Lawrence’s ONH Blog

Monday, July 27th

July 27th, 2009

Hi everyone, it’s us from China. We haven’t been able to blog because the internet is down, except for one computer in the community room. Of course, everyone needs to use it, so I haven’t had a chance to blog. I got up early this morning and was the first on the computer, so that I could let everyone know how we are doing.
Lawrence’s spinal went fine. He ate 2 boxes of hot chicken wings from KFC after the 4 hours when he is able to eat. He slept well and woke up rested. No headache and no backache. We have been so fortunate, as some of the patients here have a hard time with that. Our friend Nanna from Switzerland has had headaches and we pray that she will get better.
Saturday, we had therapy as usual and then went to Jimo with our friend Remi who is from Hong Kong, but lives in the US. Her and her mom are very nice people. Remi has gone many places with us and has been a lifesaver since she speaks Mandarin. We then ate at McDonalds. It was just like eating in the US, except instead of apple pies, they have mango, pineapple and taro root. We had the mango and apple pie.
Sunday was rainy, but Jack took us to an outside market. We were able to see the fish and produce market, but it started raining too hard, so we had to leave. Later that afternoon, it stopped raining, so we headed over to Lotte Mart to get a few groceries.
Dr. Tony said that the eye doctor from the eye hospital stated that Lawrence’s signal from the brain to the eye seems to be better. We
know that Lawrence has improvements, based on what he can see. We will work on training him to see and the results of the stem cells will be coming slowly, but surely. As Macie’s mom told me today, the improvements come a little at a time. Lawrence will have to start learning what he is seeing. This is not a cure, it is a slow process, as the stem cells continue to grow in his body. Thanks for reading!

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