Please pray for my husband…me, too

I would appreciate if any of you would remember my husband and all of us, really, starting Mon. through the next few weeks to mid- Nov.

My husband has been suffering from a variety of issues over the last few years: weekly seizures, frequent falling, severe mood changes, worsening eyesight, increasing weakness, severe neurological headaches every other day or so that feel like an ice-pick jabbing in his head; in addition to his kidney disease and bone degeneration. He is only 50 yrs. old. He has already had 2 surgeries this year, one on his hand from when he fell during a seizure and on his neck (again); he may potentially have another one or two this year due to another fall he had in Sept. that broke his humorus bone in the shoulder and his knee.

Well, in Sept., his neurologist did a nerve conduction study and EMG (Electromyography); the EMG showed NO muscle activity at all. As the doctor said “weird”; and needless to say, disturbing, too.

He is having a muscle biopsy done on Mon.; an outpatient procedure where they will remove some muscle from two places and send the samples to the MAYO CLINIC for study and testing.

My prayer request is this: obviously for the surgery on Mon., yes, for the L-rd guiding the hands of the surgeon, but mainly for my husband not to get an infection and that it not cause him too much more additional pain (it is being done on the muscles attached to the broken shoulder and knee). In addition, that the samples arrive safely at MAYO and that the L-rd will reveal something to the doctors there and give them the discernment and wisdom to see it, if something is there, to explain this mystery.

Lastly, it is the wondering that is hardest. We have been trying very hard not to allow our imaginations to wonder, but the days between the getting the test done, his recovery from that test and the subsequent doctor’s visits to the neurologist and the surgeon will be very hard. Please pray that they, too will be given the tools to see what they need to see if anything at all, and if nothing, to know where to go next.

Obviously, this has been a strain on us (financially, too) and, due to the recent bone breaks, my husband has been unable to do almost anything and I’ve been feeling a little down and irritable; there’s so much not getting done and I find I’m not very motivated, plus I HAVE to start schooling next week, albeit a lite schedule but still, I need to be able to handle it. My husband wasn’t very able before, but now even that is gone. I don’t know what I would do without my children; please remember them, too.

I can’t seem to shake a sense of foreboding, but I have so much to do…

Thank you for your prayers,

Rachel