Metro Mother Recovering After 2022 Crash, Birth Of Baby Boy

A metro woman is still recovering after she was involved in a crash last August. 

She said she came close to giving up if not for a tiny miracle she happened to uncover.

At just one-month-old, Tayveon already knows how to bring a smile to anyone's face that he meets.

His mother Shanequa Long said he's her miracle baby.

“Without my mom and my grandma and my family, I was going to give up, but they told me no not yet. It isn’t your time. Let’s fight,” Long said.

Last August, Long was hit on Sooner and 48th Street. She was thrown from her car and rushed to the OU Trauma Center.

OU Health said the Summer is their busy trauma season. Their hospital is filled with patients suffering life-threatening injuries, but they said that day long was their miracle. 

“I had a broken femur, broken pelvic bone, broken ankles, forearms, fingers. I know have plates and metals in my arms,” Long said.

Months into her long recovery she finds out she's not going through this all alone.

“So, my mom told me I was pregnant. She’s very old school. She goes, ‘You have the second heartbeat in your neck, and I was like ‘oh you’re playing,’” Long said.

Turns out, Tayveon was with her through the crash.

“She already had extremely high mountains to climb to get over that and then to add a pregnancy on top of that and then to see how beautiful he is and that he is absolutely perfect there's obviously miracles happening there,” Denni Wilson-Lowber, OU Trauma nurse said.

Long said he's the miracle that helped save her life.

“I am stronger than I thought. This just showed me that I can do anything,” Long said. He is making the road to recovery seem not as long.