Jay’s CP Blog

Day 27 – Saturday 17/11/07

Jay has no therapies today. We hired a carer to look after Jay today so we could go the Great Wall of China.  We went with a few of the people staying here they had organized a tour guide. We left at 7.30am it took about 1 and a half hours to get there, we then climbed a part of it to the top, it was really good but very tiring, it was just climbing stairs continuously. Amazing views from the top.   

My mum got talking to a man from Canada who turned out to be a nephew of the scientist earnest A McCulloch from Ontario who was one of the scientists who discovered stem cells.  How weird is that?  We have his email address and he has asked us to keep in touch and let him know about Jay and the results from the stem cells as he said his uncle would be most interested to hear, though he is in his 80′s now.We then were taken to visit a cloisonné factory (copper based items enameled over the top) some very nice items but very expensive. We then went for our lunch which was really good, about seven dishes were put on our table for us all to try different things, all of them very nice.  We then went to a jade factory, we were shown how to tell if it was real or fake and shown some really nice pieces, again very expensive.  We then went to visit a chinese family (Mrs Wong, her mother, her husband and son) she made us tea and gave us fruit.  On the way back we stopped outside the Olympic stadium so we could take photos of the outside of it, it looks like a metal nest, we also saw the swimming one and the cycling one, all very nice for the Olympics 2008. When we arrived back Jay was very exited to see us, the carer didn’t speak any English so we couldn’t ask her how he was but Jay was happy so I could tell he had a nice day.  I think she just let him do what he wanted and just followed him around, so he would have been delighted. We all had a really good day.

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Day 26 – Friday 16/11/07

Jay had his therapies as usual, not very co-operative at his PT but was very good at his OT (for a change).  He was thrilled when Lily put his tongue to the top of his mouth and he was able to say J for the first time.  He got so excited and managed to say the letter about 6 times.  He also managed many other exercises and was so happy when he managed them. Jay & Granny went for 2 long walks down the street and Jay waved to all the cars as they peeped and there was lots of peeping (it’s like constant road rage here).  Jay in a very good mood this afternoon and is still awake as I type this blog at 9.15pm.  Granny was woken in the night by a bad nightmare about Jay, she dreamt he had wandered off as he is always trying to do she eventually found him in a small stream in a hypothermic condition.  she awoke shaking with fear.  Just a few minutes later she heard a door opening, thinking it was either me or Julia going to the toilet, she didn’t think much of it but lifted her head to look and to her surprise there was Jay with the front door open just ready to escape.  Nobody had woken up to his getting out of bed, (Up to his usual tricks) we do have suitcases pushed against the door so he can’t open it but he had managed to pull them out of the way. Julia & I went shopping, we bought some thermals as it is getting really cold here.  Everyone wears thick footless tights here, even the men to keep them warm as I discovered when Jay was trying to look at there socks.

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