We always look perfect on the Oscars
red carpet, but let's face it,
we know. Trials in life.
All of us have been impacted by
the COVID pandemic and many have
been forced to struggle over new
and unexpected roadblocks in life.
Today, we're kicking off a series
called overcoming hurdles by
showcasing a few people who have had
to face extraordinary challenges,
and through that they'd really
found their strengths.
Page starts this series off
by sharing mikaela's story.
Cheerleaders, they typically remain on
the sidelines and rally the crowds to give
their team that extra spirit that can mean
the difference between a win or a loss.
If you're a competitive cheerleader,
you are the athlete and join other
teammates and competitions where
the precision of the pyramids,
the accuracy of the tumbles,
and the athletic ability of the
chair members are judged in local,
state, and national championships.
It's now or never, and if you mess
up if one person messes up, it's.
It's over for everybody,
so I think the pressure of it
is kind of something special.
This is Michaela noble, a prosper
high school cheerleader and a state
championship cheerleader who was on her
way to a cheerleading college scholarship.
But Michaela's dreams took a dramatic tumble.
September 20th was in Monday,
and it was the first day of homecoming.
The week of homecoming and we were
practicing for PEP rally with the
football team at a friends house.
I don't really know something just
went wrong and the timing was off
and I did a flip and landed on
my neck when I hit the ground.
I don't know how to explain it,
but I was like I'm paralyzed, but
Kayla's mom was not.
When she got the call,
but I had pulled up and I just
left my car in the middle of the
street and I just went running
and as I ran around back one of
the EMTs stopped me before I got
over there and he just warned me
that it was trauma one and that
I needed to pull myself together
before I went to see Michaela.
There was one person who kept her composure
when it happened immediately
after I was kind of little one
to keep everybody around me com.
I don't know, it was just kind of fight
or flight at that moment, you know,
and I was able to keep my composure and
kind of let everyone else know like,
OK like I'm not OK but I'm OK. But
Michaela wasn't OK, it was heart wrenching.
I mean I just still can't
even put it into words.
The feelings that we had because.
I mean, looking at her
she's she looked perfect.
In fact, mikaela's injuries were serious,
life threatening and life altering.
It was devastating to think
that she could never walk again.
She can't move her arms and she can't
move her fingers in her lungs collapse.
So at that point it was survival.
It was like I don't care if she
can never move her arms or legs
like I just need her to survive.
Michaela
was in ICU for three weeks,
but it was getting out of
ICU that forced her to see.
A new reality she had
never considered. I think
getting out of the ICU and moving to a
rehab facility and kind of realizing.
Well, like I'm I'm here and I'm
with people that are in similar
situations of me and just seeing what
that looks like on other people and
realizing how severe my injury was.
It was kind of a surreal moment,
you see. Regardless of her limitations,
Michaela doesn't like to be told, no.
It's kind of my fuel.
I kind of like when people I
like are you only get this far.
You can only do
that much because I'm like
you're wrong like I can and I will do
so much more than you think I can.
They didn't feel like yeah,
since the accident Mikaela's progress
has been remarkable. Months ago,
Michaela was completely paralyzed.
Now she is feeling in her body
and is able to use her arms
and can sit up on her own. She
credits her trader Tim Cook for
much of her success, but that
credit is hard for him to accept.
Progress has exceeded my
expectation by far and that just
goes to show her will her grit,
her work ethic or whatever
challenge that we have.
She's always ready to go over
and beyond the expectation
of what's set before her.
Ultimately,
Tim believes full credit lies elsewhere.
We serve an amazing God,
and I know that just because
one aspect of what she does,
that door may close.
But there's a whole lot of doors are
going to open up for her to where
she's going to excel and be great at.
Like Tim, Michaela
credits, her faith
is a major
part of her healing.
I really just appreciated.
Just what got us created in this
world and my biggest school right
now I guess is just to get back
in the water and all the water.
But Mccaleb has a bigger goal,
a goal I'll share with you all that
I haven't shared with anybody.
Not even my friends are most of my family,
but I'm a junior in high school right
now and I think my goal is to walk across
the stage at graduation next year. I
don't have any doubt in my mind.
Pray about it and I just have a
piece of mind and we have the
conversations and she sits there and
says she has that same feeling and
so weird to me to say otherwise.
You know, there's not an inkling a
doubt there's not a hesitation in
my mind that says that she's not
going to walk 'cause I know she will,
whether that's with a machine or my family
helping me, I I have that in my brain and
I'm going to do that one way or another.
It might look different than everyone
else walking across the stage, but.
I'm gonna do it and I have a long
way to go, obviously, but it's
going to happen slowly.
Come forward and we will be there
because now it's our turn to be.
Her cheerleaders rooting her on
as she steps into a bright future.
So you can follow Michaela Nobles
extraordinary journey towards healing
on her YouTube channel at Michaela Noble
or on Tick Tock at Michaela Noble, 13,
and let me just say what an incredible
example of what your attitude, your spirit,
regardless of your circumstances can do.
She is defying odds and every person,
myself included,
that just watched that story.
I think we are all inspired,
so I want to thank her for sharing that.
And thank you for page
bringing us that story.