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Maria had a surgery yesterday! It is an experimental surgery that right now is being performed only in Spain and Poland, in Katowice. Maria is a beautiful 34 year old woman with 2 little kids. Her MS was moving fast. She red about this surgery online, and went to have it done . It is called “Liberation surgery” . Here is a bit about it from a blog :
“An Italian doctor figured out a link between blood flow in the brain and MS. All the people he has tested who have MS have constricted veins from their head.
Essentially, this is like having your plumbing backed up and shit leaking all over the place. On those he’s performed treatment on, they have decreased relapses and better quality of life.”

Here is some more from another blog:

“My wife and I are going to Poland at the end of March for the Liberation treatment. The doctor there is so overworked that he is no longer taking patients. They are building a new facility to handle all the potential patients.
She had her tests done at False Creek in Vancouver. It shows a very small left jugular vein. She’ll probably need the whole vein stented to open it sufficiently.
Since I first posted there have been a lot of changes and support for the testing and treatments. Lots of universities are starting to do research now. The Buffalo study is proceeding to stage 2 and wants the authority to do testing of people off the street outside of the study.
A good place to start is ThisisMS to get an overview.
Also, the Facebook site CCSVI is an excellent source of information. The person who runs it, Joan Beale, was essential in getting CCVSI brought to North America and getting Standford doing the first study here.”
We are all anxious and thrilled and looking forward to see her back at home in a week.