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Ito yung exact na sinabi:
Dear All,
I'm not a religious person but I do believe in the power of prayer. And this belief ..... and our Faith ..... were put on the biggest test we never did imagined. And so we prayed so hard ..... so hard that we even asked all of you to help us pray .... pray for the fast healing and recovery of the single most important thing in our life .... our precious only child, Noleina. We even prayed and asked WHY it happened to our child. I even bargained to offer my own life to be taken just to spare our child's.
That's the lowest point in our life. After losing our soon-to-be 2nd child (miscarriaged 3-months into pregnancy / March 2007), we can't even imagine losing the only living gift from God. I've read, heard and watched (TV/movies) stories of Faith being tested. And I just thought, it must be so hard dealing with it. Until I came face-to-face with the unthinkable.
I thought I was praying hard enough .... and having enough Faith. I started to ask for a MIRACLE! And in ways only God knows ..... He sent me a person to show and teach me how to pray. He sent me a soul during the time that I'm starting to lose my Faith .... my belief .... my trust in God. I met this man just outside my child's room in the ICU, he approached me and introduced himself. He asked about my child's condition/sickness and told me about his own child's condition in the same unit. He's got a 4-day old baby boy who was air-lifted from Calgary with a heart problem. The baby's scheduled to
have an open-heart surgery to correct the problem. And he's full of confidence and faith that God will take care and save his child. He even made me his child's Godfather before the baby did the surgery. The surgery went so well that just after a week, the baby was again flown back to Calgary to complete his recovery.
The man and I became friends. Sharing the same problem with having a critically ill child. One night I was fuming mad .... planning to confront and question the doctor's decision and the nurses' ability to watch and help our child's condition. My new friend passed by and sensed I was that mad and started to ask me to pray and put my DOUBTS away. Easy for him to say, I thought to myself. So the discussion lasted for about 2-3 hours! Mainly because I'm in denial that I still have DOUBTS about my Faith in God. My friend asked me to pray .... for my child's healing .... and to trust all the doctors and nurses ... whom he said God had hand-picked to look after and care and cure my child. And lastly, my friend told me to pray and only through my own prayer (thru God's blessing) will my child be healed! And that's what I did. I went back to our small room just outside of the ICU. It was around 4am and I can't sleep ..... maybe because I'm
still mad? still has doubts?
And so I started to pray ..... like I never prayed before. The room is roughly 3m x 4m with no windows and dimly lit. Door's closed and locked and I'm all alone praying with eyes closed and arms extended asking God to bless and use them to help heal my child. Suddenly, I just felt some cold air blowing all around the room but at the same time, I also felt some warm sensation running inside my body, most esp. through my hands. I didn't opened my eyes and tried to concentrate and keep on praying .... talking to God. I kept on praying, asking for God's mercy and claiming my child. There was a weird feeling but after praying and I opened up my eyes, I feel kind of different. It felt like I just lost a very heavy burden and I'm not scared anymore. My doubts no longer overcome my faith and I feel so confident that I know God heard and saw me pray. I felt renewed and refreshed that I didn't felt sleepy and
tired. After a couple of hours in the room, I decided to go back in the ICU. This time, I wanted to "Bless" and pray over my child. And with a new-found Faith and blessing of the Holy Spirit, I now know and believe my child will be healed. The days prior to that day, my child is so unstable and critical with no sign of improvement. But starting from that Blessed Day, my child's vitals and condition started to show stability and promise. The following days were better and she's more stable and slowly progressing. I haven't stopped praying over my child from that day on. I saw and watched her condition continue to improved from day-to-day that even the doctors and nurses were impressed on how she's doing it. They always say that the chemo and all other meds and machines were just to help in a certain way but most of the fight will be for her own body to do. And that's what my child exactly did. She was one of the sickest patient in the
ICU and was there for 6 weeks (about 4 weeks in coma). She had a Multi-Organ Dysfunction (very sick kidney and lungs, sick liver, spleen and heart, etc.) on top of having a very rare HLH. On paper, nobody gave her the slightest chance of making it. Seing her in person, on her bed, one can only cry and pray for a MIRACLE.
The GOOD NEWS!!!
I believe in Prayer ...... so I prayed for a Miracle.
I believe in Miracle ..... so I prayed to God.
I believe in God ......... and He showed me a Miracle.
I just want to let you all know that Noleina has been discharged from the hospital and that the result of her 2nd bone marrow test is out and we're told that there's NO TRACE of HLH (cancer) found anymore and that ALL CHEMO treament/meds will be discontinued as she does not need to get any from here on. She is required though to be seen and come to the hospital weekly for follow-up checkup and see how is she progressing. She is improving from day-to-day and although still so skinny and weak, she's getting stronger slowly. We have to borrow some med equipment like wheelchair, shower stool, toilet and tub arm rest, med pump for Noleina's use to help her recovery at home.
It's been a tough few (3) months and she fought an unbelievable battle and came out of it with an amazing victory. Praise God for this big and real miracle that Noleina was cured with just the initial dose/phase of her chemotheraphy. On top of having HLH, she also dealt with multi-organ dysfunction that even the doctors were not so optimistic she'll overcome this. But she just did.
My family would like to thank you for your thoughts, prayers and support. We can't thank you enough for all of this.
Thank you,
Noli, Elena and Noleina
Yan yung exact na sinabi..
Astig nung part na nagdasal Dad niya noh?
Yan yung thank You Message nila nung Gumaling si Yna..
Pero ngayon yun nga nagcacancer ulit siya..
