we found out the gender: a girl. We named her Tenley, a name many people associate with Tenley Albright, a formidable woman, Olympian, and surgeon. Tenley was due on May 3, 2017, surreally my uncle’s birthday. He had trisomy 21, too, and grew up in the ’40s, when it was rare to raise a child with Down Syndrome in the home, and lived a very full life until the age of 65. But, Tenley came three weeks early, on April 16, the day before Oliver was supposed to run the Boston Marathon. She was born around 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, and we slept in the hospital together and the next morning, Oliver went to the starting line and ran with her name printed on his arm. He made a personal record of three hours and 18 minutes, and after, ran directly back to the hospital. People were yelling her name and she was less than 24 hours old.

Now, Tenley is 9-and-a-half months old and while she has a number of challenges as a result of trisomy 21—she has some respiratory issues, and was on oxygen until she was six weeks old because her lungs didn’t shed their immature cells quickly enough; as well as hypothyroidism, which is very common in children with Down Syndrome—she is so happy. There is a stereotype that people with Down Syndrome are always happy, and it’s one that, for me, is hard to dispute. In fact, people always ask me if I only take pictures of her when she’s smiling, but the truth is, no, she’s actually just always smiling. My dad, whose brother had Down Syndrome, believes that once there is more research done on the disorder, scientists will find that it negates whatever gene causes judgment. There is no science behind it, but, anecdotally, it’s absolutely true: Tenley loves everyone.

People are always saying, “Oh, Tenley is no different than anyone else,” but I like to say, “But she actually is different. She’s not your typical baby: She goes down at 7:30 p.m., she sleeps through the night, she’s always happy. . . .” We’re very lucky and proud. In fact, I like to announce almost immediately when introducing Tenley that she has Down Syndrome. I don’t like feeling like people are guessing, “Does she?” or “Doesn’t she?” Sometimes, people will say, “I can’t even tell!” And even though I know they don’t mean to be offensive, the truth is, I’m proud of her cute little nose and her almond-shaped eyes and her rosy red cheeks.

That’s why, upon seeing her condition celebrated on national television last night, (February 8, 2018) with Gerber’s announcement that, after more than 140,000 submissions, they’ve named their First Gerber baby with Down Syndrome, 1-year-old Lucas Warren, the feeling was truly inexplicable. Tenley was already asleep when we sat down to the watch the Nightly News With Lester Holt. I remember Oliver pausing the preview and saying, “Oh man, this is going to be a tearjerker,” and sure enough, we both cried. Later, we watched the full segment from the Today show because we just wanted to see more.

We recognized so much of Tenley in Lucas, and not just in the common features we love so much. He was practicing waving, and that’s something we are working on with Tenley, along with getting on all fours, something she is having trouble with due to her slightly low muscle tone. The news made me remember when I was pregnant, and, it’s so silly, but in this world where everyone’s lives are on display with social media, one of the things that crossed my mind was: When I post a photo of her, what will people’s comments be? You know, a common comment that you see when somebody posts a photo of their baby is “Oh, he or she is perfect.” I wondered whether someone would ever comment on a photo of my baby like that. Getting that affirmation last night, from a company like Gerber who is associated with the quintessential idea of the “perfect baby,” and then discovering that baby has Down Syndrome, it brought back all those emotions for me. Both of our families texted us, with a ton of positive emojis, asking if we had seen the news. Oliver’s mom said, “Tenley is Miss World in our eyes.”

I think it goes without saying that all people think their children are beautiful; and we absolutely think Tenley is beautiful, inside and out. Despite all the worries we have about her adolescence and adulthood, we know she will have an incredibly fulfilling life. But I think, for all kids, it’s important to see yourself in the world around you so you can dream about what you want to be when you grow up. And now, Tenley will.

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Sharonda Jenkins had a baby when she was 12 and went on to become successful.

