Angela’s Brain Stem Injury Blog

my own blog!

April 28th, 2007

i am so pleased that kotan got my blog space set up today! YEA!!!

today is saturday at 11:40am. i’m on my 2nd IV bag already and i’m glad. i have a TCM(=traditional chinese medicine) apo (=appointment in japanese slang) at 2:30pm and then my 1st speech therapy session at 4:30pm. it’s been very exciting being here. i am nervous and excited to do this treatment.

the nurses have been nice. some of them speak english well, some don’t. so when i wanted to go out to dinner on thursday with chris legallet who’s william’s friend from when they were kids in california, i asked the nurse to call me a cab and she just kept saying no. she didn’t speak english well and wasn’t nice. i literally had to chase her down the hall and try to find the correct phrase in my chinese handbook. no luck. she shut the door on me because she had to deal with another patient. sigh. so i had to call wendy who works in the international department here. she has helped me sooo much! i had her speak with the nurse after i explained what i wanted to do. wendy speaks english well, so she has been my lifesaver so far! she and i have had fun together!

we went to walmart together on thursday afternoon after my IVs finished. so far, i’ve been getting 2 IVs daily. i know mama g refuses to go to walmart, but it was great to go visit there! i got lots of stuff! like cereals, razors, soaps, tissues, and i even got a really cheap bra! hahaha it was only 12RMB (divide by 8 for US $ prices)!!! hahahah the one i have kept poking me with the wire, so it was nice to get a comfy one.

the lady who brings food is my new friend too!! she’s so cute! the first night i was here, i thought i’d treat myself and get sizzler. i ordered the combination of fish and pork chop. the lady told me it’d be here at 6:30 but she was late, so when she finally arrived, i was starving! it’s nice that each room here is supplied with 2 plates, 2 bowls, 2 smaller plates and 2 rice bowls plus some silverware. i was glad that wendy bought some sponges for me to use to wash the platters and silverware. they even supply you with dishwashing liquid, so that’s nice. oh they even supply you with a cup, a new toothbrush and even toothpaste! so that’s great!

so back to the food lady, she brought me my food with the receipts and most foreigners here are new to china so they don’t about how there’s a place to scratch off on the fapios(receipts). if you get a good one, you can actually win some money! like 50RMB! it was funny that the lady had scratched off my fapios because most people here at the hospital don’t know about that! but since william and i live here part of the year, we know about that. so later, i told the lady wo de fapios(=my fapios), smiling. she giggled. she’s cute! hahahah

she just brought me my food for lunch. i ordered some celery and fruit salad because the pork and carrots plus black fungus dish with rice i ordered last night is HUGE!! i still have some for later. i also ordered some cucumbers which came with a black dippling sauce for lunch yesterday and i still have some of that to eat! it’s fun to be in the hospital this time because i can actually eat! when i first got to the hospital in london in october 2003, i couldn’t eat then; i fed myself with a peg then. this time is much better! haha

ok, i suppose i should eat my lunch since i get my TCM in 2 hours. more later!!!

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