Word: ella
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Harvard's Ella Witcher went to five games with Kellen Heckscher, but triumphed 9-1 in the deciding fifth game to win the only other close match...
Captain Virginia Brown will accompany senior Kate Gregory, sophomores Ella Witcher and Elli Thompson, and juniors Carlin Wing and Colby Hall. Both Hall and Wing were named to the Women's Intercollegiate Squash Association Second Team last year. Rounding out the roster will be four other freshmen who represent a strong recruiting class...
Dazed and irritable from six months without a full night's sleep, James Elliott curses at the sound of a banging spoon. Then he remembers why he listens for it in the first place: it means his mother Ella can't breathe. Leaping to her bedside, James grabs a suctioning device and calmly pulls the mucus from his mother's tracheotomy tube, as he has every two hours since Ella, 73, was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer in April. "I don't know what I'd do without him," Ella silently mouths. The tube, which enables her to breathe...
...nurse. He's an ex-Army paratrooper who loves motorcycles and lives by the credo "Just because you're a nice guy doesn't mean you can't kick a little ass." He had just landed what he calls his "dream job," detailing motorcycles for Harley-Davidson, when Ella learned of her cancer. He realized he was about to lose his mother, and everything changed. He quit the new job, left the Army Reserves, postponed a pending marriage and set out to provide 24-hour care at Ella's modest home in Artesia, Calif. "This is my last chance...
...Ella's other sons, John and Robert, visit periodically, but James shoulders the caretaking. Until she got sick, Ella was a no-nonsense home-maker who was no stranger to the back of a motorcycle and gave the finger to anyone who dared laugh at "the old woman on the bike." She remains strong spirited despite losing 70 lbs. since December. Last month she had James, who plays guitar, take her to a nearby party for a jam session that lasted until 3 a.m. It was the first time either of them had left the house in months. James...