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.

[SuperLuminal]

Prayer bump....

[Judith Anne]

Hearfelt prayers, FRiend.

[Jack Black]

Praying for your recovery and happiness.

[Mountain Mary]

Check’s in the mail!!! I hope it helps...

[M Kehoe]

Done, my FRiend.

5.56mm

[ForGod'sSake]

Thank you for the update. God's blessings manifest themselves in ways we won't and can't always understand. My prayer is that God, through His Son Jesus Christ, will bless you and your wife with something totally unexpected and conspicuously remarkable.

In His blessed name, amen.

[Kitty Mittens]

My Donation will be in the Mail on Monday, Jeff.

(((((Prayers Continuing)))))

[Brad’s Gramma]

I love you, Jeff...

[JohnHuang2]

Jeff, a donation on its way via snail mail on Monday. Thank you for the update and keeping us posted. I pray daily that God's merciful and healing hands continue to guide you in your journey back to health, my friend.

God bless you and hang in there!

Enrique

[bootless]

Done, Jeff. God bless you and your lovely family!

[JohnHuang2]

Here’s a prayer bump for you, friend. Hang in there!

[Jeff Head]

Thank you JH2 and everyone else. Your prayers, faith, encouragement and help is appreciated more than I can explain or put into words.

Saturday and Sunday were pretty difficult for me, but today I am feeling quite a bit better.

I'm trying to get through to the 1st surgery on April 27th. We're leaving Idaho on the 9th or 10th of April and then begin having a battery of CT Scans, MRIs, meetings with the surgical teams starting the 16th or so, followed by pre-op the 25th.

[Jeff Head]

As I posted on the Fund Raiser/Donation thread, thank you all for your continued outpouring, for your prayers, for your faith, and for your help.

It is so humbling...and also so uplifting to see and feel the help of so many good people. I thank you from the bottom of my heart from myself, and in behalf of my entire family. I only look forward to the time when I can overcome this (with God's help and in His will), and be once again in a position to help others as I am being helped.

Here's the latest update to my situation after a call we received on Friday from MD Anderson:

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23rd Entry. Saturday March 26th, 2010, 1:30 PM

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Nurse Sanchez from Dr. Rhines office contacted us late Friday. We are definitley on for the two surgeries on Tuesday, April 27th, and Friday April 30th.

They are now scheduling us to have individual meetings with each of the four surgical team that will be involved with the surgeries, as well as additional CT and MRI scans. They would like us to be in Houston prepared to start those appointments on April 12th.

So, Gail and I will be leaving early on April 9th and driving down to Houston. We may leave on April 8th, depending on the weather and how many miles of travel I can handle each day. I find that generally the day or two after changing my Fentanyl pain pacthes I fare better than the last day and a half or so between them.

Now the time for the surgery is coming quickly...even though I wish it did not have to be so, and am certainly not "looking forward" to itbut I am ready for it to arrive. It is a daunting and challening time that lies ahead, and I know that during the recovery and rehab my situation and condition will probably be worse than anything I have experienced thus far. But, I will at least know from a medical perspective that I am on a course that gives me the hope for progress and recovery, whereas current conditions hold only the promise for continually, steadily decreasing health and conditions as the cancer grows.

I know the good Lord has led me to the most cpabale medical hands available to treat this condition, and I know He is leading many people to He and His Son as a result of it. I am grateful for that knoweldge beyond words, and equally grateful for all of the compassion, help, prayers, faith, encouragement, and Christ-like things that have been done for myself and my family by so many caring, good souls all across this nation.

I thank each of you from the bottom of my heart and continue to witness of God and His will, and His Son, Jesus Christ. A love of God and His Son and an understanding and acceptance of the Atonement of Jesus Chrst for each of us is the sure path to happiness and healing that exists for any person. Irrespective of circumstance, of hardship, of travail, mistakes, errors, sin. sickness,..whatever ails you body, heart or soul. I am grateful for that knowledge and share it freely with all who read.

Please continue to remember us in your thoughts and prayers as we approach this very difficult experience and the four months, God-willing, of recovery and rehab that follow it.

Sincerely and in Christ,

Jeff

[BlessedBeGod]

BTTT!!!

[EDINVA]

The Lord has and will continue to bless you and Gail, and your family. We all are praying for you, and you medical teams. God Bless you, Jeff.

[Danae]

Jeff,

You and your wife are in my prayers. My own father battles stage 4 Lung Cancer that is also in his brain and lungs. He copes by refusing to allow negative thoughts. Of any kind. So many things that were once important to him, are trivial and silly now that he is faced with his second bout with cancer. Many things that would have once resulted in a furious reaction, now make him laugh at the absurdity of it all. In facing death, he has found peace, and LIFE. My dad may be dying, be he isn’t going down with out a fight. The sword he wields is love, and its sheathe is gratitude.

When you are in the midst of one of those not so good days, know this, love is God. God is love. Focus on love and everything else is easier to bear.

You and your family are in my prayers, and I offer my profound gratitude to God for his healing of your malady.

God has blessed you Jeff, and he will continue to do so. Nothing can take love from you. Nothing can take God from you. You are an inspiration to a great many more people than you can imagine. All of us are deeply grateful to you, for you, and to God for giving you to us.

Walk and breathe with love.

Danae

[griffin]

Continued prayers for you and the family Jeff.

[Gail_Head]

Hi. I am Jeff's wife and thought I would post a little update. We were scheduled to leave for Houston today, but Friday night he had a little trouble and ended up in the ER. They thought it might be a urinary tract infection and have kept him with a scheduled discharge Monday noon. We will take off for Houston then. He is feeling a lot better today (vs. sick as a dog Fri/Sat).

FR has always been Jeff's domain, but I want to thank everyone for all your prayers and support during this difficult time. It means a great deal to know there are so many caring people.

I'm sure Jeff will do some more posting before his surgeries and I will try to keep it going during his recuperation. Thanks again from the bottom of my heart!

[xsmommy]

God bless and keep you and Jeff both. Heartfelt prayers for a successful surgery and recuperation.

[little jeremiah]

Prayers for God’s protection for you and Jeff.