Source: Trinidad and Tobago Express
STEPHEN GIROD’S dreams are still well alive despite the fact that he has a body which is paralysed.
Girod is still an ambitious 24-year-old who wants to be a civil engineer and own his business. But there is another dream he first wants to fulfill – to be able to walk again.
Girod was paralysed after he fell from a 20-foot high roof on October 27, 2004, and suffered a spinal cord injury.
“I hit the ground directly and was instantly paralysed,” he said.
Girod now has the ability to move his head and raise his arms, but has difficulty holding objects.
“I cannot help myself in anyway,” he said. (more…)
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Source: Starherald
ALLIANCE — A young boy and his family are holding onto hope, seeking prayers and help for his chance at a normal childhood.
Six-year-old Braden Frohman, a kindergarten student at Emerson Elementary, suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of a birth trauma. Braden’s mother, Stephanie said he was diagnosed at age 2 and is confined to a wheelchair.
He has no use of his arms and is unable to feed himself, brush his teeth, crawl or dress himself. His speech is impaired, she added.
“Cognitively, there is nothing wrong with Braden,” Stephanie said. “In fact he is a very smart little boy, but he experiences physical limitations.”
Braden can use a computer that the Alliance Public Schools purchased for him. He controls it with his eyes and it talks, enabling him to communicate.
In addition to Braden, Stephanie and her husband, Aaron, have two other children; Keegan, 8, and Brooklyn, 3 months. For the last four years the family has been traveling between the Shriners Hospital in Minneapolis and the Children’s Hospital in Omaha seeking medical treatment for Braden.
“But for the past year my husband, myself and family have been not only conducting a lot of research but have been applying, sending medical records and doing everything possible in an effort to gain additional medical care,” Stephanie said.
Finally, after applying at numerous hospitals, the family received a call that Braden had been accepted to a hospital in Hang Zhou, China, to receive cutting-edge medical treatment not yet done in the United States.
“We were so excited because not only were they the first hospital to accept Braden’s case but they were among one of the ones we were very interested in,” Stephanie said, “and they also have a representative from Denver on staff, making it easy to communicate.”
Braden will undergo stem cell injections from an umbilical cord. Doctors are unable to guarantee that he will be able to walk, but they have told the family that Braden is a very good candidate for the treatment and they are very hopeful. (more…)
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Denver, Colorado, June 8th, 2009 – Building on the momentum of their previous events, The Stem Cell Awareness Association (www.stemcellaware.com) will hold the sixth Stem Cell Awareness Rally in Denver, Colorado on June 13th, 2009. The group’s last event, in Punta Gorda, Florida, drew past and prospective patients, news media, U.S. physicians and specialists, as well as members of the public interested in learning more about stem cell treatment. (more…)
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