Unemployment 10. 00 a record high before the pandemic tough it is fight to save think economy. Counting the cost on al jazeera. Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating and cruel disorder with no known cure your Blood Pressure is also higher now a russian doctor is providing hope before main stem cell transplants on foundations of patients people who are traveling from as far away as australia because fear right now is the m. S. Progressing may getting another episode of my resulting further disability god knows what that disability could bring. Thats the scariest thing. But the covert 19 pandemic is throwing up unexpected challenges theres really nothing. Scheduled. 101 east follows 2 men risking their lives for treatment on the other side of the world. Once upon a time before our world was turned upside down parents like money and nick taria deimos took their kids to play sports on the weekend so i wrote some of them for what it was before we shunned handshakes and hugs. When we could hold our grandchildren close. You training here you training him up down there. Are you going to produce a tame. Nick practically grew up his dad was one of the Club Founders now he and his wife nick taria come to watch they 2 sons trying. To your old achilles you take a brother in you did you know what you want to take and sure your old. Are you. Pretty much everyone is related in this. Particular. Costello brother george of his dad. Right tony. So we all grew up together went to school together. And so who are all basically parents from the same village. And theyre all desperately worried about not 2 years ago when he was 35 he was diagnosed with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Nicks diagnosis turned his world upside down im just roommate and 3 year old just one brother in law washed down just knew there was something wrong and they sort of told us youve got a mess. And bells in the head going and you just think any self is no cure for this unit is going to be left in a wheelchair i remember screaming so. Sought the front of the books. Since then nicks been plagued by fatigue migraines blurred vision pain and numbness in his legs and dritte about what still lives in store to get your current policy in a weeks time hes supposed to fly some moscow for a stem cell transplant a treatment that halts the progression of the game in. Yes in about 80 to 90 percent of cases like next to. Nothing so the variant rather are locked up there over there only one friday. It involves chemotherapy which will suppress his immune system amis is an autoimmune disease which means next immune system doesnt just defend him from infections it attacks healthy cells. No one knows why it happens but m. S. Damages the protective coating on nerves in your brain and spine causing lesions nick has more than 50 these distorted messages from the brain to the rest of the body sometimes leading to severe disability. Theres no known cure. For stem cell treatment blood to stem cells are removed from your bone marrow day and a high dose of chemotherapy is used to knock out your immune system which is the source of the m. E. s and then your stem cells are real and fused rebooting your immune system although the treatment doesnt claim to reverse the damage done by m. S. Some people get lucky. Virus. Stem cell transplants known as h s c. T. Have been very successful in Clinical Trials especially for young patients with relapsing remitting and pass out but the treatment isnt widely available anywhere in the world. And although next current neurologist supports his plans to seek treatment abroad he says most dismissive sascoc to many of our guest. A previous in mass neurologists about i just say to me they were all against it some of the feedback i was getting was its not proven its still being tested dont do it its going to kill you this is tech for dara and it was offered the standard 1st line of treatment for his game ace drugs its a can for relaxing and that this is the but obviously didnt work lesions continued. In australia Clinical Trials to standard cell transplants only accept people who failed to respond to multiple drug treatments nicks been told he doesnt qualify because he hasnt tried and failed at least one other drug i guess. Were just frustrated frustrated that they have been doing a trial in australia since 2012 and not allow a miss patients to jump onto this and reap the benefits of it and force us to go abroad for treatment. While nicks getting ready to his trip to moscow i learned that there are already the forests trailing in us with a mass killing stem cell transplants at the. Hospital. And i thought i was. Around a 1000 foreign patients have received stem cell treatments each around 80000. 