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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 being said, Jeff.
Jeff:
I wasn’t aware of this curse.
Best wishes to your beating it.
Prayers for you and Gail for all to be well.
Will continue prayers throughout your recovery.
((HUGS))
MD Anderson is the best! Good luck, you are in very good hands.
good to hear.
God bless you, Jeff. Best wishes for a great outcome.
You’ll be in my prayers, Jeff. May God be with your doctors and family, too.
God bless.
Doctor to Assisting Nurse: "Oh, that stuff? Why that's what they used to call 'true grit', lot's of folks used to have it, but it's gotten pretty rare lately. These guys always get better, sew him up and get him outta here!"
Praying for you Jeff.
God bless Jeff.
You’re a fighter. Thanks for the update.
Best Wishes Jeff.
MD Anderson saved my best friends life.
Praying for you. Thanks for making the situation known.
Speedy recovery!
Good luck Jeff.
I am praying for you.
Prayers for Jeff!
Thanks for the update. Prayers for you and Gail.
Wonderful news, Jeff! Thanks for the update. You must be one tough cookie-—
You continue to be in my prayers.
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