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Terry Areford of Morgantown, West Virginia is one patient who was not told by his cardiologist that the option of adult stem cell therapy existed for him. He was a patient at the prestigious teaching hospital attached to the University of West Virginia where he could reasonably have expected to receive the best & most advanced treatment options available to medical science. He believed that his imminent death was unavoidable because he did not want a transplant & after many heart attacks, six bypasses & more than ½ a dozen operations to insert stents he had only one small vessel left pumping blood to the front of his heart.

Everyday for Terry was characterized by chest pain & shortness of breath. He could not walk a hundred feet without tightness in his chest & at only 60 years of age wanted to be around a little longer to enjoy his family & grandchildren. He was upset & felt that there must be something else out there for him. Fortunately, his daughter scoured the internet & searched until she found that there was, indeed, grounds for hope.

‘I think it is a real shame that I can not get the help I need at home. I found out that there is some research going on with adult stem cells in the U.S. but they’re like five year trials. I could not wait five years. There is more. There’s going to be a lot of people dead in five years & they would not have to be dead if they knew about adult stem cell therapy,’ he said.

‘I hope ten people read my story & go out & tell ten more people so that everybody comes to understand what this is all about. I was using my own body to help, or perhaps cure, my own body. There is no rejection factor & it took only a small incision in my chest wall & an injection of my own stem cells into the heart. Once implanted these cells do what they’re programmed to do ? revascularize to improve blood flow to my useless heart muscle. And so… So far so good. While my wife shopped & visited the temples & markets I lay back in a superb hospital with fantastic care to get well,’ he added.

Jerry Steele is Patient Relations Manager of Theravitae, a company that treats heart disease with adult stem cell therapy( Vescell ). The company also maintains a blog -Stem Cell Therapy Blog

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