Help for local MS sufferer...
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:10 pmMairi Paterson from Torrisdale rang me the other day to ask if I could help publicise her sponsored shoogle.
Mairi has suffered with Multiple Sclerosis for more than 13 years but is trying to raise money to pay for ground-breaking stem cell treatment that promises to vastly improve her condition and quality of life.
Unfortunately this treatment is unavailable in the UK and she has to travel to Rotterdam to receive it, and as it won't be done under the NHS she has to raise the remaining £7000 by February to pay for it herself.
Stem cell therapy is considered controversial in some circles but I want to stress that the cells that will be used to treat Mairi are taken from the umbilical cords of full-term babies - not foetuses - and not from any form of embryonic research or harvesting.
There is a report of an Inverness woman who received the same treatment on the BBC Scotland News and lots of information about Multiple Sclerosis on the MS Society website.
Mairi has left sponsorship forms in The Glen bar and, no doubt, elsewhere so please help if you can, and if you're holding an event over the Christmas period please consider using it to help raise money towards Mairi's treatment.
An account has been setup at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Campbeltown to receive donations.
Cheers
Gary
Mairi has suffered with Multiple Sclerosis for more than 13 years but is trying to raise money to pay for ground-breaking stem cell treatment that promises to vastly improve her condition and quality of life.
Unfortunately this treatment is unavailable in the UK and she has to travel to Rotterdam to receive it, and as it won't be done under the NHS she has to raise the remaining £7000 by February to pay for it herself.
Stem cell therapy is considered controversial in some circles but I want to stress that the cells that will be used to treat Mairi are taken from the umbilical cords of full-term babies - not foetuses - and not from any form of embryonic research or harvesting.
There is a report of an Inverness woman who received the same treatment on the BBC Scotland News and lots of information about Multiple Sclerosis on the MS Society website.
Mairi has left sponsorship forms in The Glen bar and, no doubt, elsewhere so please help if you can, and if you're holding an event over the Christmas period please consider using it to help raise money towards Mairi's treatment.
An account has been setup at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Campbeltown to receive donations.
Cheers
Gary