Please pray with us for Josh Brumley, the son of missionaries here in Haiti who fell from the top of a building (22 feet) Sunday night. Ricky & Joy are friends with him through their youth group and through Worship teams for both youth & Sunday AM. Ricky & he have spent the night over each others' houses to get together because he lives about 40 minutes from us. Sunday morning Joy was just saying how much she appreciates him because of his commitment to the Lord and great attitude. She was considering him as the best one to take over the leadership of the worship team when she graduates even though he's Ricky's age.
I think it's amazing how well he's doing considering what happened, but I don't think he's out of the woods yet. He has 2 fractures in his skull and one in his nasal cavity. Here's an email from his parents to explain where he is at this point.
"Just a note to tell you that Josh had a good night last night and if he continues to improve, they will take his catheter out and let him get up a little. he still is having headaches (may for awhile), but they are not as severe as they were for a time and we are thankful for that. He is very sore all over and has bruises everywhere. His fall was about 22 feet and he landed on his shoulders and back of his head as far as our intern who was with him saw. It is pretty miraculous that he has no other broken bones. There is a chance he may have some hairline fractures in his back or ribs, but it wouldn't show up on an xray for awhile if he does.Thank you , thank you for all of your prayers and e-mails and offers of help. Thanks for putting him on prayer chains-he has been prayed for everywhere (all over the world) and we are overwhelmed with that.It means so much that you are all standing with us. We pray we are past having to airlift him and it won't be necessary-we still are watching him for a cerebral spinal fluid leak because of the fractured ethmoid sinus, but so far so good and every day that goes by lessens that chance. We are also watching for any signs of seizures-that can happen after a head injury. He has shown no signs of that and at this point the doctors don't think we have to put him on medication, but we need to have it at home in case it should happen.We will repeat the CAT scan tomorrow morning and if it looks okay, we hope to go home Saturday! Josh has wanted to go home since he got here and it's hard for him that we are here day after day, but we have no choice and we are encouraging him to hang in there.We will write more as we have internet (the hospital helped us get on their network-they have been very kind and accommodating and we are very appreciative).We love you all, Chris and Sheryl
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