Chapter Twenty-Eight
twenty-eight
LANIE:
I’m back in London on the nineteenth. Will you be available?
RIDLEY:
What no Christmas plans?
LANIE:
Sure, but my mom has to work all that week. So as long as I’m home by Christmas morning, I’m golden.
RIDLEY:
More wedding business?
LANIE:
We have a cake tasting.
RIDLEY:
Sounds delicious
LANIE:
I certainly hope so. How about you? Christmas plans?
RIDLEY:
Nothing much. Work.
LANIE:
You know I have never asked you what your study is about? All I hear study this, study that
RIDLEY:
You sure you’re interested? It’s a lot.
LANIE:
Hit me.
RIDLEY:
It’s a multi-target therapy study comparing the use of plankolumab to azifrotinib as induction treatment of proliferative lupus nephritis.
LANIE:
Okay.
RIDLEY:
In layman’s terms it’s a safety and efficacy study comparing two new experimental medications for stage 2-4 lupus
LANIE:
Is that what your wife had?
LANIE:
I’m sorry was that too much?
RIDLEY:
No
LANIE:
We can talk about something else.
RIDLEY:
No it’s OK. At a certain point I had to get comfortable talking about this. Yes she had stage 6 by the end.
RIDLEY:
Technically end-stage kidney disease is what she died of
LANIE:
I am so sorry.
RIDLEY:
Me too.
LANIE:
Is that why you do what you do?
RIDLEY:
It’s definitely a part of the reason.
LANIE:
I bet Thyra would be honored.
RIDLEY:
I hope she was.