ELLEN K BROADCASTING LIVE FROM CHILDRENS HOSPITAL PART 2 12P-6P

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we are joined now by patient mom Jeanine.

(00:03):
Son Luca is here. He's howled. He's two and a half. Okay, Janine,
welcome to Giving Tuesday. We're so happy to meet you.
You've got a big, beautiful smile. Your son is adorable.
Thank you so much. Yeah, but you have been through it.
Tell us about your journey with CHLA.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
So it was September twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, and
my son was eighteen months old.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Luka was eighteen months old.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
He woke up that morning and had a wet diaper
like he normally would when he wakes up, except when
we opened the diaper it was pretty redh and we
were like, oh, that's not good, right, So sent a
picture to the pediatrician. I was like, let me go
to urgent care. There was no other symptoms, totally fine,
happy appetite, no fever, and a very close friend of mine,

(00:51):
who is a pick you nurse at UCLA, was like,
go to COCHLA.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
They'll know what to do.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
So we went in and they took a yearine sample
which looked a lot like fruit punch, which was shocking
because you know it's not absorbed by the diaper. So
now you really see, Oh, okay, this was really yeah,
and I'm thinking maybe a ut, I'm not thinking anything right,
like anything severe, because you don't want to think that, right,
You don't want to go there. So they opened the
door and two doctors came in with chairs, and at.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
That point where you like, okay, wait, two doctors and chairs.
They're going to explain something to me that I don't
know about it.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes, So I'm trying to explain what that moment was
like and I've tried to a few times and I
don't think I quite yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I know, but it was really rough, right.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
So when they came in, another woman came in who
asked if she could take my daughter out to play. Oh,
and that's when just dread and I grabbed my husband's
arm and I think what I said was I've seen
this movie and we're not in it. So they sat
down and they said, so there's a large mass on
Luca's right kidney, and time stopped for me at that moment,

(02:03):
and I'm like, what do you what do you mean?
Because I also I'm not again not thinking cancer. I'm like,
right now, there's masses, right, there's things, but nine who know.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I don't know. I don't know what do you mean.
Maybe it's a growth, Maybe it's a growth. Maybe he
it's a food. I don't even know. Can food get
in Turkey?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I'm thinking that everything read that, And so I said,
and they're telling me kind of the size, and I
don't understand the measurements they're using. So I said, can
you tell me like an object? Like she said, it's
about the size of a grapefruit?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Woo No, And I'm like, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And I'm looking at his little body, like what. So
we were admitted that day. My husband went home and
kind of did the single dad to our daughter thing.
Luca and I were in the hospital for eight days
at that point. Now, in that time we found out
that it, you know, it was cancerous. It was stage
three clear cell sarcoma of the kidney. The reason it

(02:54):
was stage three is because it had grown out of
the kidney into the valve that kind of connects all
your organs to other to keep it in the simplest terms,
and so the more I learned about this, oddly enough,
the more it calmed me down.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I've been to a lot of hospitals.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
In my life with you know, adults and you know family,
I have never experienced anything like the staff at CHLA.
The amount of time that they put into explaining everything,
which for some reason ends up being calming, right, I
feel like you know. I remember the next morning the
oncologist came in and she said, what do you know
about cancer? And I said, death, I don't. We have

(03:31):
no cancer in our family. What are you saying to me?
Like I need you to? And I was obviously a wreck.
I mean, this is every parent's worst nightmare, you know.
And she said, okay, so you know the TV movie
version of it. I'm going to give you the actual information.
She explained to me how resilient children are, how there's
a lot of staff there that used to work in
adult oncology that have moved to pediatric oncology because of
the success. She explained to me how treatable this is,

(03:54):
and that they weren't concerned. And I'm like, what, all right,
We're gonna be okay. So they they've become family. I mean,
we went through the holidays with them last year, and
anything I can do to help this hospital, they're just
there's no hospital like this and I've been to unfortunately
more more than I can say.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
And that's why you're here now and Giving Tuesday to
spread the word on the magic that happens. I can't
tell you how many times they drove pay this hospital
and I never never went inside. I just thought, oh,
there's Children's hospital. I can't even remember a specific moment
I said, Oh, j Loo just did a big gala
for them, and same.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I would drive past that musage, driven past the hospital
hundreds of times and been like, oh, that's nice. And
now I'm so familiar with the inner workings of them
and the surgeon. Everyone is just so top notch. It
doesn't matter what walk of life you're from as a parent,
your kid gets the most incredible care there. It's really
really amazing. And the fact that I pull in and

(04:49):
my two and a half year old smiles when we
get into the parking, that's after everything he's been through,
that he doesn't associate the place with a traumatic or
sad experience is just a testament to how incredible they are.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well, and you're spreading the word and Luca looks amazing.
Thank you so much for stopping by. You know, we
love Giving Tuesday. I think it's our favorite day of
the year and we love being here and meeting people
like yourself and seeing Luca and it just what you're
doing is also just showing so much hope.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, and you know, I've you know, listened to Giving
Tuesday when you guys do this every year for a
long time, and so to be part of this and
to help anyone that's listening, you know, even if there's
maybe something that you overlook or something that happens, or
you feel like you're being too paranoid, don't feel like that, Yeah,
and know that it's these guys help so much. So

(05:45):
when you have a team at this hospital and you
have this hospital there and those resources available to you,
stories like this do give people hope and that is
something I'm very honored to be here to talk about.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
So thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh my gosh, thank you Jeanine and Luca. We love you.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Hey there, I'm Dolly Parton here with Ellen k. Please
consider donating today on Giving Tuesday. It's all going to
Children's Hospital Los Angeles to help Pidge right here in LA.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm happy Giving Tuesday to you and Coach to one
of three point five. All right, we're the only K
morning show and give what you can. Every little bit helps.
And here on Giving Tuesday, we are helping Children's Hospital
Los Angeles for our ninth year in to row.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
We're in the lobby live and we just had a
really really full circle touching moment. So mom Andrea brought
her daughter Stephanie by and said, can we get a picture?
And as we were taking it, she pulled up another
picture from eight years ago when we first met young Stephanie,
who was here at COCHLA because she was born without
an esophagus. They created an esophagus out of her small intestine,

(06:54):
a surgery that can only be done here. It's an
incredible thing that we just witnessed and got to meet
her eight years later.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
And here she is standing right in front of us,
and we have the photo proof and it was just
like meant to be. And she had another surgery this
summer and now she doesn't need a colostomy bag at all.

Speaker 7 (07:15):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
So I'm just telling you the work they do here
at CHLA, and it's all for the kids, and what
better thing to do on a Giving Tuesday. We were
talking about this earlier too. If there's someone you know
who has everything, give them a donation in their name
to CHLA and you can do it at coast one
oh three five dot com slash CHLA. All right, guys,

(07:36):
so we also just got this. So we're here in
the lobby and we're seeing so many patients who are
out patients too, just here for checkups, and lots of
happy people, even families walking out of the surgery room
right in front of us, just relieved that surgery might
be over. And then we got a walk up donation

(07:57):
from Girl Scout Troop three six five Burbank. So the
girls came to the front door at the hospital and
they're all seniors in high school and they've all been
Girls Scout since first grade together, so they've been saving
so many years. And they each pick a charity three charities.

(08:18):
So Hayden, who wants to be a pediatric surgeon, picked CHLA,
and the girls is True three six by Burbank just
donated two thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Unbelievable, so cool.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
And they brought it here to the door. It was
just amazing the stories and all the people who do
get to walk out like you were just saying Ryan,
she was a baby when we saw her.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Her life was saved under this roof.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
So give what you can coast one of three five
dot com slash Chla.

Speaker 8 (08:53):
Hey, what's up is going Stefania? Today is Giving Tuesday.
We are making miracles happen for the warriors at Children's
Hospital Los Angeles. Stay with the L and K Morning
Show all day to help CCHLA.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
All right, it's a celebrity takeover for this day Giving Tuesday.
Nikki DeLoach, thank you so much for being here with us.
You are the embodiment of what CHLA is to us.
We know that you live it, you breathe that you
advocate for it, but you also just love it.

