Brian Was A Graduate Of Both North College And Holy Spirit School And Brian Was The Most Bold And Inspiring Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
Brian’s Walk
This Sat., July 9 you are invited to participate in Brian’s Family Walk starting at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church car park. The annual event funds grant money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 was given to four graduates of the North Middle College to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we respect his memory?
Brian was a student of both North College and Holy Spirit High-school. Brian was the most bold and inspirational young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short history of Brian’s wonderful bravery in life will evoke others to don’t give up hope and to achieve success in conquering difficulty.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The entire community of Collings Lake led by the preacher of the Catholic church took part in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to pray and raise money for the medical expenses. The illness answered to treatment and went into remission. Brian’s story received much media coverage.
The killer illness returned more than a year later and treatment was reinstated. Then without human reason, it vanished. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the disease and said to the parents to stop treatment. The parents did not let him know that they had stopped the medicine months prior when they knew that a healing had taken place after Brian attended a Catholic healing service and the sympton’s disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the awe of the medical profession. Nevertheless his body was extraordinarily weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospice and told he would not survive the night. Brian’s mother said to the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly disease, again defying medical reason.
Brian then underwent a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, though not hope and religion
Following graduation from Holy Spirit crisis again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the use of his hands, arms and legs. There had been little more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurer would no longer continue to provide treatment since there wasn’t progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had wasted. Nonetheless the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the top of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his extraordinarily non secular family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of claimed apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the former Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Doctor. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The two proceeded on the long arduous trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a person speaking English and asked for his assistance. The person was Martin Sheen. Doctor. Woods and film star Glaze carried Brian up the rough mountain in a special chair. The young man who could not walk had overcome another major challenge by reaching the apex of the mountain with assistance from his bro, Martin Sheen and the requests of the family. This account of the story was carried worldwide last year on the website Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles began to occur,writes tagza.com.
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