Testimonial - Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patient 4 weeks after stem cell therapy

I actually got in a car accident, hit a patch of black ice, and I hit a tree about 70 miles an hour. And so when I hit the tree, my car wrapped around the tree, hit me on this left side, totally pancaked me in Jaws Alive, all that kind of stuff. I don't remember any of this. This is just story from my passenger. One of my best friends, Dakota Pro, is in the passenger seat. He woke up. There's a bunch of smoke and everything. I was bleeding from my ears, my nose, my eyes, my mouth. Sitting there, totally unresponsive. He was beating on my chest, wouldn't wake up. So. And it was really foggy that day as well. But a neighbor came outside because we hit his tree, and he's like, oh, you need to call 911. And my friend was screaming, yeah. So they called the ambulance. Finally, jaw's alive. Pulled me out of the car, rushed to the hospital. Believe I flatlined once or twice while I was in an ambulance and then got to the hospital, major trauma. I still have the medical records. They. I was losing blood as fast as they were putting it in, so they ended up giving me 19 pints of blood that first day. And so the floor of the emergency room was just red, a red sea. And so they got me stable. And one of the best hospitals in the Midwest, Methodist, I don't remember. You guys have heard of it. They're really known for trauma. And they wanted to send me there. It was too foggy for the helicopter to fly, so they rode me up in an ambulance, went there. So they found out that I had brain injury to the cerebellum. A stroke during that time totally tore up my abdomen. So all my organs were shoved up into my chest cavity. Lungs up into my shoulder. Liver was lacerated, diaphragm was split in half. Spleen was totally destroyed. To take that out, my pelvis was broken in two, you know, right in the middle. So what ended up happening is I was in a coma for, I believe, two or three weeks. Woke up from that rehab for, you know, three months, and I finally left the hospital. And what happened was when I broke my pelvis, I mean, despite the injury to the cerebellum, which, you know, affected coordination and muscle spasticity and, you know, muscular strength and endurance and all that kind of stuff, my pubic symphysis, the piece of cartilage right in the middle of the pelvis, it fused together. It was broken. So that fused together so my pelvis wouldn't flex. And I progressed really, really Quickly, as far as, you know, recovering from all that. They were completely amazed that I was able, you know, walk as soon as I did. I was lifting weights, progressed super, super high up. And, you know, that lasted a couple years. And then because my gait was different than before and I had to, you know, my body had to adapt to my new structure, my pelvis, and, you know, the loss of signaling from the cerebellum to my motor functions. I started ending up having pain. And, you know, that pain was all in my hips, all in my joints. My spine froze up. Just a lot, a lot of muscle tension and a lot of chronic pain. And, you know, my body just didn't move like it used to. I had to think about movement, think about a step. But that never deterred me. I always went hiking. I kept doing it. And then. So after I graduated high school, I went to Miami University of Ohio and I studied sports medicine. And the reason I did that was because I was trying to fix myself. I saw so many traditional doctors and they just told me, this is the way it is. We can put you on painkillers, you can be on them for the rest of your life. You're going to develop a tolerance to them, but we can't do anything about your brain. That's it. And that was very frustrating. So I went and studied sports medicine and I tried to figure out everything I could neuromuscular wise, and I just tried everything. And then I think, even when I was in high school, I think I came across stem cells and I knew what happened to my brain. Brain cells died. I knew what happened. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. These cells, these are live cells going to the body intelligence, like you were saying before. And, you know, getting past that beard, I mean, they had, in my mind, in my mind of thinking they had the possibility of getting past that barrier that all these doctors said there's nothing that they could do for me. So that. And that was very intriguing, you know, just. Just for me, myself and, you know, other people have been through that situation. And then. So I wrote a bunch of. A bunch of articles in college about stem cells. One article, it was actually published in a magazine, a sports medicine magazine. And it was regarding, like, the ethics of, you know, professional athletes using stem cells, because I heard that too. I mean, that was all over the news when I was in college, 2014, 2015. And, you know, whether or not it's performance enhancing or, you know, if it was ethical for them to, you know, keep playing, you know, as their body deteriorated and so it just piqued my interest. And after I graduated college, this was my goal. I was like, okay, let's just make enough money to go fly overseas and get stem cells and treat yourself. Like that was what. That was what I was gonna do. And that's been my goal for the last, you know, five years. But what happened? I would say the last three or four years, my body really started to deteriorate. Just a lot more pain, a lot more missteps. I just felt like, you know, just. Just like the reaper just breathing down my neck. Like your body is like, failing and failing, and it wasn't getting any better. No matter if I change my diet or my exercise regimen or, you know, stop lifting heavy weights and went to, you know, TRX or, you know, I tried everything, and it just seemed like the more you use, I put on my pelvis and lower extremities, the worse it got. I mean, this period until I met Dr. Kong, and I talked to her on the phone for, you know, probably 45 minutes, and she was the first doctor. See, I seeked out a lot of stem cell doctors over the years, and they don't have an answer for me. They won't talk to me. You know, just straight money, you know, it's just we're