Hope From The Start

My health journey has been a fascinating and challenging one. From the time I was born, doctors have referenced me as a miracle. I was born 3 weeks overdue and did not open my eyes for three days. Weighing only four pounds ten ounces I was tiny. When I was born there it is believed that I had a twin. They said that when the other baby died my mother's body cut me off trying to save the other baby. There were two of everything but no other baby.

The doctors told my mother that I would be deaf, blind, and with special needs from the start. I was also born with an ugly black mole on my face. The doctors told my mother and father that they should consider having it removed when I grew a little bigger because it would cover a majority of the side of my face.

"Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he is done." Philippines 4:6

Thankfully, the devil did not get his way with me because of God's grace and healing power. I was not the only one who had issues at birth, my mother hemorrhaged and almost died. She was dealing with unknown heart failure during her pregnancy. I will share more about that in a later post.

I was deemed healthy by the doctors and  I was released to go home. On the way home from the hospital my mother and auntie stopped by the grocery store for a few things. I was in my mother's arms when a stranger came and grabbed me out of her arms and started yelling that I was too small to be out of the hospital. The nerve of that lady still amazes me when I hear my mother share that story.

Over the next few days, my mother and auntie began to pray for the black hairy mole to go away. My mother had no idea that my auntie was praying and my auntie did not know that my mother was praying. It was time for my check-up and the doctor could not believe I was the same baby because that ugly mole was no longer on my face. What a miracle. Not that I consider real beauty to be outward but it does make life less challenging. The enemy will try an attack in any way possible to try and detour that plan God has for our lives.