My grandmother has had congestive heart failure for about 6 years and I did some research and found a company in the Dominican Republic that could provide her with stem cell treatment without anesthesia (she isn’t strong enough to be put to sleep) but the problem is her cardiologist doesn’t think at this time she could handle traveling that far (we live in Virginia) she was just put on a new medication that might help, but I don’t want to take any chances. Would an oxygen tank for the plane ride help her? I read about a suppesedly miraclulous antioxidant combo called Mona Vie. Could that help? She doesn’t even know we’re looking into it because we don;t want to get her hopes up just yet, but I’ll be d***ed if she doesn’t get the treatment that can help her just because Bush prevented it from being available in the US
insurance doesn’t cover it. It’s i think $40,000 for the initial treatment and $12,000 a pop for each of many follow ups, but the whole family is willing to be in debt up to our eyeballs for the rest of our lives to help her. And most docters wont suggest this type of treatment because it’s still experimental. I found this completely on my own, and it took my monthes to find it. The plan is for her to have enough of the low-risk treatments to be in good enough shape for us to pull out the big guns, so to speak and have her flown to Thailand accompanied by my mother to get a treatment that injects fetal stem cells directly into her heart. Yes, we know we will be in debt for the rest of our existances, but most in the family have exellent credit and once she has the treatment, it’s not really an issue of paying them back because all we want is to help her. We don’t care about the financial repercussions

2 Responses to “How can I help build up my grandma’s strength so she can travel for heart treatment?”

1. Aftab Banoori on August 1st, 2009 1:38 pm

   I am glad you care so much about your grand mother, give her soups and vegitables with less fat, if possiable little walk will be best twice a day, Please remember after every meal she must take at least an hour rest. For speed up give her Multivitamins syrup if she is not diabetic otherwise give her tablets.

2. J B on August 1st, 2009 7:40 pm

   There are lots of hospitals doing excellent work with patients who have congestive heart failure. I would be consulting one here in the US first. By taking her out of the country, you run the risk of her insurance not paying for anything, her getting worse and needing to be hospitalized in a third world country or the strain of the travel making her condition so much worse that she dies. I would personally not be taking these risks. I would be looking for second and third opinions here in the US – her x-rays, test results and medical records can be faxed to another doctor and he can review them and see if she would be a candidate for their treatment without her physicially going there initially.

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