A record high before the pandemic plus it is fight to save think economy. Counting the cost on aljazeera. 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 performing stem cell transplants on fountains of patients people are traveling from as far away as australia because fear right now is the m. S. Progressing may getting another episode of my results in further disability god knows what that disability could bring. Thats the scariest thing. But the 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. Cummerbund or whatever it was before we shunned handshakes and hugs. When we could hold our grandchildren close little. Training here training him up down there. Are you going to protect him. Nick practically grew up here his dad was one of the Club Founders and now he and his wife nick taria come to watch their 2 sons train. A 2 year old achilles you take a brother in the individual if you want to take and sure youre old. Are you. Pretty much everyone is related in this. Particular. Costello brother george of his dad. Tony. So we all grew up together with school together. So who are all basically parents from the same village where. 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 rheumy and 3 year old just one brother and my wife down just knew there was something wrong when they told us youve got a mess. And so long balls in the head going and you just think any self is no cure for this in theyre just going to be left in a wheelchair i remember screaming so were out. The front of the box hospital. Since then nicks been plagued by fatigue migraines blurred vision pain and numbness in his legs and dread about what still lives in store to get your current water so youre in a weeks time hes supposed to fly so moscow for a stem cell transplant a treatment that halts the progression of the a. M. A. s in about 80 to 90 percent of cases like nicks is going to be. All very and. There were good. On friday. It involves chemotherapy which will suppress his immune system amis is an autoimmune disease which means nicks 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 mass now 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 from previous in mass neurologists about i just say today they were all against it some of the feedback i was getting was its not proven its still being 10. Dont do it its going to kill you this is text nick was offered the standard 1st line of treatment for his game ace drugs its a camp for relaxing and thats what ill be sleeping with lesions continued. In australia Clinical Trials to stem 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 the 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 for 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 cant hang. Around a 1000 foreign patients have received stem cell treatments here each around 80000. 00. Here. Michael jones from brisbane is the most recent arrival he garcia 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 russia when it was already around in ways i dont particularly or was it that there were and i. Shall never go out west presses are headed out of here terrible right right significantly worse and i dont right now. Can we just leave there for. Justice Shawn Michaels treatment will last another month and like nick de moss he feels this is his only hope of stopping his email. From the world wide area stranger. And. Nick and nick taria a deuce of a moscow in 3 days time theyve already started packing but they woke up to some worrying news have you heard that it 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 out in advance of next steps. The hospital in moscow finally contacts nick to confirm the bad news and the stage. Lets delay but well find out a date when situation is stable again it will work normally who will accept you and now 1st group of patients when restrictions will be cancelled. Is that ok quite an emotional roller coaster its stop and heads about to explode its like so close to getting this thing done and now just looks like so far away and. Whats your biggest fear right now. Biggest 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 a scary scene. The good cops of this. One 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. In a very nauseous. Nothing or manage. This is dr denis federico its bromine use of a russian hematology just whos revealed by the thousands of images suffer as hes treated other yards. Hes the reason michaels in moscow. Oh. Dear i hear you and i see you im sorry i cannot be there to meet you in person or. To meet you 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 sound the disease claims bear birth with. Those embryos. If. It was bumpy for the reasons 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 to stop 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. Dr fenner nko is frustrated by how difficult it is to win over the medical establishment well. Yes why do you think everywhere in the world this is still considered an experimental treatment what is the resistance let go of current generation between specially as big goals as it is in your origin girls at the human toll or to go also. Maybe pharmaceutical business because you know this week after dissolved all the minus trial reach where. They still know them both is many different broke business and really can in your opinion trial by ambush last year that thats been days and is much more a fair share. Of 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. Got a job here. Truck so my blood counts all the sorts of things. Why he insisted hes officially dead as a doornail. When michael arrived in moscow it was very few reported cases of to run a virus 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 pressure 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. You know i want to. Take care michael. Thanks and. 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 of. Oh 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. Is. My. 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 back 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 my eyes im lucky that ive got a farm as we 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. You really 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 you. Its right hold it together well talk about this later just Mission Mission impossible so keep it going and we can cry at the end ok. Current i love you stay strong. Sometimes really hard to sustain a really strong. Home saying. Oh here. You are with us sure you nor i but then when shes still here. All the more goals are you going to have. Ok just said no it is you the doctor. Went really well. You know before you view. Your home all your. Old. Foam you lose your. Treatment done prototypical for the morning. Fredricka. He can go to. At least michaels not alone hes traveling to perth with jason to eat 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 safe about traveling during a pandemic with a suppressed immune system and. I say no i am not planning on arresting. And i just try riding on our. Right. Caught me. Asking how i meet. The 1st date goes without a hitch next is a commercial flight from london to does. So i had to have her. Throat as a prisoner of. Sorrow wired from a church who. Are very good enough to separate us. From. Probably able. In doha its on to flight number 3 headed for perth. On the wrong. Thing there are legitimate ways. 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 rivers were. Planted in our view sucking. Eat. Sleep last year the benefits of. Farming are. Our plan was a month after they were supposed to travel to russia i catch up with nick in the tyrion again if you like my fellow like 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 album 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 all think its its forced us to actually slow down and just enjoy time with the kids and your family time so. All in all actually being good its being really good to slow down. To the end. And i stress i mean im not working and. You dont have the everyday stresses of water from work. With borders closed indefinitely it could be a long time before nick 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 if this thing takes another hero. Who knows whats going to happen with their finances and Everything Else and your mam and me i missed this the most difficult compiling it and i want some murmurings. Perfect. Taria has heard about michaels ordeal getting back from russia. Look at that case though and i think hes so lucky hes so lucky that he got in 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 i wish i was in that case so we flew over to russia a waco to beforehand i would happily go through that kind knowing that its actually going to stop my amiss. 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. To pay for a real option give people an option to actually get their lives back. The reason at it and i wish one day that will be for him inspections but right now the best course of treatment. So try to release a pool if you give that option. That fulfills a broad. One of australias most love making and im the one that is under threat from an agonizing to say one Wildlife Campaign and hes dedicating a lot to say. 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