Like every day, really. But this is a new low, even for this reputable news source.
Sierra Journey Factor is 8 and has spinal muscular atrophy, which essentially means that her musculature is decaying. Depending on severity (and the accuracy of the doctors at Wikipedia on whom I rely for all my medical advice) patients can either die in infancy or live to old age, which I suppose is also true of every person who has ever lived.
In order to combat this disease, Sierra's family has decided to fly to China so that Sierra can be injected with stem cells at the bargain basement rate of $26,500 (not to mention the $25,000 they expect to spend on travel and lodging).
According to Sierra's mom: "We are really walking into this blindfolded. It's scary, but everybody says it's so nice over there."
They got all of their information from a website called chinastemcellnews.com, which containts testimonials about the practice. It is also the leading home for grifting Snake Oil Salesman in the 21st century.
I mean come on, people! Would I pay $50,000 to improve the quality of life for my kid? Absolutely! Would I pay $50,000 for a Chinese quack to inject my daughter with medicine not currently used in America, solely because people said they were "nice"? Hell fuckin' no.
And nice?! What's "nice" about this?!
Stick to baseball, 4/26/25.
23 hours ago
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People saw the CNN interview and on CNN they told the viewers that we are going to inject Sierra with embryonic stem cells WHICH BY THE WAY CNN they are umbilical stem cells only!
Even though CNN caused such a stir up with things everything all in all it got people talking and we learned even more .. since they wanna think we are "HICKS" or Morons or whatever else they wanna call us Believe it or not we do research things and talk to many people including all of Sierra's Dr's and Specialists .. and they are behind us and they are excited to see what will come of this!
We even are in touch now and looking into this Dr we met through this whole CNN crap he is near Tampa and has a specialist in Peru that is doing the same kind of injections with the stem cells except also they are doing Gene therapy with the SMA patients with the SMN gene (survival motor neuron) and unlike China Peru has seen more SMA patients and with the gene therapy the stem cells are working way longer than just the year - year and a half that China said .. options are available ... the Peru Dr goes and stays with you the whole time and then when we are back home we have a Dr to consult with unlike China we would not have that option!! So we are looking into things to see what the best route will be for Sierra. People keep saying we are being told its a cure ... we know that but we are looking more towads her day to day life ... if it would help her live more comfortable that's all that really matters!
I want to be sure to Thank Lou Dobbs, Drew Griffin & David Fitzpatrick for using our daughter to benefit themselves and for giving their viewers FALSE information!
Shay
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