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Well, good news to report. I finally got everything straightened out with the medical card situation and now should be back on track for Packy's next IVIG appointment in a few weeks. We have even found a way to get the medical card to pay for the actual IVIG (not the treatment but the medication). At the tune of around $2,000 per month that is excellent!

I finally have decided to move forward on pursuing the stem cell treatment as well. We are hopeful that this will be done within the next 2-3 months. I started looking into stem cells about 2-3 years ago. I found an obscure paper (yes, on the internet for any of you skeptics out there.) Skeptics? Probably not. Let's face it most people reading this have a child that has been affected by autism....the only skeptics would be anyone benefiting from big pharma like a shareholder or vaccine patent holder or maybe a mainstream medical doctor. I digress, my apologies. :)

After finally tracking down the author of that paper, a doctor from California, who was a friend of the late Dr Rimland. We had a wonderful conversation one day about his hypothetical idea. At the time of the conversation three years ago it was more of a hypothetical but now it is a reality because stem cell treatments are being done in US affiliated facilities. Currently two that are very reputable are located in Panama and Germany. Fast forward three years, and children that go to the same doctor that my son sees are now receiving treatment in both countries.

We were initially looking into Costa Rica a few years ago but the US government leaned on Costa Rica and got them to pull the license on the clinic. That clinic moved to Panama. It actually seems to be the more advanced of the two clinics. The German clinic uses adult stem cells while the Panama clinic is now using cord blood stem cells from donors.

I am more interested in this method. The whole idea that got me thinking about stem cells actually came from the birth of my youngest son Joseph in 2005. I decided to bank his cord blood because it could be used for any of my children if they ever needed it due to health issues. At that time autism was not being treated with stem cells (that I know of) but it started to make a lot of sense.

If you follow my thinking then common sense tells you that Patrick was born without autism but for lack of a better term "came down with it" after his early vaccinations. He was hospitalized at ten days old after becoming ill with an "unspecified" viral infection. He had similar reactions after each set of vaccinations with the most common being extreme lethargy. He was in the ER at three months of age with rsv and then his good doctor at the time did us such a great favor by "catching up" vaccinations less than two weeks later.

Hopefully the stem cells will help to restore some of the immunities and systemic functioning that he was born with before his system was injured by the vaccines. I have read some really good first hand reports from other parents and also from adults who are being treated for a whole host of diseases.

I will definitely keep everyone posted as we make the decision and move forward. Please keep Patrick in your prayers.