Emergency prayer request

Could those of you that are prayerful please pray urgently for a kind man named Grant? He had a CT followed by needle biopsy last week among other tests and it came back as squamous cell carcinoma with the origin being the base of the tongue. He is having surgery on Friday and will be in the hospital a couple days to watch for bleeding due to the area, then radiation 5 days a week for a month. The radiation in the mouth is supposed to be really painful.

Thanks for the prayers. I know they are greatly appreciated. I will print out and pass along any comments or encouragement and give to Grant. It's not easy to be at home and feel forgotten by the world.

My chair shipped ahead of time and will be here Tuesday. I am glad. Glad, you ask, for a chair? Yeah. There's not the strength to support to arms for the scooter so this way DH will unfortunately have to push but at least I can come along.

There has been a TREMENDOUS response at Bev's Charity Challenge and at Crochetville by people who want to help me supply brain surgery patients with caps. I can't thank them enough.

I appreciate their honest too. I've also had friends recently whom I have known since well before I was on any crochet websites, even back when I was first diagnosed, share they've made chemo caps for years but never thought about the fact brain surgery patients and often shaved down to nothing.

I couldn't help but laugh with this one because these are friends who saw me have my head shaved not once, but two, three, four, and five times for surgeries. I posted my hair growth month by now and shared the sages I was going through according to my husband (golf ball, tennis ball, peach fuzz, etc). But for whatever reason, a couple friends just never noticed that my head was soft as a baby's butt;

Regardless of any history, or circumstances, or associations, I want to thank how so many of my new friends hv=vewritten me notes saying they've been making chemo caps for years and feel badly for never thinking about the rest of--it's ok! Your willingness to help is incredible and your kindness will never be forgotten.

Are you having brain surgery? Need a cap? Want to help?

I recently spoke with my two major online crochet groups regarding the great need for caps for brain surgery patients. I discussed how there are so many groups that make chemo caps for cancer centers but when facing my first brain surgery I could only find one charity group that was willing to provide me with a cap.

So I decided to take action. I let the online groups know of this need. I was met with a tremendous response of both sudden understanding and the wish to help.

I wrote to nearly three dozen neurosurgical departments around the United States--and beyond--and now have some contacts and agreements with them to provide their brain surgery patients with free crocheted caps (and knitted and sewed for those who do those kind as well).

Since this blog is so well-known in the brain surgery community (and beyond, having been contacted by local and national media after them finding it), I would like to take advantage of its reputation.

If you are facing an upcoming brain surgery and are in need of a cap or two, please contact me. You can let me know via a comment left at this blog with your address (I will NOT publish the comment so don't worry about privacy of personal information). Also let me know your age and approximate cap size (small, medium, or large for your age). This helps let me know if I should send a cap made for a small, medium, or large child or adult. I also of course will provide for infants and toddlers.

If you are a crafter and wish to join in, feel free to contact me and I will respond with the appropriate information. I can provide you with the neurosurgery facilities to send caps to, or you can send caps for my home supply from which I send caps directly to patients who contact me.

I will never charge patients postage, but if any crafters or anyone else wishes to help defray this cost it would be greatly appreciated.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

keesha(underscore)b(at)yahoo(dot)com