Friday, March 7, 2008

Americans



Well today we become Americans we have our ceremony of citizenship. We have travelled far on our journey from the Midlands to when we arrived in 99 and made Phoenix our new home. Lets hope our adventures continue with the treatment in Chicago going well in restoring Shazza to health.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi GAng
Well done on becoming American citizens. Do they know what they have let themselves in for with the porter clan???

Good luck and tell mum to get going on the world wide web!!!

Debs

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I work as an RN in Endoscopy at John C. Lincoln Hospital and in 2006 I was diagnosed with Systemic Scleroderma, a condition that has no known treatment and was always symptom management. After doing some research, I discovered Dr. Burt, a doctor in Chicago who is pioneering the use of stem cell transplant to treat Scleroderma. This process uses my own stem cells - taken from me, cleaned, and then re-introduced back into my body, so that it will no longer recognize the Scleroderma. This is a very basic summary of a complex procedure. Systemic Scleroderma has a very poor prognosis and with my symptoms worsening I feel that this is my only chance at getting treatment and reversing my symptoms. I have worked for 6 years at JCL, Deer Valley and hope to continue there with excellence. I wish to continue be a good mother to my 2 boys, a good wife to my wonderful husband, and maybe one day be a good grandmother.