How can federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq suggest that someone
suffering from the symptoms of MS wait for Canada to research the

benefits of proper blood drainage from the brain?

Could health ministers wait while they or someone in their families suffered from
MS? How can they expect us to wait when our loved ones are losing more

of their bodily functions daily?

The love of my life was given back to me on Sept. 14 when she had the Zamboni therapy.

My son now has his mother again and Jenny, my wife, has a second chance
for a life without the debilitating symptoms of MS. Before she had the

procedure I was at the point of asking for home support, as my job and

looking after her were starting to prove too much.

Before this simple, non-invasive venoplasty procedure, my son Noah had to help his
mother get dressed. Before the procedure, she would fall often and

could not get up on her own.

Jenny has not fallen once since the procedure and she will sit on the floor and get up on her own.

It has now been one year since W5 broadcast the story about the therapy
and its possible links with MS. What has been accomplished in 365 days?

The denial of follow-up care at our hospitals because someone went for treatment outside of Canada is despicable. Blood clots are
treated in Canada every day, except when you have been labelled with MS

and you have had a venoplasty procedure to restore blood drainage from

the brain.

Please let Canadians have the choice of proper blood flow.

Lorin Powell