As I’ve said here plenty times it matters not who or what you pray, simply because it would be exceptional that the entity you ask for something to by praying could ever satisfy your requests.
Praying is
however very important because it’s a simple form of meditation, you focus your
mind in what you are asking for with very much intensity and focus, therefore
it’s very possible to obtain the miracle you are asking for.
Sometimes I
see older people who say fully convinced that the miracle they received came
directly from Jesus Christ (or Buddha or Mahomet) only because they had asked for it to such religious leader when
praying.
Even my
mother tells me that she prays constantly for me and others in my family, but –
she says – God must be too busy to listen to her, I usually only tell her that
I’m sorry for her, when it’s very clear that her being 83 y/o the power of her
mind must be like the power of the muscles in her legs….or arms.
Having clarified
the importance of praying, I’ve been praying much more than usual because I’ve
been selected to be tested at the UCLA to have the opportunity to be part of a
stem cell clinical trial specific for TBI victims like me.
In fact I
was told that to ensure that the stem cells will go to the injured part of the
brain (motor
cortex and occipital lobe in my case) the only way to do so is to inject the stem
cells directly where they are needed, otherwise once they are injected they can
go to repair anything else that may need their healing work, such as an ulcer
in the stomach, a kidney infection or something in the liver, down to the skin
cut……you can therefore understand that to spend very much money to produce the
right stem cells, inject them to go to the brain and then see them go somewhere
else in the body not only is like throwing money away, but it’s hugely
frustrating for all involved.
Now my
praying (focusing
my VERY strong mind)
is focused on having the correct results from the additional testing that I’ll
receive at the UCLA directly from the researchers involved in this clinical
trial.
My story of
this potential participation starts at the very beginning of this year, when I
saw of a clinical trial on TBI done by the UCSF (San Francisco), I contacted the initial participants
evaluator who asked for a number of medical records that I could obtain from
the Cottage hospital and I was pretty confident that things would be proceeding
smoothly, however it happened (no idea how or why) that the entire team – including my initial contact – totally changed
and not only the people changed but the names of the procedures (NOT medical) I’m supposed to be involved with
changed their names and in addition it turned out that my first contact had
misplaced all the med docs from the Cottage hospital which forced me to go back
and ask again for a new copy of what I had asked already few months before.
Anyway all
the people I’ve been working with about this trial have been very nice and
understanding of my frustration that it’s been taking more than 10 years before
I have the chance to have my brain being worked on with the goal to have it
repaired.
Now I’m at
the point that I’m about to go to the UCLA for the final testing and –
obviously – my prayers with deep concentration and focus of my mind – are all
directed to my body being right for being part of this trial.
I put below
the links to the websites that regard this trial and few others about the use
of stem cells for TBI, what makes this clinical trial different (and way superior to any
other, in my opinion) is that
rather than injecting the stem cells in the blood stream and hope
that they’ll go in the right place in the brain, in this case a small hole is
drilled in the skull so that the stem cells can be injected in the exact right
brain location-
To say that
(as
usual) I can’t wait
to be part of this trial is to minimize how I feel; all I can say now is to “stay
tuned” because I’m hoping to soon give a very positive update.
- http://personalized-regenerative-medicine.com/treating-traumatic-brain-injury-stem-cell-therapy/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454634
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26269908
- http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(15)00267-2
- https://stemcells.nih.gov/trials.htm
- http://tbiresearchaccelerator.ucsf.edu/
- http://www.biorasi.com/
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