Sharonda Jenkins of Ridgeland sits for a portrait on Tuesday evening at Harold Turpin Park. Jenkins, who earned her practical nursing degree this summer, submitted a powerful essay in which she asked for all nurses to be sensitive to teen and preteen moms — writing ‘the odds are already against us.’ Drew Martin dmartin@islandpacket.com

Sharonda Jenkins had a baby when she was 12.

She was a sixth-grader at Allendale Elementary School in the little town by the same name, population 3,000. And she was told her life was ruined.

“When people became aware of my situation, I was the topic of everyone’s conversation and not in a good way,” she can say today, 20 years later.

She was ostracized. She had to leave the elementary school so other students wouldn’t ask questions. Her friends’ parents didn’t want her around to lead their daughters astray.

“Everyone had an opinion about me and how my mother should have taken me to get an abortion. It was easy for them to give their advice from the outside looking in when truthfully no one knows what they would have done until they were placed in the situation.”

Sharonda delivered a healthy baby girl. The next year she went back to the middle school, and in 2004 earned her high school diploma. Twelve years later, so did her baby, Laquisea.

“I know a lot of people can’t imagine what that was like, a baby having a baby,” she says.

Her life was already a challenge, being from one of the South Carolina Lowcountry’s poorest pockets, an hour from Ridgeland, where she lives today, and even farther from Hilton Head Island, where she could earn a paycheck.

Sharonda quickly noticed that all the blame was on her — never the boy.

“It was you, you, you — the grief I got from people,” she said. “But it takes two.”

Seared in her mind is an elderly woman telling her she wouldn’t amount to anything?

“You do look up to older people,” Sharonda said. “They are the ones who are supposed to have so much wisdom. I was 14 at the time. She was wrong. She was wrong. But at the time, being my age, and knowing her age, I believed it.”

In spite of the obstacles, Sharonda achieved a dream this past summer. She earned a practical nursing diploma from Denmark Technical College and is now working as a Licensed Practical Nurse with the Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services.

“I kind of wanted to prove some people wrong,” she said.

When her nursing class covered maternity issues, Sharonda wrote a personal essay and gave it to her teacher.

Her message: Don’t shame me.

“I say again to all nurses,” she concludes in her essay, “please be sensitive to our situation because the odds are already against us, but if you ever feel the need to judge, I want to leave you with this quote:

“‘There is not enough good in the best of us to criticize the bad in the rest of us.’”

Getting pregnant

Sharonda wasn’t at home when it happened.

She was at a relative’s house, and the boy was a friend a couple of years older.

“I’m not sure how it happened,” Sharonda said. “We did not know what we were doing. But it was done.”

She was a skinny kid and had no idea she was pregnant, even when she missed menstrual cycles. In her young mind, that was a blessing.

She eventually could feel something moving inside her. She just wanted whatever it was to leave her alone and go away.

“I was very tiny,” she said. She wasn’t showing, but her breasts got larger and that led to the discovery that she was five months pregnant.

She was at a cousin’s house, where she was practically reared. A younger cousin wanted Sharonda to iron her hair. She didn’t want to but did. The little girl saw a wet spot on Sharonda’s shirt, where her breast was leaking.

“What’s wrong with you?” the child cried.

Adults were told, and her life was never the same.

Her father was angry at first.

“What didn’t he say?” Sharonda recalls.

He did not live in the home, she said, and he blamed her mother.

The next day, he took her to the doctor.

She said she was too young to feel the joy an unborn baby’s heartbeat should bring to a mother.

“Once I saw her, that was a different story.”

When we talked about it recently, Sharonda could reflect on it as a 32-year-old married woman who has survived life’s darts.

“I wouldn’t call my daughter a mistake,” she said. “I would say that about the sex. But she didn’t ask to be here.”

She said her mother never flung a fit or shamed her.

“I know she was hurt, and maybe she did feel it was her fault. But she just stepped in and started getting things done.”

For her part, “I just wanted to make sure I did everything I could for my baby.”

