Strep A is a flesh-eating bacteria, and it entered through the open wound on Jake’s mouth and literally began to consume his face. His doctors described it as being “like lighting one end of a parchment paper, and you just watch it spread from that corner very fast, and you’re stamping it on one side, and it’s flaming up on another… it’s almost as if you could watch it moving in front of your eyes”. Jake’s family, being Catholic, had last rites administered and asked for friends and family to pray to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian who converted to Catholicism (Jake is half Lummi Indian).