I would like to share my story with all of you as I think maybe it could help with the CCSVI fight. I live in Northern Ontario and have been fighting MS for 22 years. I am almost 50 and last summer summer I started to progress really fast and was feeling worse everyday. I tried all of the MS injections but could not take any of them as they all made me feel worse. In August I fell and scraped my knee, no big deal. By the 3rd week of august it looked infected so I went to my GP and he did a swab. Results would not be back for a few days so he gave me an antibiotic cream.

The next morning I had my daughter call 911 and tell them that her Mom was going into shock. By 10:00 that night I was in a coma and was flown down to Toronto. I had Strep A, septic shock. All of my major organs failed. I was in a coma for 3 weeks and miraculously woke up. The amazing thing is that I no longer had any MS symtoms and I still don't.

While in a coma I has 4 blood tranfusions and then I had another one when I was awake. While I was asleep they also cleaned my left jugular and other veins for kidney dialysis. After I woke up they cleaned my right side for a new line and I actually heard them say that they ran into a stenosis and that they would have to wait until the next day when the lead radiologist was in.

Antway, it is now 4 months later and I still have no MS symptoms at all. I feel as though I woke up from my coma as a new person.

The great thing about this whole thing is that it was all covered by our hospital plan as the proceedures were done for another illness not MS

Cindy Fulton