Bring the Liberation Treatment to Canada in 2011!!!
Dear Theresa Oswald(Health Minister of Manitoba),
Thank you for your letter of response regarding CCSVI liberation treatment. As I appreciate your efforts in removing barriers, I would also like to stress the immediate evidence of substantial improvement of most liberation patients. We know this new but old procedure of angio and stint surgery is the closest we have come to finding a cure. As an MS patient, I have never taken drugs for MS and never will, because none have been proven of their effectiveness. Side effects are countless and the costs are unacceptable. The new drug Tysabri is not a qualified answer and it has not been around long enough. The debate is still pending as to whether MS is an auto immune disease as we thought, or a vascular disease as Zamboni argues. Evidently, the liberation treatment is the %u201Csilver bullet%u201D, and we need to start asking and researching the patients who have received it. The evidence required for your research advancement is available. I myself know two people who have improved drastically from the liberation treatment. One was confined to a wheelchair and is now walking. She also could not lift her arms and now she is able. Every day is an improvement. The other no longer has pain. Whether liberation treatment is a cure is not the debate. It is the best we have.
I understand that the research has been granted in Manitoba when it is %u201Cdeemed%u201D safe to proceed. Dr. Zamboni has been given the green light as you have acknowledged. There is no reason why we cannot proceed at this point. I am curious as to what other evidence has to surface for the CIHR(Canadian Institutes for Health Research) to speed up the preliminary results required for the pre funded research. Zamboni surely has enough research to work with, as many others who have cross checked forward and backwards.
Regardless of having MS, shouldn%u2019t anyone with blocked veins be able to unblock them? Is it not discriminatory to separate? We know that lack of oxygen to the brain is not a good thing for anyone, not only MS patients. Should we not be immediately concerned and respond accordingly? I know that these facts surely must count for something.
I will be arranging several fundraisers for myself to get the liberation treatment this year. There is no way I will allow any further damage within my capabilities. I will do all I can to receive what I call, a %u201Cprocess of elimination%u201D, which should be readily available in our health care system. Withholding this treatment from MS patients is a grave mistake, especially in this part of the world where it is most prominent. There is minimal risk in angio surgery as you may have researched. Nothing lost; nothing gained at worst. Except of course, funding, and this is not worth comparing to quality of life.
I write you to give you new angles of thought and consider them from the many letters I%u2019m sure you have received. I realize your hands are tied to a certain extent, however, I also realize the importance of realizing all angles. Therefore, new strategies may open up sooner, if you are aggressively seeking advancement.
I am open to discuss more information at your convenience. I am also available to further research.
Sincerely,
Kathy Kennedy less
Dear Theresa Oswald(Health Minister of Manitoba),
Thank you for your letter of response regarding CCSVI liberation treatment. As I appreciate your efforts in removing barriers, I would also like to stress the immediate evidence of substantial improvement of most liberation patients. We know this new but old procedure of angio and stint surgery is the closest we have come to finding a cure. As an MS patient, I have never taken drugs for MS and never will, because none have been proven of their effectiveness. Side effects are countless and the costs are unacceptable. The new drug Tysabri is not a qualified answer and it has not been around long enough. The debate is still pending as to whether MS is an auto immune disease as we thought, or a vascular disease as Zamboni argues. Evidently, the liberation treatment is the %u201Csilver bullet%u201D, and we need to start asking and researching the patients who have received it. The evidence required for your research advancement is av
ailable. I myself know two people who have improved drastically from the liberation treatment. One was confined to a wheelchair and is now walking. She also could not lift her arms and now she is able. Every day is an improvement. The other no longer has pain. Whether liberation treatment is a cure is not the debate. It is the best we have.
I understand that the research has been granted in Manitoba when it is %u201Cdeemed%u201D safe to proceed. Dr. Zamboni has been given the green light as you have acknowledged. There is no reason why we cannot proceed at this point. I am curious as to what other evidence has to surface for the CIHR(Canadian Institutes for Health Research) to speed up the preliminary results required for the pre funded research. Zamboni surely has enough research to work with, as many others who have cross checked forward and backwards.
Regardless of having MS, shouldn%u2019t anyone with blocked veins be able to unblock them? Is it not discriminatory to separate? We know that lack of oxygen to the brain is not a good thing for anyone, not only MS patients. Should we not be immediately concerned and respond accordingly? I know that these facts surely must count for something.
I will be arranging several fundraisers for myself to get the liberation treatment this year. There is no way I will allow any further damage within my capabilities. I will do all I can to receive what I call, a %u201Cprocess of elimination%u201D, which should be readily available in our health care system. Withholding this treatment from MS patients is a grave mistake, especially in this part of the world where it is most prominent. There is minimal risk in angio surgery as you may have researched. Nothing lost; nothing gained at worst. Except of course, funding, and this is not worth comparing to quality of life.
I write you to give you new angles of thought and consider them from the many letters I%u2019m sure you have received. I realize your hands are tied to a certain extent, however, I also realize the importance of realizing all angles. Therefore, new strategies may open up sooner, if you are aggressively seeking advancement.
I am open to discuss more information at your convenience. I am also available to further research.
Sincerely,
Kathy Kennedy
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