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Created August 3, 2018

Abbie Brigham and Mary Graves

on behalf of Jennifer Eccleston

Medical JACKSONVILLE, FL

We come to you with heavy hearts for our sister in Christ, Jen Eccleston. We have known Jen for many years through our church. She is a wife to Matt and mother to three beautiful children. Recently, Jen went to the ER for what she believed was a kidney stone. The CT not only confirmed the kidney stone, but also found a 13.5 cm mass in her liver, and two soft tissue masses. The natural doctor Jen has been working with the last year has specifically been working on her circulating cancer cells (a/k/a CTCs). All of this work has not been in vain as her cell count is now down to 2.

Upon follow up, a PET scan has revealed that the cancer has spread. The natural doc has a connection with a specialist in CA, Dr. Ahvie. Dr. Ahvie is an M.D. and graduated from Johns Hopkins. He takes very difficult cancer cases and offers targeted approaches with chemotherapy, as well as another therapy that acts as a cancer vaccine of sorts. (They still have more information to obtain.) The targeted therapy would be based on the RGCC testing that Jen did with her natural doc that outlined the exact chemo that gave her the highest death rate of cancer cells.

Dr. Ahvie has been consulting with Jen’s natural doc and believes she would be a candidate for his therapy. He indicated how happy he is for the work that has been done to lower the CTC count, as it’s important to his therapy as well.

This is where you come in. Jen and her family need prayer warriors to rally behind her. The specialized treatment from Dr. Ahvie in CA is not covered by Jen’s medical sharing company, so she also needs monetary funds to cover testing, traveling, procedures, etc. Upon her return from the initial treatment, Jen will need to keep up Dr. Ahvie’s protocol at home, which will involve costs as well.

Please join kingdom forces with us to pray specifically for Jen and her family. And please consider giving a monetary gift for these mounting medical costs.

God bless you, and please continue to follow Jen’s journey here as we give updates. We would be so grateful to have you share this on social media or email.

Abbie Brigham and Mary Graves

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Prayer Requests by Jen:

Please pray that I would have spiritual and physical strength, not fear the future, and trust in my Sovereign God completely. May He be glorified.

Please pray for my dear husband, Matt, as he works tirelessly to provide working his full time job and extra side jobs to pay for medical expenses. Matt also faithfully serves the kids and me at home as I have not been operating at full speed.

Pray for my children to trust in Christ and draw near to Him. They also serve our family so sweetly. Pray for their strength and for God to bless them.

Of course, please pray for total healing and for us to have wisdom as we navigate the path the Lord has for us to walk.

Please pray for God to provide for my medical expenses.

Please pray for doctors to have wisdom for the best treatment.

Please pray that I would be able to eat and sleep and hold my weight. The doctor emphasized this is very important.

Thank you from our hearts. We praise God for every prayer, every kindness, and His provision. - Jen

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Update 3

Posted by Mary Jean

1 month ago

Jen is posting regular updates of her treatment in CA on her Caring Bridge page, "Jen’s Prayer Posse". Click this link if you’d like to follow the updates and see pictures from the trip. https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jensprayerposse

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Update 1

Posted by Mary Jean

3 months ago

Hey Everyone,

As treatment in California nears, so many things are swirling around in my mind. My “to-do” list is ever looming as I’m trying to make sure that our kids are cared for in our absence, but also that I’m not forgetting anything that we need to take with us. I’m a list person – and crossing items off the list brings a sense of relief that things are actually getting accomplished.

Matt and I have been floored (and I’ve cried many tears) at the generosity of so many. Giving financially, sacrificing time in prayer, signing up to help take care of our kids, clean our home, arrange play dates with Caroline, and driving me around Jacksonville to run errands because driving hurts my shoulder, just names a few.

In an effort to be transparent, I wanted to share some of the breakdown of the costs for treatment. Please know that we have put a lot of thought, prayer, and have sought counsel regarding our treatment options and Matt and I both believe strongly that California is the best option for me at this time. Dr. Ahvie takes advanced cases and people from all around the world go to him for a reason.

Below is a list of therapies he is recommending for me out of the gate. He said that we need to “throw everything we can” at me to get the best results. Besides the list below, there will be other expenses related to treatment that we cannot break down at this time. Dr. Ahvie orders some “in-depth and sensitive laboratory testing” that my insurance will not cover. There will also be some other therapies that he is likely going to recommend in addition to the costs below, and my supplement protocol will be changing as we have had to repeat the RGCC testing at the lab in Greece.

IPT Package (this is the low-dose chemo) The package includes some IV therapies that will make the chemo more effective. I need two rounds of this due to the size of the liver tumor.
Cost – $60K ($30K per round)

IST (Dendritic Vaccine) We have been told that Dr. Ahvie has a high percentage of success with his patients doing this vaccine.
Cost - $15.8K

PICC line - $2.8K

While it is humbling to put numbers to paper and explain this in more detail, we believe you should know where your money is going and how best to pray. Should The American Cancer Society not be able to negotiate a better rate for us, the costs for the remainder of our stay will be approximately $4K. We hope they will come through and as much money can go toward treatment as possible.

Thank you for your emotional, spiritual, and financial support during this time. Please pray for me to have courage and God’s grace through treatment. Please also pray that I could gain some weight and be able to eat and sleep. As always, please pray for my dear family as they bear this trial that God has ordained for each of us.

I fully believe that God hears our prayers and that Christ intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father. How kind of Him to do this for His children. He is granting grace to withstand the darkest trial of our lives. To Him, and Him alone, be the glory.

Clinging to His promises,

Jen

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