and all of a sudden they are an “expert” on it, telling you what you should do…
Yeah… so… since when did you go to med school and know more than I do about how I’m feeling?
I FREAKING LOVE THIS.
and all of a sudden they are an “expert” on it, telling you what you should do…
Yeah… so… since when did you go to med school and know more than I do about how I’m feeling?
I FREAKING LOVE THIS.
George Harrison from The Beatles first photo session with Ringo Starr at Liverpool’s Docklands, 1962. Photo by Peter Kaye.
I love George so much<3
“The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one.” -Paul McCartney
To follow up:
50%+ (didn’t give specific numbers, but it was a majority) maintained remission for 2 years, and 20% maintained remission for 5 years.
It started in 2006, so you figure that 20% number is from 2011.
I mean. Seriously. This stuff needs a LOT of funding (and not just for us).
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I’ve actually done a bit of research about this before, but the risk of death is so high, its just pointless. First you have to go through chemo and get to an almost neutropenic state, for the stem cell transplant to be done. Not only do you risk your life going though chemo - with the risk of infection killing you or many of the other horrific side effects doing so - you have to then have the transplant which potentially could not work. Why have a cocktail of of drugs that could prove fatal, when the disease you’re trying to ‘cure’ is not fatal to start with. Yes, going though a chronic illness is hard, and knowing that I will have it for the rest of my life is too, but I sure would not want to run the risk of dying and my family going through the heartache, just so I didn’t have to go though pain. Their pain would be a lot harder than the physical pain I am going through right now. I’d go as far as saying it is selfish. Yes, arthritis, lupus and all these things can be fatal, but only in extreme circumstances, where as the drugs that would be used for this, were created to cure diseases that actually WOULD be fatal. However, ruling out the possibility of death, then yes, I probably would go for the treatment at what ever cost :)November 22, 2011: Researchers in China, Japan, Germany, South Korea and the United States have started studying the effects of STEM CELL infusions in autoimmune patients. The good news? IT WORKED. The treatments were successful in Lupus/RA patients, MS patients and for patients whose hearing was lost due to autoimmune disease (their hearing RETURNED COMPLETELY) without any side effects. Though this is not a cure, it is a huge step towards better disease management and a better understanding of these diseases. Hopefully this treatment will become more accessible to the rest of us that don’t have $25,000 laying around.
“Other autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, atopic dermatitis, and rheumatoid arthritis were not able to be treated with existing medication. However, these illnesses became manageable with stem cell treatment.” It has also been used for Crohn’s and various other AA diseases, even Fibromyalgia.
To read a detailed account of one man’s treatment experience with this new therapy, check out this article.
Hm, interesting! I think I’ve reblogged this before actually.
The trials I was looking at did not report any deaths among participants, but that could just be the one I was reading about.
Either way, the study I read was only for patients who did not respond to any other treatment. A last ditch effort, of sorts, and IBD can be potentially fatal (directly or indirectly, to the best of my knowledge).
JC PENNY SEES YOUR HOMOPHOBIA AND RAISES YOU A DOUBLE RAINBOW.
That’s the million dollar question.
This was a quick rambling of thoughts and crappy scrawls. I could go deeper, but I’m lazy and didn’t want to draw any more.
I didn’t hate the movie. I quite liked many elements and enjoyed the scenes as I watched them. It’s chock full of classic sci-fi themes worth exploring. But I get upset when it feels like characters make stupid choices just to further the plot. And I don’t like ambiguity for the sake of ambiguity. It feels like cheap writing.
I feel like any thoughts about what motivated characters in this movie had to be wild guesses or assumptions. If I have to read a bunch of stuff on the internet to find out about the missing chunks I’m supposed to infer, that’s not a movie. And I hate to say it, but it probably would have benefited from not being attached to the Alien franchise.
Sigh. This is what you get for having expectations. I should just go watch 2001.
I’ll let the guys at Red Letter Media sum up my biggest problems.
HELLBOY :’D I loved that movie.
I think I’m gonna have to borrow Corey Taylor’s book from my boyfriend because I’m really interested in it >.> Plus the more I know about Corey Taylor, there more I can’t help but crush on him haha. It’s just a silly crush :b