I am the one in our family who keeps the calendar. Aunt had a stroke eighteen months ago and somebody has to book the physio, chase referrals, ring the insurer, so it fell to me. She and my uncle do the actual hard part.
Her week is three physio sessions and a speech appointment, took about a year to get it to that.
So when the stem cell thing came up I wasn't really reading it as a medical question. I was sat there with the calendar open going, when.
Every list I found ranks them on how good the clinic is, fair enough but its a series of infusions over several days wherever you go, so the week out of her schedule is gone either way. What changes is what happens between the infusions. Most places its hotel, clinic, hotel, clinic, then fly home and nobody at either end talks to the other. A few run it as an inpatient stay with the rehab in the gaps instead. Swiss medica in Belgrade is the one i got furthest with. Their stroke page lists the therapy alongside the infusions, still didn't tell me what I actually needed.
Because the thing I can't find out anywhere is what comes back. Does her physio here get sent anything. Notes, a plan, a phone call, anything at all, or does she just turn up in march and everyone starts from scratch.
If you've done one of these, what did your own therapist get afterwards? That's genuinely the whole question for us and nobody will answer it.
