I do not want anyone to feel in any way compelled or pressured as regards this post...and @bd popeye and @WebMaster feel free to remove this if you feel it crosses a line.
But I did have this posted at other forums and on Facebook on behalf of my family and particularly my wife because of how serious the needs have become.
I will keep trying to post and moderate as long as I can, but if I keep having to up the meds (and I am told I will have to do just that, particularly the Fentanyl)) at some point I will be unable to.
Anyhow, here is the post...if you can help in any way, even in offering up a prayer...please do...and particularly in spreading the word to folks who may be in a position ot help.
GOd's blessings n all of you here. It has been my pleasure and a blessing to get to know so many of you from all over the world, and I thank you for the friendship and the many stimulating discussions.
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This is a quick update and an appeal regarding my health condition. It is also a hard post for me to write.
My cancer continues to advance. I can feel it in several places, and I am having to take more and more pain medications, particularly Fentynal to control it. Last night I just increased the dosage by another 20% to be able to handle it. I fear that soon I will not be able to continue to make a lot of sense or concentration on things of this life.
The appeal I have to make deals strictly with something I'd rather not have to do, but after a lot of prayer, thought, and talking ot over with my family feel compelled to.
I am in the middle of requesting and will probably receive a medical retirement from my job. It is too early to nearly reach our goals for retirement given the fact that over the last 5-6 years I have had to take almost 40% of my retirement out to keep up with the conditions associated with receiving so much excellent treatment down in Houston. Despite having decent insurance, maintaining ourselves down there for so many weeks and months at a time, and some of the medical apparatus that I have had to buy simply are not overed by insurance. This is leaving me very concerned about Gail after I pass in what I believe will be a relatively short time.
I have family and friends who have helped me set up two accounts, one a Fund-me and one on on PayPal, where people can donate. So many of yoy have already helped in so many ways I almsot feel ashamed to ask...but if all you can do is pray for us, and send this request around to others you know...family, friends, forums, acquaintances, etc. I will leave the rest in God's hands because it has all been in His worthy Hands since the start. For those of you who have helped so much already, I sincerely pray God's blessings on you each and on yours, and invoke those blessings in the name of His Son.
Here is the Fund-Me account address, and it is attached to this post as a link.
In addition, here is a general page on the web that explains things in more detail, which you can foward to anyone you might think of:
Jeff Head's Terminal Chordoma Cancer How you can Help
There is now also a Facebook Page up:
Jeff Head's Terminal Chodoma Cancer Facebook Page
For anyone so inclined, please Like that page and spread it around on FaceBook.
If you are so blessed as to be able to donate anything, I ask you to consider it for Gail's sake. In addition to having to help me more and more, she is also caring for her father who is bed-ridden for whom we had an apartment built onto our house.
I take my God-given role as provider very seriously...and this is hard...but at this point, it is all I can do in addition to the measures we do have, which sadly now will not be nearly what we thought we they would otherwise have. We thught we might get another 3-4 years...but it is simply not to be so.
Again, God bless you each, and thank so many of you for praying for us, giving us strength, and helping us materially and financially where you could. I can now only repay you by asking God's blessings to be upon each of you, that His Countenance may shine on each of you and your families and loved ones.
Sincerely, and in Christ,
Jeff Head
But I did have this posted at other forums and on Facebook on behalf of my family and particularly my wife because of how serious the needs have become.
I will keep trying to post and moderate as long as I can, but if I keep having to up the meds (and I am told I will have to do just that, particularly the Fentanyl)) at some point I will be unable to.
Anyhow, here is the post...if you can help in any way, even in offering up a prayer...please do...and particularly in spreading the word to folks who may be in a position ot help.
GOd's blessings n all of you here. It has been my pleasure and a blessing to get to know so many of you from all over the world, and I thank you for the friendship and the many stimulating discussions.
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This is a quick update and an appeal regarding my health condition. It is also a hard post for me to write.
My cancer continues to advance. I can feel it in several places, and I am having to take more and more pain medications, particularly Fentynal to control it. Last night I just increased the dosage by another 20% to be able to handle it. I fear that soon I will not be able to continue to make a lot of sense or concentration on things of this life.
The appeal I have to make deals strictly with something I'd rather not have to do, but after a lot of prayer, thought, and talking ot over with my family feel compelled to.
I am in the middle of requesting and will probably receive a medical retirement from my job. It is too early to nearly reach our goals for retirement given the fact that over the last 5-6 years I have had to take almost 40% of my retirement out to keep up with the conditions associated with receiving so much excellent treatment down in Houston. Despite having decent insurance, maintaining ourselves down there for so many weeks and months at a time, and some of the medical apparatus that I have had to buy simply are not overed by insurance. This is leaving me very concerned about Gail after I pass in what I believe will be a relatively short time.
I have family and friends who have helped me set up two accounts, one a Fund-me and one on on PayPal, where people can donate. So many of yoy have already helped in so many ways I almsot feel ashamed to ask...but if all you can do is pray for us, and send this request around to others you know...family, friends, forums, acquaintances, etc. I will leave the rest in God's hands because it has all been in His worthy Hands since the start. For those of you who have helped so much already, I sincerely pray God's blessings on you each and on yours, and invoke those blessings in the name of His Son.
Here is the Fund-Me account address, and it is attached to this post as a link.
In addition, here is a general page on the web that explains things in more detail, which you can foward to anyone you might think of:
Jeff Head's Terminal Chordoma Cancer How you can Help
There is now also a Facebook Page up:
Jeff Head's Terminal Chodoma Cancer Facebook Page
For anyone so inclined, please Like that page and spread it around on FaceBook.
If you are so blessed as to be able to donate anything, I ask you to consider it for Gail's sake. In addition to having to help me more and more, she is also caring for her father who is bed-ridden for whom we had an apartment built onto our house.
I take my God-given role as provider very seriously...and this is hard...but at this point, it is all I can do in addition to the measures we do have, which sadly now will not be nearly what we thought we they would otherwise have. We thught we might get another 3-4 years...but it is simply not to be so.
Again, God bless you each, and thank so many of you for praying for us, giving us strength, and helping us materially and financially where you could. I can now only repay you by asking God's blessings to be upon each of you, that His Countenance may shine on each of you and your families and loved ones.
Sincerely, and in Christ,
Jeff Head
