(pg. 109) “I celebrated the joy I felt and the lessons I had learned. I was touched by the daunting reality: I was a stroke survivor.” – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. On April 24, 2006, Ricky Abele, my grandmother, had a massive stroke leading to her death on April 28, 2006. Her daughter, Dawn Fike, recalls her mother showing up at her house the morning of her stroke. Dawn says that Rickey began to slur her words as she spoke and managed to say she felt dizzy as she sat down on the couch. Rickey had a stroke in all four hemispheres of her brain at once. This affected all areas of her brain that control speech, balance, memory, etc. Not being able to control any part of her brain, she was declared legally brain dead and the doctors suggested she be pulled off the ventilator that was helping her breath. At the European Stroke Organization Conference of 2015, Keith Muir. MD. Presented phase one of a clinical study. In this study, they are delivering neural stem cells directly into the brain of a stroke patient. The study has shown no major harmful cell-related effects over 2 to 4 years follow up. The only
(pg. 109) “I celebrated the joy I felt and the lessons I had learned. I was touched by the daunting reality: I was a stroke survivor.” – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. On April 24, 2006, Ricky Abele, my grandmother, had a massive stroke leading to her death on April 28, 2006. Her daughter, Dawn Fike, recalls her mother showing up at her house the morning of her stroke. Dawn says that Rickey began to slur her words as she spoke and managed to say she felt dizzy as she sat down on the couch. Rickey had a stroke in all four hemispheres of her brain at once. This affected all areas of her brain that control speech, balance, memory, etc. Not being able to control any part of her brain, she was declared legally brain dead and the doctors suggested she be pulled off the ventilator that was helping her breath. At the European Stroke Organization Conference of 2015, Keith Muir. MD. Presented phase one of a clinical study. In this study, they are delivering neural stem cells directly into the brain of a stroke patient. The study has shown no major harmful cell-related effects over 2 to 4 years follow up. The only