I had mentioned about the pity young chap who had uremia and currently undergoing haemodialysis. He was lucky enough as the fund raising was pretty successful. According to his blog, he had changed his mind about the renal transplant and opting for stem cell therapy. Someone had told him that there is hope in this stem cell therapy and it cost less with the risk was lesser. He had even met with a middle-aged male who claimed that he had undergone such therapy and cured.
It was a news to me…as I had never heard of such therapy substituting the renal transplant.
I had dug around and found that it is a very new technique currently at its researching state. Although the result on animal was promising but still it is not a standard therapy.
The young chap had plead to the fund raising committee that he wanted to opted for the stem cell therapy trial(fee was estimated a t RM100k). I had written a long response on his blog and he had however defended his point of view (http://firelynx1992.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post_07.html)
He himself had claimed that the successfully rate was not high but yet many was save; which I considered as crap as no research article to prove so, from the search over pubmed, most of the published articles regarding stem cell therapy for uremia focus on animal trial…).
He had further described the risk of peri and post renal transplant …… which he had intended to take it initially but later found that the stem cell therapy could be better (less risk and no further need of high cost Immunosuppressive drug) so he had opted for something safer and less burden for him in the future...
He had missed the point that the money donated for him is for renal transplant instead of a don’t know result stem cell therapy…
He had questioned that if I am as ill as he is would I had done better? With my knowledge and life experience I think I would…. But back to basic as a public, I might had done worst….
The shocking part was he is invited to give talk and counsel to some youngling….Instead of focusing on his study which he missed from the absent of lower six classes. He had gone to swimming, playing snooker and wandering here and there...I think he is waiting for the post renal transplant and then restart his life and pausing whatever study he should have done at the moment...
A sick one with sick thought sharing his mind…our future is at the mercy of our LORD….
