It is not the first time this treatment - known as autologous non-myeloablative haemopoietic stem-cell transplantation - has been tried in people with MS, but there has not been a great deal of success. The documentary 'Introducing, Selma Blair,' which is in theaters on Friday and on discovery+ Oct. I’m in remission,” she said in remarks reported by the Associated Press. Over a 10-15 year period after onset, most patients develop secondary-progressive MS, with gradual but irreversible neurological impairment.
On Monday, Blair told a Television Critics Association panel that she’s in remission from multiple sclerosis as a result of undergoing a stem cell transplant. We’re born into this body, and this is the one we have. “That, to me, is the most inspiring thing - because it kind of just feels like that’s all we’ve got. “My objective was to show a different way of being in the world, but also to show a woman who fully embraces herself,” Fleit added.
All the emotions of life make healing variable, too. That people’s strengths and weaknesses vary. I hope my little life gives someone who needs it some hope or a laugh or more awareness of ourselves.
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“You keep opening windows or closing doors and finding tools. “I had the conviction of thinking I had something to share,” she told Vanity Fair. Introducing, Selma Blair is a vulnerable look at the resilient star’s journey through treatment and toward acceptance, while also dissecting myths around beauty, as well as collective societal fears about disability and mortality. With a mix of fear and ferocity, Blair pulls back the curtain on her painful experience with her MS med treatment, and the decision - in the face of dwindling options - to do the transplant, which involved the actor flying to Chicago before undergoing aggressive chemotherapy treatment and having the transplant before isolating in the hospital for weeks without her son, according to Vanity Fair. The trailer then quickly jumps to answering why Blair took control of the public narrative around her health, including fears and headaches about reporting that may have caught the actress “at the wrong time,” and misinterpreted something like a limp as drunkenness instead of “a symptom of a really unhealthy immune system.” THR Talks: Selma Blair and James Lebrecht on the Growing Disability Rights Movement in Hollywood
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