5th treatment done!
Today Bradley had his fourth spinal injection and fifth treatment all together. He was very nervous…they give him something to calm him down during the spinal but that is what makes him the most nervous. I think it is valium and they give it to him through the iv port in his hand. He says it burns very very bad. Bradley is one of the only kids here that does not get knocked out for the spinal. They do not want to sedate the kids so I guess if they don’t freak out they do not put them to sleep…Bradley does freak out…he just does not let anyone know. The sedation only last for a little while anyway…if I understand it right. Macie was so sweet…she walk beside of Bradley’s bed with me while they were wheeling him up to get his treatment. Then she stayed there and talked to him to try to calm him down while he was waiting to go in with the doctors. And she was nervous herself because she was getting a treatment after him. They just brought him back in the room not long ago and he is sleeping. I hope he can sleep for awhile. Now we need to just pray for the stem cells to do what they are supposed too!! Please Jesus…please!!!
I am doing better besides from there being no hot water and the water everyone does have is orange. The translators said they have some one trying to fix it. Thank goodness we can go to the hotel and take a nice shower if we want. The smells around here will knock you out also. I do not think I will ever get use to that.
Yesterday we went to the RT Mart for the first time. Bradley did not want to go but I made him. Bradley said he had been 5 million times already! Macie and her mom Shel went with us. Todd may have told you but it is like a Walmart but bigger and very crowded. Everywhere is crowed around here. We got some groceries and I took some pictures of some of the great things they had to eat. Frogs or turtles anyone. A lot of the stuff we have at our bait shops they are selling to eat!! Squid, eels, grass shrimp, every part of a chicken or duck that you can imagine, pig heads. Shel said this was the first and last time she was taking me to that section of the store so take a good look…lol. We went to KFC there for lunch after shopping. I got a chicken sandwich and when I bit into it it had peas and carrots mixed in with the processed chicken…it was so strange and I could not eat it. So I went to get chicken nuggets and they were dark meat with something orange in them. I didn’t eat them either.
For dinner we went with a bunch of other families to a very nice hotel with a buffet. It was good food like home and I was able to eat! I think we saw some of the Olympic sailors there also…they had sailing shirts on anyway and were not Chinese. They are decorating everywhere for the Olympics. It is neat to see. Well I know everyone is going out in the boat and to the beach and I am very jealous!! Think about me while you are basking in the sun!!!
11 comments July 21st, 2008
