Stem Cell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Feb. 17th Travis embarked on an amazing journey with stem cell therapy. We had been looking into it for a couple of months and finally decided to do it. We found the American Stem Cell Institute in Mesa and in San Francisco. Travis called and the soonest appointment was in the Mesa location so we made our arrangements to go there. The procedure is called autologous stem cell therapy a form of regenerative medicine, how the procedure works is they do a liposuction procedure they “harvest” the stem cells, the doctors said it is not as aggressive as lipo to not damage the stem cells but dang it looked way painful and Trav said it hurt like hell. They do not do any form of anesthesia they just numb the area where they pulled the stem cells from. After they took the stem cells out they let us leave for 3 hours and we went back to our hotel to rest. Three hours we went back to get all of the “stemies” (this is what the doctor called them) injected back into him. They were able to harvest 22.4 million, crazy right. So with injections they put the stem cells back into Travis body three ways, some through IV with other nutrients such as potassium, B12, etc. Then they put some injections into his spinal cord as well as hundreds of injections all over into his legs where the most damage had been done.


WOW huh! So everyone’s question is what happens now? Well from what we understand stem cells can go in and repair anything that is damaged, so hopefully those stemies will go back in and repair all of Trav’s nerve endings that are dead as well as grow new ones to give him more mobility. They told us we will start seeing things anywhere from a couple days up to 6 months later. Travis feels like he is stronger and more balanced but only time will tell. We are so thankful to all of our amazing friends and family who have been so supportive through this journey as well as the financial support you have given us, due to insurance not covering any of the procedure. We are so blessed to have all of you in our lives and always supporting Trav no matter what he is doing! We are so excited to see what this procedure will bring for Trav!

Trav could not handle watching them put all the injections in him.