Gruner’s ALS Blog

How to come to Qingdao

January 1st, 2009

I have been several times in Shanghai. I started 2003 when my boss asked me to develop and support the German IT system for our partner company SKS (Shanghai Krupp Stainless).

Thank you by this way to the best company ThyssenKrupp and to my Boss Mr. Bransmoeller to give me the responsibility for the IT software engineering.

During my work in shanghai I meet a beautiful famous actor in my living hotel. Her name is Cat and she has a marvellous voice. After some journey’s I took my German college Martin with me to shanghai because he asked me to support me by the project and I was thankful for his help. He and Cat becomes a couple and we all become friend.

The project finished in 2006 but we still kept in contact. When my wife died in August 2008 after a heavy tumour (lymphoma) my daughter Sofia und my brother Jörg pressured me to go to shanghai for vacancy again. I still got my illness (ALS) witch was also diagnosed in July 2008. The symptoms started in December 2007 but I never kept in my mind that I got such kind off disease. After one trip to Mobile, Alabama USA in May 2008, I recognized that I could not follow my colleges at the airport by the fastened they were walking. So I went to my doctor and after a short research he sent me to hospital for check out. These were not good news what I got.

So my brother Jörg, Sofi and I travelled to Shanghai in October 2008. It was a good time and Cat, Martin, Jörg and Sophia take care off me the whole time because my walking was not really in balance and my muscle power increased a lot. I used some traditional Chinese medicine with the helping hands of Cat and she bought a magazine witch she never bought before and found some article of the Qingdao Hospital working with stem cell treatment. She got in contact with the doctor of the hospital and I sent my documents to the facility supported by Matthew (Thank you for your help).

I flew to Shanghai on the 15 December 2008 and travel to Qingdao on 29 December 2008.

My daughter Sophia supported me during my stay in Shanghai and she also will visit me in Qingdao. Thanks to Cat and Martin for the room and rest in shanghai and also to my entire friend from Coconut Bar Shanghai.

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