The long haul

Sharonda Jenkins was a hard-working adult when Nona Valiunas met her.

It was at Ridgeland Elementary School about six years ago. Valiunas was there as a reading tutor from her home on Spring Island. Sharonda was there as the mother of her second child, Sha’mya, then a first-grader.

“The little girl was a gem — affectionate and bright — but what compelled me to stay in touch with her family was Sharonda’s exceptional character,” Valiunas said.

“At that time, Sharonda was working as an aide at The Cypress, yet she was often the only parent to show up for every conference, every little celebration — even if it meant attending after a 12-hour night shift.”

Over time, she would learn the story of the unusual mother who read every book to her child that the tutors sent home.

Sharonda’s life as a preteen mom has indeed been more difficult.

When she turned 16, she started riding the Palmetto Breeze bus to a job cleaning villas on Hilton Head Island. Those 12- to 15-hour days — getting up at 3 a.m. to catch a bus at 4 a.m. and getting home around 7 p.m. — where to buy school supplies and school clothes for a baby being raised with help from her mother and extended family.

Sharonda has worked as a housekeeper at Marriott timeshares, a cashier at Food Lion, a deli clerk at Publix and an in-home aide for elderly residents at The Cypress on Hilton Head. She said her job in housekeeping involved cleaning three multi-bedroom villas in a day by herself, but $9.38 an hour was good money for a high schooler's summer job 16 years ago.

A settlement from a traffic accident gave her enough money as an 11th grader to buy a used Dodge Neon subcompact car for $900 down and $168 per month for two years.

Her entire family was involved in juggling home, school and work schedules. She said her firstborn was practically considered her mother’s child. And full-day Head Start, a federal program that preps children for school, was available in Allendale when her baby turned 3.

Sharonda would later meet John Jenkins when they both worked at a Publix supermarket in Bluffton. They got married 11 years ago at the Sergeant Jasper Park in Hardeeville. They’ve built a home, and their baby is now a sixth-grader.

“I just felt like I was too smart to settle for that,” Sharonda said about her last job on Hilton Head, working as an aide.

She put enough money aside to go back to school. After a stint at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, she would later enroll at Denmark Tech. Each Monday through Thursday, she drove 90 minutes each way to the small town with an odd name up U.S. 321. She worked Saturday and Sunday and kept Friday for herself. Her husband works long hours as well, most of it on the road.

“Sharonda’s story is a salve to me,” said Nona, the volunteer tutor. “She has refused to be bitter or downcast or discouraged. A lot of people get embittered and resentful, but she is full of optimism and perseverance. ‘Mrs. V,’ she calls me. ‘Mrs. V, I’ve got to do it. Put one foot in front of the other.’

“She makes me feel good. She is a hero to me.”

‘A statistic’

Leigh Brabham is something of a nurse to her nursing students at Denmark Tech.

“It’s a big sacrifice,” Brabham said of the course load nursing students take. “You have to put everything else in your life on hold to be in this program. It takes a lot of dedication and hard work. These girls, they cry on and off all year — they have so much on them.”

Brabham remembered Sharonda as “sweet and gentle. She has the compassion and empathy that nurses need. She’s going to make a great nurse, a really great nurse.”

Sharonda was all smiling in her white nurse’s outfit, holding her Florence Nightingale ceramic graduate lamp when she got her degree last July. Brabham said Sharonda’s essay will continue to be read to nursing classes.

Sharonda wants to be an encouragement to others.

She is a proponent of early sex education. She tries to help others understand that life is real and that, statistically, babies having babies can overburden lives.

But she wants young mothers to know they don’t have to settle for failure.

“It’s never too late,” she said, “and it’s not the end of your life. Keep going. It may hold you back a tad because for years you focus on the baby and not yourself, but keep going.

“I don’t care what anybody says, your life is not ruined.

“I refused to be a statistic.”

