From Horror to Hope Part 2

And now these three remain:

faith, hope, love.

But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13

Far, far away from Bangladesh, a man in Ohio heard the story of the young boy brutalized and maimed in the alleys of Dhaka.  He contacted CNN to say that he wanted to help restore this child to wholeness.  CNN contacted the Director of Pediatric Urology at Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital, who agreed to donate his skills to perform the surgery, and gathered together a team of medical professionals who were likewise willing to assist.

When the boy arrived in the United States and was examined at the hospital, the pediatric urologist proclaimed that it was the worst mutilation injury he had seen in all his years of work at John Hopkins.  But when the surgery actually began and all the scar tissue was cut away, the doctors found that there was enough living tissue that was still sensate that the reconstruction of the genitalia would be a complete success.  Both the doctors and the family were elated with the unexpected results.  A surgery that was expected to take 10-12 hours was reduced to three, and the resilient young man recovered quickly.

Before coming to America, when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, the lad said that he wanted to be part of the police - to avenge his injury against the gangs who routinely capture and maim children.  When asked the same question in Baltimore, his answer was immediate and quite different:  I want to become a doctor, he said, because I want to save people.  And when I do, I won't take any money from them.  One of the nurses suggested that perhaps he could become a surgeon and come back to Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital.  The nurse said, That would be a miracle!  The boy's father replied, This story is full of miracles.