A 12-year-old Saskatchewan boy has had a surprising and unprecedented reversal of a potentially life-threatening brain disorder, baffling doctors and increasing the faith of family and friends. In an interview on May 26, Joe McCrea said he had just driven his son Joel home to rural Saskatchewan from Winnipeg, where a surgery for the boy scheduled for the previous day never took place. “The doctors double-checked, triple-checked, quadruple-checked. This is a miracle,” McCrea told The Epoch Times. Joel had suffered from an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels in the brain that can disrupt blood flow and cause strokes or bleeding in the brain. “It’s very rare, but he unfortunately was born with this,” McCrea explained. “With this disease, he has to have CT scans, MRI angiograms every six months or so just to see if there’s any arteries or entanglements of the vessels that are growing.” When …
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