00. Michael jones from brisbane is the most recent arrival he got on the 10th of march the day before the World Health Organization declared covered 19 or a pandemic said tell me about coronavirus how did you feel heading over to rush out when it was already around in ways i had to earlier was that there were and i. And i call it shall i go out west where so far are headed are some that are in the air travel right far significantly worse and i dont right now. Can we just leave the ferry just this Shawn Michaels treatment will last another month and like nick he feels this is his only hope of stopping his email. That lines into the world wide area stranger and you find. Nick and nick taria a due to fly so moscow in 3 days time theyve already started packing but they woke up to some worrying news have you heard that theyre closing the borders for straining russia. And i often think theyre discovering that there are no certainties as the pandemic becomes real at this stage everythings up in limbo just waiting to the hospital to august break in advance of next steps. The hospital in moscow finally contacts nick to confirm the bad news and the stage said lets delay but well find out a date when situation is stable again it will work normally we will accept you and now 1st group of patients when restrictions will be cancelled. Is that ok quite an emotional roller coaster these militants stop and heads about to explode so its so close to getting this thing done and now it just looks like so far away and. Whats your biggest fear right now. Because fear right now is the m. S. Progressing may getting another episode. Heard them may result in further disability god knows what their disability could bring. Thats a scary scene. The hook. Ups office. I cant follow nick to russia anymore. But im still keen to follow michaels progress as best i can from my home in melbourne so how you feeling today what stage of the treatment to us. There are. A little bit nauseous. Nothing or managing. This is dr Dennis Federico its been many years and there are russian hematology just who is revealed by the thousands of images suffer as hes treated other yards. Hes the reason michaels in moscow. Oh. I hear you and i see you im sorry i cannot be there to meet you in person or. To meet your person a bit cool and im really good to answer all your questions sometimes in the media this treatment is described as a miracle cure do you think that maybe some patients come to you in the expectations are too high they think that it can cure them multiple sclerosis all bushels of this this is not a 100 percent successful to. Their last 30 stick around fortunately so them these claims bear birth with. Those embryos. If. It was bumpy from the results that you were just this treatment is much more effective. So i prepare for stem cell transplantation the last part of the process it doesnt sound too if i see from the paper calls for me it doesnt stop me doing this to be on us. Even in russia there is resistance to stem cell transplants as a 1st line of treatment to m. S. Patients its only available free to a handful of russians in rolled in Clinical Trials your Blood Pressure is also high and. While. Problems dr fenner nko is frustrated by how difficult it is to win over the medical establishment well done well yes why do you think everywhere in the world this is still considered an experimental treatment what is the resistance let go further a should be to be especially as big goals as it is in your origin girls at the human toll or to go also. Maybe a pharmaceutical business because you know this week after dissolved all the minus 3 ill reach go where i spontaneously knows them both is many different broke businesses are merely going in europe and tomorrow bomb placed last year so that there is bundys on is much more affair. For the day after michael stem cells are really infused is a special ceremony to mark the rebirth of his immune system. Quad amado. He pours out the dry ice used to store his stem cells before going into isolation where hes safe from and for. Action while his immune system recovers all. You want. I mean dave. Chop you. Trachsel my blood counts a whole bustles of things. Why he insists on ms hes officially dead as a doornail. When michael arrived in moscow it was very few reported cases of coronavirus in russia and its government didnt seem too concerned. That strange now since michaels gone into isolation moscows gone into lockdown whats the news whats happening its been nice lots whatsoever in or out of russia at the moment so this is literally no way that you can get on a plane and get back yet at the moment theres really nothing theres not one single flight scheduled you know and what do you know about what will happen when your treatment ends and you stay there the problem now is that its facility will stop taking you on coronavirus special switch to a group with no i mean system is a scary situation. Maybe a hotel in moscow somewhere its all really stuff you know i could deal with the kind of the 19 issue on a flight because that stats a tangible living in a hotel and protect it for a month in a foreign country totally different paradigm im. Not sure what to. Actually do. Anything else. You take care michael. Thanks. You got a bit of. Hair loss going on there it seems have an awful lot of hair loss going on. I havent shaved thats just career. So the last time i spoke to you you were a bit strange because you werent sure what was going to happen when the treatment finished. You got some other options or. So whats happened with organized approach at. The. Start dont. Know dr phil or in michaels time in isolation is due to end today. Dr fenner nko keeps a close eye out for any sign that his immune system isnt recovering as fast as it should i was my blood today. My. X. Was just 2 days ago michaels immune system bottomed out and he needed a blood transfusion if it hadnt balanced back it wouldnt have been safe to travel. And you. Had to go in just 3 more days michael will be heading home. So a good. Ride from london hes got a ticket book to perth and then on to brisbane and the fact that you reckon you can be home by next weekend is is amazing its amazing yeah yeah it is it really is amazing im lucky that ive got far as we could get most of there is no bitch in fact the flight to london is costing michael 20000. 