FReeper Jeff Head - in need of prayer - Cancer surgery (GOOD NEWS update @ #1638 1688 1931! 2059)

Journal: My bone cancer (Sacral Chordoma) ^ | 4 January 2010 | Dolly Howard

[DollyCali]

Our Freeper Friend Jeff Head was diagnosed
with a serious (they all are to me) form of cancer
just before Christmas

Please help me approach the prayer throne for our friend Jeff Head who is in Houston currently from his home in Idaho to have surgery & treatment at MD Anderson for his cancer. He will be able to respond on occasion.

You can follow his story & the particulars of the cancer at his blog/HERE

You might know him for many reasons.. His great mind & posts on this forum .. at which he was Freeper of the year in 2001. He is an Activist, Author, Man of God, Devoted Family Man(father of 6; grandfather of 5) and friend to many.

You can find him on line at places other than here.. at Facebook he is Jeff Head

Jeff's Web Page - (check out the neat stickers he sells)

Jeff's FR Profile

Jeff's blog on his Cancer

Father we pray for our friend Jeff. May he find your perfect peace as he continues to trust you with his life. Give the surgeons and medical personnel wisdom and perfect skill in treating him. Please keep him close to your heart as his body responds to treatments and to surgery. Help us to love him as our brother and give support and strength to wife Gail and their large and loving family. In the name of our Savior and Creator. Amen.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Jeff is an awesome man and a patriot. God, please bless and watch over Jeff and his family.

[Jim Robinson]

Prayers on the way.

[fanfan]

Thanks Starwise.

[Cicero]

Yes, thanks, Starwise. I was actually replying to that update.

[YHAOS]

Prayers for Dolly and Jeff. Please keep us posted.

[Coleus]

Jeff, you will be in our prayers and we pray for a pain-free and speedy recovery.

 

Novena To
St. Peregrine
  Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother.
You labored manfully for the salvation of souls. In union with Jesus crucified, you endured painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine hand.
Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God and to fulfill His will in all the events of life. Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men.
Deliver me from the infirmities that afflict my body (especially.....).
Obtain for me also a perfect resignation to the sufferings it may please God to send me, so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother, I may merit eternal glory in heaven.

St. Peregrine, pray for me and for all who invoke your aid.
 

Prayer to Saint Peregrine O great St. Peregrine, you have been called "The Mighty," "The Wonder-Worker," because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you.

For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fibre of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favoured with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. (Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying) Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy. Amen.

St. Peregrine was born in 1260 at Forlì, Italy to an affluent family. He lived a comfortable life as a youth, and politically opposed the papacy.  After he experienced the forgiveness of St. Philip Benizi, he changed his life and joined the Servite order.  He was ordained a priest, and later returned to his home to establish a Servite community.  There he was widely known for his preaching, penances, and counsel in the confessional.  He was cured of cancer, after he received a vision of Christ on the cross reaching out His hand to touch his impaired limb.  He died in 1345 and was canonized in 1726.  He is the patron of cancer patients.

 

 

 

[Ciexyz]

Prayers offered up for a speedy recovery, from someone who went through cancer surgery myself. At each step of the process, I have been fully aware of God's guidance and mercy.

[Man50D]

Wishes for a speedy recovery!

[NautiNurse]

I offer prayers for successful surgery and speedy recuperation. We need you more than ever in 2010.

[workerbee]

God be with you & Gail, Jeff. You’ll be in my prayers.

[Exit148]

Thanks for the update. I’m so happy that Jeff is taking a strong position as his own advocate. When his doctors see him as one who is well aware of what is going on, they will have a respect that will include him fully in any decisions. Prayers continue. He truely is a special Freeper!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Prayers for you and your family.

In these kind of extended treatments, getting help from family and friends is important to keep your treatment going and help take care of things.

Most of the family wants to help anyway.

My family went trough something similar when my mom had cervical cancer. My mom and dad said they were lucky to have us, but we were all anxious to help. Even the grandkids pitched in.

[Gene Eric]

Prayers up JeffHead.

[Matchett-PI]

Thanks for the ping, nutmeg! I had no idea that Jeff was dealing with a problem like this. He is in my prayers for a complete swift recovery. Prayers of strength for his wife and family, too.

[rmlew]

Praying for you.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for Jeff’s health and successful treatment !

[DollyCali]

‘YOU’LL KNOW HIM WHEN YOU SEE HIM!” A tribute to Eagle Award winner, Jeff Head.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/659688/posts

what a wonderful thread. Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us!!!

[Jeff Head]

All,

We are here at my brother, Lee's, place in Denton, Texas waiting to hear back from MD Anderson on the specific date for my 1st appointment with them. Hopefully tomorrow, but by Wednesday. Tumor is obvious to me when I sit or lay down...and the pain is there alright...but the percoset helps when absolutely necessary...though I do not like taking it.

Long drive...but driving helped take my mond off of the pain, and Gail read me one of the Jane Austin, "Pride and Prejudice" offshoot novels, one about the entitre story from Darvy's perspective. it helped a lot too and was an interesting stroy. My wife, Gail, is an angel for the which I am most grateful in my life next to my witness of Jesus Christ.

Thanks to everyone for your faith and prayers, and for your responses on this thread. It is humbling and I will try and respond to every single one as I can. Words cannot adequately express my gratitude, or that of my family. Faith and sincere prayer has great, and real power. Power to the revealing of God's ill in our life...whatever that will may be.

I have faith in God in Heaven and His son Jesus Christ. I know that they know me personally and have planned a life that is best for me, my loved ones, and those I come in contatc with...indeed, for all people. It is ours to come to know them, to accept the gift of the atonement of our Savior which opens the door back to God, and to thus come to know their will for us in this life.

And then, coming to know that will, to accept it, to make it our own, and then be a strong witness for them to all around us.

I am committed to being a good witness of God's will in my life, whatever it may be, to those aorund me, my wife, my children, my grandchildren, my brothers, family, relatives, friends and neighbors.

Her'es one of my favorite Hymns, "How Firm a Foundation:"

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent word!
What more can He say than to you He hath said—
To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

In every condition, In Sickness, in Health
In povertys veil, or abounding in wealth;
At home or abroad, on the Land or the Sea
As thy days may demand, So thy succor shall be

Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismayed,
For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
Upheld by My gracious, omnipotent hand.

When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
For I will be with thee thy trouble to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not harm thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine.

E’en down to old age, All my people shall prove
My soverign, Eternal, Unchangeable Love;
And when hoary hairs, shall their temples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be bourne.

The soul that on Jesus doth lean for repose,
I will not, I can not, desert to his foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake!

These sentiments and principles will lead our nation back to its roots, its fundamental principled roots, and restore our Constitution and Republic. Why America has prospered and is Free.

To whatever extent I can help in that, I am also committed.

I will keep everyone up to date, either on my site HERE

Or, on facebook, where I enjoy the interaction, HERE

(Both of which I will update tonight).

God's choicest blessings and speed to all, and may your prayers, faith, and good wishes on my behalf be returned to each of you in your life 10 fold.

[Larry Lucido]

Thanks, and God bless!!

[EternalVigilance]

You continue to be in our prayers, Jeff.