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It has been "on again - off again" for almost a year now, but we have been given a new date for Albert's long awaited surgery. The operation is to repair the part of his throat that controls swallowing in the hope that he may be able to eat. For most of his life Albert has been feed through various kinds of tubes, and for the last year through a tube which feeds directly to his stomach via a hole surgically made between his stomach and a valve which sticks out of the skin on his tummy.

The date for his operation is 3rd of December. This date could be changed, as it has several times this year, by two main factors. If Albert gets sick, and if there are no spare beds in the Intensive Care Unit of the children's hospital at the time.