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Saturday, Oct. 25th 7 days to Go…the countdown begins

Hello again.  Brooke is great. This is the day after the spinal treatment and all is well. Brooke did not eat much today at all, must be the stem cells.  Brooke did alot of walking today.  We didn’t do much today because you have to hang around the hospital after stem cells.  We did go for a walk to the Central Park here that is absolutely gorgeous.  Brooke walked part of the way there with my assistance of course.  Her steps seemed to be really good today.  Her ability to sit seems a bit better as well.  She still falls over but can sit longer then usual.   Brooke loves going for walks and the more bumps you hit along the way the better the walk is.  Well today, we broke Brooke’s stroller because of all the off roading we are doing with her stroller.  The wheel fell off today.  Luckily we were able to have the maintenance man from the hospital fix it.  I thought for sure we were SOL because some of the parts to the wheel were missing.  But we got it fixed.

For dinner tonight we went to the International Buffet.  We had been there once before.  Our neighbor Mike came with us.  It was pretty good and felt wonderful to get out.  The buffet is at this gorgeous five star hotel and feels like we are some what of a vacation for a couple of hours.  There is alot of different food items on the buffet as you can imagine.  The best thing about it is that it was only 100 RMB each.  Which is only about seventeen US dollars.  The buffet included duck, pork, beef, chicken, chicken feet, rice, salads, tons of seafood, tons of dessert, soups , breads, and fruit.  It was very interesting to say the least but good. 

Brooke has two more treatments next week. Monday is an IV and Wednesday is her final treatmetn via spinal.  Saturday we leave at 11:30. I am anxious to leave but will miss the staff as well as some patients.  The doctor’s and nurses are all so very nice.  I want to say thanks to Dr. Bing for all he has done for Brooke.  All the interpeters are great and thank you for everything.  Wendy and Amanda are great.  Thanks to the nurses for taking great care of Brooke. 

Until tomorrow………

Kris, Diane , and Brooke

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Friday, Oct. 24th 6th Injection

Hello again.  Brooke just got back from having her 6th spinal injection and so far is doing GREAT.  Typically she does well but the next day is extremly tired and not hungry.  Brooke made it through without any problems.  She does get a bit anxious laying there for 6 hours but for the most part she is pretty good.  She does lift her head but you can’t stop that completly.  Still not too much improvement here.  I expect that if there will be any improvements itis going to be when we return home and she is back to her therapy and school.  I do believe I see the walking improvement already.   In January, Brooke will be starting Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy again.  I would like to do another Therasuit session but we have to have the funds for that. 

Yesterday afternoon we went to the Jimo Market again.  We only went back because Diane’s GUCCI purse broke and we needed to exchange it.  So of course I bought more.  Diane also insisted that we eat at McDonalds.  When we got there we had Big Macs and French Fries.  Diane also ate a hamburger.  We broght hamburgers home and froze them.  We had to take a taxi home and the driver we had started to pull over in this dark area.  We had no idea what he was doing or where he was taking us.  He said a few things in Chinese opened the door and proceeded to pee.  Diane and I were laughing so hard, Brooke even laughed too but she was laughing at us laughing. Only in China

Our neighbor Mike had his first spinal yesterday and he asked us to check on him (he is by himself).  He said is spinal took 2 hours and was painful.  He was not completely knocked out, only gave him a local.   He was fne.  He is an extremly nice man.  He is from New York. 

 Oh yeah, Linda and Thomas from Canada left yesterday, I am jealous but we are just a week away. 

It is now time to go to bed, it is late.  We miss everyone

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