I have a friend who is dying of a heart condition because the doc 
blew the routine operation and cut off the blood to his heart muscle 
so he is now on his second stem cell treatment trying to save his 
life.  Took him a couple of years of badgering them before they told 
him what went wrong as he was in a coma for a week.
The first one in Mexico for $10,000 did not work. He is now trying a 
far more expensive one $60,000 where they take the blood in Florida, 
send it to Israel to be recombined and then you fly to the Dominican 
to have it put in. On January 20th he will take a new test to see if 
it is working. He does sound stronger right now but it may be hope 
from a placebo effect. I am hoping for the best from this and will 
let the list know the outcome. My son does have cord stem cells from 
Case's brother with CP so if this does become viable therapy we will 
be ecstatic. I think it will be great soon and am sorry that Bush did 
not fund the research. We are 38th in the world in health care and I 
got an operation I needed out of the country for 30% of our cost and 
people thought I was taking a big chance. Well it was better heath 
care than I have gotten here. I am devastated to think the insurance 
companies are running the health care bill into the ground.
Case needs another perc lengthening and his parents cannot afford it 
because they still owe from the first one, yet they have what is 
called great insurance but this operation is out of network. It also 
costs less and does less damage than the traditional cutting which 
can over lengthen. Go figure our country is nuts. No decent health 
care, infrastructure crumbling, unemployment skyrocketing and we will 
put people to work only by making them soldiers and sending them to a 
country that supplies the world with heroin. You can absolutely look 
for cheap heroin to be the next big drug addiction and our armed 
services will be importing it to us. I am very disappointed in Obama 
for expanding this war. He should turn down the peace prize. The 
social costs to our vet families will be unfathomable and we will pay 
for years. When I was in college one Viet vet who lived next door 
blew his brains out cause he could not live with the consequences of 
war. One of our Hawaii neighbors did the same on his return from 
Iraq. In Hawaii I witnessed many of these young guys coming back who 
are now alcoholics. Bring our troops home and put them to work here.
Sorry if I am bumming you out during the holidays. Hope everyone is 
enjoying as much as possible in these trying times.



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