Brad’s Ataxia Blog

Time for Pop to leave

May 24th, 2009

Friday morning I left for home.  It was a very interesting adventure to say the least.  I said my goodbye to Brad about 6:30 a.m. and left with a driver for the train station.  I decided to see the culture and the world.  I took the 7:40 to Shanghai.  It was a very nice train trip and quite comfortable.  I arrived Shanghai about 9:10 and walked to the bus terminal.  I caught a bus that was just about to pull out for the airport supposedly about an hour away.  It was standing room only.  We were in rush hour so the one hour turned into an hour and a half.  I had plenty of time to get lost so it worked out just fine.  I arrived 3 hours before the plane left which allowed me time to go to Burger King.  

The view from the waiting area was incredible as you watched planes landing and taking off in front of you.  Not more than 200 to 300 yards from the runway is the coast and looking over the runway huge ships and barges were passing by as the shipping lane must be very close to the shore line.

The flight was 16 hours non stop to Atlanta.  I left at 6:30 a.m. Xiaoshan China and arrived about 6:30 p.m. Atlanta on the same day.  Atlanta is 12 hours behind China.  So I traveled 24 hours and arrived the day I left.  Sounds like an answer for a good riddle.

Well Brad was very glad to be on his own with out parents around.  I don’t blame him one bit.  The hospital staff could not be nicer although they did not approve of him staying there by himself.  He had to sign a waiver that he was responsible for staying on his feet and NOT fall!!

Brad was scheduled to have his stem cell treatment on Friday afternoon, the day I left.  He said he would up date the blog so I am hopeful that he will for us all to keep up with his progress.

Jet lag is setting in so better go before my eyelids do.

Craig for Brad.

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