All this week has been a good opportunity to take turns chilling out. We still have our usual daily routine but with a little more extra time. Mum and Tut have gone to the markets a couple of times to have a shop and a break, by nightfall they kick me out and send me back to the hotel. So alone i trot by myself back to the room. Sitting, Chilling, Thinking, basically fancy words for doing nothing, I decided to walk the city streets and check out the scenery. Put it this way, my walk ended in a hangover some 7hrs later and the scenery from what i can remember was the inside of many-a-pub. I’d met a guy travelling from the U.K (Toby) and it was his wise plan to tackle every pub head on and give them more income in a night than they see in a year.
The next morning, eye’s glazed and hair a mess, I hurled for the nearest taxi back to the hospital. I had some missing funds to explain to my parents. The usual taxi trip back to the hospital was extremely different. Beijing had been snowed on. How a coat of white powder could change familiar objects and buildings so easily. The streets, buildings and parks i’d passed before were once again unfamiliar. A layer of beauty, it seemed fell on the city. Beijing had applied its make-up.
January 7th, 2007
Christmas was a little like any other day, only difference was the few christmas cheers thrown around. It was an ordinary day with the usual physio and rehab routine, our biggest suprise came on the morning of the 26th. Dad decided to fly in for christmas and suprise us all, there was a knock at the door and a remarkebly over-sized shadow for chinese nurse, it was him. It was so good to see a familiar face. We all spent the day together and it felt a little more like Christmas.
Blaz also had his first stem cell injection today. It all seemed to go well, he was in and out of the theatre within 20mins. He was back to the room before we finished our stroll, the hospital staff came chasing us down the street, they caught us in our escape. When we got back to the room Adrian was in bed, he looked pretty relaxed and in no pain. Later on in the night he started to get a slight fever, a common symptom they told us to look out for after the injection. Blaz spent most of the day, Well, All of the day laying flat in bed. They said this would give the stem cell the best possible route to the brain and maximise his blood circulation. Ive been telling Blaz that the harder he works the harder the stem cell works. Its basically like; the stem cell is his little worker, but he needs to order them around. It takes a few months and hard work before we see any major improvements.
January 7th, 2007