Speaker 9 (09:25):
I love this hospital so much, by the way, right
back at you, thank you so much for doing this
and for having me and everybody that's going to be
on the show. I love this hospital so much. In fact,
I love it so much that in twenty twenty one,
my husband was like, Hey, let's get out of the city.
Let's go to like a farm somewhere and I'll commute

(09:47):
back and forth to work. And I was like, I
can't leave the city where Chla is. I just I
can't leave it. I can't leave this hospital has me
tied to the city for the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well that's a good thing for CHLA. And now you're
the chair of the foundation board of trustees and so
you're running all the meetings, but you also are seeing
every corner of the hospital.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
It has been one of my greatest honors of my life.
I mean, honestly, having my children is the first, and
this might.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Be the second.

Speaker 9 (10:26):
Sorry, husband, but I say that because you know, a
hospital saves your child's life. Right, Bennett's life was saved
not once, three times heart surgeries. And then to see
what they do and they give back to our community,

(10:47):
the fact that they give the same care to Bennett,
to every single child that walks through that door. No mother,
no mother or father should ever have to choose between
going bankrupt and saving their child life or getting lesser
care somewhere else, or potentially even worse because their child
is in the hands of a medical team that maybe

(11:09):
isn't a specialized to CHLA and doesn't do what we
do at that hospital. So I just believe that there's
no more important mission than what we do at CCHLA.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
So true, you're an actress, your mother, your a wife.
As you said, I'm sorry, husband, but how are you
balancing all of this because you're still acting. You're like,
you're this is a big season for you too. On Homemark,
this is our Olympics. Yes, really, yeah, we are.

Speaker 9 (11:37):
Spreading Christmas joy up and down every coach across from.

Speaker 10 (11:42):
New York to Los Angeles.

Speaker 9 (11:43):
We actually just did like a whole week of Christmas Like,
we did a whole week of press to launch the
fifteenth anniversary of Countdown to Christmas at Homework, And we
started the day in Washington, d C. Doing Christmas rallies.
We did a giant Christmas rally in Washington, DC, way
got on buses and then we worked our way up
the coast and we ended up in New York City

(12:06):
doing a Christmas rally there. And I got to tell you,
at a time when the world feels so hard, I mean,
we have our hard life stuff anyway, everybody's dealing.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
With hard life stuff. We are just desperate for joy. Yes,
we unbridled joy, you know.

Speaker 9 (12:23):
And so looking out into the audience of all the
people who show up and are dancing around and so happy,
and it's Christmas and we're being silly and goofy and
like that. We are so thirsty for that. So what
an incredible thing to be a part of. But yeah,
it's our Olympics at home Mark right now.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
She is here. It is your celebrity takeover. Nikki DeLoach, actress,
chair of the Foundation Board of Trustees for c HLA
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 11 (12:54):
Kids with serious injuries and complex diseases like cancer, heart defects,
and neurological disorders come from all over Southern California and
around the world to get care at.

Speaker 10 (13:03):
Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 11 (13:05):
Today is Giving Tuesday, the global day of Giving Back.
Coast one oh three point five is llen k is
teaming up with Children's Hospital Los Angeles and needs your
help with donations. Call one eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA.
That's one eight hundred nine oh nine two four five
two or visit KOSD one O three five dot com
slash CHLA.

Speaker 12 (13:33):
Hey everyone, it's Megan Trainer and Ellen k is broadcasting
live right now to support Children's Hospital LA for Giving Tuesday,
and you can get involved. You can help right here
in LA by going to Coast one O three five
dot com slash CHLA.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
We love this day. It is Giving Tuesday, Children's Hospital,
Los Angeles. We are here. We're doing celebrity takeovers. We
are featuring patients, doctors and miracle workers, administration, everyone who
keeps CHLA like moving and growing and that grows.

Speaker 9 (14:06):
Yeah, And I want to say something about all the
people there, because you know, I don't know about you guys,
but like we look towards something and we think, oh
my gosh, that place looks so incredible. They save my
son's life or whatever organization business right, And then you
get on the inside and there's that little bit of
fear of like, oh am, I going to see behind
the curtains and it's not going to be as amazing.

(14:29):
And I have to tell you sitting in these meetings,
research and Innovation Advocacy Nominating Committee meetings, being really alongside
Paul Viviano, Alex Carter, Don Wilcox, all of these incredible
people who run the day to day who makes CHLA
what it is, and the nurses and the doctors and

(14:50):
the staff. I am even more in awe than I
ever was before because I have never seen leadership like this.
We are starving for good leaders in this country, people
who are heart forward, who are grounded, who are smart,
who care so much about humanity, and they lead with

(15:12):
integrity and dignity and so much compassion and consideration and
thoughtfulness for others. I have never witnessed anything quite like it.
And so you know, coming into this, I was already
in love with this hospital and the people there, but
now I am in awe And truly it has changed

(15:32):
the way even I show up in the world. Watching
how they show up in the world on a.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Daily that's such inspiration. Well, you're an actress, you're in LA.
Let's go before you even meet your husband, you fall
in love. You have Bennett, your boy. Yes, but then
Bennett needs critical life saving care. Oh yes, so take
us there.

Speaker 9 (15:54):
So I was getting the forty scan because I was
considered a geriatric pregnancy at thirty six. Really have to
change the language. Your incredible, But this is my one note.
Like I'm a writer, I'm a full time writer. I
will help, I will help read these things.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
But you are now foundation board of Trusty Chair. So
I think that you could change the language to change it.

Speaker 9 (16:20):
So but thank God right that I had that forty
echo cardiogram and I decided to get it when it
was offered to me, because some women don't. They go, oh, no,
it's fine, I've had babies before, it's good, and then
they get birth complication and it's an emergency. I had time.
I had time to meet with doctors. I had time
to make a plan, I had time to get friends

(16:43):
on board. I had time for my mother to fly
out from Georgia. So I was set up. Not only
that I have to talk about, you know, walking in
the room to meet doctor von Starns, who is world
renown in terms of pediatric heart surgery. He also works
on adults. He did on Sourz Sniggers. He did my

(17:06):
mother in law's heart surgery, so he's actually seen inside
Bennett's heart and my mother in law's.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Heart, which is so crazy.

Speaker 9 (17:15):
I had met with other doctors and so it was
very bleak these meetings with these other doctors at these
other institutions. And it's because you know, they don't focus
on pediatrics.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
To be honest, if you have.

Speaker 9 (17:27):
A child that's in need of healthcare, you need to
go to a pediatric hospital. I cannot like emphasize this enough.
I was in a very hopeless place because it was
a very serious, very serious surgery. He had four different
heart complications defects, and so you knew this while he

(17:47):
was in the world. I knew this while he was
in the room. He had something called transposition of the
great arteries. He had a collapsed aorta that would need
to be fixed, he had a VSD, and worst case scenario,
he has one coordinary orinary artery, not two, and it's
in the wrong place, which did end up happening. So
I will say I went into Children's hospital to meet

(18:08):
doctor Starns, and from the moment he walked into the room,
it's like the air in the room changed. There was something,
There is something that guides this man that is greater
than just his humanness and his genius.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
It is divine.

Speaker 9 (18:23):
And when he sat across from me and he said,
I know who you've met with, and these other doctors
are great. However, I can only imagine that you're probably
in a very hopeless state right now, right And I said,
I started crying, and he goes, I'm gonna tell you
I know how to save your child's life. Oh, straight up,
I know how to save your child's life.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
That's incredible.

Speaker 9 (18:44):
You know, those people don't do these surgeries, or maybe
they get a chance to do one a year. I
do dozens of this surgery a year. And even though
Benny is wired very specifically and he is a different.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Heart, uh huh, I can do it. I know how
to do this, how to do it? H I just
love them. And it's Giving Tuesday. Nicki deloch is with us,
it said Nicki DeLoach takeover. We are raising awareness and
funds for Children's Hospital Los Angeles. So Bennett was born
seven years ago. He is now a thriving boy. And uh,
if you have a heart patient in your family, We're

(19:22):
coming back with Nicki and she's going to tell you
about the new technology they have where we no longer
have to do open heart. It's the latest and the
greatest at CHLA. We'll be right back.

