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A Drop of Hope

1/23/2009

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When I was originally injured, I was told that spinal cord injuries would more than likely be cured in ten years. Well, it's been about eight and a half years and not a heck of a lot has happened. In fact, I recently read an article where they said that they expect a cure in 10-15 years. What have they been doing for the last eight years?

I remember talking to a guy while I was living at Courage Center who told me that he had been injured for 40 years, and they had been talking about a cure ever since his injury. This guy (I forget his name) said that he spent most of his life waiting for a cure. At that point he was convinced that he had spent his entire life waiting for something that he would never see in his lifetime.

Well… I haven't spent very much time thinking about or waiting for a cure, but there are moments when I think, "What if I was cured? How would my life change?"

I had one of those moments today when I read this article. It's a very small glimmer of hope for people like me. Hopefully , if the study is successful, they are able to treat people like me and that old man I met at Courage Center who have had our injuries for a number of years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_sc/sci_stem_cells



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