Catholic Prayer Ping!
Please address your prayers to Heart of Georgia;
Everyone: Thanks again for your touching comments and prayers for our sweet baby. I’m going to print this thread for my son and DIL.
I also want to post a short update and be more specific as to needed prayer for Daniel Joseph...
He was born with a condition called pulmonary atresia (which is congenital). He also has a hole in the wall of the right and left atria, along with a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) - a temporary blood vessel that normally closes shortly after birth.
The diagnostic part of the angioplasty found that the pulmonary artery was closed off (intact ventricular septum), so an opening was created. The cardiology team at Egleston feel reasonably confident that this will remain open, but if necessary, they will go back in and place a stent.
My son has traveled to Egleston in Atlanta every day since they took his baby there, but Mother and baby had not had very much time together since birth due to his condition and hers (she had a C-section and had to be put under).
So they finally got to be together on Thursday evening. Prior to that, my DIL was concerned because her milk hadn’t started coming. After the visit, it happened. What a miraculous thing that is! They were together again today and Daniel responded to her in a way that he hasn’t with anyone else. He knows her smell and her voice, of course. One of his stomach tubes was removed today and he was taken off one medication.
He still can’t be held and that breaks my heart.
DIL also needs prayer. She cries constantly and has blamed herself. The long trips to Egleston leave her feeling nauseous and her feet swell badly, but she’s insisted on going both times.
There’s a reason for everything. Yes, even this. We may never know what it is in this lifetime, but one day we will. My faith is intact.
We are still praying.((((Hugs))))
Prayers being said for your sweet grandbaby, for his continued healing and strengthening. Prayers for comfort and healing for your DIL. Prayers for your son to be comforted also. Lord hear our prayers-Amen
Thank you so much for the update.
I continue to pray for Daniel Joseph, and his mom who needs peace and comfort as well as physical healing. May the doctors be guided with all the knowledge and wisdom from heaven.
Daniel’s mom is dealing with so many things physically and emotionally all at once. There’s the drastic hormonal “reset” after childbirth, the physical stress/demands of healing after giving birth as well as recovery from the C-section, and the added hormonal overload from the stress of all her worries and the poor sleep and not being able to cuddle and nurse her new son and on and on. Truly overwhelming.
And none of that is her fault of course. She’s getting hit from all angles. :(
Daniel Joseph came into the world with the most auspicious name in the heavens, even if his parents had “merely” named him after relatives (naturally I wouldn’t know, just a guess). This is no accident. Hang in there precious baby boy!
Adding prayers for this family
Thank you for that update. My heart aches for the mother and for the father and for you, but I know that our Blessed Lord hears your prayers.
Prayers sent for your dear little Daniel and for his parents and you.
Prayer bump.
Praying for you all. May the Lrd save this baby and comfort his mama.