They loved the area’s expansive landscapes and easy access to beautiful getaways, like Sedona and Flagstaff. In 2012, the couple married, moving to the North Phoenix community of Anthem not long after. He met Aracely and starting making a decent living as a cigar shop attendant. In his late 50s at the time, Latina slowly rebuilt his life. I felt like I was getting squeezed in between two buildings.” “My wife was gone and my career was gone. “I was extremely depressed,” Latina says. Within a month of the injury, his wife at the time was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. Latina’s wrist and neck were injured severely enough that the department prohibited him from working again.
STEM CELL TREATMENT IN MEXICO DRIVER
A distracted driver blew through a red light and slammed into him. In 2005, Latina inched his patrol car into an intersection on his way to a routine assignment at a city council meeting.
Latina moved to the Valley with Aracely following his retirement from the San Bernardino County California Sheriff’s Department, where he worked for 25 years. Orchestrated by the same church leader who co-owns the clinic, the donations will also help feed a booming cross-border industry with dubious medical bona fides, one that – like countless ventures before it – swiftly and cheaply allows desperate Americans to get the medical treatment they need. Generosity, in this case, will cover the bills. As his limbs went numb and folded beneath him, he yelled for his wife. “There are days when I wake up that I feel very empty,” Latina says.Īlmost exactly three years earlier, in October 2016, Latina woke to use the restroom, tripped over a decorative faux tree and slammed his head on his nightstand. For the past three years, the ex-police officer has done little more than watch TV.
He wants only to regain the use of his hands, to be able to use the computer and to brush his teeth without the help of his wife, Aracely. It’s a quiet evening in October, and tomorrow the 70-year-old Latina will receive the first of three non-FDA-approved stem cell injections at Baja Surgery Center – a newly built, multipurpose medical facility partly owned by a member of his church back in Phoenix. And he’s not alone.ĭavid Latina sits with his wife at golden hour in an upscale Spanish colonial-style plaza in Los Algodones, Mexico. With the help of his church community, a disabled Valley man finds hope in the form of a cutting-edge – and unproven – stem cell treatment in Mexico.
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