One more test to run, but we don’t think that’s it. She’s responding to treatment—we think, in short, she sprang a leak from an old surgery under the stress of this spring—and losing Efanor fried it. Transfusions got her back on her feet—and it was dangerous: left untreated, she could have had heart or neurological damage, or worse, but she is fine, we now know that her insides are in great shape (except the leak) and that is being treated with a drug (Prilosec.) Beyond that it’s a case of building back her red blood supply.

Many, many thanks to OSG, who greased so many medical wheels we tobogganed from one office to another to treatment to diagnosis, in a case where slowness could do physiological damage; and we are so, so grateful, OSG, no kidding! OSG also went to appointments with us, talked medical talk where appropriate, interpreted for us, and advised, and in short, you couldn’t ask better.