Im unsure if this is allowed on this sub, I checked the rules, but im still not sure. If it's not, feel free to ignore

I wanted to do my own research on this topic, but hopefully, with reliable sources, im just never sure where to look. If anyone knows where I can find a study or has a link to one, I would really appreciate it 🫶

Buddy of mine, same age, mid sixties, had a stroke a year and a half ago. His wife doesn't fly anymore and his kids work, I'm retired, so I went. Clinic was Swiss Medica, Belgrade. I'd searched what happens during a stem cell treatment program before we left and still had no picture of it, so here's the hallway version.

Day one is nothing. Someone met us at the airport. Room in the same complex as the treatment side, across a courtyard, and that matters when one of you has a cane. Forms. Blood. A woman with a clipboard and a stopwatch had him walk up and down a corridor twice. He was wiped out by two in the afternoon. I found the coffee machine.

Days two through seven were the same shape. Morning was therapy, and I mean work, someone making him use the arm he'd quit using, then a break, then a block on some machine I couldn't name. The cells were an IV on two of the days, he barely noticed, and one day a thing in his back he noticed plenty and I didn't watch. Afternoons more therapy. By six he was done and by eight asleep. I read three books and learned the tram.

About a week all in. He was less grumpy by the end, and also somebody made him do things every day for a week, so make of that what you want. The doctor at the end talked about the next months.

If you've been the plus one for anything like this, what did you wish you'd brought? tl;dr books. And a second charger.