Brad’s Ataxia Blog

Moved out of hotel

I spent my first night in the hotel and the bed was twice as hard as Jeanine descirbed it.  The hospital bed was much more comfortable.  When you enter the room with the key card you put the card in a slot to activate power.  The windows had been open with a nice breeze during the day.  After unpacking I closed the windows and tried the air conditioner.  It worked very well with exception it was a smoking room and the smoke smell was terrible.  I turned it off and reopened the windows.  The combination of smell and hard bed led me to a grand scheme.  Rather than exchange rooms for a non-smoking room, I tried a bribe.  I rose early 4:44 a.m. to fireworks.  By the time I got to Brads room at 6:30 he was up already.  I tried the bribe.  I offered to pay him the remaining hotel bill if I could stay in the room with him.  He gave me several conditions and we struck a deal.  I checked out of the hotel and moved in with Brad.  All that and we still made it in time for chruch.  So far so good.

The chruch service was good.  The praise music was familiar and worshipful.  The passage preached on was Prov. 31:10 ff.  Since that is mostly for the women anyway we listened to a sermon in Chinese.  People were very nice and a joy to worship with.  A young lady in front of us offered us her English/Chinese NIV Bible.  She had it all marked up with notes written throughtout.  What a joy!

Craig

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Arrived May 8

We flew ou of Atlanta and went over Minnisota, over Canada, over the Nothewest Territory, over Russia, then to Shanghai.  We had to wait for Chinese officials to board the plane and check for swine flu.  Other than that and being long, he trip over went well.  We arranged for a diver from Shanghai to Hangzhou which took about two hours.  We went to church at Chong Yi ths Sunday morning May 10 and it was a good experience.  Thanks to everyone for the many thoughts and prayers during this journey.

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Brad will be leaving Thursday May 7th to return to China for his second trip and rounds of treatments.  He will be there about a month, returning June 5th.  I will be accompanying him on the trip over, however, I will only be there two weeks.  My plan is to keep everyone updated with his progress as long as I am there.  It will be up to Brad to keep us informed after I leave.

This will be my first trip to China and I am counting on Brad for communication and sight-seeing.  He has several places he is recommending that I see.

Craig (Brad’s dad)

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