Ella’s China Blog

Day One Complete

July 1st, 2009

Don and Ella are all settled into their little room and doing great:)  Don called us at 9pm last night and again it was so wonderful to hear his voice and talk to Ella this time!!!  She is doing so good and was just so happy when we were talking to her.  Blake and Zoe both got to talk to their Daddy and Ella and were so excited to hear them.  Zoe was pretty down yesterday but when she got to talk to Ella boy did that all change!  Unfourtantly Addison was already asleep for the night so she will have to chat to them next time.

Don also emailed ( I knew he could do it:) and said everyone is being so nice to them.  He took a walk and counted around 10 families from the USA who are there.   Everyone sits and chats in the common area and just hangs out.  This is also where he is using his laptop for the time being as he doesn’t have a cord that will fit into his laptop and plug into his room so he is going to work on getting one so he can start making Skype calls and talk to us where it is quiet and not have all the people around.  It is unbelievable how good the connection is though just using the hospital phones and the calling card.  It is very clear!

Ella had all of her blood work done yesterday morning and her eyes tested.  So this part is very interesting……the doctors told Don she CAN see!  I know, you are like what???  I was to.  Yes, they believe she cannot see distances but that she can see.  Apparently she responded very well to the light, which we know she can see but they came to the conclusion she is seeing more.  So perhaps once those stem cells take hold she will start using what vision she has more!  I cannot wait to get more updates from him on this.

I guess that is all for now.  They are doing great and making friends.  It is going to be an amazing time for them.  Oh, I don’t have any pictures yet.  Hoping to have some soon now that Don is settled in.  I told him not to worry about pics yet, he had enough going on that first day.

It was great to hear from so many of you yesterday.  Thank you for checking in on us as always.

Tanya

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