Right – watched the clip? Read her blog overview? Good – read on.
I watched 60 Minutes last Sunday night and cried. I cried a lot. I cried those heart wrenching sobs that come
from the heart, the ones you didn’t know were there. I cried tears of joy for Kristy, tears of
sadness for the people who would never have known about this procedure had it
not of been for Kristy but who probably can’t afford it anyway and tears of
despair for people like my mum, who technically doesn’t have MS (and this
sounds terrible, but if she did it would be a lot simpler to get our government
to help her) but Parkinson’s Disease – which, if you want to split hairs, is
likened to MS sometimes (I digress with the part about my mum, but bear with
me, there will be a link in a few paragraphs).
I feel my blood pressure rise just thinking about the fact in Moscow,
Tel Aviv and Chicago RIGHT NOW
there are amazing doctors who are conducting stem cell transplants (HSCT) on
100’s of MS sufferers with such positive results and yet the Australian
government says “NO”. Guess there is too
much money to be lost by the pharmaceutical companies if we suddenly had an
operation that may mean you don’t need to rely on so much medication if you do
have MS.
I’m angry – even 2 days after watching this story I am still damn
angry. What exacerbates this anger is I
wonder how many other amazing doctors are using break through surgery to help
people suffering from other diseases – such as Parkinson’s Disease (link to my
mum).
I know there are no guarantees this would work. I know there are risks surrounding it. But I also know that you may as well have an
option because you chose to not because the government won’t allow it.
I think I will still be mad in a week.
#KristyCruise #MovingMountains #MS
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