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. Come and corey it was before we shunned handshakes and hugs. When we could hold our grandchildren close will. You training here. Youre training him up down there. Are you going to procure team. 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 trying. To your old achilles you take a brother in the future what you want to take and sure your old. Are you. Pretty much everyone is related in. That achilles and costello brother george of his dad. Might tony. So we all grew up together went to school together. And. Who are all basically parents from the same village where. Theyre all desperately worried about nick 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 salaam bells in the head going and you just think any self there is no cure for this in it is going to be left in a wheelchair i remember screaming so were out. The front of the books. 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 policy in a weeks time hes supposed to fly so moscow for a stem cell transplant a treatment that halts the progression of the n. H. S. In about 80 to 90 percent of cases like nics is going to be. So there are very and. There over there only one 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 cause and 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 the 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 nicks current neurologist supports his plans to seek treatment abroad he says most dismissive saswata many of our guests are previous in mass neurologists about i just say today they were all against. Some of the feedback i was getting was not its not proven its still being tested dont do it its going to kill you this is tech for deron it was offered the standard 1st line of treatment for his game ace drugs its a camp for relaxing and thats that but obviously didnt work 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 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 for his trip to moscow i learned that there are already the forests trailing us with a mass killing stem cell transplants at the. Hospital. And i call this. 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 so tell me about coronavirus how did you feel heading over to russia when it was already around in ways i dont particularly or was that here we were and i. Doubt that it got worse and worse are headed out. That is our near term or are significantly worse and i dont right now. Can we just leave there for. Just this Shawn Michaels treatment will last another a month and like nick he feels this is his only hope of stopping his email. That the. World wide areas trying to 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 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 for 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 said 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 these its stop and heads about to explode like so close to getting this thing done and now just looks like so far away and. Whats your biggest fear right now. Because here right now we see a mess progressing may getting another episode that may result in further disability god knows what that disability could bring. That. The scariest and. The hook. Ups on this. One i cant follow next 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 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 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 doesnt stop me doing this to be on us. Ok. Even in russia theres 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 yeah why do you think everywhere in the world this is still considered an experimental treatment what is the resistance lets go further a should be to be especially as big goals as it is this is your origin girls at the mill is human toll and you go also. Maybe pharmaceutical business because you know this week after dissolved all the minus trial reach go where. They still know them but this is many different broke business and really can in your opinion corral bottlers last year so that there is bundys room is much more a fair share for the day after michael stem cells are really infused is a special ceremony to mark the rebirth of his immune system. Quality marco. 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 day for us. To chop you. Trachsel my blood counts a whole bustles of things. Why he insists on ms is 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 moscow has gone into lockdown whats the news whats happening in our slots 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 or a group with no i mean system is a scary situation. Maybe a hotel in moscow somewhere its all really a you know i could deal with the kind of the 19 issue on a flight because that thats a tangible living in a hotel unprotected for a month in a foreign country totally different paradigm. To. Anything else. You take care michel. 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 but so to 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. Oh yeah. So what happened with organized approach at. The. Start of this. 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. Your blog is. My. Exit 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. 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 amazing im lucky that ive got 5 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. Michaels wife has been trying to move heaven and earth to get safely home dont doubt it have a drink you wont shes organized the charter flights and special permissions from michael to bypass quarantine and you look really good. You really do you look like youre ready to rock n roll. I cant wait not long now. Yeah. You know what you do the same for me. I love hearing i absolutely love you in you know what i like i said go to the end of the earth. Its right hold it together well talk about this light a mission a Mission Impossible going and we can cry in the end ok. All right i love you stay strong. By. Sometimes it really hard to sustain a really strong. You know behind saying. Oh look here he was. Not your history nor but there were issues just here. Although it was there because the governor also. Ok just said i had a video of a doctor if it went really well. You know how before you i view. You know all your. Old. Foam you lose your life. Treatment on a private jet but for the morning. Fredricka. He. At least michaels not alone hes travelling to perth with jason to another a struggling and patient of dr feder encodes. For right here. The focus until now has been on finding a way out of russia. There is a city or a. Record. Of god but michaels wife rachel knows that theres nothing remotely safe about travelling during a pandemic with the suppressed immune system and. I say that i am not planning on arrest. And i just try writing on now really just. Prior. To 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. Throughout as a. Sort of wire from a church who. Are very good enough to separate us. From. Or. Probably will. 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 progress but. Just landed in talking. Sorry. Eat sleep must be a better venture. Charming armored. Car. A month after they were supposed to travel to russia i catch up with nic 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 and 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 all think its its forced us to actually slow down and just enjoy time with the kids and your family time so. Oh no actually being good is being really good to slow down. To the end. And i stress when im out working at the. You dont have the everyday stresses of walking work. With borders closed indefinitely it could be a long time before nic can travel to russia. So difficult one of the law. Is not just its nice to slow down when you put it into perspective if this thing takes another hero. Who knows whats going to happen with her finances and Everything Else and youre anywhere near misses the most difficult compiling it and i will tomorrow brings. Perfect nick and 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 hard 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 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. A real option give people an option to actually get their lives back. 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