Little Blessings……And Qingdao Beer
Everything continues to go well for Ella and Don in China. Ella is getting more settled in with her therapy rountine and is doing well with it. She continues to use the stander twice a day, even though it is very different from her stander here at home she is getting use to it now. She gets worked hard in therapy which is great!
Don is seeing more little changes or blessings as I am calling them with Ella. He is noticing that her pupils are enlarged for good portions of the day. Ella’s pupils have always been very tiny and with the second stem cell treatment he is seeing that this has changed. Not sure what this could mean, but am excited that it is yet another little difference:)
Don enjoyed his first Qingdao beer last night. In celebration of it being Friday night he went to the hospital store and bought a Qingdao bottle of beer. He said it was a 20 ounce bottle that cost him less than 50 cents in US currency. How crazy is that?! And how funny that you can purchase beer within the hospital…..now why have we American’s not thought of that one??? He said it tasted very similar to Busch Light, he really liked it.
Today is Saturday there already so when we last video called Ella had just finished her breakfast and she was getting ready for her bath. They were then going to go to the Lotte Mart and try to find some nail clippers ( I forgot to pack that item) among other things. Don has been able to find Gatorade there and a good brand of juice for Ella. After that he thought they may check out the couple of parks that are close by. One is lit up just beautifully at night, it reminds me of Disney’s It’s A Small World or something along the lines of what you would see in Holland perhaps??? I told him to make sure he took the camera along to get more pics for me:) He holds the laptop up to the window most days so we can see what is going on outside their window and check out the weather.
So today and tomorrow are their days off so they will just do some relaxing and meet with some of the newbies that have moved into the ward:) I look forward to hearing all about the new families.
Don is still awaiting the arrival of our care boxes. They are held up in customs but hopefully today they will get them. Fedex called me yesterday for another number to call the hospital and they faxed them a list of what I had sent. The translator had to take it to Don and have him explain what the items were and then she had to write it down in Chinese and fax back to them. They have no idea what Pop Tarts, Breakfast bars/granola bars, anything like that is so they actually had not torn into the boxes they just didn’t understand what I had put on the list and needed assistance. Hopefully all is well now and they will be enjoying their goodies very soon:)
Don really does like the pizza there and is on his third variety of it. The last he tried was BBQ Chicken and he said it was really good. I hear they have hamburgers next door at a little place in the Lotte Mart so maybe he can grab one of those too.
Until Next Post,
Tanya
9 comments July 11th, 2009
