Cheryl’s SCI Stem Cell Treatment Blog

Met Jon today

November 15th, 2006

Another exciting day. I awoke this morning and realized that my calf muscles actually look and feel almost normal. The right one more so that the left one. The accupuncture in my right arm seems to be having some effect as I have much less tingling and numbness now. Pain is still with me overall but it seems more managable.

I met Jon an his father at physio and made plans to join them and a few others for dinner. They are both incredibly nice men who seem very dedicated to this project. He also wants to do some filming for the CBC documentary. In my room this afternoon, while showing him my leg movement, my left leg accidentally slipped off the side of the bed. With cameras rolling, I shocked everyone including myself, when i actually lifted my left leg up and over the right leg, clearing it by a good 3-4 inches. I was in such shock that the only thing I could think to do was throw my leg off the bed again and see if I could successfully repeat the movement. Success again.
At dinner, I discussed with Jon the idea of stepping the treatment program up to include a 6th injection. The next one will be an IV an should help deal with some general issues like pain. We also agreed to do a bone marrow culture of my own stem cells. This will become the 6th injection and will be mixed with the cord blood stem cells. We also discussed the addition of lithium chloride to boost the entire effect.

I am very excited and more than pleased with the results to date.

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