Miracle To Hear

There's always new miracles appearing now thanks to advances in technology, science, and medicine.

There are some people out there who don't believe in miracles. There are some people that don't think anyone does something to change a person's life for free. Here's a story to prove them all wrong, to prove to these nonbelievers that there is something to witness to as one boy's life is dramatically changed and he is given a miracle.

 A twelve-year-old boy, Diego Neumaier Ortiz, is a miracle in his own way. After being born with a birth defect that leaves rather deformed ears and his world practically silent, Diego is now capable of hearing out of his right ear thanks to the generosity of doctors and advances in surgery and technology. Diego is now fully looking forward to a life of being able to hear and listen to things he hadn't been able to beforehand. The simplest things that we take for granted as the blare of a car horn, rushing water, and music is now a new world to him.

Can you imagine the shock in his mother's face, who had been taken aback by the caring doctors willing to operate on him for free, when they unwrapped the gauze from his ears, and she says hello to him, and he replies right back? Just the thought of it brings awe to me, knowing that such a miracle can exist, and that this boy now has the world at his fingertips.

This opens people's eyes. It's incredibly breath-taking story, showing disbelievers, skeptics, and critics of any form of miracles in the modern world that, not only are they wrong, but here is a perfect example of it. Certainly it is not a "spiritual, holy, God-like" miracle blessed by angels and saints and changing everything in a matter of seconds, but it is a miracle, in itself. For instances, what kind of coincidence is it that a doctor would happen to watch this child win at Mexico's gymnastic tournament, for this doctor to contact a pioneer in ear reconstruction who offers to take the complex case for free? And then for this professional and another doctor, an ear, nose and throat specialist, who also works for free and will actually create an ear canal, allowing Diego to hear? It says a lot, more about people than about any form of spiritual miracle.

Add on top of it, it shows a lot about these doctors who take the time, effort, and money to help this child. It opens people's eyes that there are certain individuals out there willing to give help where it's needed, willing to change people's lives. It also wakes up the fact that technology is advancing, medicine is advancing, and this only proves a point that eventually there will be cures, procedures, and surgeries to help what used to be thought of as inevitable and inescapable. If this twelve-year-old boy is now able to hear after his lifetime being submerged in quiet, what does it say about the future for any other deaf individuals who seek to hear again? Or the blind? Could Lasik actually save a person's eyes and give them their sight back? After seeing this, there's no doubt of what can be done.

It's surprising, and I would love to be in the boy's shoes when the doctor removes the bandages and he hears his mother's voice for the first time. I would love to know what went through his head, what went through his mother's head, and what thoughts the doctors shared after knowing that they changed this boy's life. I wonder what these professionals would think knowing this. Would they consider that this could work for other patients suffering from deafness? What about blindness? Would this open the door for surgeries and medicines to cure certain ailments and diseases?

This story is nothing short but a bright, and delighted miracle that is not touched by mythical and paranormal influence. Simply the personal whim of several individuals, the advancing in technology, and the hopes and wishes of a simple boy.