Yeah … We are back online! Denise had her spinal infusion Friday and it was pretty rough for her, but she got through it with flying colors. Afterwards she had to lay flat on her back for six hours. She was pretty tired after the spinal but she wasn’t ready to sleep so we went through some speech therapy, watched movies and after a few hours she fell asleep. I pulled my chair up next to her bed and stayed right next to her the whole time which is good because she woke up a couple of times and automatically tried to lift her head but I caught her and made sure she did not lift it. The next day Denise had a headache and I gave her some Children’s Tylenol, but luckily she did not have any nausea and her back was fine. Saturday we pretty much just stayed in our room and Denise laid in bed, got up to eat and laid back in bed. Her headache finally got better on Sunday around 11:00 am, then she was back to laughing at the movies and her music or any other noise that tickled her. I am putting pictures of some of the people who are here for stem cell treatments. There is Chris, Wendy and Michaela from Australia, Lynn and Davis from Georgia, USA, Angel and his dad from Equador, the three sisters and their mother from Spain and there are more but I don’t have pictures of everyone yet. I will post more as I get them. Sunday morning after Denise was feeling better we took Michaela a little present for her birthday and within 20 minutes there was quite a few people who showed up to do the same so we had an impromptu little get together which was really nice. Saturday I had mentioned to Lynn and Debbie (from Florida) that I wanted to go to the American Market to get some supplies and they decided they wanted to go also so we planned a trip for Sunday. Lynn told me that the markets get pretty crowded and fast paced on the weekends and she had arranged to have one of the nurses stay with her son Davis so I knew Denise would not enjoy it and she stayed with Davis and Nurse Tessie. Then it was ladies shopping day out so Lynn, Debbie and I went with our driver Charlie to the American Market where we went a little crazy getting items that were “familiar” and after that we went to the Jimo Market which is very much like a Flea Market, but more stuff and more crowded. This took several hours, but we all found some pretty cool stuff to buy that didn’t really cost too much. I guess I better sign off for now. Denise starts her therapies again tomorrow morning at 8:30 am and the doctor will be coming in before that. Then she will have her next round of stem cells in the afternoon. Have a GREAT day and we will talk to you again soon!
March 13th, 2011
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1. JoAnna | March 13th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Wow! You guys are busy! What an experience. Great to see that everything is going so well. Keep it up!
2. Kelly Novotny | March 14th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Hi Denise & Deb,
We are having a great time being able to see all of your pictures and keep up with all that Denise is going thru. Looks like she’s being a trooper and handling things well. Hope it continues that way for you both!
Good Luck with whatever today brings for you!
Kelly & AJ
3. denise-blea | March 14th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Hi Kelly & AJ. Denise is definitely very, very brave and is handling everything very well, even the acupuncture and when the nurses have to put the IVs into her hands. We are very busy each day and we also have our little routines, which help both of us throughout the day. I’m glad you guys are enjoying the pictures and I have so many more that I will put on Denise’s web site after we get home. Tell everyone we said Knee How, which means hello.
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