Bryant – One day after surgery One year after surgery

Cuba 2022

When we first met Bryant, he was a twenty-one-year-old young man who had gone from a promising athlete to being confined to a wheelchair. Rheumatoid arthritis had frozen both of his hips and his future looked bleak.

Bryant was given a choice or receiving a bilateral hip replacement or to remain as he was with restricted movement. He took a leap of faith and had surgery and got a new chance at life.

Today we are so happy to hear that he is doing amazingly well. Here are messages from both him and his mother, letting us know how surgery can change a life.

“Greetings to everyone there, I don’t remember the names very well, but I do remember everyone who helped me through the most difficult moment of my life.

Several young people like me who are here in Cuba have written to me to give them strength because they are here with cases similar to mine without being able to walk, I help them, and I like that. I like that I can give them hope.

Now I am not afraid of anything. I am happy

I am self-employed. I have a kiosk selling jams and looking for merchandise and things like that on my motorcycle.

Thank God and you who saved my life, I am eternally grateful.”

Bryant Pedro Sunol

“Every day I thank God for putting you on our path and allowing my son to walk again.

His life took a radical change from the minute you performed the miracle in the operating room.

I am more than grateful to you for making my son have a better life.”

Zenia Sunol Gomez