Help needed!

I am raising money to undergo a stemcell treatment. This is one of the opitions available today for the kind of spinal cord injury that I have.
As it looks today, despite the small wins of regaining some muscles and my training with the KAFO´s and crutches, I need something more than that, to get more POWER in my legs. By this I mean surgical solution, to grow/reconnect the damaged nerves in my spine. There are several solutions and I have been looking at them since I woke up in the hospital bed. The most promising option would be stem cell treatment combined with epidural stimulator implant. None of this is currently provided in Norway. Such treatment in a private clinic in Thailand costs more than 50.000.- EUR.(this seems to be the usual cost for that type of operations around the world) I will write more about it in some future blog. I have send an application to the clinic and waiting for an assesment and exact cost for the treatment.


Fundraising to walk again: 






460EUR 50,000EUR
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My Norwegian savings account in DNB bank ( VIPPS by phone: +47 983 618 63):
Bank: DNB
Name: Argo Leetmaa
IBAN: NO1812065657153
BIC:    DNBANOKKXXX

Or to an Estonian account:
Bank: SEB
Name: Maria Leetmaa
IBAN: EE971010010723920010
BIC: EEUHEE2X

This is the treatment for epidural stimulation implant combined with stemcell treatment in Thailand.

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