Bye Bye China
It’s been nice. We’ve met some great people. All the caregivers – the doctors, the nurses, the physiotherapists, the elevator operators, the housekeepers, and of course the other patients – but it’s time to go…
China has taught us so very many things, and has made us thankful for so very many things at home.
We are very thankful that the Chinese have this stem cell program and are open to have foreigners come into the country for treatment.
We are thankful that Becky’s physio concentrated on getting her legs working, and that it DID get her legs working much better than before. For many patients, that is not even an imagined goal – some were working to get a little use of their arms back.
We are thankful for the clean air to breathe back home, for the wide open green spaces, for having that ‘personal bubble’ of space back that we Canadians grant each other even in a crowd. Although it was fun to communicate with gestures and smiles, it will be good to hear our native tongue spoken around us again and know that we can be understood more easily.
It was an experience not to be forgotten. Thank you to each and every one of you for your support. We have felt supported even though we also felt very far away sometimes. Thank you for reading and for leaving comments that were read with much anticipation – a highlight of every morning here in Shenyang.
We are leaving tomorrow morning. We will have time to read (i hope, fingers crossed that the internet is a go) but not to write tomorrow. But Becky says to check back to the blog again. She will post again from time to time to let people know how things are going. It won’t be daily, but hopefully there will be good things to say about progress.
bye for now. Becky, Pat and kim
11 comments January 9th, 2008
