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- David, Jarone, and Michal

Saturday, July 11, 2009

July 10th - a historic day for Ilan.


Yesterday, Friday July 10th 2009, was a very important day for Ilan.

Earlier this week we received results from Ilan's recent sleep test informing us that he passed with flying colors. So, yesterday morning Ilan was taken to the ENT specialist for a followup examination.

Well, I arrived home around 2:45pm and asked Estelle what had happened at the ENT meeting. She responded that Ilan would tell me (Ilan was sleeping at the time!).

So around 4:00pm Ilan woke up and I went to his room - I found him with a big triumphant smile on his face and pointing with his index fingers to his throat area. He had a gauze bandage there:
the TRAKE that he had had in place in his throat for the past 22 months was REMOVED!

This is a major achievement for Ilan as this will alllow him to safely swim (with proper protection near his throat) in a pool and will hopefully jump start his ability to speak!!!!

Have great summer.

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