[Magdalen] Glad news, if puzzling

[Marion Thompson]

well, that's a relief.  May the rest of the news be even reassuring.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/10/2015 10:34 AM, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
> Finally, we got the call...
>
> Definitely not cancer.
>
> No cancer.
>
> What these weird things might be, the boffins haven't yet figured out, but
> they can say for certain that it's not malignant...
>
> That's really all we needed to know. The rest may or may not be academic,
> and Keith still has to have some other health checks in his near future
> (colonoscopy being the most important) but at least we now have a result we
> can trust.
>
> The laboratory will puzzle over the samples for another couple of days;
> next week, the academic surgeon who did these tests will be here in Port
> Elizabeth and my sister will have a chance to discuss his conclusions if he
> has any by then.
>
> I am so relieved, and so grateful...and yet strangely upset still. I guess
> it takes a while to revert to complacency. Perhaps we never will completely
> and that's probably no bad thing either.
>
> Sally D
>