Monday, Oct. 13th
Hello everyone. Well Brooke is finally done wth all of her IV’s. She has been on an IV since the 8th of October. She is doing very well. We take her for walks in the hospital hallway alot. She likes to walk around.
Anyways, yesterday (Sunday) we went out to dinner downtown to a Japenese Restaurant. We could not read the menu. We had to call the interperter and have her talk to the server. Then we got new menus. We had to order one food item from each page. There was 4 of us and the server came and took each and everyones order individually. We ordered some of the same things and some different. We were first serveid peanuts and two other food items that I have no idea what they were. Then we were servied BIG PRAWN with fish eggs (I did not know they were fish eggs) Yes, I ate the fish eggs. Then we were served pumpkin soup (which none of ordered) and some kind of tart. Then we were served raw Salmon, which 3 of us did not order, the salmon was servied with Wasabi dipping sauce, this sauce was so HOT that I needed a fire extinguisher…OMG! We did not like raw fish, so we asked the chef to cook it and she did and it was so good, Then we were served our beef (which we all ordered something different again) that was very tasty. After Beef, we were served Bean sprouts, which I only ordered, then some chinese noodles that looked like white worms again, which we did not order. I don’t even know why the server took our orders individually because we did not get what we ordered. What I did order and get was beer.,..YUMMY. All in all it was pretty good and quite the experience. We had to take a taxi to get there. The cost of our mean was $200 RMB per person, which is about $27.00 US per person, not bad for what we ate.
Today, we did not do much. Brooke did not have therapy and won’t until Friday. The doctor’s want her to rest and take it easy. We have a spinal treatment on Wednesday (finally what we came for). I am excited. I just hope it goes better for her. No change in Brooke yet from the Stem Cells but we are not done. Our friends from Massachusetts are leaving today, how sad. Then our other friends from leave tomorrow. That leaves only one lady and her son, Thomas (from Canada) left from when we originally arrived. But there are alot of new people here. We had a large gathering in the common area last night. I think just about everyone from our floor attended.
Today, we saw a 3 car accident (I’m not suprised about that), I am actually shocked that I do not see more accidents. There has to be an astronomical amount of accidents. Today, we also went to the Qingdao gift shop hoping to buy souvenirs. That was not the case, it was just statues and weird other useless items, not what we expected. I am still yet to find a shirt of some sort that says Qingdao, china on it. All of the shits here have American writing. I even found a MICHIGAN football shirt but no China. This weekend is free and we are defintely going downtown and spending a couple nights there, go the zoo, polar world, shopping at the jimo market, and walk the cost. It will be nice to get away from the hospital, especiallly since we had to stay in for so long. For dinner tonight we are having BLT. Diane made Brooke left over chicken and made a white sauce. She loved it.
Again, to everyone that is following our journey, thank you and we love and miss all of you. My email is just4brooke@gmail.com if you want to email me.
Until tomorrow or the next day.
Kris
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