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Albino Model made it her mission to overcome the stereotypes and she is succeeding already.

After a lifetime of being teased and misunderstood, albino model Ruby Vizcarra made it her mission to overcome the stereotypes about her skin condition and encourage others to embrace their natural beauty.

During an interview with Yahoo Lifestyle, Vizcarra, 24, recounted that while she was growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, there was a lot that she didn’t understand about her condition of albinism, which leaves people mostly devoid of pigment in their skin, hair, and eyes.

“When I was little, I didn’t know why I was different, but my mom would always say I had albinism,” Vizcarra said.

Although she isn’t the only one in her family with the skin condition — one of her four sisters, as well as a paternal grandmother and a maternal aunt, were also born with albinism — she didn’t understand as a child why she got sunburned so easily and couldn’t play outside for as long as other kids did.

And she wasn’t the only person who didn’t understand much about albinism.

Vizcarra recalls walking home from school one day and overhearing a little girl ask her mother why Vizcarra’s skin was so white. The mother responded by saying Vizcarra was “very sick” and that her condition “can be contagious.”

“I still remember that day. I have it very present in my heart because it made me cry,” the model said. “I now use it as a propeller that ignites my fuel to achieve my dreams.”

After turning 18, Vizcarra began to learn about albinism online and decided to pursue modeling professionally.

But once she was signed by a modeling agency, she realized she wasn’t going to book the kinds of jobs she’d hoped — and began to forge her own path.

“I wanted to connect with photographers who understood my message,” she said. “I wanted to be very natural, no makeup, and just show who I truly am.”

In addition to pursuing modeling, Vizcarra has also started an organization called Movimiento Albino Latino, which not only provides support to albinos but also educates others in her community about the condition.

Vizcarra added that the most rewarding part of her journey has been hearing from women “who said I inspired them to embrace their natural beauty too.”

“It been a very long road, but I am finally proud of who I am, and through my modeling platform, I have reached others who are like me, ” she added. “Being different is a blessing.”

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Mom was planning a quiet Christmas dinner, but she never knew that a surprise was waiting for her.

A single mother who spent her savings to move her family into a new apartment was overcome with worry when her son disappeared for hours—but unbeknownst to her, her loving children were planning a Christmas surprise.

Sophia Reed recently moved to Oklahoma City after her husband suddenly left her. The move used up most of her savings thanks to the security deposit and rent, and Reed had planned to share a nice Christmas dinner with her four children in lieu of buying presents she couldn’t afford.

“We was expecting a nice dinner for Christmas and just be together and just show love to each other,” Reed told CBS 11.

But as the family settled into their new home and surroundings, Reed became increasingly concerned as her 13-year-old son, Darius, kept disappearing for hours on end. So the worried mother turned to the police while Darius was out on one of his mysterious excursions in mid-December, and that’s when it was revealed what her son and his siblings were up to.

“I was afraid he was going to get in trouble,” Reed’s daughter, Deneisha, told Oklahoma 4 News. “I just didn’t want to say anything because it would blow the whole thing”

Darius told Officer Roland Russell of the Oklahoma City Police Department that he was collecting hundreds of cans to raise money and bring some Christmas cheer to his mother, and at that point, the young boy had collected $13.

“On my way out to my car, I go down the stairs and I see him sitting there,” Russell told KOCO News. “It was, like probably, 30 degrees outside, and he had a little T-shirt on.”

After learning about what he was up to, Russell decided to keep Darius’ secret and went back to his station to spread the word with the intention of helping the 13-year-old on his mission. With Russell’s support, the department was able to raise about $800 to buy gifts for Reed and her children, just in time for Christmas.

“I started getting messages from all kinds of people,” Russell said. “I didn’t think I was going to and it ended up turning into a pretty big deal.”

As for Darius, he said there was no question why he would go out for those long hours in search of dozens of cans.

“I just wanted to do something for my mama,” he told Oklahoma 4 News.

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