Yesterday
Asa had an exam under anaesthetic at the Royal London Hospital.
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| tearing up the waiting room |
There
was a long wait while he was in the operating theatre. And when Selam picked
him up from the recovery room, his right eye was red and swollen.
Had
the IAM not worked again?
Perhaps they'd used cryo instead -- which causes
swelling…?
A
turn of events
When the doctors came around to debrief, they were upbeat:
"We're
happy with the way he responded to the IAM," they said.
The
tumours they’d seen last time had "flattened out" since the second
dose of IAM, they explained.
They
had used cyrotherapy -- but
that was to treat a small area on the roof of the eye.
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| Asa in regulation kimono |
This
is a huge relief.
As soon as a space is
available on the list, they'll proceed with a third dose of IAM -- probably
either next Wednesday or the following week.
Counting our blessings
Today Americans are
celebrating Thanksgiving.
I’m in the US right now
-- to attend an anthropology conference in San Francisco and an African studies
conference in Philadelphia.
But today I’m spending
time with relatives in Alabama.
I just skyped with Selam
and Asa, and both of them looked well.
