{"id":6268,"date":"2015-02-05T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2015-02-05T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:46:51","slug":"team-murtha-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/2015\/02\/05\/team-murtha-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Murtha: Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Murtha, Coach Boyd and fellow NCC alum Alex Boyd.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sarah Schultz ’15<\/p>\n

Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n

Twenty-six year old NCC alumni James Murtha\u00a0suffered a serious spinal cord injury breaking three levels of cervical vertebrae and shattering one of them, in October 2014 while mountain biking. Murtha was\u00a0under the care of Craig Hospital, a hospital in Colorado known worldwide for dealing with spinal cord and brain injuries, going through recovering and going through rehabilitation. This month,\u00a0he\u00a0was discharged from Craig Hospital and has returned to Ypsilanti, Michigan. Murtha lives with his parents and\u00a0is getting stronger every day, focusing on strengthening his right arm and using his mouth to operate a computer in his occupational therapy sessions.\u00a0 Strengthening his left arm is the next challenge along with the hope of feeding himself and brushing his teeth in the near future.<\/p>\n

His family was able to celebrate a belated Christmas the first weekend he was back, however along with the joy of having him home, there are other challenges the family is facing. \u00a0There have been heavy expenses to help in James’ rehabilitation and recovery. The Team JAMES fund launched in late November has already raised over $30,000 to go toward future\u00a0expenses. James is well on the way on recovery and has been very determined and with help from family, friends, and the prayers of many, will improve even more every day.<\/p>\n

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To help support James and his family:\u00a0https:\/\/www.giveforward.com\/fundraiser\/z2m6\/team-james\/updates\/110765<\/a><\/p>\n

Feature on James by Fox31 Denver:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2015\/01\/04\/finding-a-new-normal-after-an-accident\/#ooid=R2aTdtcjqur9qmRirJC2g65C2i6a2Fkq\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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  Sarah Schultz ’15 Staff Writer Twenty-six year old NCC alumni James Murtha\u00a0suffered a serious spinal cord injury breaking three levels of cervical vertebrae and shattering one of them, in October 2014 while mountain biking. Murtha was\u00a0under the care of Craig Hospital, a hospital in Colorado known worldwide for dealing with spinal cord and brain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}