Edward Bailey, 65 lost the sight in his left eye caused by an accidental drop of caustic soda in his eye at work. After two unsuccessful corneal transplants, he underwent a pioneering stem cell operation that restored his vision.
Edward Bailey: “I am very optimistic that my eyesight will improve even more.”
This is the story of Edward Bailey.
He was first treated at Worthing Eye Hospital to stabilize his eye.
In Queen Victoria hospital his first corneal transplant in July 1994 failed due to a persistent defect. He had more operations without success.
Dr. Sheraz Daya, a specialist eye surgeon, explained him about the stem cell transplanting procedure.
It involved transplanting stem cells grown in a laboratory into the eye, followed by another cornea transplant.
The cells are placed on the cornea to encourage growth and healing.
I had the operation and, after the dressings came off, I found I could see some colors and blurred movement. Later, at home, I removed the dressing to bathe my eye, then I covered my good eye with my hand to measure what improvement, if any, had occurred.
I leave it to your imagination as to the emotion that I felt when I saw my image come into view in the mirror.
That was more than two-and-a-half years ago, and I still see colors and have vision. The vision, though blurred, is wonderful to have, and I consider myself a very lucky person to have met Mr. Daya and his great team.
As the success rate increases and the technology moves further ahead, I am very optimistic that my eyesight will improve even more - and more and more people will regain their sight.
Link [edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/17/edward.bailey]
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November 8th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
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October 5th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Below is a website that briefly touches on my husbands condition
https://www.fortheloveofmyhusband.org/ [www.fortheloveofmyhusband.org]
Below are the two most recent treated patients (both children) both treated with Umbilical cord stem cells for the purpose of Optic Nerve generation
https://www.nomoredarkness.com/ [www.nomoredarkness.com]
and
https://cameronsmiracleofsight.com/ [cameronsmiracleofsight.com]
We are working with Kirshner Ross-Vaden of Beike Biotech and Stem Cells China.
my contact info is 214-957-7070
I have literally spent hours and days researching this company after speaking on the phone with Kirshner and so far have not found any reasons why this would be a dangerous procedure and that he would not have a chance at some success. I am wading through mountains of information and politics though.
More importantly, as Optic Nerve Regeneration has never been attempted on an adult in the United States, I want to bring data back with us in a form that medical stem cell research can understand and benefit from. I\’m not opposed to bringing an established and interested researcher with us as he/she may be able to document the process better than we can.
I need help preparing for this and wading through the information. Is there someone that can help me with this? We have not begun fundraising yet because we are working with a company to get us established legally on that end at the moment. It will be 2008 at least before the treatments and the more help I have to prepare for this the better and I\’m willing to go through with open records so that research can review his before/after progress and learn from it. Can anyone assist me with this?
Thank you
Tristan Moore