Pray for DH with kidney stone

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Please pray for my husband to pass his kidney stone. The on-call dr found it on Thurs. 7/28. By the following Tuesday it had not passed, so DH went to his regular dr and then referred to a urologist that same day. That night he had the worst pain with vomitting and uncontrollable pain before we took him in for surgery on Wednesday 8/3.

The original plan was to stint him and push the stone back into his kidney until the hosptial got their blasting machine the following week. When they did the x-ray that morning, they found that the stone had moved too far down to stint and dr was confident he could get it. Well, he wasn’t able to get the stone and DH had the worst 3 days in the hospital before he was released on Saturday 8/6.

He followed up with the urologist again yesterday and dr still really wants to avoid surgery. As of this morning, DH still has not passed his stone after almost 2 weeks. Probably the worst of all is that DH admitted to me that he took communion from the chaplain while he was in the hospital (he has not been to mass or confession in years). Not to be superstitious, but I feel that God is prolonging DH’s suffering a little b/c of this. I keep praying that DH will surrender to God and allow the Almighty to change him through this experience. Ultimately, I would love it if DH would allow our priest to come give him the Annointing of the Sick and make a good confession and come back to the sacraments.

Please pray for God to help us with money as we’re having to pay a sitter and our income is down to 30% and we don’t have much in savings. God sustain us!
 
I followed you over to this post from your other one about your kids’ whining. I am very sorry to hear that your husband has been through this horrible experience. I have had exactly ONE kidney stone and it was the worst pain I have ever felt, childbirth pales in comparison, I thought I was going to pass out and almost did. Mine got stuck and I had the surgery and was fine immediately. My husband has had 2 and he was in terrible pain but they did pass eventually.

Please do not believe that God is in any way punishing your husband for taking Communion without confession! God doesn’t work that way! Maybe it was a grace that he did, and maybe he made some kind of a confession before hand. I believe that God forgives us if our heart is in the right place. Of course it would be better if your husband (and mine) would take the Eucharist correctly, but God can work miracles from anything.

I will pray for you, dear sister!

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Thank you for your kind words and encouragement - so uplifting just to be able to communicate. The feedback definitely calms my nerves and helps me feel like less of a gripe. I feel like I’ve been the worst gripe to DH’s family about this whole ordeal and I’m almost ashamed of how I’ve portrayed him to them. They know him, they know what I say about him is true - but it’s unkind and I wish now that I’d kept those things to myself. I would be mortified if someone talked that way about me to my loved ones in my time of trial.
 
May God help your husband with his kidney stone…

Our Father, Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Amen.
 
Praying for you.

Please don’t be hard on yourself about complaining about your DH, it is natural to have to vent in this kind of situation, you would have a breakdown if you didn’t.

I will also pray that your financial situation gets sorted out and that your husband will return to the sacraments. Would it be worth asking the priest who gave him communion to go and see him, rather than your own priest? Your husband may find it easier to confess to this priest.
 
Asking God to take care of all the needs of your family: spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial. :crossrc:
 
The urologist’s office calle me on my lunch hour and they want my husband there Thursday morning for a lithotripsy (breaking up the stones). This SHOULD be an outpatient procedure - hopefully all will go well.

We’ve got to be there (40 min away) @ 6:30 a.m. Prayers for my father-in-law who will be watching our boys. Hoping we’ll be back in time to take them to the sitter for the afternoon so DH can get some sleep. My FIL really can’t stay home all day to watch our children and neither can I!

Oh, Lord have Mercy!!!
 
May the Lord heal your husband in accordance with his holy and perfect will, and may this experience bring your husband back to practicing his Catholic faith. May the Lord give you both strength, patience and peace, and help you to pay all your bills. Amen.
 
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May the Lord heal your husband in accordance with his holy and perfect will, and may this experience bring your husband back to practicing his Catholic faith. May the Lord give you both strength, patience and peace, and help you to pay all your bills. Amen.
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Amen and Amen! Thank you for the kind thoughts and words. So nice to feel connected with a larger community besides the handful of close faithful friends praying for us.
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
JLCecilia said:
The urologist’s office calle me on my lunch hour and they want my husband there Thursday morning for a lithotripsy (breaking up the stones). This SHOULD be an outpatient procedure - hopefully all will go well.

We’ve got to be there (40 min away) @ 6:30 a.m. Prayers for my father-in-law who will be watching our boys. Hoping we’ll be back in time to take them to the sitter for the afternoon so DH can get some sleep. My FIL really can’t stay home all day to watch our children and neither can I!

Oh, Lord have Mercy!!!
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Praying that everything went well….

Lord Jesus, You have said, “Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.” With confidence in Your loving heart which offers rest to weary souls, we come to You in this time of special need. In Your unfailing love, read the prayer that is written on our hearts, and grant the grace that we ask of You, in accordance with Your holy will. In Your name we pray. Amen.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, and sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother, to thee I come, before thee I stand sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate! Despise not my petitions, but, in thy mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
 
PRAISE THE LORD!!! DH finally passed his stone Saturday morning. He came home early from work Friday and started having another puking episode and couldn’t keep his pain meds down, so I took him to the ER. He no more than got sat down on his bed than he passed out.

They decided to keep him overnight to manage his pain. He got sick one more time Saturday morning and passed his stone not long after. He called me at 5:30 a.m. to confirm. He’s still on the mend, but doing much better.

Thank you for all of your prayers! I myself came down with a bad virus last week which resulted in a painful outbreak of sores all over my mouth (tongue, cheeks, gums and lips) which made it nearly impossible to eat without immense pain. I fevered for 3-4 days and suffered migraines and earaches. Then I got a bad staph infection. Thanks be to God for modern medicine, I’m on an anti-viral and antibiotics and I’m glad to be on the mend!

We’re hoping to celebrate our anniversary this weekend to make up for last weekend (it was actually th 20th). Thanks be to God for 6 years!
 
Here we go again, not one month later and DH is having back pain and blood in his urine again. Going to the local doc on call this morning, but praying this time that we’ll get a referral to a doc in the city for lithotripsy. We still have not gotten back on our feet financially and just when DH has been put on mandatory OT and we’re thinking we’re going to bounce back, we take another hit.

My parents have basically been paying our bills. Thanks be to God for their generosity and thanks be to God that our local hospital has written off 100% of our medical bills for DH. We still owe on my IV bill from 2010 and we’re waiting on the other hospital where DH had his surgeries done to make their verdict on our charity app.

Please continue to pray for our family as we struggle to make ends meet and care for our children. Thank you in advance.
 
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