Speaker 11 (19:34):
Today is Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving back.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles needs your support. Join coast one
oh three point fives ellen k as we team up
with CHLA and donate now. Call one eight hundred nine
oh nine CHLA. That's one eight hundred nine oh nine
two four five two or visit KOSD one O three

(19:55):
five dot com slash CHLA giving Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Thank you so much for opening your hearts to Children's
Hospital Los Angeles. They are always there for you whenever
you need them. We hope you never do, but we
are here. It's a twelve hour broadcast today with Nikki Diloch. Nikki,
you're an actress. You're also the chair of the Foundation
board of trustees. You are also a patient mother, and
a serious, serious, serious patient because this was a lot

(20:22):
of stuff done to your little baby's heart by doctor
von Stearn's. So he's seven now and probably needs checkups
and care the rest of his life to check this heart.
And hearts grow and valves grow. So now, thanks to
all of the innovation at CHLA, there will be children

(20:43):
walking through the door who don't have to be cut open.
I know it makes me cry too. It's crazy, this technology.
And I said there, I watched these two doctors who
are on the forefront of heart surgeries, Alan Lewis and
Roberta Williams. Yes, and they gave the history yes.

Speaker 9 (21:00):
Which by the way, ROBERTA Williams was one of the
first female cardiologists and was very much responsible for the
way in which we find those heart defects now at
co cardiograms. I mean, her story just blew me away.
And you and I sitting in that meeting and watching
the history of cardiology of not just Children's Hospital, but

(21:22):
throughout our country all hearts and watching specifically me and
them talking about the doctor who learned, who finally figured
out how to save the life of a kid with TGA,
which is what my kid had, And then also watching
specifically now what they can do. And here's the thing
about Children's Hospital that makes it unique, more unique than

(21:43):
any other children's hospital. It's a teaching hospital, it is
a research hospital. So when you're sitting there and you're
watching all that our doctors have discovered over time that
has led up to the fact that my little Benny's
life could be saved in that moment, that was so
emotional for me to see and to see that they've
dedicated the minutes and moments of their lives to this

(22:05):
because they care about saving the lives of our children. Specifically,
the thing that we're you and I were talking about
that blew our minds is, you know, Bennett has a
valve in his pulmonary artery. He's already had to have
it replaced once he will have to have it replaced again. Sure,
and that is an open heart surgery. Well, now they're
showing they have been able to show that they have

(22:27):
been able to through cathorization, so that means they don't
have to cut that chest open. They can do a
cathorization procedure. They can go through the thigh, they can
go through some other part of the body, and.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
They wiggle the tiniest little wires so small it's crazy.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
Into those tiny little veins which I want you to
hold out a piece of your hair. That is an
artery in a child's heart. Okay, these arteries are so tiny,
and they now have learned that they through cathorization, can
replace some of these valves, potentially specifically with Benny's. You know,

(23:04):
maybe by the time he needs that valve replace they
will have figured out how to replace his specific valve
through a cathorization, which literally, you guys, is the thing
that I have been praying for for three years straight,
every morning, every night without ceasing. Please God help them
to have the technology for us to pour money into

(23:26):
what we need so then by the time my kid
gets that age and other kids, they can do that
via cathorization, because you know, cutting off open the chest,
like when you see your baby's heart at five days old,
the chest completely open, pumping, you can see the heart
through the chest.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
That is a trauma.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
That and by the.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
Way, it has to happen that way to save their life. Well,
if we can figure out how to do it without that, wow, wow,
And they are they are they are.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
And valves that grow with your child. Yes, so that
win and done. I mean, this is the stuff they're
inventing through a four hundred scientists at CHLA, and that's
why we love We love them every day. But then
we love to have events like Giving Tuesday where we
can really nikky dive in with you, have you take
over the hour. We have so many people giving today

(24:17):
and giving of their time to just open our eyes
to all the miracles and all of the research and
the future. I mean, the future is so exciting when
you see the science that they come up with.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
I really and truly believe in the bones of my body,
there's just no such thing as other people's children. We
have got to show up for all the children in
the world. We have to.

Speaker 11 (24:38):
Today is Giving Tuesday, the Global Day of giving back
Coast one oh three point five's ellen k is teaming
up with Children's Hospital Los Angeles, which provides life changing
and life saving care for children. Please donate now. Call
one eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA that's one eight
hundred nine oh nine two four five two or visit
kost one O three five dot com slash chla.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
It is Giving Tuesday. She is Nikki Delo. To Nikki,
you were just sky love. We love you. We're so
happy that you're here taking over the hours, Giving Tuesday
all day, just the season for Nikki to loach. Hallmark
Channel as well. We're going to see you. How many
how many productions are you in?

Speaker 9 (25:21):
I think in terms of a Hallmark I've done.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Like over twenty movies.

Speaker 9 (25:24):
Yes, yes, but for this year I have, you know,
I have a Christmas movie that is out, Our Holiday Story,
and then I have a Curious Caterer series that airs
on the Mystery Network and we released you know, we
recently released our fifth installments, Our Crab. And then I
write with my writing partner. I'm a full time writer.

(25:46):
We write also a mystery wheel for homework called True Justice,
and it was really inspired by the Innocence Project. Yes,
and you know, talking talking about for the most part,
I think that in all of our systems and institutions,
most people really try hard to get it right. But
we're human beings and we make mistakes sometimes, and it's

(26:07):
important that we really, you know, always try to get
it right and if we don't, we make it right.
And so It's The True Justice is a series about exonerations.
It's a group of law school students who come together
to form a group that exonerate people who have been
falsely conrectionied with crimes. Yea, which happens in our country,
like you know, thirty percent of the time, which is

(26:31):
a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, Oh my gosh. Well, it's such just a light
bulb that goes off in Nikki's head when she has it,
like inspirations. It's like a thousand and that's how you
were described to me the first time I met you,
and it's it's the truth. It's just this warmth and
energy that just comes out of every pore of your body.
And thank you so much for giving of your time,
for giving Tuesday. We know how busy you are, not

(26:52):
just not just with all of your projects, but also
with your family, and you know, and with the hospital.
So we are in awe of you, Nikki Deloch, and
thank you for taking over this special hour of Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
Oh, thank you so much for saying that. I really
appreciate it. And thank you for giving your time to this,
to this cause. You've done so much for the hospital.
You've shown up in such a huge way between your
work that you do here at the radio station, but
also what you do for the hospital with walk and
play and the way you show up and the board

(27:26):
and everything. And I just like, I think the world
of you, and we need more Ellen Kay's in the world.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's all I can say.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
I can one to your point stands I love you.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Thank you, love you too right love you.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
Wake up with Ellen k.

Speaker 13 (27:46):
I'm enjoying all the holiday music, wishing peace, love, acceptance
and kindness. Happy holidays.

Speaker 10 (27:52):
Still all close.

Speaker 14 (27:53):
One O three point five KOs one O three point
five is Giving Tuesday. Thank you so much for having
us on. My name is Sandy's Deck here in the
studio in Burbank while our LNK Morning show in the
middle of a twelve hour broadcast from Children's Hospital of
Los Angeles. We are raising money, we are saving lives.
One in five kids have been treated at Children's Hospital

(28:13):
of Los Angeles. And by the way, this hour specifically,
we have a sponsor that is going to be matching donations.
Credit Union for Kids will generously match your donations dollar
for dollar up to twenty five thousand dollars, So if
you donate now, it will be doubling your impact. Some
of our recent donations Sandra Gonzalez in Azusa, Ari Gonzalez,

(28:35):
West Covina, Eloiza Taurus in Winnetka. So many donations coming on.
I can't even read them all on the air, but
I just want to say thank you. Coast one O
three five dot com slash chla. That is where you
can donate right now. Coast one O threefive dot com
slash chla or eight hundred nine oh nine h la.

Speaker 10 (28:55):
It's the LNK Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
I love the way you guys just get on and
inspire everybody.

Speaker 12 (29:01):
Thank you so.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Much, Thank you, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.

Speaker 11 (29:05):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 10 (29:06):
Coast one O three point five clock.

