How to help Jeff Head with his terminal Cancer condition

Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Thank all of you, and God bless you, for your kind words, your encouragement...and most importantly your prayers and faith.

Also to all of those who have helped monetarily, no matter ho small...thank you. I do not expect to be around a long time now...and we spent a large part of my 401K (taking out loans against it) to help fight this. So it is really to help my wife, who is already burdened with taking care of her bed-ridden father. She is an angel and does so willingly...I just pray the good Lord takes me before I reach such a state.

But as always...it is in His Hands. When I say, as I have done s many tome on this fourm thatt "time will tell." that is what I really mean. In the end He is in charge, and it will work out for the good according to His will.
 
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b787

b787

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Jeff Head said:
Thank all of yo, and God bless you, for your kind words, your encouragement...and most importantly your prayers and faith.

Also to all of those who have helped monetarily, no matter ho small...thank you. I do not expect to be around a long time now...and we spent a large part of my 401K (taking out loans against it) to help fight this. So it is really to help my wife, who is already burdened with taking care of her bed-ridden father. She is an angel and does so willingly...I just pray the good Lord takes me before I reach such a state.

But as always...it is in His Hands. When I say, as I have done s many tome on this fourm thatt "time will tell." that is what I really mean. In the end He is in charge, and it will work out for the good according to His will.
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I do not what to say, but i know bone cancer as a personal experience, my wife had it, i wish you the best, my wife had a very hard surgery, the advantage of bone cancer is it grows slower, if detected on time it my imply losing a bone but saving your life, my wife had her collar bone partly removed (she had 1/2 of it removed), her shoulder blade bone removed and half of her humerus bone too, only God and Christ knows our destiny, but be positive, my wife has oulived the average life span of most sufferers of bone cancers, is not uncommon, but it is hard to be one of the 30% that live more than 5 years (she has lived almost 7 years, but i can tell you a lot is mental, the willingness to live is highly important, be positive my wife was positive and she also let Christ and God fix everything, but she was positive too.

I wish you the best and i encourage you to believe in Christ as the only way to God and do not give up, healing is possible as long as we and God work together, but do not be afraid in Christ we are saved and for God all is possible.
 
Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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b787 said:
I do not what to say, but i know bone cancer as a personal experience, my wife had it, i wish you the best, my wife had a very hard surgery, the advantage of bone cancer is it grows slower, if detected on time it my imply losing a bone but saving your life, my wife had her collar bone partly removed (she had 1/2 of it removed), her shoulder blade bone removed and half of her humerus bone too, only God and Christ knows our destiny, but be positive, my wife has oulived the average life span of most sufferers of bone cancers, is not uncommon, but it is hard to be one of the 30% that live more than 5 years (she has lived almost 7 years, but i can tell you a lot is mental, the willingness to live is highly important, be positive my wife was positive and she also let Christ and God fix everything, but she was positive too.

I wish you the best and i encourage you to believe in Christ as the only way to God and do not give up, healing is possible as long as we and God work together, but do not be afraid in Christ we are saved and for God all is possible.
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Thank you my friend, for your encouragement, advise, and your faith and prayers.

I have Chordoma...you can see my whole journal here:

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The average for return was 6-7 years which was exactly what happened with me. I had three initial very large surgeries which removed my entire sacrum and I was in the hospital and rehab for over six months.

Then, tree years ago I had major proton radiation treatment for tumors in my hips. Very difficult treatment...but it worked and either killed ot totally stopped those tumors.

But then this year the cancer returned in my thoracic and lumbar areas and I had to have more surgery. Unfortunately it also returned in my soft tissue. One in my pectoral muscle on the right side, two in my liver, and two more in my skin. These are non-curable to date, and is why I am now listed as terminal...it just depends on how fast they grow.

That's is okay. All of this...for all of us...is in God's Hands and I am happy to leave it there and trust in Him. His will is best...even when it is hard and when we do not understand.

Since Chordoma's are so rare, only about five major hospitals around the country have much experience and I was blessed to get the foremost expert on surgical work with Dr. Rhines at MD Anderson in Houston. But staying there has been very expensive and those costs are not covered by insurance, so it has depleted about half og my 401K retirement over the last 7 years. We were blessed to have it...otherwise we would probably have had to sell our house.

But the folks who helped me set up the fund me account id so in the hopes that smalll amounts of helps from ots of people could help recover those funds so my wife would be in good shape after I pass on. That's is what I pray for now and hope for, that she can continue to help her Dad who is bed ridden and for whom we built out a small aprtment on our house, and so she can help and spend time with our grand kids. Good, healthy times with grandparents are something a lot of our culture misses today and my wife and I believe that it is very important for the mental and emotional well being of children. So, we want her to be able to not have to work now that she is past 60 but to be able to help her parents and our grandkids. That is really what our requests are about.

Anyway...God bless you and your wife. I pray she may have bbeaten the cancer.

At ths point, I am pretty much left with the Drs increasing the pain meds as I grow worse. At some point the cancer will take me and I will be blessed to go home to our Father. The question is simply how long it will take and how much I will have to live through until that time comes.

