That is a beautiful story and I tend to believe you. Of healings, few though they be, most tend to be gradual rather than instantaneous.
As to reporting it, I wouldn't want to put one of my loved ones through that unless it was for a very worthy cause. Witnessing about it, when appropriate, may be the right thing to do.
I ordered lots of Lourdes water in little vials and gave them out to people. Two had cancer and died, but I don't know if they used them. One did but she got hers from somewhere else.
I've had better results on my own with plain old holy water (and simple prayer combined), but when you start looking for or expecting healings you can wind up very disheartened.
A local catholic couple borrowed on their insurance years ago to take their son who had cerebral palsy (he was about 9 or so) to Lourdes. He was not healed, at least in the way one would have hoped. He is still alive and still very handicapped.
The vast majority of people are not healed and it bothers me. Is God, Mary or Jesus stingy? Why only certain ones? I want real answers and not canned answers that don't satisfy. Jesus healed everyone who wanted to be healed and believed in him.
Forgive me Aliska, but you're sounding superstitious here - as if we can "force" miraculous cures from God. Plain old Holy water? There's nothing "plain" about it - that's the whole point! You take ordinary water, then a Priest blesses it - it is now "set apart" for Holy usage! It is no longer to be treated as "plain".
The water from the Grotto at Lourdes itself is "plain". It is the Faith and Trust in God from our hearts that elicits miracles from God (through Mary). The whole event of Lourdes, including the water, is the external catalyst drawing us in our interior life through which we approach God for healing associated with the extraordinary favors He chose St. Bernadette and Lourdes for.
Ad Iesus per Mariam. Here He confirms Mary as the Immaculate Conception. But I would think the central message of Lourdes from Mary to St. Bernadette was "...penance, penance, penance..." of which St. Bernadette fulfilled through the rest of her life.
Recalling, or leading people to, the healing waters of Baptism, where sin is destroyed and the Life of Grace is born, is the greatest miracle. Faith is central in any event. Even in the Gospels Christ did not always heal everyone of physical infirmities where Faith was lacking, and those that He did, the people eventually grew old and died.
The legitimacy of Lourdes (or Fatima, etc.) as a shrine of Faith is valid to the extent that it leads people into full communion with Christ and His Church with growth in Faith and Trust. At this point, we can recognize that God through Christ and His mother Wills at times to work miracles for some if it is of benefit to them and others in terms of the final goal of life - Eternal Life. These miracles necessarily follow from and confirm Faith of the recipients. Also, a complete consideration of potential miracles includes recognition of our need for penance (for ourselves and others) and "carrying our daily crosses".
Whatever you do, don't get caught up on external and quantitative comparisons concerning how many miracles, and to what people, they are given. There is nothing "fair" about it. The Grace that God gives us is infinitely more than any of us evers deserves or can even imagine to ask for. Indeed, the greatest miracle par excellence is reception of our Lord in Holy Communion. No, God is not "stingy".