Posted on 09/29/2013 5:15:28 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Jeff Head Cancer Update: September 29, 2013
So, we've been gone for over two weeks from Emmett, ID. This has been my annual checkup for my Chordoma cancer down here in Houston, TX at MD Anderson. Week before last I had those checkups and they went extremely well. No sign of any new cancer around where my sacrum used to be and that is very good. As good a bone fusion to the bone from my right fibula that they used as a support down there as it can be. Very strong and lots of it. Also strong bone fusion all around the titanium they used for the support around my lower spine and into my hip bones...completely encasing it all in good strong, new bone.
After finishing, last week we visited up around Denton, staying with Brenda, my late brother Lee's wonderful wife, and visiting friends and relatives.
Now we are back in Houston to start my three radiation treatments this week. This has been expected and planned from the beginning. When they found the very large tumor in my sacrum, which had to come out, they also found three very small areas in my hip bones. They feel they can treat these and either kill them, or stop them. They wanted to wait until I was as completely recovered as possible from those very major and drastic surgeries from 3 1/2 years ago, and now is the time. They have not grown very much at all, and getting them now is for the best...so we will see how my body and I handle the radiation. It a procedure called stereo-tactic radiation and is really very advanced and sci-fi'ish, using 3-D models, multiple radiation beams, complex computer programming, a space age piece of machinery they pu me in, etc. It is similar to another radiation treatment called cyber-knife.
Anyhow, that's the update, and Gail, as always has been my hero in this, taking good care of me. A merciful Father in Heaven and His Son ave kept me in the hollow of their hands. Family, relatives and friends have shown their love and exercised their faith on our behalf for the which I am humbled and grateful.
I will write another update when it is done. We hope to e back in Idaho on October 1st or 2nd.
Prayers up, Jeff! Too dang tough to die - you’re an inspiration.
Best wishes!
You have a lot of good work to do yet on this Earth, so hang in there and keep the faith. You will be in my prayers. My God bless you!
Thanks for the update Jeff... You and yours are in my prayers...
Keeping you and Gail in prayer, Jeff. Thanks for the great news update.
God bless you and your family, Jeff. Prayers for complete healing and your comfort during recovery.
God Bless you Jeff. Best wishes to you and your family as you go through this. You are one of my favorite Freepers.
Some days the news is great. Today is one of them. Glad to hear you’re doing well.
Thanks for the update, Jeff. Very encouraging news, God bless you and Gail.
So glad to hear the good news. God bless!
God Bless you Jeff in this situation and grant you a full eradication of the cancer.
Prayers sent!
The advanced radiation technique you describe is basically using a focused radiation beam instead of blasting away with a broad beam.
The focused beam has less side effects for obvious reasons.
X rays are extremely difficult to focus (unlike a light beam) so in the old days radiation amount to blasting away at the whole body to kill the cancer.
Glad things are going well and thanks for the update.
Dear God, please continue to bless Jeff.
God bless you and all of your support team and medical staff. With a good attitude, good support, and a little piss and vinegar, you have this situation 99% under control. Now old Saw Bones just has to do his part.
“Be still, and know that I am God;
Psalm 46:10
(Jesus) bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness -- by whose stripes you were healed.
1Pet 2:24
Loving Father, we..his FRiends, as praying intercessors for Jeff, entrust Jeff to your care this day; guide with wisdom and skill the minds and hands of the medical people who minister in your Name, and grant that every cause of illness be removed. Make skilled the work of the surgeon and that of his team for it is unto their knowledge and skill that we, as intercessors for Jeff, give him for healing. That Jeff may be restored to soundness of health and learn to live in more perfect harmony with you and with those around Him.We therefore pray that You bless his dear family with Your loving care, renew their strength, and bless them with peace, comfort and understanding in Your loving name.
We believe in Your loving capacity for miracles, and ask for this on Jeff’s behalf.
As it fits your plan, heal Jeff and mend his body and lovingly grant him days of better health and strength. As Jeff waits your grace and blessing please grant him an extra measure of patience, endurance and perseverance, as well as those about him. Lord we know You are able to heal. Grant this couple the wisdom to understand Your timing.
Let it be done in Your glory, Lord.
We praise and glorify Your name,
Amen.
God Bless you, Jeff. I didn’t even know you were sick but you’ll be in my prayers from here on.
Prayers for you and Gail, Jeff.
Be well sir, our Lord ain’t done with you.
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