I trust God in Heaven, and know that this experience has touched a lot of people...and it has made me a better person as well.

TAke care...and again, than you and everyone who has given encouragement, prayed, shared their faith, and helped us...may His blessings be returned ten fold to all of you!
 
kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

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Jeff Head said:
Thank you my friend, for your encouragement, advise, and your faith and prayers.

I have Chordoma...you can see my whole journal here:

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!


The average for return was 6-7 years which was exactly what happened with me. I had three initial very large surgeries which removed my entire sacrum and I was in the hospital and rehab for over six months.

Then, tree years ago I had major proton radiation treatment for tumors in my hips. Very difficult treatment...but it worked and either killed ot totally stopped those tumors.

But then this year the cancer returned in my thoracic and lumbar areas and I had to have more surgery. Unfortunately it also returned in my soft tissue. One in my pectoral muscle on the right side, two in my liver, and two more in my skin. These are non-curable to date, and is why I am now listed as terminal...it just depends on how fast they grow.

That's is okay. All of this...for all of us...is in God's Hands and I am happy to leave it there and trust in Him. His will is best...even when it is hard and when we do not understand.

Since Chordoma's are so rare, only about five major hospitals around the country have much experience and I was blessed to get the foremost expert on surgical work with Dr. Rhines at MD Anderson in Houston. But staying there has been very expensive and those costs are not covered by insurance, so it has depleted about half og my 401K retirement over the last 7 years. We were blessed to have it...otherwise we would probably have had to sell our house.

But the folks who helped me set up the fund me account id so in the hopes that smalll amounts of helps from ots of people could help recover those funds so my wife would be in good shape after I pass on. That's is what I pray for now and hope for, that she can continue to help her Dad who is bed ridden and for whom we built out a small aprtment on our house, and so she can help and spend time with our grand kids. Good, healthy times with grandparents are something a lot of our culture misses today and my wife and I believe that it is very important for the mental and emotional well being of children. So, we want her to be able to not have to work now that she is past 60 but to be able to help her parents and our grandkids. That is really what our requests are about.

Anyway...God bless you and your wife. I pray she may have bbeaten the cancer.

At ths point, I am pretty much left with the Drs increasing the pain meds as I grow worse. At some point the cancer will take me and I will be blessed to go home to our Father. The question is simply how long it will take and how much I will have to live through until that time comes.

I trust God in Heaven, and know that this experience has touched a lot of people...and it has made me a better person as well.

TAke care...and again, than you and everyone who has given encouragement, prayed, shared their faith, and helped us...may His blessings be returned ten fold to all of you!
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As the saying goes it's not about how long you lived but how well you lived it. I believe that when the time comes you can look back with no regrets and cherished the great moments you have had and looked back with pleasing satisfaction the moments and accomplishments you've had not only as a person but also with your family and other loved ones.

I will pray for you my friend, pray for wisdom, for healing, for comfort and also for those around you. I will of course also pray for a miracle in healing however know you already have another kind .. through the blood of Christ which is far more important.

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson.
 
Hyperwarp

Hyperwarp

Captain
Tomorrow I'll be making a donation either for medical supplies for the needy or to save cattle destined for slaughter. Jeff, sir you are going to be the first in my thoughts when I do that. It is a local custom when making a sacrifice, a donation, etc to hope/pray for especially someone who suffering due illness and/or injury. And all I hope is for our Giant Jeff Head to get better, feel better and the pain to go away.

Sadly, I am unable to do one of best things in life and that is to donate blood. My blood is literally poisonous due to various reason. If any of you can donate blood, please do so to the nearest blood bank and spare few thoughts for Jeff, hope for his speedy recovery.
 
Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Hyperwarp said:
Tomorrow I'll be making a donation either for medical supplies for the needy or to save cattle destined for slaughter. Jeff, sir you are going to be the first in my thoughts when I do that. It is a local custom when making a sacrifice, a donation, etc to hope/pray for especially someone who suffering due illness and/or injury. And all I hope is for our Giant Jeff Head to get better, feel better and the pain to go away.

Sadly, I am unable to do one of best things in life and that is to donate blood. My blood is literally poisonous due to various reason. If any of you can donate blood, please do so to the nearest blood bank and spare few thoughts for Jeff, hope for his speedy recovery.
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God bless you Hyper, for the good things you do, for your faith, encouragement, and thoughts and prayers for me and my family in this situation.

I pray God above will increase His blessings to you and yours ten fold, and this His contenance will shine upon you.

...in the end, we are all brothers and sisters sharing this world God has made for us and that is more important than ideology, politics, nationalism, or just about any other consideration...or at least it should be.

I pray for the day when it is.
 
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balance

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Hi Jeff, my prayer is with you and your family. I believe that the Lord is able to do extraordinary things.
In the meantime, it doesn't hurt to try what is suggested in this video.
 
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abc123

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Jeff, I'm very sad to hear for your ilness, but if it means something to you, one my friend told me few months ago that she was diagnosed cancer in developed stage. Today, the cancer is gone and she's healthy. Don't lose hope and faith in God. Our prayers are with you.
 
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