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Stephen needs your help to stop his MS and TM

Hello everyone.
My name is Stephen and I’m suffering from ‘not one but two’ nasty illness’s, namely ‘Multiple sclerosis’ and ‘Transverse Myelitis’.
I had my first attack of ‘MS’ back in 2003, and then another  much later in 2018 When i was diagnosed with ‘TM’. This later attack took me off my feet completely and was rather embarrassing as I was sitting on the toilet when it happened. The ambulance was called out to help me get off the toilet, after they helped me to a chair they then took me to the ‘Worcester Royal Hospital’ because I couldn’t walk, this was where I then spent over a month while they tried to figure out what had happened. It was during this period that they discovered that I also had TM.
That was it...no follow ups, no treatments were offered, nothing. I felt like I had been thrown on the scrap-heap. Well, this won’t do, 'I WILL NOT BE BEATEN!.'
I’m a divorced father of two, a son and a daughter, both now with children of their own.
Prior to contracting these illnesses  I was an active guy working in the building trade whilst raising my children and renovating our home. 
It was a Sunday morning when I woke and my left shoulder felt like it had all the skin sanded off it. I went to see my local GP and he said it was just a muscle spasm and that it would clear up in a few days. HA!, a day later and I was back to see my Doctor again as I had lost all feeling in that arm and hand. He bought in another GP as he hadn’t seen anything move so fast before.
The very next day I received a call from the Nottingham Neurological Hospital asking me to ‘come and see them’ that same day. When I arrived they tested me with an ‘MRI, cat scans, an ecg’ and the dreaded ‘Lumbar puncture’ or the ‘Spinal tap’ as some folk call it.
After waiting for hours for the results they just told me that they had no idea what it was, they said that there was no evidence of external trauma, no puncture wounds, and with nothing to explain how this had happened there was nothing they could diagnose me with. (the results of the Lumbar puncture had not come back yet).
It was to be years later in 2007 that I got the diagnosis of RRMS*, it my fault that it took so long and not theirs as I had then emigrated to the USA with my ‘American’ girlfriend who I married the same year whilst in America.  She later left me after I had received the diagnosis claiming I had ‘committed her to a life of servitude ‘ , words I shall ‘NEVER’ forget!  The diagnosis of ‘Relapsing remitting Multiple Sclerosis’* quickly turned into PPMS (Primary progressive Multiple Sclerosis).
These illnesses have left me with quite a few debilitating problems such as, drop foot on my left side and limited hip movement which means I drag my foot along the floor when trying to walk, and climbing stairs is now just a memory, a severely decimated left arm and hand due to muscle weakness, extreme muscle cramps and spasms down the left/hand side of my spine down to my buttocks which has, in turn, trapped the syactica nerve giving me something else to dread each and every time it pinches due to the spasms down both my thighs,
All the above has now resulted in a curvature of my spine creating even more problems.
I also suffer with bladder weakness occasioning ‘the accidental problems ‘ of wetting myself, sometimes in public, and bowel problems as a result of all the medication I’m taking to alleviate the pain and the spasms/cramps.
Walking has become almost impossible for me now, and everyday seems to put me closer to living a life in a wheelchair until the day comes that I’m bed bound.
I DESPERATELY need your help to stop this from happening as I cannot do it myself, believe me, I have tried, and I’ve prayed so many times to no affect.
On top of all this I also had a total hip replacement on my r/h side, which is fine now, plus a torn rotator cuff, again on my r/h side.
Because of all this I’m unable to work. I keep myself busy and off the unemployed register by using the only ability/gift I have left which is drawing/painting and doing commissions for a growing customer list. If interested then please see my website at www.stevemorrispetportraits.co.uk.
To help me get my life back I need a treatment which is being offered abroad in Mexico,called ‘HSCT’ (Hematopoietic stem cell treatment).
They do the treatment here in the uk but the acceptance criteria is more strict which rules out most folk with PPMS...and believe me,  ‘I’ve tried ‘,  plus, it’s WAY more expensive.
I’ll try to explain more about it here but for a full description of it try this link; www.hsctmexico.com .
Bascically, they take some of your own ‘stem-cells’ from either your bone marrow or your blood and purify them so they have no memory of attacking you. They then give you an intense course of chemotherapy to kill off your existing stem-cells leaving you with no immune system, this is when they isolate you because even a simple cold could end up killing you. Then they inject your ‘pure and clean ‘ stem-cells back into your body to do the job they should have done before, and hopefully repair the damage already done by the nasty ones. A new immune system...a new start at life!
Your new ‘Birthday’.
Obviously, the sooner this is done the better as time is not on my side, and the worse I get the less chance of them accepting me.
Each year I wish to be as I was the year before when I was able to do so much more and when I was in less pain.
The funds I’m asking for will allow me and a carer (which I’d need over there to help me in more ways than one) to travel there, get the treatment I need and travel back. Believe  me...this will by no means be a holiday as I’ll be trapped in isolation for a period of time, plus there is still that ‘very slim chance’ that something could go wrong, ‘fatally wrong’. That is a chance that anyone in my position would risk, you only have to ask someone with the same condition as mine.
This is my ‘Last chance saloon’ so to speak. I’ve tried various medications and alternative Medicines with no effect and each time, each month/year it takes a bit more away from me with notable effects.
What HAS my future got in store for me?...a lot of people ask that very question,  and I used to do the same, now I wished I didn’t know.
last night I sat on the edge of my bed, half undressed, looked forward at a load of my clothes on the floor because I don’t have a wardrobe yet as I’ve only just moved into my rented bungalow when tears suddenly filled my eyes. The pain of getting undressed was too much to bear, I stopped what I was doing, hung my head and cried!
eventually I’ll end up restricted to my bed and in constant pain, if I let it win.....WHICH I WONT.
I didn’t ask for this, no one with MS or TM ever have asked or done anything to deserve this, it’s just the hand we’re dealt, but it’s how we play our hand that defines who we are and (to a degree) how we end up!, and as ‘god is my witness ‘, I’ll go down fighting., BUT I NEED YOUR HELP!.....
All I want out of life now is the chance to walk again and hopefully go to work as ordinary folk do, as I used to do all those years ago.
I want to be someone’s partner that they can walk hand in hand with, a father that can walk around with his children, and play with my grandkids without being in constant pain.
Please...please help in anyway you can.

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Steve Morris
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