{"id":285464,"date":"2026-05-09T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:22:07","slug":"hospitalized-senior-celebrates-prom-in-hospital-room-with-family-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285464\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitalized senior celebrates prom in hospital room with family and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A Gregory-Portland High School senior is recovering at home after receiving a surprise prom celebration inside her hospital room.<\/p>\n<p>Kailani Vargas thought she would miss one of the biggest moments of her senior year after learning she would be hospitalized on prom night.<\/p>\n<p>But with the help of her boyfriend, friends, family and care team at CHRISTUS Spohn, prom came to her.<\/p>\n<p>Her hospital room was transformed with decorations, snacks, photos and even her prom dress \u2014 giving Vargas the chance to still experience a special night surrounded by the people closest to her.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise celebration quickly turned an unexpected situation into a lasting memory.<\/p>\n<p>Now back home and continuing her recovery, Vargas says she\u2019s looking ahead to the future and hopes to one day become a NICU nurse.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/hospitalized-senior-celebrates-prom-in-hospital-room\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 A Gregory-Portland High School senior is recovering at home after receiving a surprise prom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-285464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}