Urgent request for prayers for three-year-old Mikko
Submitted by FatherSean on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 20:59.
Mikko with this mother Gee-Gee
Please pray for three-year old Miguel 'Mikko' Torres Dimayuga of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, who has been suffering from pneumonia for the last week. For the last four days he has been in the intensive care unit, a place where he has frequently been, including last Christmas, since he was born with a number of serious disabilities on 22 May 2007,
His mother, Mary Geraldine, ‘Gee-Gee’, the former assistant editor of Misyon, is from Bacolod City and his father Miguel, ‘Miggy’ or ‘Mike’, from Manila. I visited the family in Atlanta for a weekend just over a month ago while on a visit to Canada. I gave Miggy and Gee-Gee a short retreat some years ago at the end of which Miggy formally proposed marriage to Gee-Gee. In 2006 I officiated at their wedding in Manila.
Their second child, Milagros Catalina 'Mica', named after both grandmothers, was born on 14 June 2008.
The driving licenses of both have expired and they can’t renew them until they do the necessary paperwork to renew their visas in the USA. However, Filipino friends are very kindly offering their services as drivers during these difficult days.
Miggy wrote in an email: It is distressing to see Mikko not recovering as fast as he did during his first pneumonia three months ago. In that episode, we only stayed in the ICU three or four days before ‘graduating’ to the regular floor in preparation for discharge.
It’s been a particularly stressful week. It is a terrible feeling for me to see Mikko sick. As a father, I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and make everything better. If I could trade all that I have to ensure his full recovery, I would do it without even blinking. Then I am comforted by the fact that if a simple man like me can love like that, God surely can and does love Mikko infinitely more.
The Dimayuga Family, Atlanta, USA: Mikko, Miggy, Gee-Gee and Mica
Mikko with his mother
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God is in charge
"Then I am comforted by
the fact that if a simple man like me can love like that, God surely can
and does love Mikko infinitely more." i used to think the same when my own son was sick with dengue last year. dengue can be deadly especially with children and i've never felt so scared in my life watching him grimace in pain. a friend from California, Hannah Carter, Fr Niall O'Brien's friend and a great fan of Misyon, asked her friend Eli who has a gift of healing to pray for my son. Together they prayed over the phone. Around the same time when they were praying, 4am here in the Philippines, my son woke up and asked for a peanut butter sandwich. He finished the whole sandwich and a glass of milk.
Days before that, I was questioning God and his will for my son. Why would he let dengue aflict him, when eversince he's born, all I asked was for him to be safe and healthy. These are the kinds of things that I've come to accept I will never perfectly understand, but it also comes with knowing that He is greater than all this and at the end of each day, HE IS IN CHARGE.
A brave papa and a strong mama
Way back 2006 after the wedding proposal of Nong Miggy to Ms Gee, I can still picture the happy disposition and excitement to Ms Gee’s face. I admired her the way she manage her wedding preparation. Even before I like the way she manage and tutor me in an office works.
And now that they live in the U S and having their two kids Mica and Mikko, my admiration for them make more intense. Ms Gee as hands on mom and Nong Miggy as a brave and good dad. I like it when Nong Miggy said: As a father, I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and make everything better. If I could trade all that I have to ensure his full recovery, I would do it without even blinking. The love of a father to his children and wife can think of trading everything to ensure the safety and wellness of his family.
To Ms Gee and Nong Miggy “Be strong” We’ll include your family especially mikko in our daily prayer.
"He who prays never loses hope" - Pope Benedict XVI
We really should not forget
We really should not forget the power of prayers. I have been though
difficult times in my life too, especially at that time when my son was in
comatose and we do not know what will happen, prayers will strengthen us,
forged solidarity and surrenders to HIS divine WILL! We will pray for MIkko but for his parents
as well!
Joining in prayers...
"It is a terrible feeling for me to see Mikko sick. As a father, I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and make everything better..." I salute you as a couple for the great love that you have for you kids, for your family. Moreso, with the kind of faith for God...
'Faith can move a mountain.' We join you in prayers to appeal to God's merciful and most compassionate love for Mikko's speedy recovery. He will take care of Mikko...
God bless your family. Take care...
'Love is embracing all and loving especially the unlovables.'
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