10-25-2017, 11:40 AM
Last night, we're sitting at dinner at a family dinner at a restaurant, my mom's phone rings, and she gets up and walks away to answer it, which was weird.
She comes back and says that it was the university and that they were going to email me the consent forms to sign and make everything official!
I started reading the consent form and description of everything, and it says that they're going to drill into the damaged part of the brain and insert stem cells which would heal the damaged parts. The only problem with that is that my brain is damaged in different areas, so will they drill all around and insert them in different areas? I also thought that it would regenerate the parts of the brain that I'm missing.
It also said that I "been diagnosed with a persistent motor deficiency (e.g. arm or leg weakness)," except I don't have arm or leg weakness, but rather just that my brain doesn't know how to tell my body to function properly. I don't know how inserting stem cells would improve weakness, though, so hopefully those were just examples given for people will problems that were more simple. I'm also wondering if it will help my speech.
Furthermore, I thought that it would also regenerate the brain and not just heal damaged parts, since I'm missing so many pieces of mine.
Also, now it says there's 52 participants, and that there will be two groups, with three times as many people in group a, but group b is the placebo. It originally said only 6 participants with one placebo, but it also lists other countries participating in the study, so maybe the six and one is just in the group in the United States.
Still need to make it through the physical and evaluation, but they seem like a technicality and there's nothing about my health that should raise any red flags.
There's lots of questions, but it's happening! Thanks for all the prayers! Now we just need a few more prayers that I'm not the placebo!
She comes back and says that it was the university and that they were going to email me the consent forms to sign and make everything official!
I started reading the consent form and description of everything, and it says that they're going to drill into the damaged part of the brain and insert stem cells which would heal the damaged parts. The only problem with that is that my brain is damaged in different areas, so will they drill all around and insert them in different areas? I also thought that it would regenerate the parts of the brain that I'm missing.
It also said that I "been diagnosed with a persistent motor deficiency (e.g. arm or leg weakness)," except I don't have arm or leg weakness, but rather just that my brain doesn't know how to tell my body to function properly. I don't know how inserting stem cells would improve weakness, though, so hopefully those were just examples given for people will problems that were more simple. I'm also wondering if it will help my speech.
Furthermore, I thought that it would also regenerate the brain and not just heal damaged parts, since I'm missing so many pieces of mine.
Also, now it says there's 52 participants, and that there will be two groups, with three times as many people in group a, but group b is the placebo. It originally said only 6 participants with one placebo, but it also lists other countries participating in the study, so maybe the six and one is just in the group in the United States.
Still need to make it through the physical and evaluation, but they seem like a technicality and there's nothing about my health that should raise any red flags.
There's lots of questions, but it's happening! Thanks for all the prayers! Now we just need a few more prayers that I'm not the placebo!
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