Today is June 24th & our son Ethan was supposed to have surgery today. He was scheduled to have his 3rd set of tubes put in his ears, his tonsils removed & possibly his adenoid removed for the 3rd time.
As you all know, Ethan has been sick off & on for his 2½ years of life. He has had 23 ear infections in 25 months (since he was 3 months old until his last infections in May). In May his doctor said his tonsils were angry & very infected & his ears would really need a third set of tubes. Also because Ethan was sleeping with his mouth open again & shifting so often in his sleep, he’d need to possibly have his adenoid removed again. They would know for sure once he was in surgery. We took Ethan to his ENT doctor because his behavior went from precious to very aggressive, angry & whiney overnight. You could just tell he didn’t feel good & was mad about it. For over 2 years, we have prayed, had others pray & he has had some relief from time to time.
Two weeks ago, on June 8th, we were in our contemporary worship service, Cultivate, at Park West Church. Pastor Jeremy said he believed God would have him ask the group if there were some who needed a miracle. Ethan just so happened to be with us in service that Sunday morning because he couldn’t go to the nursery for one month prior to surgery. Dustin & I walked down to the front, with Ethan, to pray one more time corporately for a miracle to take place in our sweet boy’s life. Jeremy stayed on stage & prayed a beautiful prayer for everyone who came down. Nothing magical happened, but we had at least placed it in God’s hands. We returned to our seats & enjoyed the rest of the service.
After church that day, we went to lunch with some friends & talked until almost 4:30pm. Ethan didn’t have much trouble staying in a high chair for over 3 hours. This was noticeable to us because I don’t think I could have sat in that hard highchair as a child for that long while adults talked. Ethan was an angel all day Sunday afternoon & evening. Monday he woke up so happy, without any scratchiness to his throat. He had also not shifted much in the night & slept with his mouth closed. Monday afternoon the ENT’s office called & said they needed to schedule a pre-surgery appointment for the next day. We were quite excited to have a pre-surgery check-up because we wanted to see how he was doing.
Tuesday morning arrived. All four of us were sitting at breakfast eating & laughing together. Ethan was so happy. Our eight year old, Josiah, then said, “If I didn’t know any better, I would think that you picked up the wrong child from the nursery on Sunday morning.” This wasn’t a significant comment to him because he was in Kid’s Church that Sunday morning & didn’t know we took Ethan down for prayer. So, we told him about the church service & his response was, “Well…God healed him!” Dustin & I were so excited that even our eight year old noticed the difference in his behavior without us telling him a word about the things we were noticing. A few hours later, we all four went to the ENT pre-surgery appointment to see what was said. His ears looked perfect. His tonsils were NOT infected. He saw no reason why we couldn’t come back in six months for a check-up. Amazing!
We didn’t cancel the surgery that day. We’ve been in this place several times where we canceled an appointment, just to end up having to go anyway. So, we waited & prayed. Over the course of the next three days we had several people confirm this healing & they didn’t even know this had happened. Even a friend of mine told me about her daughter’s story not knowing how similar it was to Ethan’s.
We cancelled the surgery a few days after that & are still at home with a happy & healthy boy. He is sleeping beautifully without a lot of shifting & without his mouth open, snoring. He has been a complete angel & we all comment on how nice it is to have our sweet Ethan back.
We give God all the Praise & Honor & Glory for this Miracle that has taken place in Ethan’s life!
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