We had a GREAT time with Mark and Sherrie Matheson this weekend; Saturday evening dinner then breakfast this morning …. ultimately strolling the sights and sounds of a drizzly day on the Monterey Bay ….!!!
Thanks for caring …. and for praying,
Dave
Irene’s amazing stem cell transplant in May of 2007 magnifies the intensity of this issue…
February 22, 2010
Amazing But True, Miracle Stem Cell Cures
By Chuck Colson
No doubt you’ve heard how adult stem cells are providing amazing cures. Oh, you haven’t? Well, I’ll tell you why.
It sounds like something out of science fiction—or “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not”—but it isn’t.
Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports the story of Russell Turnbull, who tried to break up a fight while riding home on the bus one night. For his pains, Turnbull ended up getting ammonia sprayed into his right eye, which scarred his cornea. Turnbull lost most of his sight in that eye, and suffered pain every time he blinked.
But now Turnbull has had his sight almost completely restored, thanks to a pioneering procedure using stem cells. Adult stem cells.
Dr. Francisco Figueiredo, an eye surgeon at the North East England Stem Cell Institute, performed an operation that involved cutting away a tiny portion of Turnbull’s undamaged eye—complete with stem cells. He then grew the section of the eye to 400 times its size, and stitched it “onto the badly-damaged cornea in place of the damaged membrane,” the Telegraph reported.
Turnbull is thrilled with the results. “The operation was a complete success, and I now have my sight back,” he said. “This really has given me my life back.”
The technique has been used on eight other patients; most have had their vision almost completely restored.
Miracles like this have been repeated many times as researchers bend their attention to the uses of adult stem cells. But because much of the mainstream media refuses to report on them, many Americans remain unaware of them. If people knew how good they were, they’d stop demanding embryonic stem-cell research, which kills human beings at the embryonic stage. And the media knows that. Americans also seem unaware that not a single clinical success has ever resulted from treatments using embryonic stem cells. None!
Tragically, in the U.S., multi-million dollar grants are available for embryo-destructive research, but money is scarce for ethically sound and workable adult stem cell research.
Why isn’t adult stem-cell research receiving the
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Last night we had a relaxing dinner with Mark and Sherrie Matheson at Shadowbrook Restaurant. The fellowship was refreshing and the ambiance of Shadowbook exhanced the occasion.
We were blessed at the dinner table by Mark’s extemporaneous prayer for Irene’s complete healing and restoration.
Thanks for caring,
Dave
“Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” -Lamentations 3:22-23
