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Nope, I never take mine off either! Ever! I fixed it on a short chain with no clasp so that it can't come off without breaking. I've even been through a couple of minor surgeries with it. They usually insist: No jewelry of any kind, but they've been very understanding when I tell them my medal can't come off. I came to this practice after reading St Louis de Montfort's 'True Devotion to Mary.' He talks about the practice of 'wearing little chains.' I've 'chained myself to Mary.' --Cheryl McDonough, 2-5-2011

No, Jesus is God, and God doesn’t have need of any help. That’s inherent in the definition of God. If God needed help, He wouldn’t be perfect, and so He wouldn’t be God.
During Rick Santorum's run, we created a Facebook Page called "Adoration for Santorum," whereby people who joined up agreed to offer some of their Eucharistic Adoration time (that's time in a chapel where Christ is exposed in a monstrance), for Rick's campaign. We met the most prayerful people on that page. One such person was Cheryl McDonough, a young wife and mother (in her 40s) who had eight living children (one misscarry at 12 weeks), ranging from very young to one who was married with her own child.

During the course of Rick's campaign, Cheryl visited her doctor to receive some medication for what she thought was pneumonia, but came back to Facebook to tell us all that she was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. (She was given until January or February 2013 to live.)

After my husband and I were able to meet her personally in the summer of 2012 [her family lives in Minnesota], her "concerned" husband, her two youngest children, and an older one who was attending college in a town next to ours [in Illinois], we walked away even further touched by her sweet love of Jesus, and according to her Facebook commentary, she affected all who met her --whether in person or not-- in much the same way.
Holly Elizabeth Wilborn What a role model. I didn't even know you, but I miss you so much. October 10, 2012 at 8:10pm
On the day she died (October 8, 2012), crying buckets of tears, not understanding why Christ would take such a saintly woman with such young children and a beautiful family, who was doing so much Good on this earth, (as a way of offering consolation) my husband replied, "maybe Jesus 'needed' Cheryl." Hence my reply to you.

Cheryl's FB albums (and inspiring commentary) can be viewed by the public at this address: https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.mcdonough.9?hc_location=timeline

Saints walk among us ♥ Cheryl McDonough, please pray for us...

“On the day she died (October 8, 2012), crying buckets of tears, not understanding why Christ would take such a saintly woman with such young children and a beautiful family, who was doing so much Good on this earth, (as a way of offering consolation) my husband replied, “maybe Jesus ‘needed’ Cheryl.” Hence my reply to you.”

That’s a nice way to console someone, I suppose, but it’s an emotional appeal, not a rationally sensible idea. One of the greatest things about God’s grace is that He doesn’t need any of us. His choice to save us is pure charity and love, unmotivated by any selfish concerns.