The following was received from Mr. & Mrs.Rodrigues of Australia, regarding their daughter, Michaela (Princess) Sky Rodrigues, born sixteen weeks premature ten years ago, while her twin brother died. Her first nine years had more motor neuron symptoms than anyone could count. Even with assistance she could could not stand on her feet nor raise her head from its permanent droop. That story along with her stem cell improvement (Oct 2009) was in the RSCI January newsletter: http://www.repairstemcells.org/newsletters/NL010110.htm
Here is today’s Update
I HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE BEST NEWS EVER: I carried my princess to place her on the couch to change her diaper and massage her legs and her back.
WHILE I WAS PUTTING ON HER PYJAMA PANTS, TO MY AMAZEMENT, MY PRINCESS LIFTED HER HEAD UP ALONG WITH HER UPPER BODY FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME . I LOOKED AND SAID “BABY , WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?” MICHAELA SKY SAID “LOOK DAD, I AM LIFTING MY HEAD!”
Can you believe it, I am on such a high, i could not wait to tell Wendy when she returned back from work at 11.45pm.
Don we are so overjoyed. Now princess loves when we hold her by both her hands AND PULL HER UP.
This way we get her to lift her had and pull herself forward.
Wendy and I would like our PRECIOUS DAUGHTER to be a ROLE MODEL for the many families raising a child with *SECONDARY DYSTONIA*.
To have undergone STEM CELL INJECTIONS and WHO is thriving extremely great .
On the website of the greatest company in the WORLD WHOM HAS BLESSED US WITH THE MIRACLE OF STEM CELLS .
AND FOR GIVING OUR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER THE GIFT OF A NEW LEASE IN LIFE !
We will be forever grateful
I will keep you posted and up to date with ongoing miracles of my precious daughter princess * MICHAELA SKY *
Bye for now and blessings always
A center in Yerevan that opened recently as part of a larger donor registry to harvest Repair Stem Cells for transplants has registered its first success this week as its collection has proved life-saving for a patient in Europe.
The stem cells of Frederic Safarian, an Iranian-Armenian, matched with those of a non-Armenian woman living in Belgium and suffering from a grave blood-related illness. The transplant was successfully performed on Thursday night in Belgium.
The Stem Cell Harvesting Center in Yerevan is the only such establishment that is available in the territory of the former Soviet Union.
It is part of the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR), which was established in 1999 for recruiting and providing matched unrelated donors for bone marrow or stem cell transplantation to all Armenian and non-Armenian patients who are suffering from leukemia and other blood related illnesses.
About 16,000 donors have been registered with ABMDR so far. A total of 821 matches have been found for 1,276 applications from patients during these years. This week has marked the tenth successful transplant assisted by the charitable organization, but the first stem-cell successfully matched.
Doctor Mihran Nazaretyan, who works as part of this project, says that such successes not only save human lives, but may also hold out broad prospects for the future of Armenian medicine.
“We want not only to provide donors, but also create a transplant center in Armenia, which, naturally, will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but we consider that 70 percent of work to achieve this goal has already been done,” Nazaretyan told ArmeniaNow.
Fabulous Strike, a five-time graded stakes winner and one of the top sprinters in the country over the past three seasons, recently underwent stem cell treatment at New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., in an effort to get him back to the racetrack later this summer.
Trainer Todd Beattie said Walter Downney's homebred 7-year-old gelded son of Smart Strike had the stem cell treatment about five weeks ago after an ultrasound determined he had a ligament strain in his pastern.
Stem cell therapy is a breakthrough procedure in which bone marrow is used to help regenerate tissue. The relatively new technique has been used with success by a handful of equine veterinarians, including Dr. Doug Herthel, who helped pioneer the treatments at Alamo Pintado Equine Center in California. Stem cell therapy has been used successfully to help a number of horses recover from many types of joint, tendon, and ligament injuries.
It is the first time Beattie, who is based at Penn National Race Course in western Pa., has used stem cell treatment for one of his horses. Dr. Michael Ross performed the one-time treatment on Fabulous Strike.
“It wasn’t like he was limping or anything, but he just wasn’t right,” Beattie said of Fabulous Strike, who last raced in the Vosburgh Stakes (gr. I) in October, 2009 at Belmont Park when finishing second. “So we decided to do an ultrasound. There was no tear or anything but there was some edema. We decided to go the stem-cell route.
"I have so much confidence in Dr. Ross. Some of my family, who has been in the business many years, have had good success with it. It’s a really interesting technique. (Fabulous Strike) seems to be doing very well so far.”
