Hi, my name is Bryce Chudomelka and I suffered a bpi 8/13/2001 to my Right Arm. A MRI of my spine says I tore nerve-root sleeves C7, C8 and T1....due to attrophy(sp?) I lost 90% of movement from the spinal cord out and have majority of feeling down to my elbow but occasionally I can feel my thumb and pointer finger. I had an experimental nerve graffting of my R leg(mid-calf to below my ankle bone) and they installed those nerves in my L ganglea(sp?) and tried to loop near the R ganglea *guessing* that the nerves would attach to the new nerves on my L ganglea...I was released the next day and havn't had a checkup on it yet. So now it's 2005...any suggestions as to what my options are? I've heard of stem cell research in countries that are showing significant gains in spinal cord injuries...please e-mail @ blueberryman@breakthru.com or AOL IM SN @ BryceChudomelka
Thanks for letting me tell a little bit of my story and any ideas can really help with some sort of recovery, Thank you.