13-year-old Charlotte boy needs a miracle after near drowning

The following is an email I just received about 13-year-old Ian Shaver, who nearly drowned in Park Crossing’s pool in just 3.5 feet of water.  His condition is critical, and the family is asking for your help.  So for those of you who pray, pray.  For those of you who do not, send Ian all the positive energy you can muster, and let’s witness a miracle!

{Read email below}

Good afternoon friends & family,

I have an immediate prayer request on behalf of our friends, the Shaver
Family. Young Ian is fighting for his life right now in the Levine
Children’s Hospital Pediatric ICU. Our families are friends and Dan and I
also are involved with the Youth Sports as coaches in our community.
Yesterday at 10:45 am EST his oldest son Ian was playing a game with friends
in their neighborhood pool located in the Park Crossing Subdivision in
Charlotte, NC. It’s just like when we were kids, they were trying to see who
could hold their breath the longest underwater. Ian won the game but lost
much in the end. Ian was found unconscious in the Park Crossing Neighborhood
Pool in 3 ½ feet of water.          

His Father Dan has asked me send this to everyone I know and requested that
everyone forward it to their prayer lines immediately. Again, your prayers
are requested by the Shaver Family. It has been determined that Ian’s heart
did stop, and there could be brain damage. But right now there are bigger
issues. He is currently on a breathing machine and they are keeping his body
temp at 94 degrees to keep the brain from swelling. It is estimated that he
was under water for approximately 1 minute and he took in some pool water
that went right into his lungs. The chlorine and other chemicals have
dissolved the lungs interior lining which protects the lungs. His levels of
carbon dioxide increased in his blood yesterday afternoon and they had to
have an emergency procedure done at 7:00 pm EST last night. This was a very
hard decision as he only had a 50/50 chance that he would survive the
procedure. But without it, he wouldn’t have lived through the night due to
carbon dioxide poisoning. At 10:00 pm EST last night we were informed that
Ian survived the procedure and it was slated as a success!

Ian currently is in a medically induced coma and will remain there during
his recovery. He is on a type of bypass machine where his blood is going out
of the body, being cleansed, and then placed back in the body. He is also on
a ventilator as his lungs are not working at all. This is where they need
your immediate prayers!

Ian’s lungs must start working again in order to take him off the breathing
machine. His parents, Dan and Lisa, along with their other two sons, Zach
(10) and William (6), need your prayers. Please be specific and pray that
Ian’s lungs are going to recover and begin to work again. Please join me and
the many others that are seeing this e-mail request and pray for Ian Shaver
to have a complete recovery! This is very serious and I an is in a very
critical point in his recovery process. Both Ian and his family need your
prayers as his life is 100% in God’s hands. The Shaver’s know this and have
handed Ian over to God and wish that He would allow them more time with
their son if it is His plan.  

Thanks in advance from the Shaver Family and mine……..

Eddie Blanton

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