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Absolutely! Had a friend lose his life with this issue...my prayers are already out to that boy.

Give our best wishes. Prayers from this family for theirs.

Prayers being said for Luke, his family, and the doctors and nurses attending him.

Are prayers for Luke and the whole Duval family.

our thoughts and prayers go out to this young man and his family.

Our prayers are there with the young man and family.

To be honest my first reaction was to look inward and see if my priorities are right and I found that I have been thinking way to much on statistics – GPA, SAT, Bat Avg, OBP, etc.

When was the last time I told my son I love him – not because of an accomplishment – but just because I do.

Thanks for the slap in the face – I truly hope Luke pulls through and if you talk to him or his family tell them they had an impact on a family from Georgia.

Thanks again!

Just finished praying for Luke and his family. Please keep us posted on his progress.

OHMIGOD.

Absolutely.

Lost a cousin and a dear friend with this.

Please let us know how he is doing.

Done, and will keep him in my prayers.

Prayers from the northeast.

Prayers from Louisiana, plenty of them, I will pass on to my baseball family here.

prayers for Luke and for his family and friends.

Prayers from Florida.

Prayers said from Florida.

You got prayers from the Northeast

Prayers are sent from N. Texas.

Luke and his family will be in my thoughts and prayers.

Prayers being sent from PA.

Heartfelt prayers from Kansas,...and hugzzzz too.

I got a bit of an update on him today. I heard they had to put him back on a ventilator, but that he's awake and able to respond in some manner to questions. He's still in Intensive Care, but he's stable at the moment and doctors plan on doing another scan to learn more about the anuerysm in the next day or so, depending on his condition.

This has really hit a lot of people hard. His school postponed all their games this week, and everyone is waiting to see how he does, pulling for him to make it and praying that he recovers fully.

As an update, Luke is doing ok still. It turns out that he has an arterial-venous malformation, commonly referred to as an AVM, near his brain stem.
This is a condition, normally formed near the time of birth, where the blood vessels in the brain, have an area where they branch out everywhere like you'd see in a bird's nest. Most people who have this condition never know about it, unless they suffer bleeding or have a CT scan for other purposes.

There was a nice article in the local newspaper a couple days ago, and doctors are now considering nuclear medicine techniques to attempt to close off the bloodflow in the affected vessels, as it is still believed to be inoperable by standard methods.

For now, he's holding his own.

An update. Prayers are still needed.



Subject: RE: Luke Duval update

It's Monday afternoon and I want to update everyone on Luke's condition. Please send this email to everyone on your list who you have been updating, including the team, parents, coaches and teaching staff at PGHS. Lowell, please also share this update with all the folks at CECI. I know email is impersonal but there are so many people to talk to that it's just easier to write an email update for everyone.

First, we want to thank you all for your unbelieveable support, prayers, love and concern for Luke and our family. We can't explain to you how this response has helped us. So many good people who care. It has been overwhelming. Especially your prayers. Please keep them going as Luke is not yet out of the woods. We have had some very good signs, but his condition is still critical and will be for a few days. Saturday morning he was at the school weight room lifting with Rob and the team. While bench pressing he felt something kind of let go in his head and became very dizzy and weak and numb on his left side. Nick called and I rushed over and Rob and I kinda thought he was having a migraine because he has had them before. Then we started thinking stroke since the left side weakness and ringing in his ear. At that point we decided I should take him to the ER at Methodist to get checked out just in case. So Luke and I drove straight there. Thank God we did because shortly after arriving there he collapsed and stopped breathing. If I had just taken him home, that would have happened at home rather than at the hospital. Miracle number one. They immediately got a respirator on him and got him to CT scan which showed a serious AVM, arteriovenous malformation, which had burst and was bleeding. An AVM is a cluster of abnormally formed blood vessels which one is usually born with. You can go your whole life without knowing it and without a problem, or it can burst and bleed onto the brain as this one has. They transfered him to UCDMC which is where he is at now. Initial scans there showed is was not good, it was on the brain stem. An angiogram yesterday showed it was actually within the brain stem. However the good news revealed in that scan is that it is at a location above the brain center which controls breathing, sight, cardiopulmonary and motor skills, which means these areas are not affected. This explains the fact that Luke can open his eyes, grasp your hand, think and respond (with nods) clearly. Sunday morning he began to do these things. To us, that's the second miracle. The other good news is that it is a cluster of fine/small vessels rather than large vessels, which means that later down the road it may be treatable with gamma knife technology. Being that this is actually within the brain stem, there are risks associated with doing this procedure, but we do have the hope that it may be an option later after he has stabilized and recovered. Right now they are focusing on continued drainage of the bleed location and stopping the bleed. They just took him off the ventilator a few minutes ago and he is breathing well on his own now. His left arm and leg are lacking feeling and not working right, but it's still very early. The right side appears to be pretty good -- he was showing us his curveball, knuckleball and fastball grips with a baseball this morning. Thank God he is all there mentally.

That is the latest. We will update you again when there is more to report. Thanks again everyone for you unbelieveable support.

The Duvals

My brother suffers from an AVM. He had a bleed, while driving, passed out and ran into a bridge. He went limp, so the crash was minor. For him, they were able to go in through his groin, up to his brain, stop his heart, and more less put in some "glue" to try and plug the AVM. They had to do that proceedure 5 times. They were not able to completly plug the AVM and he is being monitored yearly now. It was 7-8 years ago. He works, drives, but misses the fact they will not allow him to have his pilots licence anymore, but can fly with another pilot!

While I do think my brother has changed do to the proceedures,(he is not weird or anything, just not quite the same, and who knows, that could just be his age) 7-8 years is a long time for medical advances. I wish Luke the best.