Claire's SCI Blog

First signs of improvement

January 6th, 2010

Hi all,

Life has been busy on the ward, so I’ve been lazy about updating my blog! I had my first sign of improvement for this round of stemcells the other day: the tone in my lower legs and ankles is virtually gone. Every night for I don’t know how long I’ve had to stretch my feet and ankles out to maintain their normal range of movement, and so the night after my last stemcell injection mum was doing this for me and was surprised by how loose my ankles felt. At first we just thought it was the effects of the valuim still in my system, but it’s been a week and my ankles are still free of tone! This is excellent news because now hopefully the bit of movement I got back in my left ankle from last time can get stronger because it doesn’t have to fight against the tone anymore.

Unfortunately I’ve also managed to get a sore throat somehow over the last 24 hours, which I’m a bit pissed off about, but hopefully it doesn’t turn into anything more than that. The doctors here are really good though, I told Dr. Wang this morning so he had a look and has already started me on anti-biotics, talk about efficient! You have to be virtually dead before they’ll even get a doctor to look at you back home, and that’s in an acute care ward. And then it’ll still take 3 days for them to give you anything for it. So anyway, hopefully we’ve nipped that in the bud, as I’ve been told that it can be detrimental to the treatment if you get sick, because the stemcells are attracted to areas lacking oxygen, which means anywhere that is damaged.  Anyway not much else to report!

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