Wendy Zuckerman
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3,659 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
Wendy Zuckerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Except there was this one thing.
A clue.
To push it even further, she started doing a bunch of media interviews.
People got in touch from all over the country, throwing out all kinds of ideas for what might have happened to Yaa.
And this eventually led her to Stephen Holgate, a professor at the University of Southampton who specialises in asthma and allergies.
One day in 2016, he was on the train heading home from London.
Stephen had spent his entire career researching asthma, getting to know the lungs inside and out.
And here was his life's work sitting in front of him in the form of a medical mystery.
He got in touch with Rosamund and said, would you mind if I look through your daughter's medical records?
And she was like, yes, go for it.
Handed them over and Stephen dove in.
Stephen also went to the hospital where sections of Ella's lungs were being preserved.
He pulled out these tiny lung scrapings that are about the size of a fingernail.
put them under the microscope, and straight away, he saw something odd.
The lining of her lungs, which should protect them from gunk in the air, had been totally destroyed.
In a healthy lung, you should see these lovely cells that look like columns with little hairs.
But with Ella, those little columns had been replaced by a totally different cell, one that pumps out mucus.
And this was mucking everything up.
You are supposed to have some mucus in your lungs, and it's helpful.
It captures gunk in the air and helps you to cough it out.
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