Speaker 14 (29:09):
The Credit Union for Kids is going to be matching donations,
so every dollar will be matched, Okay, up to twenty
five thousand dollars. So this is your time to donate
eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA or Coast one O
three five dot com slash CCHLA. We want to thank
some of our recent donations Christina Fiack in Canyon Country,

(29:32):
Nancy Mydell in Beverly Hills, and Baje sug Harmonium in
North Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I hope is that right.

Speaker 14 (29:39):
Thank you guys for your donation, so many coming through.
We really appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day.
Continue donating, saving lives. That's what we're here to do.
We're here to give back.

Speaker 10 (29:48):
Talk to you soon.

Speaker 14 (29:49):
It's Michael bou Blake on Coast one o three point five.

Speaker 10 (29:52):
It's the LNK Morning Shell, the.

Speaker 15 (29:54):
Worst toy maker in the world. It's a cottonheaded Ninny Muggins.

Speaker 10 (29:58):
Coast one oh three point.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Five, The ellen K Morning Show in the afternoon and
all day. All right, given Tuesday, thank you for having
us on and giving to c h l A. I
guess we could keep talking. There's the words.

Speaker 16 (30:19):
Well, I'm ellen K, I'm social Queen Darling.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
All right, we are here all day with c h
l A raising funds for the Jewel of the City,
and you can give to all right, any amount Coast
one of three five dot com slash c h l A.

Speaker 10 (30:38):
It's the ln K Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
You guys give up?

Speaker 17 (30:40):
Yeah, Thursday for more.

Speaker 15 (30:43):
Oh, marry Christmas.

Speaker 10 (30:46):
Coast one three point five.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
The whole family is here, is giving Tuesday. Sarah and Leandro,
you'd allgo. You have your kids here, Mia and Liam.
Congrats on winning your Grammy.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
And Mia was born the day you want a Grammy.
So you won two big prizes.

Speaker 18 (31:03):
I did the same day for one spreshold.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
That is so crazy. So you went from the hospital
to the stage.

Speaker 18 (31:10):
No, unfortunately not. Yeah, I went from the hospital to
my iPhone okay, bed side, you know, watching it on
my phone.

Speaker 10 (31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh that's amazing. Though. Congrats for that.

Speaker 19 (31:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
That must have been so exciting. But then you noticed
something was happening with your newborn Mia.

Speaker 18 (31:28):
Yes, it was actually two months later. So for the
first two months everything was great. We were just a
regular family. And then about two months later she had jaundice.
It's a little yellowing in the eyes. Her skin was fine,
but in the eyes it always kept coming back, and
so you know, her doctors asked us to do a
blood test on her, and that's when they asked us
to go to the hospital and they said, you know,

(31:50):
we have to do some further investigation, which then eventually
led to her being diagnosed with billiaria trisia, which is
a liver disease which you know, eat a way at
the biliary tree inside the liver.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
What I like to ask the parents that we talked
to is, did you ever in your life think you'd
even know that word?

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Never?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
And now you're probably an expert in this, in this disease.

Speaker 18 (32:14):
Yeah, and so many other things in the medical field
that we never thought we would even. You know, you
hear things happening to other people all the time, you think, oh,
that'll never be me, right until it is.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, and Children's is right there for you. So absolutely.
So what were the steps at Children's Hospital to treat mia?

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (32:32):
So originally, you know, when we got in there, she
already had what was called the Kasai procedure, which is
basically putting a band aid on the disease, trying to
you know, elongate the time that she has before needing
a transplant. Some children can last, you know, twenty years
with that, and some don't last a couple months. So
unfortunately she her kasai was failed. It didn't actually work.

(32:55):
Her body didn't actually you know, allow that to bet
help her liver, and her liver was too far gone
at that point. So by the time we got into
Children's they were already on the process of we need
to list her, we need to put her on the
transplant list, we need to make sure that, you know,
she gets one as soon as possible. With having a
liver disease, something happens that's called as sides and assidase

(33:21):
is when the fluid builds up in your abdomen. And
so the girth of her belly was actually the girth
of a four year old child at five months old,
and so every week they were draining her and they
were taking fluid out, and every week it would come back.
So that's a very clear sign for them that they
needed to go ahead and put her on the list.
The hard part about it is that the transplant list

(33:44):
goes off of numbers, and of course we didn't know
any of this before, so they go off of blood
test numbers, and unfortunately, with what she has, the blood
test numbers don't come back in a place where it
puts her high on the list. So this is where
Children's really came in, and they were writing exception letters,
consistently calling the board, consistently asking to bump her up

(34:07):
on the list.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 18 (34:08):
So we actually got listed out of twelve forty is
the highest. Uh huh, we got bumped up to a
thirty eight.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 18 (34:16):
So yeah, they really really came through it.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Oh my gosh. And now she's only nine months old.
She's here. She's so healthy, she looks so good, she's
so vibrant and beautiful. What a blessing.

Speaker 18 (34:28):
She's the biggest blessing.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Oh my god.

Speaker 18 (34:31):
Consistent reminder every day.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, every day you've got your your family taken care
of by Children's hospital. And now this year at the
Grammys you might not be having another baby, but hopefully not.
We have our hands full.

Speaker 18 (34:48):
Yeah, but you know, it's amazing how when things like
this happen, everything else just stops mattering.

Speaker 19 (34:53):
You know.

Speaker 18 (34:54):
Yeah, it's great to be nominated, and it's you know, amazing.
The Grammys is amazing. You know, the music industry is fun,
but there's nothing that matters when your daughter is in
a hospital bed, you know, And we're just so happy
to be home, you know, and just happy to be
able to take her to the park and just live
a normal life again.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Isn't that amazing? The little things are the big things, really.

Speaker 18 (35:15):
It is, and you know it's a daily reminder of
that for us, it really is.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Oh my gosh. Well, thank you so much for coming
to Giving Tuesday, Sarah and Leandro, and you too, Liam
and Mia.

Speaker 20 (35:32):
Oh okay, it's the LK Morning Show.

Speaker 15 (35:39):
Marry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Coast one O three point thoughts that we say in
our studio to shake a hand, shake a hand on
Giving Tuesday. John Legend will be at YouTube Theater tonight. Yes,
we love our Johnny and it's Giving Tuesday. You can
give it Coast one three five dot com, slash c
h l A. We're helping the kids and the families
that walk through the doors in the emergency room doors

(36:02):
too at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Thank you for all
your donations.

Speaker 10 (36:08):
Cool, it's the l and K Morning Show.

Speaker 21 (36:11):
I love the Christmas boy I wish you could play them.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
All year, and I hope that you stay with us
after the Christmas music goes away.

Speaker 21 (36:17):
Oh I do, I do, But I just love this
time of the year. Okay, Happy, How is to you, guys, Okay, Coast.

Speaker 11 (36:21):
One oh three point five Christmas Solid, Dolly Parton and
Michael Boubley on Coast one of three point five.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Thank you Dolly Parton for supporting Children's Hospital Los Angeles
and also supporting our show here We're the L and
K Morning Show and Michael Boublay on the Voice. And
that finale is tonight, So there are a ton of
stars that are going to be performing in the season
twenty six finale, and then Michael Booblay will be back
for the next season too, But Kelly Clarks and Dan

(36:51):
and Shay will all perform during this finale tonight on
nb CS. That's going to be a really great show.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Beeking a Buble. That's a guy who practically lived at CHLA.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
That's right when his son was going through it, Little
Noah yep, Oh.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
My gosh, and Noah's thriving doing great now. Michael has
a bunch of kids and he takes them to school
every morning, and the school is Caddy corner from his house,
so he says he's always late getting them there.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
It makes sense because you think I'll just get there
real quick. And then the least track.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
A ton and thank you for all you're given. Here
on Giving Tuesday, every dollar counts and coming up at
four o'clock, whatever you give will be a match hour,
so it's gonna double. So if you're thinking of giving,
your money will double from four to five. It's three
point thirty now, so you're thinking about that double yo?

