Elizabeth’s MS Blog

06/05/08

May 6th, 2008

Didn’t get off to a good start in the morning as a nurse arrived before 7.00 to start re-doing the body samples already done at Hangzhou, the results of which we had already given to the Haikou hospital last night. So she got sent away unceremoniously.

Our usually happy English cereal breakfast was a bit of a disaster too as the small carton of milk we had brought with us turned out to be extra sweet yoghourt. It didn’t go well when poured over our rice crispies and oats.

Finally a crowd of doctors arrived and asked how we liked it here. So I told them that it was different. They also laid it down that the rules were for body samples to be taken from all new arrivals….so there!!!

Things looked up after that and happiness was gradually restored. We have been given 2 nice upholstered chairs. We shifted Richard’s bed so that we could put the new chairs next to the window and then use the cupboard tops under the window sill as our new table. Then we got a shower mat, and I got a new OK mattress. Richard was taken to the local quaint ‘shops’ by our chinese interpreter, Maisie, complete with her sun umbrella, and delivered some bread, icecream and beer(I am sending him off tomorrow to visit the big SM although it is 20 minutes away by car, to stock us up for the 8 days to go), and the computer works!! Then had laundry turned around within 3 hours…fantastic, and we were given some DVDs, and there are 3 English speaking TV channels.

Then I had my bone marrow extracted. This is a more than half hour process and the doctor was fantastic giving me hardly any pain at all. I have read/heard of painful experiences when doing this.

Richard has just killed 1 mossie todate, and it was very small and quiet(definitely not Australian ones).

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