well lets just say i have been researching a little bit.. (okay maybe a lot) but i have found out SO much about stem cell therapy and what kind of reasearch they are conducting for it!! i really dont have time right now to explain all i have found but here is one of the sites i learned alot from..... www.cnsfoundation.org .

but i am going to the doctor for a check-up sometime in febuary and that is when we are going to ask about what he thinks we should do (hopefully he will say yes)

p.s - either answer komen gives us will require alot of support and alot of prayers. If he says no that will be a very emontionaly hard time for me and my family. If he says yes (hopefully) that will be a very emontionaly and physically hard time for myself and my family also. So please keep my family, my doctor, and I in your prayers that the right decision will be made (and once again hopefully yes!!!). Also keep in your prayers that when the decision is made that there will be alot of support, and kindness from others. And that no matter what happens that we will find the strength and courage to carry on. 

Thank-You!!!      any questions??? e-mail me at : cerebralpalsyhope@yahoo.com or www.myspace.com/istilllovehim88

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1.    Stuck in Neutral     by: Erin Collins
    You would never expect anything from me would you?  I'm always sitting here just watching you.  Do you even think about how I feel?  I always hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.  I don't expect you to understand, but I will try to explain.  When you sit there and laugh, I know it's about me... I can hear it all.  I have feelings too, please try to understand that, I may be different, but it's not funny what I have to go through. Don't laugh at me, don't call me names, don't get your pleasure from my pain.  In God's eyes we're all the same, someday we'll all have perfect wings. Don't laugh at me.  We are all different in many ways, but laughing at me won't make anything better.  Things are different from my point of view, you're not going to go through what i have to go through, so be happy about that.  You don't go through the pain, disapointment, or the hurt, you are not made fun of or laughed at.  As long as it,s not happening to you, right?  My name is Erin, I'm living my life with Cerebral Palsy, I can only only explain so much, and you still won't understand.
   
   

i wrote this poem when i was in 2nd grade. my second grade year was probably the worst year i have ever had. i was made fun of all year with no stop! but i soon realized that normally people make fun of you to help themselfs feel better. but i also learned  that sometimes people laugh because they like you, somtimes they laugh to hurt you. it is sad but it's soooooo true. thankfully no one has really made fun of me this year. most kids think it is so cool that i get to ride in a wheel chair and get to be on cruthes.... but anyway i guess thats life!!!!! i hopw you like my poem!

i would like to hear from you!!!!!! if you know someone who has cerebral palsy, want to know more about it, or just want to get to know me, e-mail me at.......  cerebralpalsyhope@ yahoo.com    or myspace me...  myspace.com/istilllovehim88  thanks!!!!!!!! <3

well i have this orange and black cast that is striped that i picked out for halloween.... and unfortunatly i am pretty sure it probably won't be off till near that time (otc.29) but i just relized that my whole team at school is going on a REALLY fun field trip to the ropes course. which i am pretty sure will be like a HUGE obsticle course in mid air..... but it is on the 22nd and 23rd.......(sigh)... and i REALLY want to go on the field trip but i will still have a cast on. but we are hoping that maybe we can talk the doctor into taking it off sooner so that i can go on the really fun field trip. and here is what most people dont understand about C.P is that it's the little things that get on your nerves like not being able to go on a field trip because of a cast. the big things like having another surgery dosen't bother me as much (though it does get annoying also.) well i guess i will have to wait and see!!!!!!...(sigh)..... i sure do hope the doctors will have some compassion for me!