(37:42):
Daalas Okay, So we got this really beautiful record called
Beautiful Day. It's a CD and it's from a daddy
and I met him in the lobby today here at CHLA,
and he says, in two thousand and five, my little girl,
Maya Joy was born. When she was five days old,
she had to go to a special place for sick

(38:02):
babies and kids called Children's Hospital Los Angeles. You see,
Maya's heart worked a little differently than most other babies.
It just couldn't pump right. The doctors and nurses at
CHLA took care of her and helped her heart pump better.
Maya's daddy and I were so glad that CHLA is
a wonderful place that cares for many sick kids. When

(38:26):
you go to CHLA, you know it takes money to
keep hospitals running, so Thanks to Chla, Maya Joy is
now a healthy and happy little girl who loves to
make music, drop pictures, and play with her little brother William.
Maya her daddy and I thank you for the purchase
of this album and for helping support Chla with gratitude,

(38:48):
Mommy Aaron. And it's called Beautiful Day. And they wrote
and performed all these songs and they give all the
proceeds to children's hospital.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, you want to hear some of the song titles. Yeah,
and you know who drew the cover. Maya did, of course,
a little baby whose heart wasn't pumping right. Sometimes babies
are born and the valves are going backward. Yeah, and
then they have to be reversed. Sometimes there's only one
valve to do two jobs. And these doctors perform these
minuscule little operations and they save babies, multiple babies. Every day.

(39:24):
She'll be coming around the corner Beautiful Day rhythm. Oh,
I like this one called Lollipop. Thank you so much
Maya and your family, and you can give and help
kids like Maya to coast. One of three five dot
com slash Chla so many great success stories.

Speaker 10 (39:42):
It's the lank morning show.

Speaker 22 (39:44):
You have such wonderful laughter and entertainment positivity. Just want
to say how great everyone is there that makes the
ellen k Show on Coast me bast station in the
US to.

Speaker 10 (39:55):
Listen to Coast one O three point.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
I've been giving Tuesday. We're here, Marta Miller. Marta, you
are a source of inspiration on and off the ice.
Welcome and thank you for being here.

Speaker 10 (40:07):
Hi, I'm so scity to be here.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Well, we really wanted to put you on because your
message is one of triumph and that's what giving Tuesdays
all about, to show people that CHLA performs miracles and
also produces citizens like you, Marta who go out in
the world and then give back. And you've raised so
much money for CHLA through your ice skating exhibitions and more,

(40:30):
and congrats on that. That's quite an accomplishment for a
seventeen year old. Thank you so much. So what inspired
you to give back to the hospital.

Speaker 23 (40:39):
So when I was first diagnosed with scoliosis, I came
to the hospital basically because I had a hit lecture
injury because I was doing a double lots and I
fell really hard and they noticed that I had had scoliosis.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
And a shorter leg, and you had no idea.

Speaker 23 (41:02):
No, I had no idea except previously, when I was
about nine years old, I was diagnosed with scoliosis and
I was wearing a flexible brace, but me and my
mom weren't monitor monitoring it as much.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, well, like why would you You're you're skating your
field fine until the injury.

Speaker 23 (41:19):
Yeah, and so we decided to have a CHLA monitor it.
And what they also wanted me to do was also
do the motion laugh to see how my scoliosis and
shorter leg affected my movements.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Ah okay, that sounds very high tech. Yeah, that's why
CHLA can do things for patients that can't be done
anywhere else because they have the science and the technology
and the research. I have watched some of the junior
ambassadors of all ages go in and just make other
kids feel so much hope. Is that one of the

(41:54):
reasons why you decided to go into the program?

Speaker 23 (41:58):
Yes, exactly that. And also oh because of how sweet
like the nurses and people who work at CHLA like,
they made me want to get back. After my first
appointment there, and when I was leaving the hospital, there
was a sign that said we got this, and you know,
it made me feel like, Okay, I got this too,
and it's just such a great place.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
You've raised more than one hundred and seventy thousand dollars
for CHLA. Yes. Well, so what are you up to now, Marta?
Are you studying? Are you in school?

Speaker 19 (42:26):
So?

Speaker 23 (42:26):
I currently am in my second year of college at
the American Musical Dramatic Academy Performing Arts College in LA
and I'm currently studying musical theater Oh's and I graduate
in February twenty twenty.

Speaker 19 (42:39):
Sexy.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Kay, that's just around the corner. Yeah, so you'll graduate early.

Speaker 23 (42:44):
Yeah, I'll graduate early.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Does overachiever run in your family?

Speaker 23 (42:48):
Yeah? My mom graduated high school when she was fifteen
years old. Holy by Yeah, I graduated when I was
sixteen years old.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
See, there's more time for you to do more for
the hospital being here today.

Speaker 15 (43:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Well, what do you want to say to all the kids,
the spinal patients, the orthopedic patients, kids who who might
not be on the other side of it and they're
just going through it now.

Speaker 23 (43:15):
I honestly would say, don't give up, even if, like
you're in sports and a coach puts you down because
of your disability. Don't like, don't give up. Don't let
that like you know, hurt you and what you want
to do be you and just know that you got
this and that you're going to get through this.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
I think that goes for all patients. I think it
goes for all people for sure.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
Oh my god, what about your your current you know
sort of I guess mobility or your curve or like
how are you how are you doing?

Speaker 23 (43:45):
I currently am at three two degrees and it doesn't
affect me whatsoever, Like I don't have any pain or anything,
which is like really amazing. Yeah, so it really doesn't bother.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Varda, thank you.

Speaker 17 (44:00):
I know.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
There's one more little nugget. I was just told, okay,
hold on, hold on, you have a room named after
you in the ortho department.

Speaker 10 (44:06):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 23 (44:08):
So I made a pledge for one hundred and fifty k,
and basically instead of doing like the five year pledge,
I did it in one year and I now have
like I completed it and now there's an orthopedic room
named after my foundation.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
It's called the Marta Miller Foundation Room.

Speaker 23 (44:29):
Marshall Lieson Miller Foundation Room.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Wow. Okay, well let's go save the world. Let's go
to Broadway and then we can raise more funds for
exactly Wake up with Ellen K.

Speaker 13 (44:43):
I'm enjoying all the holiday music, wishing peace, love, acceptance,
and kindness. Happy holidays to all.

Speaker 10 (44:50):
Coast one of three point five.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Coast one of three point five and you're Giving Tuesday,
and we're the llen K in the afternoon show. We're
doing a twelve hour broadcast for Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
You guys, first of all, I'm Ellen if you're just
joining us.

Speaker 24 (45:06):
Social Queen Darley, I am producer Mike Romos.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
And we are your team for giving Tuesday and c
h l A. How cute were Casey and Freddy, the
therapy dogs at c h l A the cutest.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
Oh my gosh, I gotta say Casey was more of
the cuddler. Freddy wanted the belly pets. Freddy just flops over.
You say hi to Freddy, he goes, here's.

Speaker 15 (45:26):
My stomach com.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Casey wants to cuddle and Freddie says, boy. We want
to shout out some donors. Let's see Sally Kirkabee, Monrovia,
thank you so much for donating it. Coast one of
three five. Dot Com slash c h l A. Karen
and Forrest Painter of Avon Dale, Tany O'Connell Long Beach.

Speaker 16 (45:52):
Newberry Park is on fire too, Matthew Herron, Vicky Alred,
Matthew Herron again, Oh my gosh, you're making more.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 24 (46:03):
Eileen's aaldonna from Ricita, Janet Barker Los Angeles, and Christy
Carter from Anaheim.

Speaker 6 (46:07):
All right, shouting out Eddie Lucas, he's in sun Valley.
Christine Elmore out in the LBC Way to go, Christine,
thank you, Linda Monroe Riverside, all bring in those donations
at coast one of three five dot com slash c
h l A.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Let's go to Granada Hills for Carol R. Sierro and
also Barbara Adams. They are neighbors and givers and Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
All right, I'll take a Salamorada, Mary Navarez. Then there's
Susan Thompson, she's in La.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Way to go.

Speaker 10 (46:33):
Gilbert Velaska is in La too.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
And one more Kelly Helps from from Alhambra.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Yes, we love you, so give on Giving Tuesday. It's
so easy to do and it'll make you feel good.
It's a feel good Coast one of three five dot
clubs slash c h L A.

Speaker 10 (46:50):
Giving Tuesday, it's the ln K Morning Shell, the.