gonna need this much money up front. You have to come down to, you know, Panama or, you know, Tijuana or wherever, and just none of it just added up because, you know, I was worried about, you know, stem cells and what it would do to me. And, you know, the things I've heard, the negative reactions, things like that. And then I talked to Dr. Kong, and I realized, like, okay, she has far exceeded anyone else I've talked to in the last 10 years about this. And then, so we decided to do a pain. We decided to do a treatment. I came up here, I talked to her. I met with her for. Well, actually, we talked on the phone first. And then I wanted to see the facility. I'm very thorough, so I wanted to see the facility. And she took me out to lunch, and we just talked and talked, and everything she said just made sense. And I just knew, like, this, you know, this could possibly be the answer. And so. And then I came out for the treatment, and I. I was scared. And I was scared on a couple levels. You know, I was scared that it wouldn't work or, you know, it would change me, change my personality or something like that, you know. You know, I had no idea what was going to happen. So I came up I got the IV infusion, and immediately I felt different. I don't know if it was the vitamin pack with. It was probably that immediately that I felt different, but it did feel different and was like, okay, you know, this feels great. It was just a positive energy by everyone, like, the staff and her. Like, they told me, like, you're gonna get better. And. And then on the train ride home, I took the train up here. And on the train ride home, I just started to notice just the spasticity in my legs, you know, just a weird feeling in my legs. And I remember getting off the train and Oceanside to get on to the train that goes to Escondido, and my stride was different. It felt more relaxed. And I was like, whoa, this is crazy. Like, this is just a couple hours. I mean, we're talking six hours after. And just the pain and the pressure, like, was almost immediately released away. And then I went home that night. He missed his next train, by the way. He was so excited. Oh, yeah, I did miss. I'm digging every day. So I went home that night, got a good night's sleep, woke up the next day, noticed this kind of the same thing. Like, the spasticity was yet was. That was down. I didn't feel the pain that when I, like, wake up in the morning before, it'd be a struggle just for me to, like, get up, right? And, you know, it would take me a couple minutes just get out of bed. Really. Just all the pressure and the pain that I've had, you know, through my lower extremities, hips and everything, and it just felt like someone just, like, really just pressed this button, and it was just. Everything was relieved. And, I mean, not 100%, but it was progressive. And the next couple days, I was really excited, you know, I was like, whoa, I think this is. You know, there's something to this. And I started going to the gym, and even with just doing, like. I'm religious as far as, like, going to the gym things, even just doing things like a shoulder press, I felt different fibers in my shoulders moving the weight as opposed to the last, you know, nine years, like, if I. It felt like a different mind and muscle connection, and. And that just continued to happen. And I started, you know, hiking and doing things like that, and it just. Everything just came more naturally. And it's still continuing on right now. I don't know how many weeks it's been. Four. Four weeks. And it just seems like every week I make a progression, and it's progressing. Things that I Didn't even think it would to, like, cardiovascular endurance, cognition. I noticed my focus is getting better. Little things, just like my roommate. My roommates were all skeptical going into this. And then they told me last week, one of my roommates, you know, it's expensive to live in this state, by the way. So one of my roommates, like, lives in the living room. His bed is in the living room. And I have to walk through the hallway at night to go to my bathroom. And he said a couple weeks ago, he was like. He was like, dude, I think these SIM cells are working because you got up to go to the bathroom the other night, and I didn't even recognize it was you. Because he knows my gait. He knows, like, how my feet, like, touch the hardwood floor and go to the bathroom because, you know, he hears it every single night. And he just said, like, I thought it was Joey, which is my other roommate. He was like, but it was you. He was like, that's crazy. And, you know, my co workers, too, have noticed that I'm walking better, my gait's getting better, and it's really exciting. It feels like, you know, I spent so many years just deteriorating and thinking there was no outcome. And this is just completely. Just done a 180. And that's when I realized that there's millions of other people out there that were in my similar situation that, you know, think that they're coping. You know, they're coping with their pain, they're deteriorating. They're, you know, the time, the clock is ticking or the Sandbile is coming out. And I think, you know, this can improve just millions of lives. And that's why I decided to work for Dr. Kong. I work for Dr. Kong now because I believe in this so much. Because out of the last 10 years, I tried everything. Hyperbike, hyperbaric chambers, all kinds of nutrition, every supplement in the book. I have a degree in pharmacology as well. You know, just. Just trying everything. Every little guinea pig, every little thing to do is just being my own guinea pig. And this is the most dramatic thing that I've ever felt. And I'm continuing to feel it day by day, and it's completely blown my mind. Expectations, everything. And it's. It's gonna be the future. I mean, I have no doubt. It's. It's. It's completely crazy. You know, just how she was talking about the intelligence, that. That stuck with me a lot. And it. You know, it's. It doesn't feel like a drug at all. It feels like something different, like something is happening. Something in me is making those signals met, loosening that tension, taking away the pain. It's very, very weird, but it's great.