Human Embryonic Stem Cells are alive and growing in my body, infusing me with life and awakening my legs. As I near the end of my second treatment at Nutech Mediworld, I continue to regain strength. I have three days before I board my flight bound for the US. This time around, I am discovering that my body is so much more sensitive to the treatment, and I am more in tune with my bodily sensations.
Continue Reading Add comment February 19th, 2008
Four months at home of hard work and intense physical therapy with Tami, Gabrielle, Dale, and Zander; a weekly yoga session with Emily Hightower; and a weekly massage with CP; walking regularly in my leg braces and parallel bars; and cycling on my electrical stimulation bicycle three times a week has ALL PAID OFF!!!!! I am pleased to report that Chavi (my adorable physical therapist in India), Dr. Shroff, Dr. Ashish Verma, and Mum are absolutely thrilled with my progress. Having been gone for four months, they clearly see my strength and improvements. It has been tough to monitor my own progress at home. My trunk mobility and lower abdominal strength is remarkable.
Continue Reading Add comment February 1st, 2008
One of the original meanings of “overwhelm” is to submerge completely and stems from around the year 1450. Picture a small boat washed over by a gigantic wave. Well, I feel like that boat right now, or rather a person in that boat flailing, whelmed by emotions, offset by a surge of curiosity from people itching to know more about stem cell therapy. A part of me thinks, I can’t possibly keep up with the influx of calls and emails, yet my intuitive knowing reassures me that I can handle the onslaught. I have received a God-given gift of life. I am the first United States Citizen to have received Human Embryon ic Stem Cell Treatment from Dr. Geeta Shroff in India, and I cannot turn my eyes, ears, or my awakened body to a culture crying out for a cure.
Continue Reading Add comment September 11th, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–It’s like Bat Day at the stadium
The first 500 participant in the Snowmass Wellness Experience August 17-19, 2007, will take home a bagfull of goodies and good things.
Welcome bags include samples valued at $75 from companies like Fruitabu, Arrowhead Mills, Back To Nature, Nordic Naturals, Terra Chips, and Yogi Tea.
Continue Reading Add comment August 16th, 2007
I continue to feel strong and the lower half of my body is firing up with life. Every exercise I execute with Chavi each morning feels stronger. I have more control with my leg movements and I am learning to isolate different muscles. I can raise my knees up in a bent position from lying straight on the bed and amazingly, my ability to crawl backwards is consistent and powered by new muscles that have been asleep for fifteen years. With the slight use of my hip flexors, since my injury I have always been able to balance on my hands and knees and crawl forwards, but never backwards. I am astounded by my strength and new abilities. Although I am not kic king yet in the literal sense, I get a kick out of examining my limbs as they reclaim life. My hamstring on the left leg works when I least expect it, and occasionally in front of an audience. Call it performance anxiety, but I figure that muscle has been hibernating for such a long time, it will take a little while…and some more ‘waiting’ to bring it back to life in the normal sense.
Continue Reading Add comment August 12th, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News) The Snowmass Wellness Experience kicks off its fourth year with a slate of wellness speakers on the subjects of nutrition, fitness, and spirituality & science experts–including six best-selling authors–from August 17-19, 2007.
The Swing into Wellness presented by Vitamin Cottage gourmet dinner celebration kicks off the weekend Friday, and keynote speakers Marianne Williamson and Dan Millman address audiences Saturday. Williamson examines the life-affirming principles first discussed in “A Course In Miracles” and in her forthcoming book, while Millman explores how to align one’s life to fundamental principles at the heart of every health and healing tradition in the world.
Continue Reading Add comment August 7th, 2007
I am ecstatic to report that I am the proud owner of a very strong hamstring in the left leg. Yes, my lower left leg can now move backwards from the knee down to the foot on its own! This is a first!!!!! In fact, I feel my gluteus maximus beginning to kick in, along with other abdominal and leg muscles that haven’t felt alive for fifteen years. I have a weird sensation that I can deeply tense my calf muscles. The awareness in my lower limbs is strangely phenomenal—as if a little electrical current has been turned on filtering pins-and-needle tingles all the way to my toes. This is all apparent after my most recent two embryonic stem cell procedures. My body is waking up and I am both the audience watching synonymous with the actors playing out the motions. I applaud with glee at the slightest flicker of movement, and I sweat with exertion to fire-up a body part that has been paralyzed for what seems like an eternity.
Continue Reading Add comment August 7th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)–Research compiled by the Children’s Health Foundation here show that the state of Colorado, consideredone of the most healthy states in the nation, turn outs out to be no better than all the rest.
When the results from 40 different school districts around the state were gathered, it was found that 14.8 percent of Colorado children ages two-14 years were overweight. Moreover, the results of the study indicate a strong geographical relation to the number of obese children the state. In fact, the survey showed that children living in rural areas such as Aspen and Snowmass are twice as likely to be overweight than those living in metropolitan areas such as Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson , and Denver. Obese children in these areas had only reached 11.3 percent of the child popuation as compared to 15.3 percent in rural areas of Colorado.
Continue Reading Add comment July 10th, 2007
We need your help. Does anyone have a connection to Oprah? Please spread this email. The world needs to be alerted of Dr. Geets Shroff’s ground-breaking treatment and her amazing accomplishments. I will attach the letter in addition to copying it within this email below.
With so much gratitude, Amanda Boxtel
Continue Reading Add comment July 8th, 2007
I have grown to love the hospital because of the people in it—they are soooooo incredibly positive and there is an air of optimism I feel as soon as I roll up the steep ramp into the waiting area. I had my seventh stem cell injection today. I will continue through Saturday with Sunday off. On Mondays and Tuesdays I will have an intravenous injection of many stem cells mixed with a bag of saline. On August 6th I will have my first spinal tap surgically on the operating room and I will stay overnight in the hospital. Each day I do rigorous physical therapy with a petite PT named Chavi. She is gorgeous and very positive and she’s not afraid to crack the whip. I’m working on balancing and strengthening exercises. She is impressed with how “in-shape I am” (dig at Jim Finch) and how healthy my body is. CP, I attribute much of that to you my angel friend.
I fully respect Dr. Shroff and what she is doing. She IS getting results from every patient and I believe I will be next. I met Mr. Singh yesterday who was paralyzed 18 years ago (a complete T-10 SCI) and he now has bladder/bowel function, he has increased sensation, he can move his toes/feet/muscles in his legs and practices walking with calipers. He gives me courage and inspiration.
Continue Reading Add comment June 29th, 2007