Speaker 15 (46:55):
Worst toy maker in the world.

Speaker 24 (46:57):
It's the Cottonheaded Ninny Muggins Coast one O three point five.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
We are the L and K Morning Show in the afternoon,
and it is a match hour here on Giving Tuesday.
Every dollar you give is doubled. You give fifty dollars,
it's one hundred, you give one hundred, it's two hundred,
you give five hundred thousand. It's a year.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
School's first credit union for making this.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Yes, oh my gosh, it's a magical hour. So you
are matching your dollars thanks to school's first federal credit union.
And the guy behind all that is coming up. His
name is Kevin, and he's a magical guy. Keep it
here on Coast.

Speaker 7 (47:38):
So a merry little Christmas.

Speaker 10 (47:43):
Cool, It's the L and K Morning Show.

Speaker 21 (47:46):
I love the Christmas bolling. I wish you could play
them all.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Year, and I hope that you stay with us after
the Christmas music goes away.

Speaker 21 (47:52):
Oh I do, I do, But I just love this
time of the year. Okay, happy, how is you guys? Okay?

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Threetlcome back so good be talking to you here today
on Giving Tuesday. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Yes, we love Giving Tuesday. Let's impact some laws.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Well, let's do it. And you are right out there.
You are so loyal, you come with it. School's First
Federal Credit Union is a Giving Tuesday matching sponsor. Between
four and five this hour, they will match donations up
to twenty five thousand dollars. Kevin, you're a hero.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
That's right. If you want to double your money, you
call in between four and five and we'll match it
up to twenty five thousand.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
You are so active and so supportive. Tell us your history,
your story with Chla.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Absolutely so. School's First Federal Credit Union is a member
of Credit Union for Kids, which is a national partnership
with Children's Medical Network Hospital. And so this is a
partnership where thousands of credit unions participate across the United
States ever since nineteen ninety six, and just in two
thousand and three alone, we raised over three hundred and

(48:59):
forty two thousand dollars for Children's Medical Network.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Oh my gosh, and you know it is Giving Tuesday.
Kevin Martin is with us from Schools First Federal Credit Union.
Matching dollar for dollar four to five pm here on
Giving Tuesday. But you really are involved all year. You
are there for Walking, play La, the Gala, the season
of giving, all kinds of fundraising. You are such a giver.

(49:22):
How does that feel to you?

Speaker 4 (49:25):
It feels fantastic. I look forward to walk and play
La every single year out in Santa Monica. We get
a chance to walk with you know, hundreds of other
people raising money and I think this year, just alone,
we raise over thirty two thousand dollars through the CHLA
Walk and play La, so we know they were literally
saving lives and helping those who really need it, those

(49:46):
who need it the most in our society.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
And it says here that you will be bringing back
the plush to our next Make March Matter, So that's
so great. I love that butterfly.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Yeah yeah, I think his name is bug. So yeah,
we're bringing Buzzby back to all of our branches that
are local and so you get a free Bugsby plush
toy if you make a donation to CLA.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
So good, Kevin. We love what you do and we
love what you stand for. And you know you you
you can give and you do give, and you do
it all year, and we're so grateful for you matching
our money here on Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
Thank you, absolutely, thank you. So remember this hour we'll
match you dollar for dollar to twenty five thousand dollars,
So please give as much as you can.

Speaker 11 (50:31):
Today is Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving back.
Coast one oh three point five is ellen K is
teaming up with Children's Hospital Los Angeles, which provides life
changing and life saving care for children. Please donate now.
Call one eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA that's.

Speaker 10 (50:46):
One eight hundred nine oh nine two.

Speaker 11 (50:49):
Four five two or visit KOST one oh three five
dot com slash CHLA.

Speaker 25 (50:54):
Hey, it's Josh Grobenin and I'm here with ellen K
for Giving Tuesday, raising funds for Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
All the life saving work they do. It feels really
good to give, So get involved with us now at
KOST one oh three five dot com slash c l A.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
School's first federal credit union, It is Giving Tuesday and
we are Coast one of three point five. We're raising
funds for Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Kevin Martin school's
first federal credit union, is matching every dollar you give
so go to coast one of three five dot com
slash CHLA and no matter how big or small, it's

(51:29):
gonna double. We gotta double down. That's gonna be great.
So thank you so much for all your donations. Got
a letter, guys, Oh good, Yeah, we had a letter
to Ellen and this one comes from Trinity. Trinity is
the mom of Ezeku. So Ezekiel was born fragile. She says,

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CHLA has treated Ezekiel our son and he is severely handicapped.
He's medically fragile. He has had a gastric two surgery,
bilateral hip surgery, and his tonsils removed, all at CHLA.
He will be having a halo traction and spinal fusion
surgery this spring. In fact, we will be at CHLA
this week for a second consultation for that. Ezekiel sees neurology, orthopedics, dental, gastro, entrology,

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and pediatrics all at CHLA. The staff has saved our
son's life from numerous pneumonias when he was a toddler.
He's been admitted there many times, but we know he's
in the best care. Ezekiel has a sister also, and
she's always been there for us. The staff at CHLA
has saved my Ezekiel's life. Please please give to CHLA.

(52:39):
God bless you and the staff and the CHLA staff.

Speaker 12 (52:43):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
So that's a trinity. We got your letter, Ezekiel. We
love you, and we know that you're in the best hands.
That's what CHLA does. They have so many experts. I
was at a meeting recently just like kind of hearing
about all the things that they do there. They have
four high hundred scientists. The people come from around the world,

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ninety countries because only CCHLA has the specialist programs that
can help so many.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
That's an incredible statistic. Yeah, CHLA serves ninety countries.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Ninety country that's amazing. One point one million patients walk
through those doors every single year. So let's help the
jewel of our city here on Giving Tuesday, and this
hour is a magical hour. So every dollar you give
will be matched. Thanks again. School's first federal credit union,
So let's match them up. It's Coast one of three

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point five.

Speaker 10 (53:37):
It's the L and K Morning Shell.

Speaker 15 (53:38):
The worst toy maker in the world. It's the cotton
headed Ninni Muggins.

Speaker 10 (53:43):
Coast one O three point five Ellen.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimo, how are you?

Speaker 19 (53:49):
I'm good at meeting a giant bowl of soup.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
I was just about to ask you how many things
are you doing all at once right now?

Speaker 10 (53:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (53:57):
Meaning soup? Really, that's all I'm doing on the phone
and eating soup.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
What kind of soup, Jimmy.

Speaker 19 (54:04):
It's kind of a rothy shrimp soup with some noodles
in it.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Is this because you are a television star? Do you
eat differently than you used to? Or do you still
enjoy carbs every once in a while.

Speaker 19 (54:19):
Well, I still eat like a pig. Just for me.
It's really it's hot and cold, like either I will
go wild and eat a whole box of cereal at midnight, yeah,
or I will be you know, I get these like
meals delivered that are you don't mind not eating them
because they're terrible and so.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
The portions are so small in most of them.

Speaker 19 (54:43):
Yeah, and you know, and you're like, you know what,
I'm glad there's not any more of this because it's
not that good. In fact, the noodles I'm meaning right
now tastes like packing peanuts exactly like packing. They might
be packing peanuts. I really need to look back through
the box and make sure I didn't in advertently heat
ups and sirophoam.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
All right, Jimmy. We just want you to be safe
because we need you. We need you well, we need
you every day, but we really need you on Giving Tuesday.
So thank you for being here with us. We know
that CHLA is literally in the heart of your family,
and so we really appreciate your time.

Speaker 19 (55:20):
Yeah, you're right, it is, and I appreciate it where
you are, you know, I know you do so much
for CHLA, and my wife Molly and I very much
enjoyed seeing you at the fundraising gala, and it is.
It's a great place, and it's something that you can
feel really good about giving to because they do so
many Just take a walk around the place and you'll

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see how many families they help and including ours, and
they do that. It doesn't matter how much money you have,
what you do for a living. You don't have to
have a television show. They will give you the same
care that everyone gets. And that is some of the
I have to say, like, when're you going to the hospital?
You kind of wish like every hospital was like you
wish adults were treated. It's the same way that kids

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are treated at this hospital. But we're very fortunate to
have it here in our city, that's for sure.

