Please Pray For My Mom - She Desperately Needs An Easter Miracle

My mother, Connie Loughman, was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer in August 2007. As you may know (due to the media attention surrounding Patrick Swayze's diagnosis) Pancreatic Cancer has very high mortality rate since most patients are diagnosed at a late stage of the disease and there are few effective treatments.

The courage and tenacity my mom has shown in this battle is more than even an adoring daughter like me could have ever hoped for. She has done all she can to fight this terrible disease but now it's my turn to show that same strength and determination and fight on her behalf.

There is a new miracle treatment called TNFerade, developed by Biotech Company GenVec, Inc., that has cured patients with the same stage of Pancreatic Cancer as my mother. It has reached the final stages of the clinical trial process but is not expected to reach the market until next year. My mother can not enroll in the trial nor can she wait a year until it reaches the market.

Here is the problem: the FDA and GenVec, Inc., the company who created the treatment, are at odds on how to provide the drug to patients who are not eligible for the trial. GenVec blames the FDA and the FDA blames GenVec, but I'm not really concerned about placing blame. I just know that the FDA has stated that they would be able to grant approval for my mother to use the drug immediately contingent upon GenVec's agreement. GenVec at this point has refused to allow us access to the drug despite our offer to release them from all liability and our willingness to pay all costs associated with the treatment.

It has been reported that Patrick Swayze is currently receiving experimental treatment at Stanford University which also makes him inelligible to enroll in the TNFerade trial. And I am certain there are many patients who in good faith have taken part in experimental treatments only to find out that they are essentially punished for picking the wrong one.

I beg all of you to please go to please watch the YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gFnSYUjQQ - which goes into more detail about what we are trying to do.

And then log on to our website www.CureConnieAndPatrick.com and contact GenVec and aske them to settle their dispute with the FDA and give people like my mom a chance to be cured.

One more thing - please say a prayer that GenVec or the people at the FDA have a change of heart and work out their differences - many lives depend on it.

Thank you for the opportunity to pray.. consider it done

We have been at odds with the FDA over various treatments for Prostate cancer (I work as facilitator for a large/local support group).

The FDA is very political & we have noted over the years many conflict of interest situations.

We have been to DC to talk, picket, plead & each time get more & more frustrated as they act as “miniGods” with life & death decisions on withhold drugs that are needed. .

Our most recent dispute involving Provenge

Prayers up for your Mom for a miracle, as well as for Patrick Swayze.

Have you checked into Cancer Treatment Centers of America? Their approach is to treat the whole person (physically, spiritually, emotionally) and have had success with pancreatic cancer patients:

http://www.cancercenter.com/pancreatic-cancer.cfm

Prayers as well for you and the rest of your family, for wisdom and insight regarding treatment, etc., as well as for God’s joy and peace to fill your hearts and lives!

The wonderful message of Easter is that Jesus gained the victory over death for us ... so even though our earthly bodies fail, we will will rise again as He did and live forever with Him.

May the Lord grant success to your efforts, Jackie, that all those now afflicted will have access to every available means of healing. And may this Healing Confession, written by a husband for his beloved wife, Patsy, bring comfort and encouragement as You await the outpouring of His Grace.

HEALING CONFESSION

Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your Living Word. You said that Your Word is Life to those who find it and medicine to all their flesh. Today, by my confession, I apply Your Word to our body by giving voice to it. You said in Psalm 139:14 that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that Your works are marvelous. I declare that You made us and we are a marvelous creation.

I speak to sickness and disease today and proclaim that according to Philippians 2:10 that they must bow down to the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every name in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth bows its knee to Jesus’ name.

I speak to our body today and declare that we have authority over it. I command it to receive the Word of God. Matthew 8:17 proclaims that Jesus bore our sickness and took our infirmities. Heavenly Father, I thank you that the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us and makes alive our mortal body.

I speak to our immune system and command it to line up with the Word of God. Our immune system will destroy sickness and disease in our body and perform its job, for this is what You created it to do. I thank you, Father, that every cell in our body responds to Your Word. Your Word permeates our body from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. I confess that the Word of God is being made flesh in us. Psalm 103:3 declares that You, Father, forgave all our iniquities and healed all our diseases. Father, that is Your confession and I make it our confession, also. We don't judge by the sight of our eyes; we judge by Your Living Word. It is Your Word that lives in us and brings health and healing to every part of our body.

Heavenly Father, I rejoice at Your promise of divine health. You said it and I believe it. Today I declare that we will see Your promise of healing manifest in our body.

Healing is ours because Jesus paid the price two thousand years ago. God so loved us that He sent His Son to die on the cross so that we could experience life on God's terms. His abundant life is manifesting in us. Make us whole ~ body, soul, and spirit. Amen ...

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