Esa's CP Blog

29th December 2009 ( 4 days after 4th spinal injection)

December 29th, 2009

After a good night rest,  ESA did not developed any cold, his resistance may have improved. He got up this morning cheerful as usual and well behaved.

We took him for his 14th acupuncture and the last this morning and everything went through smoothly. We said goodbye to the acupuncture Doctor who was very caring during ESA’s treatment.

Just as we are getting to learn more of living life with Chinese characteristics, the time has come for us to leave. The anti-climax of the 30 days stay in Guangzhou Provincial Hospital TCM is setting in smoothly. Two families have completed their treatment and returned home and three new patients have checked in.

ESA will be taking his final stem cell injection (of 6 in total) by tomorrow – second intravenous injection. Like the Chinese saying “the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step”.  Have we taken that single step ?  I truly believe we have. And the next step and steps to come depend on us to follow up persistently throughout to see the end of the journey.

Learning to walk, talk, to see and all other normal activities which are visibly lacking in ESA can be liken to putting in the software in a computer. There must first be a compatible hardware to support such inputs.  Stem cells treatment in essence is like building the hardware; improve the memory and brain capacity first and thereafter to follow by inputs of the “software”. It is for these reasons that we have opted out from giving him physio therapy for the moment. For the moment, we continue with his daily physical exercises.

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