Speaker 15 (56:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Well, your wife, Molly is so beautiful. I just want
to tell you some things I observed about the two
of you. Oh yeah, so you've been married eleven eleven
years or ten ten or eleven years?

Speaker 19 (56:23):
Eleven years, eleven year?

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Okay, So, first of all, Molly is like willowy, tall, thin,
smiles beautiful. And I'm walking behind Jimmy and Molly and
Jimmy's holding her hand, and I thought, you know, the
handholding really says so much. It's so much more than
just holding a hand. It's like, you guys have this
connection and I know that that you really truly love
each other. And I thought that the hand holding really,

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I don't know, I just can't stop thinking about that.

Speaker 10 (56:48):
Jimmy, Oh wow, well then you held my hand.

Speaker 19 (56:51):
The truth is I'm old and she was just holding
me up. And I grab your hand too, and we.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Both guided you. Okay, Jimmy, we.

Speaker 19 (57:02):
Do old hands, and I think, you know, especially so
when she's wearing high heels. We definitely old hands in
that situation because we don't want to stumble in front
of the red cart.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
All right, let's talk about Billy. How is Billy. Last
time we spoke, you said he's extremely sassy and a troublemaker.

Speaker 19 (57:21):
He is. He's really funny. He is very healthy. Most
of all. He had another heart surgery, open heart surgery,
earlier this year, and he's doing great. He's gained a
lot of weight. He's gotten like, he's gotten like four
and a half inches taller since then. It's really remarkable.
When you give kids food they grow. It's something that

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I don't know why I was surprised by it, but
I was. And he's doing great. He's really excited about Christmas.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Of course, Well we know, we know about your journey,
and we know about doctor von Stearns, and I know
that Billy's had multiple surgeries. You know, Terry paris hard
and to grow with him. And I saw some of
the new research from Children's Hospital and some of the
new implementations they have. Kids will not need to be

(58:13):
opened up in the future. It will just be a
valve placed inside or valves that grow with the child.
And I thought, this is mind blowing.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
They can do it through a cafeter.

Speaker 19 (58:25):
It's unbelievable, and you know it's for us. We were
hoping that we could hold off on Billy's last heart
surgery long enough for that to be available, and we
just kind of we kind of just missed it. But
it is really wonderful and be able to send the
kids home the next day is uh, it's a miracle.

(58:46):
Thank God I'm not in charge of that, because thank
God there smart people in the world there do something
good with their intelligence.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
I got to tell you, so this guy, doctor Alan
Lewis and then ROBERTA Williams, they've been practed just sing
medicine for fifty years. Roberta was one of the first
to ever even come up with the echo cardiogram, and
then they are taking us through the invention of that
all the way to Starnes, the guy who saved Billy's
life and who's saving so many lives every day, And Jimmy,
I cry. I sat there. I was blown away. I

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don't even know. How do you think these people?

Speaker 19 (59:24):
Yeah, how do you thank these people? I mean I
tried to give them tickets to the World Series, but
he said he didn't want them. I mean that seemed
like a pretty good thing. Thank you. There's no way
to ever thank these people, but you have to try,
and when we should all be very very grateful. Not
only did doctor Starns save my son's life, he operated

(59:45):
on my eighty three year old uncle Vinnie. And we're
still not sure if we're grateful for him saving Uncle
Vinnie life. No, jeez, I will let you know. Really
is still out on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Well, we're happy that everyone's healthy, Jimmy, And you know
all these miracles that happen every day here at CHLA
and on Giving Tuesday, but every day really, you know,
it's just it's fun to be able to have it,
you know, you on the air and to have a
day like this, but really, you know that work is
going on around the clock every single day. If you've
never been up to the helipad and seen an emergency

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landing it is it changes your life. It changes the
way you look at that place when you drive by.

Speaker 19 (01:00:28):
We are very fragile and I think that it would
be great. Please donate to Children's Hospital. You will be
glad you did. If you can't do that, or if
you want to just see what's going on there, go
on the website, and there are a lot of volunteer
opportunities that you can read to kids, you can make

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the nurses day. You know, there are a lot of
things that you can do to pitch in and to
see the magic that's happening there.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Yeah, and before we let you go, Jimmy Kimmel, is
it's true that your son Billy is named after Guillermo
And what led you to that decision?

Speaker 19 (01:01:05):
Well, kind of it's kind of true, because Guillermo is
William in Spanish. But you know what really led me
the decision is, like, I was thinking about what should
we name this kid. I wanted to give him kind
of a regular name, and I thought he's probably going
to be funny. And I know a lot of funny
people named Bill and Billy. There's a Guirmo being one

(01:01:26):
of them, Billy Crystal, Bill Murray. I think Billy is
the number one comedy name, and we wanted to include
him in that group. You know, I don't know if
the name makes the kid, but it is definitely going
in that direction.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
A fantastic Well. Congrats to you, Jimmy on all your successes,
but you know, most of all the success of having
a healthy child.

Speaker 19 (01:01:51):
Thank you, Thank you so much. I appreciate it and
thanks for doing this.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Guys.

Speaker 19 (01:01:54):
This is a great thing you do every year and
I'm happy to be a part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
We love you. Thanks Jimmy.

Speaker 10 (01:02:00):
Wake up with Ellen k.

Speaker 13 (01:02:01):
I'm enjoying all the holiday music, wishing peace, love, acceptance,
and kindness.

Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
Happy holidays to all.

Speaker 10 (01:02:07):
Post one O three point five.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Welcome to our studios a very special young man who
is our guest DJ with a smile and sparkling eyes
you won't believe. Let's welcome Pierce. Yay, Pierce, thank you
for being here. Welcome, Welcome. Yeah, so, thank you for

(01:02:30):
the flowers and the card too.

Speaker 17 (01:02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Wow, are you out of school for this?

Speaker 17 (01:02:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Yay? Mom, Aubrey, thank you for getting.

Speaker 10 (01:02:39):
Pierce here, my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Yeah, so you have quite a story, Pierce. It says
here that your nickname is Fierce Pierce. Can you tell
us why?

Speaker 17 (01:02:50):
Because I survived cancer?

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Yes, and I hear twice, Mom, tell us about that.

Speaker 20 (01:02:57):
Yeah, he's he's a pretty remarkable little guy. So when
he was a toddler, he was diagnosed. You want to
share what you were diagnosed with?

Speaker 17 (01:03:06):
Bud diagnosed my lord leukemia.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Okay, that's a big big Those are some big words.

Speaker 10 (01:03:12):
Yeah, it's a tongue twister there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:03:16):
So yeah, he was he was two years old, which
is kind of exactly what you want the burden to
be on the parents and hopefully have the kids not
remember too much of it. But it was quite a journey, humbud.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:03:29):
Yeah, are you the only kid? You want to share
a little.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Bit about your sister? Yeah, tell us about it.

Speaker 17 (01:03:34):
I have one older sister and one younger sister. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
What are their names?

Speaker 17 (01:03:40):
The older sister who named Sierra and the younger sister
who names Harper.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Okay, so so they were also there on your journey,
the whole family really yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:03:54):
So when he was diagnosed as the toddler, Sierra was
four and Harper.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Was four and a half weeks old.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 20 (01:04:01):
And so Children's Hospital Los Angeles was pretty pretty remarkable.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Huh bud.

Speaker 20 (01:04:07):
Yeah, so we had we had a lot of people
in the room. I'm not sure's journey.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:04:14):
So he's had nineteen surgeries, nineteen, he's had thirty one
platelet transfusions. And then do you want to share a
bit about your bone marrow transplant? What's special about your donor?

Speaker 17 (01:04:27):
She was from France?

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
She was really you got bone marrow from France? Oh
my gosh. And she shifted over and within two days
forty eight hours it saved your life. Yeah wow.

Speaker 20 (01:04:44):
Oh what do we say when you have a skin knee?

Speaker 17 (01:04:48):
That's French blood, that's French blood.

Speaker 10 (01:04:49):
That's fred blood.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Did you learn French in the process? I hear the
two of you correspond a lot too. You write to
each other there?

