“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” features Oklahoma foundation, Oklahoma family
Oklahoma is in the spotlight
on the next two episodes of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (7 p.m. Sundays on ABC).
On Sunday, May 2, The Limbs for Life Foundation of Oklahoma City will be featured. The episode will include footage from Limbs for Life’s recent trip to Haiti to deliver prosthetic limbs to amputees affected by January’s earthquake.
Craig Gavras, the foundation’s executive director, made the trip last month with the show’s producers. They delivered limbs donated by a Texas family and fit two young girls for prosthetic limbs at L’Hôpital de la Communauté Haïtienne (Haitian Community Hospital).
On Sunday, May 9, the Starkweather family’s new home in Tulsa will be revealed on television.
The “Extreme Makeover” team traveled to Tulsa on Jan. 28 to meet Toen and Amy Starkweather, whose son, Ethan, suffers from a rare disorder called Prader-Willi syndrome that causes weak muscle tone and constant hunger.
Seven days later, team leader Ty Pennington, the design team and celebrity volunteers Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow presented the family with a safe and healthy home.
Hundreds of Tulsa-area volunteers also aided in building the home that will allow the Starkweather family to manage Ethan’s disease and continue to help others battling with life-threatening illnesses.
In March, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” aired the episode taped Feb. 1-7 in Slaughterville, Okla. The Skaggs family — Brian and Audra and their children Merit and Jhett — were the recipients of a 2,800-square-foot modern ranch house.
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Pictured above: EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION – “Skaggs family” — On February 1, 2010, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” traveled to Slaughterville, OK to meet Brian and Audra Skaggs, whose son, Jhett, survived a heart transplant at just 10 months of age. Although he’s made incredible progress over the past two years, the poor condition of the family’s moldy, rotting, termite-ridden home poses serious risks to Jhett’s weakened immune system. In only seven days, team leader Ty Pennington, the design team, plus celebrity guest designer Jillian Harris of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” will help build a safe and healthy home. (ABC/RUSSELL COOK) JHETT SKAGGS, BRIAN SKAGGS, MERIT SKAGGS, AUDRA SKAGGS
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To Judge Pirro Ilove you show you get right to the point about a case and I have a Question If I went to a doctor appointment got injury should the person who cause the injury be help accontable for the injury? I am still suffering due to the injury