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Little Oklahoma baseball player doesn’t let congenital heart defect slow down his game of life

by: Joleen Chaney
Posted: May 25, 2021 / 05:11 PM CDT / Updated: May 25, 2021 / 05:41 PM CDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – “I like to play baseball, play with my brother and my friends,” Davis Sharpe said.

But it is something his mother was not sure he would ever get to do.

“I remember thinking, ‘will he ever get to play sports?’” Marianne Sharpe
said.

Thanks to the doctors at OU Children’s Hospital, he does.

“The day that he was born, they heard a heart murmur after delivery, and he
was diagnosed with tricuspid atresia with pulmonary stenosis,” Marianne said.

It was a lot to take in for the new mother.
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