Please pray..
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:23 am
Hi HOD Mamas,
I came here to ask for prayer, because I know you all are a praying bunch...
My husband has been feeling horrible for about three months now with several different types of symptoms from chest pain that presented like a heart attack, to panic attacks, abdominal discomfort, migraines etc. We have now been to a family dr, a cardiologist, a gastrointerologist, an ear-nose-throat dr. and now to another gp.
After several tests, ultrasounds on different organs etc. he was diagnosed yesterday with cytomegalovirus. This virus doesn't affect adults severely and will most likely just pass with him. BUT, it has the potential to make my unborn (I'm 36 weeks preg) baby blind, deaf, or mentally retarded if my husband has passed it on to me. This hit close to home because that very thing happened to my Aunt when she was pregnant. I have a 27 year old mentally retarded cousin who is developmentally about age 2 because of Cytomegalovirus.
Needless to say, I am concerned. I spent yesterday afternoon in tears knowing that he's had this for months and of course we've shared bodily fluids, etc. which is how the virus is passed on. I have an apt. today with the dr. and I'm sure he will have blood tests run on me to see if I carry the antibody for this virus. If I do, we are pretty much in the clear. If I don't or if I already have the active virus, baby will most likely have issues..(according to the statistics anyway)
So, I am coming to ask you to please pray. I don't want to live in fear or think the worst. I just want to be able to know that He is in control..and FEEL like it.
Thanks Mamas...
I came here to ask for prayer, because I know you all are a praying bunch...
My husband has been feeling horrible for about three months now with several different types of symptoms from chest pain that presented like a heart attack, to panic attacks, abdominal discomfort, migraines etc. We have now been to a family dr, a cardiologist, a gastrointerologist, an ear-nose-throat dr. and now to another gp.
After several tests, ultrasounds on different organs etc. he was diagnosed yesterday with cytomegalovirus. This virus doesn't affect adults severely and will most likely just pass with him. BUT, it has the potential to make my unborn (I'm 36 weeks preg) baby blind, deaf, or mentally retarded if my husband has passed it on to me. This hit close to home because that very thing happened to my Aunt when she was pregnant. I have a 27 year old mentally retarded cousin who is developmentally about age 2 because of Cytomegalovirus.
Needless to say, I am concerned. I spent yesterday afternoon in tears knowing that he's had this for months and of course we've shared bodily fluids, etc. which is how the virus is passed on. I have an apt. today with the dr. and I'm sure he will have blood tests run on me to see if I carry the antibody for this virus. If I do, we are pretty much in the clear. If I don't or if I already have the active virus, baby will most likely have issues..(according to the statistics anyway)
So, I am coming to ask you to please pray. I don't want to live in fear or think the worst. I just want to be able to know that He is in control..and FEEL like it.
Thanks Mamas...