Beattie said Fabulous Strike will return to the New Bolton Center for further observation in a couple of weeks and if he gets a clean bill of health, will return to training in July. Beattie is shooting for late fall to get Fabulous Strike back to the races.
“He’s never had a soundness issue his whole career,” said Beattie. “We're hopeful he will recover from this and everything will be good to start back.”
Out of the Lost Code mare Fabulous Find, Fabulous Strike has won 14 of 24 starts for earnings of more than $1.4 million.
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In the fall of 2009, a nine year old cerebral palsy child, unable to walk , or hold herself up while sitting or even stand flat-footed on the floor was taken to China by her Australian parents for stem cells. The child was the survivor of twins born
sixteen weeks prematurely! The results after only three months were astounding, and RSCI featured her in its 2010 kickoff Newsletter:
http://www.repairstemcells.org/newsletters/NL010110.htm
Now we bring you the USA version, a five year old treated with stem cells at Duke after surviving a cord-strangling birth which cost him a huge loss in brain function. Enjoy!
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Five-year-old Dylan Cain battled with a crippling neurological disorder since birth. But now, thanks to a cutting edge stem-cell procedure, along with hyerbaric-oxygen treatments, parents say he is winning the battle of his life.
Dylan Cain was part of a new study at Duke University that used his mother's cord blood-cells to regenerate damaged cells in his brain. Now his mother says she has discovered another treatment that has truly brought Dylan to life.
From the moment Dylan Cain entered into the world, his parents had to fight for him.
She took him with forceps which bruised his eyes and his face," recalls Dylan's mom, Jinger Cain. "...Pulled him out and broke his collar bone, and the cord was around his neck. He wasn't breathing when he was born. He was blue."
Baby Dylan's complication rendered him unable to breathe. Doctors finally were able to resuscitate Dylan after several minutes.
"He peed and breathed at the same time," recalls Mark Cain, Dylan's dad. "He started crying and it was the happiest moment of my life."
A few hours which felt like eons to Dylan's mom. Mother and baby were finally united.
"We had no idea really the depth of the damage that little episode caused for Dylan," recalls Jinger.
As the months passed, Jinger and her husband Mark could tell something was wrong. Dylan wasn't reaching the typical milestones like other infants.
"He wasn't doing anything," Mark remembers. "He wasn't looking at any object. He wasn't making any eye contact."
Then came the first batch of bad news: doctors declared Dylan legally blind at four months old. A little over a year later, he was diagnosed with a severe case of cerebral palsy. The disease constricted Dylan's movement, his eyesight, his ability to learn, as well as his freedom of expression.
The family fought through it, though they and his teachers admit things weren't significantly better as dylan approached his fourth birthday.
"He was screaming, he was throwing things," says Jeannie Hatchett. "He was hitting his head. He was banging his head on the floor."
Then, finally, some good news: Jinger recieved a letter that would dramatically change all of their lives.
"And I cried as I read it," remembers Jinger. "Oh my gosh, Mark! Biocord is doing this study with Duke University. I couldn't even sleep that night. I knew Dylan needed to be in that study," she continued.
Dylan would be one of just 50 children in the country to have his cord blood stem cells injected into his body. Researchers at Duke found that those cells, once injected into the body, could circulate and regenerate damaged cells in patients with brain damage or neurological disorders.
"The next day after his infusion he was bouncing off the walls," tells Mark. "It's like we gave him five candy bars or something. He was just really everywhere. He was making a lot of noises and sitting there laughing at nothing."
His parents say, after his procedure, his vocabularly exploded. The right side of his body that was once rigid is now moving.
Blown away by the results, the family searched far and wide for another procedure that would help keep the momentum going. They found what they were looking for in Bend with a procedure called hyperbarics.
"You can improve the oxygen concentration delivery to various parts of the body," explains Doctor Robert Pinnick. "All of the parts of the body."
At first, doctor Pinnick's staff was a bit skeptical that the chambers would help. But it didn't take long before they were seeing the results.
"There are no members of our team who have any question about whether or not that was beneficial or not for him now," Pinnick believes.
Just a few days after his first treatments in the chamber, Dylan was sleeping better and even his vision improved.
Those behaviors that were so severe and so intimidating to a lot of people are almost gone," Hatchett explains. "You can almost carry on a conversation with him."
A long journey in Dylan's five short years, but a journey with a much brighter future.
"If it's based upon our commitment and our dedication to Dylan," says Jinger, "we'll see anything through to help Dylan have a normal life.
Currently, the hyperbaric treatments aren't covered by insurance. Dylan's mother says her next fight is getting hyperbaric treatments covered by insurance so it's easier for other children who have cerebral palsy to use the treatment.