Walking the Cure- Tim's Stem Cells

Four years ago, while Tim was finishing a small cabin designed for affordable living rentals on Orcas Island, he crushed a vertebra, pinching his spinal cord. This resulted in a loss of feeling in his lower back and impaired mobility. Doctors told him at the time: “We say this to very few people, but from what we’ve seen, Tim, it’s going to be a matter of time, but you’ll walk again.”

This site is all about making good on that prediction. Help Tim get the assistance he needs so he can get back to the work of helping/teaching people with housing, land use, permaculture and other community projects. 

 
Flash forward four years. Under the supervision of doctors and physical therapists, Tim continues his regimen of exercises which keep keeps muscles from atrophying, while preserving some mobility.


A friend describes seeing Tim at the hospital, rehab and home: "Tim's unwavering enthusiasm is amazing. It seemed that he was cheering up the hospital staff and his friends rather than the other way around."


Another friend describes what Tim did when he was still in the hospital: "Tim designed a permaculture landscape for the rest area of the hospital, thinking it would make the patients who went there feel better." 


Tim himself describes recovery as slow, but "I keep improving it." His doctors said he probably wouldn't be able to regain full movement; he was going to need something else. Research over the last four years led Tim to that "something else."


There is a hospital in Thailand which specializes in the treatment of the type of injury Tim has sustained. It is Asia's first Functional Medicine Hospital and combines classical western medicine with integrative approaches which include physical rehabilitation, enhanced diagnostic techniques and stem cell therapies.


The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) oversees and certifies continuing education for physicians seeking to improve the efficiency of treatment in patients with chronic disorders.


The IFM is now accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), an organization that reviews and certifies continuing medical education in the United States. The medical curriculum of IFM has been certified by the ACCME and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are awarded to IFM course attendees, and are accepted by the international medical community.


The caption that went with this photo simply reads "Very happy to see Papa walk again!" 

Tim continues to work on expanding his range of movement and recently began working with leg braces in order to help stretching and keeping muscles from atrophying. 



He's always reading, always researching, always working on his next project. Here are some of his past community and private projects. 

Tim hand scribed the pillars which hold up the community band shell on the Eastsound Village Green. The magnitude of this task was immense. It would add up to $20,000 in labor. 


As with many of his endeavors, Tim donated the entire amount. Here is a picture of the completed structure.


The Blakely Island community funded restoration of this 125 year old  cabin. Having only  3 dove tail logs from the original cabin, it took two years to "restore" the cabin as originally built. I loved each day  of taging  trees and salt water curing them for a year,every day was an adventure.


Here's a sauna he built for a small, intentional community on Orcas Island. 


Here's Tim working with wood milled from the ayres 1000 acres the house was the outcome of sustainable forestry assesment project with house set up on a golden mean rectangle.

Because this is all a journey, we'd like to leave you with something Tim shared in the video we started with: 

Life's an adventure- whether you're in a wheel chair or have two legs- dive in!

Please help Tim by giving what you can. All proceeds will go to defraying the cost of his travel to  and treatment at the Better Being Hospital of Functional Medicine. 

Thank you! 


For more pictures and writings on Tim's projects, buildings and vision, check out his website . 

You can also follow some of his current interests on Facebook . 

A sampling of pics from Tim's creative world: 

this is a one percent for the arts project in alaska  part of a path system in anchorage.
alternative house using live trees in the framing and set up using sacred geometry.
compass binicle for captain app applegate
a home school group helping build a cabin.
custom deck 


saune skeleton befor 5 inches of cement were applied.
Tahoma budhist retreat center whidbey island
After the 1989 storm on orcas island thousands of trees fell . Shodo Harada roshi the abbot of Sogengi ,a temple  in Okayama japan sent me 2 monks and we processed all the lumber for the first builing. , at Tahoma in which i volunteered my labor and logs.

ive used sacred geometry for the last 20 years ,the results are amazing ,problem solving is easier , the conflics i have encountered were resolved quickly, and there is a vibration in the structure that ,alows the adrenal glands to relax and egos more cooperative ,as well as  creating a beautiful project.