When a family lives through something out of the ordinary, they often hold a special meal called a seudas hoda’ah to thank Hashem,A Time to Thank,When a family lives through something out of the ordinary, they often hold a special meal called a seudas hoda’ah to thank Hashem
Name: The Maik family
Location at the time of the miracle: San Diego California
Location today: Ramat Shlomo Jerusalem Israel
Years since the miracle: 6
Mrs. Maik (pronounced “Mike”) relates:
My son Shlomo was almost one when he crawled over to a table without anyone noticing pulled the tablecloth down and overturned a bowl of boiling hot soup onto himself. He started screaming in pain and I realized immediately that he’d gotten badly burned. We called an ambulance and rushed to the emergency room with Shlomo screaming the entire time.
In the hospital they told us he had 13 third-degree burns (the worst type) and he had to be taken to a nearby hospital with a special burn unit. We had real Hashgachah because that burn unit was the top burn unit in the entire area.
Shlomo was bandaged up and in terrible pain. The doctors in the burn unit wanted to do skin grafting what they usually do for such a case but other people told me that grafting could cause terrible complications. But Shlomo was so little. Would his skin start to heal on its own?
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