Saturday, March 28, 2009

Good News, but Keep Praying!

Baby Patrick is improving by leaps and bounds...
His mom attributes his condition to all your prayers!
Mom's doc discharged her on Thursday, knowing
how much she needed to be with her baby.
He was out of the incubator, but still on oxygen,
plus many more issues...
Yesterday when his mom & dad went to see him
he was NO LONGER on oxygen,
and they had removed
the drainage line from his lungs!!!
Mom held him for THREE HOURS!!!
(She gave him up to Daddy for a little while.)
He cooed and cuddled and just wrapped those
two big adults around his tiny fingers!
They even got to change diapers!!!
It is so cute, how much the little things mean,
when you are in such a challenging situation.
Patrick Joseph is still on IV feeding...
We are praying that all the doctors agree to let him
have some of Mommy's milk...
she has plenty of bottles full, but would be
OVER THE MOON
if she had the chance to nurse him today!
The biggest question going forward is the question
of whether he has something called
Hirschsprung Disease...
It is a condition where the nerves that line the
large intestine are not functional, or missing...
This results in constipation, because the nerves are
what "move things along" down there.
It can involve a small or large length of bowel.
They took a biopsy and are awaiting results...
If it turns out to be Hirschsprung Disease,
they will probably have to do surgery...
In the meanwhile, the little guy decided to go
and start pooping all on his own!
We are praying for the least invasive
and disruptive situation.
Thank you for praying for this family
and for Patrick Joseph especially.
Please pray, as well for all the other babies in
NICU...at this hospital and many others...
It is heartbreaking to see such little babies
having such difficulties.
Keep up the good work!
Pray, Pray, Pray!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Urgent Prayer Request




Please pray for my best friend Anita and her new baby

who are both having tremendous difficulties.

Baby Patrick was born by emergency c-section

due to increasing toxemia.

He is about four weeks early, though just shy of 6#s.

He is having breathing and possibly bowel problems.

The worst part may be that he was transfered to a

different hospital than the one that Anita is in.

Pray that both their conditions are resolved

Quickly and Completely,

and that they are reunited very soon.

(she has only gotten to hold him for a

few minutes before thay transfered him).

Please add their names to any prayer lists you can.

This is her only child and she is beyond worried.

Thank you all & God Bless

Sunday, March 22, 2009

O, Jesus! Meek and Humble of Heart!

The post below is a Litany that I try to pray often.
It reminds me not to put ME and MY FEELINGS
at the center of my life.
God wants me to take care of myself, surely,
but not to the exclusion of others.
Am I good at it? not so much...
But I am trying to submit myself to
God's Holy Will...meekly and humbly...
I'm trying...
Blessing to all !

An Exercise in Humility

Litany of Humility
(for private devotion only)
Which His Eminence Cardinal Merry del Val, was
accustomed to recite after the celebration of Holy Mass.
O Jesus! Meek and humble of heart, hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus.
Form the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being wronged, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected, Deliver Me, Jesus.
That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That in the opinion of the world,
others may increase, and I may decrease,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others will be chosen and I set aside,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be praised and I unnoticed,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be preferred to me in everything,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others become holier than I, provided that
I may become as holy as I should,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
Imprimatur: +James A Mc Nulty, Bishop of Patterson, NJ.