Seminarian Norbert Tibeau is convinced that the thing that could have killed him is the very thing that saved his life.
Now he is trying to figure out why.
"I like to think it is so the work of God can manifest itself in me," said Tibeau in French on June 24 at St. Thomas Seminary, where he has been recuperating from surgery on an aneurysm, or widening portion of an artery, in his brain. Mathieu Isaac, a native of Haiti who now is studying for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Hartford, translated.
Tibeau, 28, was studying to be a Montfort Missionary in Haiti when headaches that he had suffered since 2001 became stronger, lasted longer and were more debilitating, eventually impairing his vision or forcing him to bed in pain. After he underwent an MRI in Port-au-Prince in 2008, doctors thought Tibeau had a tumor in his pituitary gland.
Enter Dr. Michael R. Page, a doctor who specializes in emergency medicine at Holland Hospital in western Michigan, who first met Tibeau in December 2009 on a parish medical mission to Haiti...
Dr. Page said that he knew further testing would be needed and that no Haitian hospitals had the required equipment
The testing saved his life in more ways than one.
He was in the Dominican Republic when the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, hit Haiti. All nine of his seminary classmates were killed when the underground parking lot they were in collapsed.
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