{"id":8,"date":"2007-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-23T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:04:45","slug":"urgent-prayer-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/2007\/05\/30\/urgent-prayer-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Prayer Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have an urgent prayer request for my nephew Micah Magnusson. \u00a0He is my oldest sister\u2019s son.\u00a0 Please pray. \u00a0Jackie and I were on our way up to Michigan for Micah\u2019s graduation open house when we received the news.<\/p>\n

This is what we know so far. \u00a0Micah was born with a ball of blood vessels in the back of his head. \u00a0It is something that less than 1% of the population has, and is a defect called AVM.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of his family is here in Mid Michigan for his graduation open house which was scheduled for yesterday evening May 29th.\u00a0 He had ridden his bicycle to school yesterday, and arrived at home around 12:00pm complaining of major head pain, and not feeling good. \u00a0<\/p>\n

After a few minutes of lying on the couch he began to vomit, and lose some color.\u00a0 Dale and Sher decided to take him to the local hospital in Lansing.\u00a0 On the way to the hospital he started to say things that didn\u2019t make sense and they decided to stop at the fire station on the way to the hospital. \u00a0They put him in the ambulance, started an IV, and started off to Sparrow Hospital. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Before arriving at the emergency room the paramedics had to insert a breathing tube and he became unresponsive. \u00a0Once they arrived at Sparrow they took a CAT scan and discovered the large bleed mostly on the left rear side of Micah\u2019s brain, but extending into the right side as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

God provided one of the best neuro Surgeons in Michigan, and they were able to stop the bleeding and clean both sides in what turned out to be around a 2.5 hour surgery. \u00a0It is a miracle that Micah made it to the hospital and through the operation. \u00a0<\/p>\n

He is now in the Neuro ICU at Sparrow hospital.\u00a0 He still has not regained consciousness, which they say is normal the first couple days after the operation.\u00a0 The major concerns today are a fever that started last night, the possibility of another bleed, swelling on his brain stem, and the fact that he has not started breathing on his own. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Some encouraging things that have taken place today are, He has moved his leg, responded to a pinch, one of his eyes has dilated, and he squeezed the doctor\u2019s hand and also his parent\u2019s hands. \u00a0They told us that we shouldn\u2019t expect much to happen today as far as improvement, but hopefully by tomorrow night he will start to wake up and they will be able to assess the situation better. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Micah was accepted to Moody Bible Institute this fall, and is a young man excited about God and serving Him.\u00a0 When I arrived in the surgical lounge at Sparrow hospital yesterday afternoon there were around 100 people there to support Micah and his family. \u00a0Included were his football coach, the principle of his public high school, classmates, pastors, teachers, and people that Micah has touched with his happy go lucky attitude, and a deep Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Please continue to lift Micah and his family up before the Throne of our great and mighty Heavenly Father. \u00a0We have already seen Him work out some amazing things to keep Micah alive.\u00a0 As soon as we hear anything new, I will keep you updated. \u00a0Thank you again for your prayers.<\/p>\n

Love,
\nJoe and Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have an urgent prayer request for my nephew Micah Magnusson. \u00a0He is my oldest sister\u2019s son.\u00a0 Please pray. \u00a0Jackie and I were on our way up to Michigan for Micah\u2019s graduation open house when we received the news. This is what we know so far. \u00a0Micah was born with a ball of blood vessels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-bruce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}