posted by Link on Feb 28
After we had called and amassed what seemed to us like an exhaustive list of possibilities, we set about trying to contact Amma. After some confusion in the lifts (we didn’t have range on our floor) we started, and Anni and I came down, leaving everybody else to do the phone calls.Then everybody came in, and we decided to call Swamiji via a landline, in hopes of getting a good connection. We decided to see first if we could call out from our room intercom room, and so rang up the operators. They connected us to Swamiji, who, I guess, was with Amma in the car on the way to Mysore. Swamiji gave the phone to Amma.
Amma spoke to Annika for quite a bit – Annika told her of all our possibilities, Amma ruled out the Ayurvedic, etc. Then Amma asked what uncle Jeff thought (which was to go back to the US) and said to do that. Anni said that Amma was the Maha Doctor… Eventually Amma spoke to Mom, and then to me. To me She asked about college, if I was sad/worried (“How can I not be, Amma?”) and then gave the phone back to Swamiji. We each told Her that we always wanted to be with Her, serving Her…
It’s such a consolation just to hear Her voice…………
So now we are hoping that we have tickets for tomorrow, the first of march, to fly. According to the website, there are 7 seats available, but it wont allow us to book it so late…
Aum Amriteshwaryai Namah
-Link
posted by Link on Feb 28
Towards afternoon, this guy just came up to uncle Jeff and said “You’re a Researcher in [my uncle’s field], you have a problem and I’m here to help it.” He was right on about my uncle’s field. So he came up to the room and spoke to Annika, said that we should get her immune system boosted. His name was Sri Kumar, and apparently the hospital gave him a free run with placebos and terminal patients, and he had a good success rate! He suggested that we see an ayurvedic doctor nearby, and get Annika tested to see that she was completely free from the Hepatitis virus.
Aum Amriteshwaryai Namah
-Link
posted by Link on Feb 28
Our room is in a building that is built in such a way that the sunlight does not ever approach the window, so around 8am (I thought it was hardly 6) we all woke up. The meeting with Dr Pavithran was scheduled for 9am, so we all scrambled.When we got to Dr Pavithran’s office, he was on rounds, so we waited in the lobby. He came quite soon, just as we were about to split up on errands!
Dr Pavithran was a very fast spoken man. He was very helpful. During the meeting, Uncle Jeff tried to talk to him about alternative treatments, and other drugs, and he listened and told us that here in AIMS they could use newer drugs, but as they weren’t available on the market in India, they would have to be imported, most likely from the US. He said that if we could get it any way possible, it could be used. I heard theft and smuggling, but he mentioned trial distributions and samples…
While we were there, he called the Histology lab, and got us a tentative reward for the stabs of yesterday: the report was almost inconclusive. Out of seven slide smears, only one showed any cells besides blood. From the few cells that they saw, they could not say what it was, but concluded that it was probably a Wilms tumor, which is much easier to treat than RCC. This however, wasn’t sure, so they wanted to take out the Kidney to get good cell specimens. With Amma’s Grace, Dr Sanjay wasn’t here, so the Kidney removal couldn’t be done today.
Aum Amriteshwaryai Namah
-Link