We need prayers from you all.

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We need prayers from you all.
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Sat, 07-17-2004 - 6:50pm
Please take a moment to say a prayer for one of the expectant mommies of Oct. 2004.


http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-ppoct04n&msg=8014.1

Hi everyone. I've been lurking here since the very beginning but this is my first post. I guess I'm such a shy person that I can't even seem to post, but I've enjoyed reading everyone else's and feel I've gotten to know a lot of you. My due date is October 15th, and I am finally having a girl after 4 wonderful boys (ages 8,5,4,and 2).

I'm asking for prayers due to bad news I just got this week. I have been having double vision since early on in the pregnancy, and thinking it was just pregnancy related didn't do anything about it. Then about a month 1/2 ago my husband noticed my right eye seemed to be drooping and around the same time my tounge would go numb every once in a while. I mentioned it all to my ob at my next visit and he referred me to an opthamolagist. My insurance company wouldn't let me get a referral through him and said I needed to go to my family doctor for the referral. A few days before my appt., the right side of my face went numb, which really panicked me. I went to the doctor right away and without giving me much of an exam said I needed to go to a neaurologist the very next day and that she was so sorry and left the room with tears in her eyes. I spent the night thinking for sure I was dying or something. The next day at the neurologist he made me and my husband feel a little better when he said he didn't know what I had but I wasn't going to die. He schedule an MRI which I had a few days ago. I almost walked out of the MRI due to panic and guilt over whether or not it could hurt the baby, it was honestly the hardest thing for me to do. My husband convinced me that we couldn't wait 3 months for the baby to be born to find out, that I had to do it. I took the MRI scans directly to my neurologist who immediately saw the problem. I have a brain tumor, located at the base of my skull pressing on my brain stem. I am so scared. I am meeting with a neurosurgeon next week to discuss my options, but from what I've been reading on the internet the tumors proximity to the brain stem is extremely dangerous and makes waiting the 3 months for the baby life threatening for me. The surgery in itself will be life threatening. I'm just in shock. I believe in the power of prayer and am asking everyone I know to think of me and my baby, Kapri Elizabeth, and pray for us. What I need is for the tumor to stop growing right now until I can have this baby safely.

I want to say thank you to anyone who takes the time to remember us in their prayers, I appreciate it so much. I will update after I meet with the neurosurgeon and find out what he thinks we should do. I'm just not sure if it's safe to have a surgery like this while pregnant, I can't imagine it is. Otherwise, I will wait and hopefully she is growing big and strong and can come a few weeks early.

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Registered: 05-08-2004
Sat, 07-17-2004 - 11:11pm
That is so

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Registered: 09-30-2003
Sun, 07-18-2004 - 3:58am
She is in my prayers!

Shelby

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Registered: 09-20-2004
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 5:01pm
I'm soooo sorry to hear about your situation. My prayers will definately be with you, your baby, and entire family. I hope everything works out.

~Amanda~

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Registered: 04-23-2003
Tue, 10-12-2004 - 9:04am
That is so sad and scary!
 
 

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Registered: 01-06-2004
Tue, 10-12-2004 - 4:33pm

Have you heard anyhting more about this women?
I am hoping she is okay.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 10-12-2004 - 7:01pm
I have a spy in the Oct04EC. ;) Coincidentally, I was thinking about this too and had her check it out today. Here's the good news: she had her baby (healthy) and her tumor is shrinking because it was hormone induced. Here's the link.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-ppoct04n/?msg=12666.1

Jenny

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Wed, 10-13-2004 - 9:26am
That is such great news for her and the baby.
Prayers work dont they :)


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