KENWOOD - Prior to Friday night's Moeller High School home basketball game with Greater Catholic League-South rival La Salle, the public address announcer asked for prayers for Josiah Love.
No. 50 was absent from the night's junior varsity game where he's a 6-foot-4 forward looking to eventually move up to coach Carl Kremer's highly-decorated varsity squad before he leaves the Montgomery Road campus.
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Later Saturday, Moeller Director of Alumni Barrett Cohen posted on social media that the Love family was requesting prayers for Josiah who was in cardiac intensive care for a medical condition.
UPDATE: Monday night, Josiah's mother, Sommer Love posted the following on her Facebook account:
Thank you to each of you who have been saying prayers and sending well wishes. We are truly grateful and blessed for this outpouring of love.
Josiah is doing much better. He is out of the ICU and they are talking about sending him home. While we value our privacy, we feel our experience may help others and possibly prevent this same thing from happening to someone else.
Josiah had what seemed to be a stomach bug. But, what we found after several doctor's visits and three negative COVID tests, was that he has multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). This is a rare side effect of COVID that inflames the blood vessels in the body. We didn't even know Josiah had COVID until he was given the antibody test at Children's Hospital, where the dedicated doctors, nurses and staff have been so amazing. They provided answers when we didn't think there were any. We can't thank them enough.
We appreciate the outpouring of support and love and ask for your privacy as Josiah continues to recover.
Josiah Love is also a promising receiver for coach Mark Elder's football Crusaders and had some summer baseball success as well according to his Twitter account. As is usually the case in such instances, neighboring schools have reached out including CHCA athletic director Eric Taylor, Kings superintendent Tim Ackerman and sister school Mount Notre Dame.
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