Brooke’s CP Blog

Wednesday, Oct. 22nd

October 23rd, 2008

Hello everyone.  We had our normal schedule of therapy today, PT, Electric Wave, and OT.  Brooke did well today through it all.  NO complaining today.  The last couple of days Brooke has been tired.  It seems to be that the day after her spinal treatment she is extremly tired and not eager to eat right away.  Today, not as tired but still a little more tired then usual.  Brooke is still walking really well with my assistance.  Yesterday, while playing with the kids she sat unassisted briefly but does evently fall over (she did this at home briefly but it was longer yesterday.  So I am going to keep trying and see if it continues.  I will let you know.  She continues to have her giggling spurts early in the morning, which we absolutely love…NOT.  She just starts laughing for no apparent reason extremly early.  I am working on getting Brooke an MRI.  Patients here have had them but not Brooke.  I want to see the damage in Brooke’s brain and how much there is.  Brooke has never had an MRI.

Today, we went for a walk outside to the RT Mart (grocery store here in China) and as usual are starred at alot by people driving vehicles, people on mopeds, people walking and people riding bikes.  There was this man on a moped, he drove by starring at us and proceeded to hit a man on a bike.a  The man on the bike was okay.  He may have hurt his hand because he was holding it and his bike had a flat tire and was a bit bent up.  I am surprised that this has not happened sooner.  The man on the moped was fine.  The moped lost a few pieces.   You could tell the man on the moped was disgusted.  It appeared to be a brand new moped.  The man on the moped was calling someone, maybe the police but we did not stick around. 

Yesterday we learned about some worm getting into the hospital at night.  It is greyish in color, has alot of legs, attenna’s and pinchers.  It has even biten a little girl.  She was treated for the bites and is fine.  It comes in at night through the bathroom apparently.  The people that have seen it are on the nineth floor.  Diane has covered the drains in the bathroom since in the evening when we go to sleep.  All I know is that I do not want to see it. 

I received an email from our friends from Massachusetts, Barbara and Deena.  I mentioned them in the blog before. Barbara has ataxia.  She has seen more improvement since she is has been home.  Here she had to use a walker to get around most of the time and she has been walking around without it for about 4 days now, go Barb. That is great.  Alot of patients here are seeing small improvements already.

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