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Tuesday we began a four part series about the miraculous God story told by Heath and Katie Franke. This is the third in the series. Make sure you follow their story the rest of the week. As we got settled into the ICU room I couldn’t help but just watch Noah and pray. Thanking God for the staff, the surgeon, the entire medical team. Roughly every 30 minutes the nurse attempted to wake him up and ask him who he is, where he is, etc. It was hard to listen, his speech was very mumbled. There was no understanding him. You couldn’t make out any words he was saying. This went on all night. Early in the morning they took him for a CT scan and the surgeon was really pleased with how things looked. She encouraged me to keep hanging in there, and she would see me in a couple of days. Later that morning Pastor Blake came to see Noah and as he walked in Noah said, “Hey Pastor Blake”. The nurse and I couldn’t believe it! We both looked at each other, looked at Noah and back at each other. It was amazing! I know Pastor Blake prayed but I really couldn’t tell you what else went on. I was so overcome with Joy. He just spoke and we understood it! How amazing was that! A while later Pastor Dick came to see Noah. This time Heath and Jonathan were allowed to also be in the room. He lifted his hand, waved and said, “Hi Pastor Guilfoil.” I couldn’t believe it. And this time more people heard. They couldn’t believe it. Pastor prayed and as he did, you could feel the Holy Spirit come over all of us and fill that room. I just stood there with tears. It was such an amazing moment that I will never forget. God was in that room. God was there with Noah. The rest of the day was crazy. Staff from all kinds of different therapies came in to see Noah and test him. And he passed all of them. No one had any concerns at all! So, he was transferred to a regular room. You guys. Less than 24 hours ago, we were told he wouldn’t make it to Children’s Mercy. We were told to be prepared and hang on, this was going to be a long hard road. We were told to stay strong. Less than 24 hours and he was moving to a regular room! After we got to a regular room, there were some things Noah had to do that were on the checklist to be considered to go home. Some of them were very difficult, some of them very easy. Through all of them, Noah remained positive and strong. We would talk some as he was awake. He didn’t remember much of anything in the past 48 hours which was okay. But he did remember one thing. He told me how right after the accident happened, he knows his eyes were still closed, maybe blacked out for a moment. But he prayed. He said he asked God to please give him whatever hurt Caleb or the others had. He could take it. Just let everyone else be okay. Please, give it to him. And you know what? I firmly believe God did. The other driver was not hurt at all. And Caleb ended up going to his last day of school. No goose egg. No black eye. Nothing but a sore wrist, that actually went away after 48 hours. The truck hit Caleb’s side of the vehicle. Caleb should have been the one in that bed. I believe God heard Noah and answered yes to that prayer. He did end up getting an infection a few weeks later on a Friday, and again, within 72 hours, it was gone. We sat in the ER on Monday as they decided whether to have surgery again and clean things up a bit or do stitches. It was decided to do stitches because the infection was gone, no signs of it at all! God is moving. God is still performing miracles and they are all around us every day. Tune in again tomorrow for the rest of the story...Tuesday we began a four part series about the miraculous God story told by Heath and Katie Franke. This is the third in the series. Make sure you follow their story the rest of the week. As we got settled into the ICU room I couldn’t help but just watch Noah and pray. Thanking God for the staff, the surgeon, the entire medical team. Roughly every 30 minutes the nurse attempted to wake him up and ask him who he is, where he is, etc. It was hard to listen, his speech was very mumbled. There was no understanding him. You couldn’t make out any words he was saying. This went on all night. Early in the morning they took him for a CT scan and the surgeon was really pleased with how things looked. She encouraged me to keep hanging in there, and she would see me in a couple of days. Later that morning Pastor Blake came to see Noah and as he walked in Noah said, “hey Pastor Blake”. The nurse and I couldn’t believe it! We both looked at each other, looked at Noah and back at each other. It was amazing! I know Pastor Blake prayed but I really couldn’t tell you what else went on. I was so overcome with Joy. He just spoke and we understood it! How amazing was that! A while later Pastor Dick came to see Noah. This time Heath and Jonathan were allowed to also be in the room. He lifted his hand, waved and said, “Hi Pastor Guilfoil.” I couldn’t believe it. And this time more people heard. They couldn’t believe it. Pastor prayed and as he did, you could feel the Holy Spirit come over all of us and fill that room. I just stood there with tears. It was such an amazing moment that I will never forget. God was in that room. God was there with Noah. The rest of the day was crazy. Staff from all kinds of different therapies came in to see Noah and test him. And he passed all of them. No one had