Yesterday after Bradley’s spinal treatment he ended up waking up after about a half an hour which left him with 5 and a half hours left to lay flat on his back. He says it feels like he is in prison when he has to lay still for that long. This time however it was magnified by his feeling nauseous and having a headache. He eventually threw up and was feeling so anxious that I could not keep him laying down for the remaining time. It was not fun!! We called for the doctor but he did not seem too concerned…I guess it is just a side effect of the treatment. A lot of the children who got treatments yesterday ended up getting sick and we all were concerned. After a lot of discussion we decided that the kids were not hydrated enough which is important they say for a successful treatment. Some of the kids IV liquids were started to late and Bradley’s kept backing up and not dripping properly. It is hard to communicate with the doctors and nurses here. We do have interpreters but it is still two different ways of doing things or two different cultures. It is hard to explain. Do not get me wrong the interpreters are great and very helpful I just wish they had someone like Kirshner, an American medical consultant for the company who has a lot of knowledge about the whole treatment, around all the time. She has been here and is coming back while we are still here. Things seem to run much smoother when she is around. Nevertheless, Bradley got up and took a shower and then he felt fine. He went out and chatted for about an hour then came back to the room and fell asleep for the night. He only has one IV and one spinal treatment left. We are on the home stretch!
He was feeling fine when he got up this morning. We hung around the hospital awhile and then went to Cheryl’s hotel room to get showers. When we came back to the hospital a couple of families were going down town to Pizza Hut and to shop. We decided to tag along. We started out at a shop that tailor makes you clothes. You pick your fabric and style that you want and they measure you and make it in a couple of days. It is not very expensive either…things are cheap here. Macie decided to have a dress made and I cannot wait to see it!! Pizza Hut was very nice. They had some stuff on their menu that we would never have at home like fried squid rings, shrimp, etc. We ordered the American special and it was great!! Later we went shopping and Bradley found a transformer store and got a transformer for himself and one for a little boy named Glen. Glen has ONH also and his birthday is tomorrow. He likes transformers too so Bradley and him have been playing with them together.
Well there is some exciting news to report about Macie. She says she is able to read things from father away now!! We are so excited for her! Some of the other parents are saying they can see a difference in Bradley’s eye movements. I do think that when he is focusing he is able to hold his eyes more still. When he is not focusing on something though they do seem to still move quite a bit. Nevertheless we will put our hope and trust in Christ and continue to pray for a healing!!
8 comments July 22nd, 2008
