No Relief Yet

Found out this morning that Khir will lose some digits from the damaged fingers on his hand - the small and ring fingers - so yesterday's relief was premature. The amputation is to be carried out today. It seems the doctors were ready to do it yesterday but Khir couldn't face it so suddenly, a measure of how devastating this is for him.

We've been keeping the news from Mak & Abah but obviously they'll need to be told soon. The family will, of course, play it down, and in a sense it seems small enough to do that - but I don't think I'd be using the term 'small' if I were the one facing today's procedure.