Elizabeth’s MS Blog

07/05/08

May 7th, 2008

Not had too bad a day at all with 1 PT session, walking has been a bit better. Seem to have won the body fluid provision battle as no nurse turned up at 7am to take blood. Infact we have not been bothered with nurses all day, whereas in Hangzhou, they came and checked for blood pressure and temperature and pulse and caca every day.

Richard met up with a chinese lady, Chris, yesterday, and asked her about the 20 minute away SM. She said you can go and return for free on a bus, but a taxi was less than 2GBP per trip. So Richard said he would pay for the taxi if she would be the guide. So off they went this morning including Chris’ mum and brother who is a nerve sufferer. Richard became worried in the taxi going as he had not written down the name of the hospital, and if he got lost, then that was it. No way home. He needn’t have worried as Chris’ mum did their shopping, and Chris chauffeured him around the SM. It helps when you speak the lingo to the assistants. Thus, he has got himself a 24 pack of beers(small ones), and I have a bottle of Lindemans Chardonney. So happiness will reign tonight. It was interesting that he tried to tip the taxi driver, and Chris intervened and grabbed the tip back, and told him that tipping was not to be done in China….great!!

Richard went to the restaurant and made some selections from the trays on show, but talking to one of the Indian ladies, we agreed, that Indian cooking was way up on Chinese cooking. However, there might be a small difference between her cooking and what we call Indian cooking served up at the ‘Spice Cottage’ restaurant.

After dinner this evening, I took the air, using the wheelchair for stability(I suggested to Richard that he should get into the chair and I would push him around for a change. He politely declined).  I took the lift down a level to the ground floor and did a bit of strolling around the gardens, which are interesting. There are Jack fruit trees where the large sized fruits grow straight out of the trunk and branches. Don’t stand underneath when they fall. Felt a few nibbles, which were likely to be mossies, so decided that I had done quite well, and returned to our room.

Richard said he had killed 6 or 7 as he was doing his typing, but they were hardly worth his effort, and no half pint of blood came out of them as per an Aussie one.

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