My Stem Cell Treatment!

[BFritz21]

Here's the Facebook post I made today since I heard from my rehab doctor about this:

Quote:Heard back from my doctor at Children's about the stem cell treatments.
I thought that they could just inject stem cells into my skull and then they'd do all the work themselves, but they need to be framed to work with the parts of the brain that they're trying to replace.
He told me that this is all still so new and he actually just went to a meeting recently on this and researchers were trying to build the stem cells in an organized fashion to match the "framework" of the brain and work as if they were mine. I was under the impression that they did that naturally.
If the stem cells were placed in the brain without any framework, they might not be functional and could even cause a cancerous-type cell growth.
This is a bummer, but the fact that they're working on ways to make it so that the stem cells can be organized to work with the brain is promising, and, like I always say, I love my life as-is, so nothing lost.
I just wanted to give everyone an update and say thanks for all the prayers, even if it hasn't worked out like we had hoped yet! This is still new, so I have faith that advances will be made soon!

I'm actually not bummed or anything and I have faith that it could happen in the future.

Life is good, so let's get ready for a HUGE WHO-DEY SEASON!