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VitoJoseph
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Hello Catholic friends.
I do not like to ask for help for myself but I really need to admit that I need intercessory prayers very, very urgently.
I had posted before on this topic and I have since only gotten much worst – even after having surgery 7 weeks ago.
Due to a lumbar spinal injury last summer, I have progressed to the point of having almost no strength in my legs bilaterally --not being unable to carry my own body weight because my spinal cord is being compressed by a grossly herniated disc.
I am now only able to walk a very short distance will soon have to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life if I do not have a miracle or more surgery very, very soon.
My entire legs are all stiff and numb and with almost no strength. The muscles almost do not work anymore.
My “saddle area” is all numb also – because of the compression.
And my left foot almosts does not bend at all and is permanently nerve damaged. The right isnot far behind in progression.
I have been unable to have further surgery because of my weight. I am quite overweight.
Every doctor says I needed surgery yesterday but no doctor so far will do this particular operation on me – a discetomy and a fusion.
It has progressed to the point where I am unable to now walk – not because of pain (there is little pain) but rather because my spinal cord is so compressed and that there is so much nerve damage in both my legs on all 6 nerve roots.
And if it continues I will eventually become permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
I have been unable to work. I am very, very depressed.
I am seeing so many medical doctors including a Psychiatrist and a Psychologist for depression and I have been fighting the darkest thought for 6 weeks now.
My prayer request is therefore for me. I humbly ask for a small intercessory prayer. I am going to Philadelphia again on MONDAY to get yet another EMG with the hopes that a doctor will please help me. Or better yet a MIRACLE without surgery. PLEASE Lord Jesus. PLEASE.
And if not I just pray that I will beable to walk again and stay out of a wheelchair.
PLEASE ANYONE who reads this PLEASE pray that JESUS will either heal me or lead me to that surgeon who will be willing to operate on me and heal me.
I know that doctors can operate on me. It is just that they see me as a surgical risk because of my weight. Other than my weight I am very healthy.
A second request is that I will one day be able to walk again.
I want to serve God so much but I feel like such a failure anymore.
I also pray to and ask for prayers to the venerable and hopefully soon to be Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman.
Thank you so much.
I promise that I will also pray very deeply for the intentions of all who respond to my request.
THANK YOU!!!
Sincerely,
VitoJoseph
I do not like to ask for help for myself but I really need to admit that I need intercessory prayers very, very urgently.
I had posted before on this topic and I have since only gotten much worst – even after having surgery 7 weeks ago.
Due to a lumbar spinal injury last summer, I have progressed to the point of having almost no strength in my legs bilaterally --not being unable to carry my own body weight because my spinal cord is being compressed by a grossly herniated disc.
I am now only able to walk a very short distance will soon have to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life if I do not have a miracle or more surgery very, very soon.
My entire legs are all stiff and numb and with almost no strength. The muscles almost do not work anymore.
My “saddle area” is all numb also – because of the compression.
And my left foot almosts does not bend at all and is permanently nerve damaged. The right isnot far behind in progression.
I have been unable to have further surgery because of my weight. I am quite overweight.
Every doctor says I needed surgery yesterday but no doctor so far will do this particular operation on me – a discetomy and a fusion.
It has progressed to the point where I am unable to now walk – not because of pain (there is little pain) but rather because my spinal cord is so compressed and that there is so much nerve damage in both my legs on all 6 nerve roots.
And if it continues I will eventually become permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
I have been unable to work. I am very, very depressed.
I am seeing so many medical doctors including a Psychiatrist and a Psychologist for depression and I have been fighting the darkest thought for 6 weeks now.
My prayer request is therefore for me. I humbly ask for a small intercessory prayer. I am going to Philadelphia again on MONDAY to get yet another EMG with the hopes that a doctor will please help me. Or better yet a MIRACLE without surgery. PLEASE Lord Jesus. PLEASE.
And if not I just pray that I will beable to walk again and stay out of a wheelchair.
PLEASE ANYONE who reads this PLEASE pray that JESUS will either heal me or lead me to that surgeon who will be willing to operate on me and heal me.
I know that doctors can operate on me. It is just that they see me as a surgical risk because of my weight. Other than my weight I am very healthy.
A second request is that I will one day be able to walk again.
I want to serve God so much but I feel like such a failure anymore.
I also pray to and ask for prayers to the venerable and hopefully soon to be Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman.
Thank you so much.
I promise that I will also pray very deeply for the intentions of all who respond to my request.
THANK YOU!!!
Sincerely,
VitoJoseph