00 well nice to see you again are nice to see you smiling michael. Take care. Back michaels wife has been trying to move heaven and earth to get safely home dont doubt it or have a drink you were on shes organized the charter flights and special permission to michael to bypass quarantine and you look really good. Youre really doing you look like youre ready to rock n roll. I caught white not long now. Yeah. You know what you do the same for me. But. I love hearing. I absolutely love being in you know what i like i said go to the end of the earth for you. Its right hold it together well talk about this later just Mission Mission impossible so keep going and we can cry at the end ok. Parent i love you stay strong. Sometimes really hard to sustain a really strong. Home saying. Oh look here he was making. Your own history nor but there were still here. All the more goals to go. Ok just said no way to do it dr. Went really well. You know oh and before you view. You know all your. Old. Foam you lose your. Treatment on prototypical for the morning. Fredricka. He can do. At least michaels not alone hes traveling to perth with jason to another a struggling and patient of dr feder encodes. For right here. Hour. The focus until now has been on finding a way out of russia. There is a city or a. Record. Of a god but michaels wife rachel knows that theres nothing remotely saif about traveling during a pandemic with a suppressed immune system and. I say no i am not planning on arresting. And i just try writing on our religious. Right. Caught me. Asking how i mean. The 1st year it goes without a hitch next is a commercial flight from london to does. So i had to have her. Throat as a. Sort of wire from her true. They are very good enough to separate us. From more. Probable. In doha its on to flight number 3 headed for perth. On the wrong. Thing there are legitimate rates. But theres been another setback the flight to brisbane has been cancelled. Michael can only get home if he hires another private jets at a cost of 30000. 00. From a good. Bit of progress for. Us where he didnt talk to you sucking. Eat. Sleep must be an adventure. Charming our. Hour of. A month after they were supposed to travel to russia i catch up with nick in the tyrion again if you like my fellow write me its Easter Sunday for all the Greek Orthodox families who live around to be everyones trying to celebrate to get on well keeping distance so were going to attempt the traditional great dance by my side so one and i have made is apart from each other that i had heard that having. A. Surprisingly there was a Silver Lining to the pandemic for the de moss family talk run of ours will think its its forced us to actually see. Her down and just enjoy time with the kids and your family tony so all in all freshly being good spring really good to slow down. To denounce. And i stress when im not working and. You dont have the everyday stresses of walk. With borders closed indefinitely it could be a long time before nic can travel to russia. Its a difficult one of the long. As much as its nice to slow down when you put it into perspective these things take some of the. Who knows whats going to happen with their finances and Everything Else and youre. The most difficult compiling it and i want some murmurings. Perfect. Nick taria has heard about michaels ordeal getting back from russia. I look at that case though and i think hes so lucky hes so lucky that he got in and he did the trade and hes got a very high chance of actually getting his life back now as painful as a was going through the journey and i wish i was in that case so we flew over to russia a way cool to beforehand i would happily go through that kind knowing that its actually going to stop my amisse. Than waiting around for another here also not knowing whats murmurings. They wish that people like nick and michael could access stem cell transplants without taking unnecessary risks. If you play through a real option give people an option to actually get their lives back the reason i make you are at it and i wish one day there will be for him inspections but right now the best course of treatment i just say to you so try to release a pool if you give that option. Dont force us abroad. One of australias most love making and im the one that is under threat from an agonizing disease but one wildlife campaigner is dedicating your life to saving what i want to east makes the woman respond on aljazeera the u. S. Is always of interest to people all around the world this is been going on for a number of those with tear gas being used to fight back. 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