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North Texas man who survived COVID-19 hopes his story can help others move forward
Bell has lost 105 pounds since a serious battle with COVID-19 last year.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A Grand Prairie man who survived COVID-19 is persevering further, in hopes to inspire others.
Matthew Bell spent weeks in the hospital on a ventilator after he contracted the virus last April.
He s now recently vaccinated and is using his near death experience with the coronavirus to keep moving forward.
Bell lifted 105 pounds in the air. That’s the same amount of weight he’s lost since April 2020, starting right after he was released from the hospital, where he spent 44 days fighting COVID-19.
The ways NBA players were personally impacted by COVID-19
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One year ago today, COVID-19 stopped sports (0:59)
A look back to March 11, 2020, the day sports halted, and now, a year later, leagues are finding a way to make it through the coronavirus pandemic. (0:59)
THE UTAH JAZZ were moments away from tipping off against the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 11, 2020. A positive COVID-19 test from center Rudy Gobert abruptly halted the game, and the official announcement that night said the league was going on hold until further notice. At the time, league insiders expected play to be halted for at least two weeks.
Texas ranching and oil heiress Anne Marion s $150million art collection goes up for auction: Masterworks by Warhol, Lichtenstein and Franz Klein not seen by the public in decades go on sale
Marion, who founded the Georgia O Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, died last year at the age of 81
Marion and her husband, John Marion, a former Sotheby s chairman, established the museum in 1997
Sotheby s said three masterworks at the heart of the collection are expected to each sell for over $20 million
They are: Warhol s Elvis 2 Times, Richard Diebenkorn s Ocean Park No. 40, and a Clyfford Still
Sotheby s said the masterworks were featured in her Fort Worth home, designed by architect I.M. Pei
Anastazja ‘Ann’ Theresa Niecko-Howell
On Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, Ann Theresa Howell passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth. She was 77.
Ann was born June 13, 1943, in Naliboki, Poland, to Edward and Mary (Stasiukiewicz) Niecko during the height of World War II. Her family was forced out of Poland by the Nazis and lived in Germany until the end of the war. In January 1951, Ann and her family moved to Traverse City, Mich., where her father worked on an apple orchard. The family later moved to Aquebogue, N.Y., where they put down roots.