My stroke had come out of the blue—and, we would ultimately learn, was not attributable to any specific cause.
I had managed to meet a tight deadline to finalize the catalog accompanying “India in Fashion,” an exhibition that I curated celebrating the lure that the country has had on Western designers from Charles Frederick Worth to Alexander McQueen, and the glorious explosion that it has seen in recent years from its own artisans and designers.
This involved inserting a fiber-optic camera attached to the end of a flexible tube, or endoscope, through my nose and into my throat to observe whether the swallow reflex was functioning properly, safely channeling food and water away from the vocal cords. Persistent failure meant heightened risk of choking or aspiration pneumonia. This took several uncomfortable and failed attempts before—success!—I finally passed in mid-December, enabling my transfer out of the UCLH to a private hospital.
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