Jocelyn's Stem Cell Transplant

Jocelyn Parham has been suffering with severe Crohn's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis for over 15 years. On November 22th, 2013, Jocelyn was accepted into Dr. Richard K. Burt's HSCT Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. This procedure will allow Jocelyn to have the potential to lessen her Crohn's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritist through stem cells either obtained by a donor match through donated umbilical cord stem cells. These stem cells will allow her body to produce a new, potentially illness-free immune system. The result could mean Jocelyn having the opportunity to live a disease-free life. The transplant is expensive, costing $150,000. But Jocelyn will also face the burden of co-pays, pre-transplant preperation, such as dental work and multiple traveling expenses, including airfare and lodging. The procedure must be paid for in advance, including all co-pays, so without the proper funding Jocelyn will not be allowed to go forward with the transplant. She is tentatively scheduled to have the transplant in July of 2014. If you would like to help Jocelyn in her journey to get healthy, please consider donating to her Stem Cell Transplant Fund. If you are unable to donate funds at this time, please feel free to leave a message of encouragement. All support, monetary or not, is greatly appreciated!

This is the link for the actual StemCell Transplant incase anyone wants information on it.
http://www.stemcell-immunotherapy.com/about.html




I Made a Youtube chanel to document the journey and to help  fill in other people about this and the link for that is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy6syOAwamM



Sanjay Gupta also did a story about this on her... below is the link.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/sanjay-gupta/pin-up-model-reboots-her-immune-system.aspx



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