any concerns at all! So, he was transferred to a regular room. You guys. Less than 24 hours ago, we were told he wouldn’t make it to Children’s Mercy. We were told to be prepared and hang on, this was going to be a long hard road. We were told to stay strong. Less than 24 hours and he was moving to a regular room! After we got to a regular room, there were some things Noah had to do that were on the checklist to be considered to go home. Some of them were very difficult, some of them very easy. Through all of them, Noah remained positive and strong. We would talk some as he was awake. He didn’t remember much of anything in the past 48 hours which was okay. But he did remember one thing. He told me how right after the accident happened, he knows his eyes were still closed, maybe blacked out for a moment. But he prayed. He said he asked God to please give him whatever hurt Caleb or the others had. He could take it. Just let everyone else be okay. Please, give it to him. And you know what? I firmly believe God did. The other driver was not hurt at all. And Caleb ended up going to his last day of school. No goose egg. No black eye. Nothing but a sore wrist, that actually went away after 48 hours. The truck hit Caleb’s side of the vehicle. Caleb should have been the one in that bed. I believe God heard Noah and answered yes to that prayer. He did end up getting an infection a few weeks later on a Friday, and again, within 72 hours, it was gone. We sat in the ER on Monday as they decided whether to have surgery again and clean things up a bit or do stitches. It was decided to do stitches because the infection was gone, no signs of it at all! God is moving. God is still performing miracles and they are all around us every day. Tune in again tomorrow for the rest of the story...Tuesday we began a four part series about the miraculous God story told by Heath and Katie Franke. This is the third in the series. Make sure you follow their story the rest of the week. As we got settled into the ICU room I couldn’t help but just watch Noah and pray. Thanking God for the staff, the surgeon, the entire medical team. Roughly every 30 minutes the nurse attempted to wake him up and ask him who he is, where he is, etc. It was hard to listen, his speech was very mumbled. There was no understanding him. You couldn’t make out any words he was saying. This went on all night. Early in the morning they took him for a CT scan and the surgeon was really pleased with how things looked. She encouraged me to keep hanging in there, and she would see me in a couple of days. Later that morning Pastor Blake came to see Noah and as he walked in Noah said, “hey Pastor Blake”. The nurse and I couldn’t believe it! We both looked at each other, looked at Noah and back at each other. It was amazing! I know Pastor Blake prayed but I really couldn’t tell you what else went on. I was so overcome with Joy. He just spoke and we understood it! How amazing was that! A while later Pastor Dick came to see Noah. This time Heath and Jonathan were allowed to also be in the room. He lifted his hand, waved and said, “Hi Pastor Guilfoil.” I couldn’t believe it. And this time more people heard. They couldn’t believe it. Pastor prayed and as he did, you could feel the Holy Spirit come over all of us and fill that room. I just stood there with tears. It was such an amazing moment that I will never forget. God was in that room. God was there with Noah. The rest of the day was crazy. Staff from all kinds of different therapies came in to see Noah and test him. And he passed all of them. No one had any concerns at all! So, he was transferred to a regular room. You guys. Less than 24 hours ago, we were told he wouldn’t make it to Children’s Mercy. We were told to be prepared and hang on, this was going to be a long hard road. We were told to stay strong. Less than 24 hours and he was moving to a regular room! After we got to a regular room, there were some things Noah had to do that were on the checklist to be considered to go home. Some of them were very difficult, some of them very easy. Through all of them, Noah remained positive and strong. We would talk some as he was awake. He didn’t remember much of anything in the past 48 hours which was okay. But he did remember one thing. He told me how right after the accident happened, he knows his eyes were still closed, maybe blacked out for a moment. But he prayed. He said he asked God to please give him whatever hurt Caleb or the others had. He could take it. Just let everyone else be okay. Please, give it to him. And you know what? I firmly believe God did. The other driver was not hurt at all. And Caleb ended up going to his last day of school. No goose egg. No black eye. Nothing but a sore wrist, that actually went away after 48 hours. The truck hit Caleb’s side of the vehicle. Caleb should have been the one in that bed. I believe God heard Noah and answered yes to that prayer. He did end up getting an infection a few weeks later on a Friday, and again, within 72 hours, it was gone. We sat in the ER on Monday as they decided whether to have surgery again and clean things up a bit or do stitches. It was decided to do stitches because the infection was gone, no signs of it at all! God is moving. God is still performing miracles and they are all around us every day. Tune in again tomorrow for the rest of the story...
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