2 Corinthians 9:13-14
Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God
for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and
for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. And in their
prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing
grace God has given you. (NIV)
In 1995, We were
blessed with an angel, Our son was born,
He had aspirated meconium in the womb and was on Oxygen and antibiotics to
begin his life. Little did I know that
16 years later this would be a normal for us.
Lets fast forward 4 years later. We now lived in Singapore.
Zack my son is a healthy 4 year old he had beat the odds, with RSV,
Menegitis, Pnemonia, a mystery illness and several others. It on a HOT winter day that we found that Zack had
melioidosis, It was over the phone that
we received the call that our son would be passing in 48 hours. It
was that day that we discovered that he had an allergy to the only known
Antibiotic that “cures” the disease. (
it was that day that our lives changed forever.) It was that day that both my husband and I
got on our knees and Thanked god for the days that he allowed Zack to be in our
lives. FF to 3 days after this news..
we sat in a hospital room talking to a very active 4 year old who refused to
eat anything but Frenchfries and BBQ sauce.
We sat in a room where doctors looked on in amazement at the remarkable
improvement that Zack had. We sat in a
room Thanking our God once again for the days that were given to us for our
son. We returned home that next week
with instructions that at the slightest fever, slightest cough, rash vomiting,
or anything that did not seem normal to immediately return to the
hospital. Zack returned to School and
we returned to life. The disease it
appeared had disappeared. Or so we
thought. FF to 2002 We are now living
in Virginia. Zack had been sick a few
times in between but he was doing great.
Then that morning came,
Fever 104.0 the area where they
had removed the bacteria as largely inflamed,
his face was rashy and he was vomiting, we panicked. Why because only 5 children in the USA have
this disease that Zack has only 5 children total have the infection he
has. 5 days in ICU, 10 days in the hospital and our fears were
born again, The doctors called it a
close one and the nurses said that they had just witnessed a miracle. I call it us giving thanks to God again. And we were told that we were looking at the
most 5 to 7 years left before the disease would take over and take our
son. We continued to pray for our son’s
health.
FF to July of 2011 we
had just moved to Ohio we left a great doctor who in 2010 had performed a
surgery on Zack that was at the time risky,
it was at the time necessary because the illness was flaring. In
July Zack had started to complain his hip was hurting ( it will always
ache) So we gathered him up rushed him down
to Children’s and again we were back to where we have been for years
prior. Only this time everything went
wonderful we were in and out with in a day.
Til the unfortunate stared.. You see this disease Melioidosis is a mimicker. It likes to replicate the symptoms for other
diseases and hide the truth . What is a
cold to you becomes pneumonia to us,
What is a rash to you becomes a staph infection to us.
On October 18th,
2011. We celebrated our 16th
year of being blessed to have zack in our lives. We celebrated quietly with cake and punch
and prayers of thanks. You see on that
day in 2002 we were told we would never see this day by doctors. We were told that it would never happen. We were told that well it will be a long
road but a very bad road. We believe
that it would happen, we believed that he would make it we believed that God
has a plan for Zack though we may never know what it is we believe that god is
the only one who knows.
I have journaled
our lives journey’s over the year in sporadic places. And its kind of amazing to think that indeed
the journey we have made is one that I would not wish on anyone but I am so
Thankful that God has allowed us to take this Journey.
FF now to the current
day. You see little did we know that 16
years ago when zack was born, His father and I carry recessive Genes to a
disease called Angio Neurtoic Edema. It
kind of explains a few things that have happened over the course of the
years. Allergy flare ups, Pain in joints, bones and other areas. And most recently another 3 day stay at
Children’s for an anaphalytic reaction
to what we had though were allergies what we found was not only allergies but
this illness. And yet again we were told
that If the reaction goes anaphalytic we
could lose our son. Odds that we had
been told before.
So what do you do you
start to pray. Praying for Thanks to
our god for what he has given us.
Prayers that God gives you this.
Galations 5 22-23
But the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control. Against such things
there is no law.
But here is what I ask
aren’t all of our day’s numbered? We
are in no way promised to be here on earth for Eternity. What we are promised is Eternal life thru our
savior Jesus Christ. Its my belief that
though I don’t know how many days I have left with my son, I don’t know how many days I have left here
on Earth either. But every day I give
thanks to my God for another day.
Another adventure and another hour, minute and second he has given us to
be here with our son.
Thankful for the God
that I know loves us. As we are who we
are and where we are regardless of anything anyone has done Our God loves
us. Prayers to you my friends for your
support during the coming years and
prayers to my God who I am forever thankful for the love he has given us.
Though we may have not
won this battle yet we are winning because indeed we are with our God. What a great gift that is.
Thank you god so much
for what you have given us and thank you so much for believing in our family to
raise this angel of yours. We are eternally
greatful for you God.
