“good days and bad days”
Everyone has told us that there will be good days and bad days but where we started off so great after the 1st injection we thought that it was going to be all good. Lastnight JC had a major headache which he never gets but it is a side effect of the stem cell injection. He went to bed very early 7:30. We woke up early and spoke with the kids via web-cam, such a wonderful start to our day. JC’s walking is off and we hope that it is just because it is early. Unfortunately his balance is very unsteady the whole day and we are both disappointed. We do the regular daily routine and the headache is still hanging on but JC still gives 110% but it is frustrating because his “dizziness” has returned.
A good part of today is that we found a few things we could eat. For lunch we went to a restaurant and pointed to a picture with spagetti and one with rice and veggie/beef. The spagetti was tasty but the other tasted like Mr. Clean. We also went out to eat with our friends for supper at a place where the menu had some english and also a waitress who spoke english it was great, JC had steak.We are very lucky to have such wonderful friends here, we know we will be friends for life.
Something else good was that JC did not have acupuncture today, we think that they forgot and he wasn’t going to suggest it.
I also think that I have found the secret to the elevator situation. I put Bengay heat cream on my leg today and when I got in the elevator people were gagging and holding their noses, people were getting off the elevator because they couldn’t stand the smell and they weren’t hiding the fact that it was because of me. You would think that this would be embarassing but I couldn’t stop smiling and thinking to myself no more crowded elevators for me.
I am quite shocked at how many bums we see on the streets here, and I don’t mean homeless, I mean bums literally. Everywhere you go baby’s bums are hanging out, the small children and baby’s pants all have a slit down the bum and no diapers they just go anywhere and I quess the parents just clean the spot, I haven’ quite figured this out yet.
Bathrooms are a totally different story. It is funny how with all the people we talked to about going to China and all the research we did one little fact slipped by.
On our first full day here JC and I went to get “massages” to (tramatic to mention now). I had to pee really bad and of course I hadn’t bothered to learn the word for bathroom at this point, so I am making hand gestures and doing actions, try it is harder than you think, finally after doing this for a few minutes and for a few people I was finally directed to a room with a couple of stalls. I go in the first one and there is a hole in the floor, so I move to the next stall figuring that maybe they were reparing where that toilet was supposed to go, next stall same thing but this time I see a roll of toilet paper. At this point I am ready to explode and figure this is going to be impossible well let me just say it’s possible. This is the normal way of using the bathroom, sqatting over a hole in the ground, we fiqure that is why everyone around here has no thighs or bum because they are doing squats all day long. So when I get home my toilet is gone.
We have to go in every bathroom everywhere, we go just to get a look and to let those who haven’t experienced this new exercise routine try it out. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND SO DO YOUR SHOES.
Well I am writing this late and JC is already asleep, so sweet dreams , I hope tomorrow is better for JC.
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