I watched Panorama last night which tackled the issue of stem-cell therapy and the willingness of people to travel around the world to receive such treatment. I found one of the cases featured quite disturbing. A three-year-old girl born with septo-optic dysplasia, which means she is almost blind, was taken by her parents to China [...]
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Disability’s biggest obstacle
Posted in Disability, Health, Media, tagged Disability, Media, Panorama, stem-cell therapy on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the difficulty of post-cancer life
Posted in Cancer, Disability, Health, tagged Cancer, Disability, Health, recovery on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2006, a couple of months after graduating in bioscience. I had to undergo two years of fairly intensive treatment which was difficult enough at the time, but which has also left me disabled. Where I had expected the long-term side-effects of chemotherapy to evenutally disappear, no such [...]
