SUGARCREEK (WJER) - family friends say the young Sugarcreek boy who was crushed by a neighbor’s garage door Monday is improving but not out of the woods yet.
Jason Corley says 3-year-old Miciah Yoder is at Akron Children’s Hospital for the serious injuries sustained when the door pin him down in the neck and upper torso area.
“He’s not here to tell us the story so nobody knows how he got trapped underneath of that garage door. We just know that he was trapped and the blood circulation was cut off long enough that that’s what they’re concerned about is the brain damage,” he says.
Corley says the boy hasn’t woken up yet, and he’s been unresponsive to doctors. However, he did become fidgety and start moving his limbs during hospital visits by his brothers and grandmother.
“He’s recognizing something. Clearly, God has allowed him to realize that those are comfort voices to him and so he clearly is trying to get to them or something, and so those are all positive signs that at some point this little boy is coming home,” he says.
Corley says another encouraging sign is that the boy is clearly breathing on his own.
“Two days ago he was on full-fledged life support with a breathing apparatus, and last night at 7 o’clock, I believe is what time that was, Michael said that they are taking him off of that and putting him on auto, which means it only kicks on once the machine realizes that he’s not breathing, and so far that machine has not had to kick on,” he says.
Corley says a Gofundme page set up for the boy and his family has raised over $2,500.