It was August 8th 2016, my son woke up to a terrible pain in his left lower side and didn't go to work. He thought it was just a simple pain and that it would go away. Some days later the pain was unbearable and I took him to the emergency at Bayshore Hospital. They did some tests , gave him antibiotics and send him home, but the pain got worst. Two weeks later we were at the emergency again, after a couple of hours, a doctor went to the room and told my son that he was very ill and needed surgery right away. They made preparations to have him transfer to another Hospital by ambulance. That night my son was seen by many doctors, all asking so many questions and trying to figure out the reason of a flesh eating bacteria my son had in his intestines that had traveled all the way down to his colon and testicles. Three doctors took me aside and said; We just want to you to know that even after several surgeries we're going to have to do tonight , your son may not make it. He is very ill. My son was in surgery several hours, time that I called my family , and my son's dad. Then I sat on a bench and cried. I felt like my world as I knew, had no meaning. And in that desperation I called on God. I knew my son was going to go through so much pain, and at that moment I told God , just take my son, I don't want him to suffer. Of course I didn't mean what I had said, and I'm sure God knew. I cried to God and ask that He would put his hand first before the doctors and control everything they were going to do to my son that night. They came out to let me know that they had done all they could . I went home , it was six in the morning and I fell asleep. The phone rang at ten , one of the doctors that had done the surgery called to tell me that my son was going to make it.
It has been a long process to recovery, but we have seen God's hand in my son's health this whole year. Its easy to talk about faith as long as we don't have to actually use it or need it. We never know how much faith we have until we go through something huge. We don't know how strong we are until we have to be, for one of our children. We don't know what God can do , until we are in great need of a miracle.
