Born on July 7, 1985, Matthew Eric Summers has faced incredible challenges. Diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2000, his journey has been marked by Chrons Disease.
In 2011, his weight plummeted from 205 lbs to 92 lbs within months. Over the next six years, he spent two of them bedridden, relearning how to walk with a walker and cane. At his weakest, even water from the shower caused bruises. Matthew battled life-threatening complications, including a heart rate of 22 beats per minute, chronic bleeding, erythema nodosum, anemia, malnutrition, ulcers, osteoporosis, and more. In 2015, he nearly bled to death. A supernatural encounter in 2016 reignited his hope and faith. Despite ongoing health challenges—including a colostomy in 2021, a 27-day hospital stay in early 2023 for sepsis (which infected 80% of his blood stream) and a perforated colon, an ileostomy surgery, and a diagnosis of latent tuberculosis having to take a 9 month regiment of antibiotics.