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“They keep throwing this in our faces: ‘well, it hasn’t been proven. We don’t know if it’s safe yet. We don’t know what the long-term effects are,’” says Andrew Katz, 51, a financial adviser in Ottawa who emceed a patient demonstration on Parliament Hill on Monday from his wheelchair. “Well, we know what the long-term effects are. We’re going to wind up in a wheelchair and we’re going to deteriorate and potentially (die). We know that. That’s a given. That’s a fact, so all of this ‘we need to look after you and that’s why we’re not going to help you’, it doesn’t make sense to me.”

Updated to add: The point is, really, that it's an angioplasy to correct the drastic narrowing of certain veins (if that condition is present). It isn't experimental brain surgery or unknown voodoo, and it isn't done for no reason. They may dispute that it's a cure for m.s., but I'm not sure how they can dispute the vascular improvements.

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out of the frying pan into the fire is one thing, but out of the frying pan into what most likely seems not to be fire -- well duh? easy for him to say, eh.
Lucy

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Anonymous : 26 September, 2010 04:41

The point is, really, that it's an angioplasy to correct the drastic narrowing of certain veins (if that condition is present). It isn't experimental brain surgery or unknown voodoo, and it isn't done for no reason. They may dispute that it's a cure for m.s., but I'm not sure how they can dispute the vascular improvements.
I believe it would AT LEAST help the painful zero circulation on my right side that leaves it as cold as a corpse. Quite likely it would do more.

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Osprey : 26 September, 2010 09:48

grrrr this is so frustrating. is it up to the individual doctor to decide? or insurance companies? or the gummint?
Lucy

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Anonymous : 26 September, 2010 11:21

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