The Derby City Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association Network- Serving Kentuckiana.
Message From the President
Dear Members & Friends-
This month’s meeting will be held at Frazier Rehab Institute at the address below. We will hopefully have a speaker, but if not, videos will be shown, and refreshments provided.
April’s meeting is at Frazier Rehab Institute, 220 Abraham Flexner Way, Louisville, 10th floor dining room, at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments provided.
- David Allgood
From New Mobility.com—Cover story,
March 08 issue. STEM CELL GAMBLE
By Tim Gilmer
The rise of stem cells as a possible source of restorative therapies is both hopeful and uncertain. In the age of instant information, faith in science runs far ahead of available therapies, making experimental procedures more alluring. But what about risk? Which procedures are safe? In the summer of 2005, James Parsons, a T6 para, and his father, Roger, set out to gather all the information they could about the current state of restorative procedures for paralysis. In the process, they discovered an entire community of people who was just as eager as they were to find the cure.
Newly-employed and a recent college graduate, James Parsons, 22, was driving on the freeway in November 2001 when the SUV in front of him ran over a construction sign and sent it airborne. Parsons swerved to miss it, but his car rolled and skidded into a fir tree at the side of the freeway. Parsons, from Carmas, Wash., was life-flighted to Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Ore., where three days later he regained full consciousness and learned that he was paralyzed. Thus began his involuntary immersion into the world of spinal cord injury.
A little more than three years later, James and his father, Roger, a United Airlines overseas captain, began researching SCI restoration possibilities seriously. “We went on CareCure forum, all the sites that we could, and started compiling information,” says James.
