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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Okay, so here is my story.

Stepped on a nail (it was a new roofing nail). Nail poked into the knuckle of my 4th toe. Washed it good and put tripple antibiotic on it. On the third day the hole was black grown to aboe 2 inches diameter and smelled horrible. Went to ER. They said it was a MRSA (penicillin resistent) infection, and did a surgery to remove it. At the end of 2 weeks they had operated 3 times and removed 1/3rd of the flesh off my foot and the 4th toe completely. After 14 days they told me they had finally found something to stop the infection. Until then was told to get my affairs in order.

My foot looked horrible with a third of the flesh and a toe missing. They started a treatment called ACELL. It was a white powder they put on the wound. Was told it worked like stem cells and grew more of whatever it was put on. Every third day they cleaned black stuff off and added more powder.

My foot was kept in a bag to keep it sterile. Was told it was kept bagged because it would grow more of whatever cells got on it. Minus the actual toe that was removed my foot grew back to look just like the other with no scar tissue. It did take 6 months. They told me to look up Oprah having a show on it and called it Pixy Dust.

At the time was told I was the 2nd person in the state to use it. The drug was always delivered by a rep from the drug company who said the powder for each treatment was $2000.

The MRSA infection got in my blood and messed up way more than my foot. But the ACELL or Pixy Dust treatment did wonders at growing back all the flesh on my foot without scarring.

ACell (name of the company) makes MicroMatrix (Pixie Dust) from pig bladders. Both a dust and a sheet are made.
They apparently regrew a finger, too.
It is not stem cell therapy.