Brian Was A Student Of Both North College And Holy Spirit High School And Brian Was The Most Bold And Inspirational Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
Brian’s Walk
This Saturday, July nine you are invited to take part in Brian’s Family Walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church parking lot. The annual event funds scholarship money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 got given to 4 graduates of the North Middle School to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we honor his memory?
Brian was an alumni of both North School and Holy Spirit High-school. Brian was the most courageous and uplifing young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short history of Brian’s wonderful bravery in life will inspire others to do not ever give up hope and to succeed in beating difficulty.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The entire community of Collings Lake led by the priest of the Catholic church took part in the first Brian’s Walk about 34 years ago to wish and pull in cash for the medical bills. The disease responded to treatment and went into remission. Brian’s story received much media coverage.
The killer disease returned more than a year later and treatment was reinstated. Then without human reason, it disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the disease and informed the folks to stop treatment. The parents didn’t tell him 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 vanished.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the amazement of the medical profession. But his body was very weakened by the disease and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating disease, bacterial spinal meningitis. His folks was called to the hospice and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mummy said to the doctor that she would not accept this. The family prayed all night . Brian survived the night and beat the perilous disease, again defying medical reason.
Brian then underwent a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, although not hope and faith
Following graduation from Holy Spirit tragedy again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the employment of his hands, arms and legs. There was little more medically that may be done for Brian. The insurance corporation would no longer carry on providing care as there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. But the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the pinnacle of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his deeply spiritual family decided that he would go with his bro to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of claimed apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s bro Doctor. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The two proceeded on the long strenuous 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 megastar Glaze carried Brian up the rugged 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 prayers of the family. This account of the tale was carried worldwide last year on the internet site Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles began to take place,writes tagza.com.
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