Speaker 17 (01:05:00):
Yeah, yeah, I like preachy.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
You have good taste.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
You're going to be wearing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
How about that yet?

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Yeah? A croissant, maybe a buttery crunchy croissant.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
How are you feeling now? Are you feel good? You
feel healthy and strong?

Speaker 17 (01:05:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
Why do you have two birthdays but I only have one?

Speaker 23 (01:05:25):
Well, the day the.

Speaker 17 (01:05:29):
Woman's blood went into me. That's that's like every year
we celebrated because it's saved my life, and so we
call it my blood birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Yeah. Do you have hobbies or favorite activities that you
love to do now that you're nine?

Speaker 17 (01:05:50):
I like reading? Okay, I did play baseball and soccer.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Okay, Yeah, you know you look like a baseball play
You've got that athletic kind of and chin like. You know,
you look like sturdy. Yeah, definitely Ryan. This boy, Fierce Pierce,
who's with us now. Pierce is going to be very

(01:06:15):
popular with the ladies when you get a little older.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
Well, when the door opened, he was standing there with
flowers in a card for you, Ellen. He's already he's
got it figured it out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Thank you guys for coming.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Thank you so much for having us.

Speaker 10 (01:06:30):
What do you want to say?

Speaker 25 (01:06:31):
People?

Speaker 17 (01:06:32):
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (01:06:32):
Today is Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving Back.

Speaker 10 (01:06:36):
Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Needs your support.

Speaker 11 (01:06:39):
Join Coast one oh three point five's llen K as
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Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Cost one three point five at CCHLA And we're all
about Given Tuesday, where the LNK Morning Show in the
afternoon for the LNK all day. Really not no, Okay,
that's right, and we just want to thank you for
giving here on Giving Tuesday. Think about the three hundred
and twenty two patients who will have to sleep at

(01:07:35):
CHLA tonight and their families. Yeah, doctors and nurses showing
up every day having no idea you know what may
come through the door, and CHLA they don't turn them away.
They take care of them everyone. And uh, you know,
it's so multi generational. To Darlene, you're talking about your mom.

Speaker 16 (01:07:55):
My mom was a little baby born with a tumor
in her ear and they had to remove that tumor
from a little tiny baby. She obviously doesn't remember, but
she has the scar. And then my dad, when he
was six years old, broke his arm riding a bike
and they helped him fix his arm. And now my
daughter has been going there for all of her specialists

(01:08:17):
because she has a bunch of special needs, and all
of her specialists have worked the best there for us.
So you know, at one point we were driving over
one hundred miles to go to her appointments because we
weren't living in this area and.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
It was that worth it.

Speaker 16 (01:08:31):
We would leave at four five in the morning to
make our eight o'clock appointments, and we would make a
day out of it, and you know, I'd still do
it all over again.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
C HLA Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. And the giving continues.
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Shout out to Isaac Orrin a Box Canyon, thank you
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Speaker 16 (01:09:04):
And then we have Norma Rivera and Downey, Lori Coreama
and Palmdale, Maggie Hernandez in North Hollywood.

Speaker 24 (01:09:11):
Also Cynthia Schaeffer from Valencia, Michael Cassias and Los Angeles,
and Celia Paredes from Norwalk.

Speaker 19 (01:09:17):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
How about Liz Marney and Moore Park Snide, Manyon Huntington Beach,
Randy Hayne, We see you out in Woodland Hills.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
Jacqueline Slade listening streaming right now in Tucson, Arizona.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
And I love Slade. Yeah wait, Jacqueline Slade, Yeah no,
I love the last name Slade.

Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Yeah no, but I do love that people from across
the country are giving to this great institution because it
not only treats our city, but really, like you said,
over ninety countries have to rely on CHLA when other
places don't have the answers CHLA does.

Speaker 16 (01:09:54):
This has to be the year where like it's spreading
all over. Yes, it's usually very low, but we're getting
donations from all over.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
It's amazing everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
And thank you again. Donate. It's Coast one three five
dot com slash ch l A and thank you. We're
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Speaker 10 (01:10:11):
It's the L and K Morning Show. You guys give
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Speaker 15 (01:10:16):
Oh, Marry Christmas.

Speaker 10 (01:10:19):
Coast one three point five.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
One out of every five children in the City of
angels are treated at c HLO Children's Hospital, Los Angeles.
A lot of bell ringing going on there and a
lot of good happening at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and
we are here to support them and giving Tuesday. So

(01:10:42):
give what you can. It's Coast one of three five
dot com slash CHLA and we have been here on
the air for almost twelve hours. We need to keep
on going. I guys, I feel great. I could I
could go, I could do love songs. I could keep on.

Speaker 6 (01:10:56):
I just talk Karen Sharp in the hall. So she's
planning to work, but you might be able to convince
her to go home.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Well, more than three hundred pediatrics spine treatments are performed
at CCHLA. I get to witness one of them. Darlene
and I scrubbed in and we got to see one
of the spinal surgeries and it was fascinating. These surgeons
show up, Doctor Stein, we saw him this morning. They
scrub up, they go in, they do amazing work. We

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met so many patients who as babies had microscopic surgeries
on heart valves. One of our listeners was born with
a esophagus and they made one for her.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Using her small intestine. They created it.

Speaker 6 (01:11:40):
It's the only time it's ever been done, and it
happened right here at HLA.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
It's life changing for so many And you may think
you never need it. I didn't nine years ago. I
did when my son smashed his elbow and football. So
you know, chances are you know someone who's being treated
at CHLA or who in the future may need it.
I have a friend who whose son had kind of

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onset tremors and so she could not find the help.
And Chla is going to see her this week and
her son. So we love you Chla, and we love
Giving Tuesday and again to give it is Coast one
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Much, Oh, thank you. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Happy Giving Tuesday to you, and thank you for opening
up your hearts and giving all day today with us.
Our twelve hour broadcast has been amazing and we've met
so many special people and doctors and nurses we met,

(01:13:05):
We met my son's surgery nurses.

Speaker 6 (01:13:07):
Yeah today, how's your son?

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
You're like what We were in the o R with
him when he had his elbow put back together. But
so many just really you know, we were in the
lobby here at CDHLA all day and to see just
to see the love. Yeah, that's what it is. It's
just everyone there giving love, parents, nurses, just the hospital.

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It kind of I don't know. You can feel the energy,
you can feel like a heartbeat going through it because
it's a place of hope, but Children's Hospital, Los Angeles,
and it's a place where you know, they innovate and
they they do things other people don't. Children's Hospital is
ranked number one here in California on the West Coast

(01:13:59):
by US News and Report and has been for multiple
years in a row. So you helped us raise thousands,
hundreds of thousands of dollars today and we're so grateful.

Speaker 6 (01:14:11):
And we're still counting that money too, So who knows
how high this is going to go. And the donations
don't have to end right now. We'll keep this open
even till tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
So go to Coast one of three five dot com
slash c h l A and thank you again.

Speaker 6 (01:14:26):
I'm Ellen k, I'm Ryan Mano, I'm Social Queen Darlee,
I'm producer Mike Grandmos.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
We had every show on a quote and a kiss,
and our quote for today is given, you'll feel good.
I just made that one happen.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
Okay, that's right, and we're going to play this one
for all those kids who are hoping to go home
this year for Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Kiss on three, kiss on me one t.

Speaker 7 (01:14:50):
Three home for the holiday. Please, I'll believe I've missed
each and hey face, I'm on and play easy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
Let's turn on the below in the place.

Speaker 7 (01:15:14):
It's time I found myself tullly surround, lead in your circles,
col my friend, pleasee.

Speaker 26 (01:15:30):
Celebrate me home, give me a number, see, celebrate me,
bay me one mourn so that I'll always remember.

Speaker 7 (01:15:47):
I can recall whenever rived find myself to all alone,
I can.

Speaker 9 (01:15:53):
See me.

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
Uneasy, fetting away, traveling where the rest of the winds
can find. Somebody tried to tell me, but the man forgot.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Don't tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Why I happened.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
I got a count on being gone.

Speaker 7 (01:16:21):
Come on, come on, everybody, to let you all tell
me