Amy's SOD Blog

Cancelled…

November 30th, 2009

Hello peeps,

Today we’re a bit disappointed. Yesterday Amy had formed a little rash on her collar bone. ‘Nothing to worry about’ we thought as Amy chews her clothes quite a bit and little rashes come and go. Unfortunately on waking up today this rash has become bigger, solid and raised leading to the doctors believing its the result of an allergy, to what we don’t know. So, Amys treatment for 2pm today has been cancelled until further notice.

As you can imagine we’re diflated as you spend a day or 2 building yourself up for the SCT, but never mind. If we start feeling down again its a downward spiral. We just thought after Amy being ill with fever, sickness, cold, bla bla bla that she was getting back to herself. Hmmm, never expect anything!

On other matters here in China…Hayley, Brandy and I had our own scary adventure yesterday (Sunday). We had arranged a trip to the Jimo Market to do some shopping and to meet some other girls there, and I had an appointment to have a tattoo. Feeling confident we showed the taxi driver the sheet of paper that told him where we wanted to go (this is 8.30am). Now, as soon as he turned right out of the hospital we had a feeling but we thought, just maybe, he was taking us a different route. After 15 mins we started wondering where we were and so asked him (sort of) to pullover and double checked that he was taking us to Jimo, showing the sheet of paper again. ‘Yes, yes Jimo’, so off we went. Half hour later we arrived…and NOT at the Jimo Market that we are familiar with! Agh! Wrong place, a driver that can’t understand us and vice versa…to say that we we’re a little concerned is an understatement. So we made a call to a translator and explained the predicament we were in. Lucy told him to take us Downtown to Jimo and he refused (another story) but agreed to take us back to the hospital where we started. ‘Ok’ we thought feeling tetchy, but oh no that would of been to simple…another half hour and he has driven us to the Airport and wanting us to get out the taxi! Another call to another translator, Jack,  and we’re off back to the hospital taking another half hour. We’re pretty fed up by now (saying it politely!) and asked Jack to meet us to tell the driver that we refuse to pay him the full amount he wanted paying for taking us everywhere but our intended destination. This got a little heated and we had to give 10rmb more just to get him to go away. Charlie (a company driver) come to the rescue and took us to Jimo in the end and we arrived there approx 2 n a half hrs after we originally left! The good thing was we found the girls we were meeting up with straight away, and i got my tattoo. Never again will i be getting a taxi to go far. Nothing is simple in this part of China!

Will write more later when we have more info about ‘the rash’. We’ve just been told Amy’s treatment will now be Wednesday.

Oh n Chris is forcing me to say ’3-0′ to the Chelsea … PANTS!!!

Laterz all xXx

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