Be careful what you ask for

[klwilliams]

I asked Helen, Chaz's good friend who happens to be an NHS doctor, to check with a teaching hospital in the UK that has tested using a leukemia treatment to cure MS. Would they treat an American, outside of a study? It turns out that yes, they would, if I pass their preliminary tests

Comments

[cvirtue]

Sounds promising! Good luck!

[ppfuf]

Wow, that's amazing. GM's brother underwent a similar nuke-it-from-orbit then regrow-from-clean-cells chemotherapy in a last ditch effort to cure his leukemia. Looks like science has gotten better on the regrowth part in the past few years. :)
Good luck, and I hope your plan comes together!

[klwilliams]

It's the leukemia chemo. I'm in better shape than most leukemia patients, though, since MS is just a slow paralysis (which eventually leads to death, just...slowly). I've heard the science is better on the liver toxicity front, though.

[sartorias]

Oh, wow fingers crossed!!!!

[ex_hrj]

Nothing quite like the treatments that amount to, "Jump off this cliff and you may grow wings before you hit the valley floor." And yet...we really do live in a science-fictional world with regard to medicine. (*turns back to day job involving industrial production of biologicals that have been edited at the molecular level*)

[branna]

Fingers crossed for you!