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by Jerry Steele

Terry Areford of Morgantown, West Virginia is one patient who wasn't 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 and most advanced treatment options available to medical science. He believed that his imminent death was unavoidable because he did not want a transplant and after several heart attacks, six bypasses and more than half 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 and shortness of breath. He could not walk a hundred feet without tightness in his chest and at only 60 years of age wanted to be around a little longer to enjoy his family and grandchildren. He was upset and felt that there must be something else out there for him. Fortunately, his daughter scoured the internet and searched until she found that there was, indeed, grounds for hope.

‘I think it’s a real shame that I cannot 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 are like five year trials. I couldn’t wait five years. There’s going to be a lot of people dead in five years and they wouldn’t have to be dead if they knew about adult stem cell therapy,’ he said.

‘I hope ten people read my story and go out and 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 and it took only a small incision in my chest wall and an injection of my own stem cells into the heart. Once implanted these cells do what they are programmed to do – revascularize to improve blood flow to my useless heart muscle. While my wife shopped and visited the temples and markets I lay back in a superb hospital with fantastic care to get well,’ he added.