JC’s MJD Blog

“Made in China”

April 29th, 2007

Since we arrived here we have been on the look out for some fantastic toys. We fiqured that since everything in Canada says made in China we would hit the jackpot with toys. We were hoping to bring the kids back some cool toys and eliviate our guilt for leaving them so long. However there are no toys here we have gone everywhere. I asked the girls who work for the stem cell company who speak some english what the kids play with here or what they played with when they were little. Toys is not a word they understand. When my kids don’t want to do their homework I would always say” in China the kids study from the time they wake up until they go to bed.” I did not know this to be a fact but now I really think that they do study or read for fun because they don’t have anything to do and they don not know any different. We have watched some kids activities around town like renting roller blades and skating around in this little roped off area. There are also these huge plastic bubble things, like we put hamsters in to scoot around this house, well the kids get in and float around in a little pond. They have pony rides but they are not real ponies they are like our big stuffed horses that you win at the exibition with wheels on them that kids go up and down on and race them, quite funny to watch.

When JC is not with me I never take the elevator not because I dont’ feel like waiting for it but because seeing all the people here in the hospital who can’t use their legs makes me have a very grateful that I can take the stairs. I enjoy everystep down and up the stairs as we all should. We take for granted that we can move but in a moment it can all be taken away. So hopefully those of you who can will take the stairs today and really appreciate this gift.

They try to save energy here for instance the hotwater in the shower is only on for so long during the day and those stairs I was talking about are in darkness until you walk by a motion sensor and it lights up in front of you so as I walk the 10 flights of stairs it is total darkness behind me so it is like a horror movie when I hear voices but can’t see where they are coming from, so if I fall down the stairs because the sensor didn’t come on or if I am murdered in the stairwell at least you will all know that I was happy to be there.

JC gets acupuncture and an IV with chinese medicine in it everyday and he absolutely dreads it. IV is usually uncomfortable when it is being put in but the 2nd IV he had the nurse tried 3 times and even scraped a bone it was torture, the next day different nurse no problem, yesterday the bone scraper came in to do it we both looked at each other and rolled our eyes, I stayed on the computer minding my own business hoping that today she would know how to do it. Well I heard her say sorry and I stood up and asked JC if it was in, he said that it was the 3rd time she tried I yelled to her to stop and told her no more, then I ran to get some one who spoke english and to look for the other nurse who took one time to get it in. I found them and moved the other nurse who is very friendly but to tortorous out of here. The good nurse put in right in no problem.

Ladies I have found the trick to make your husband fall back in love with you TELL HIS IV NURSE TO GET OUT. I swear that after that IV was in I literally saw hearts in JC ‘s eyes and like you see in the cartoons little lovebirds circling around his head, he was so thankful that I stopped her. I went to her later and said sorry if I made you feel bad but you hurt him to much and the other nurse was not so painful, she said sorry and that she understood. Wonder who will give him the next one, ha ha. In Canada we would just have to suffer through with whatever nurse we got but here, we are lucky.I tried to get those hearts and birds back with acupuncture by telling them that we only want the doctor to do it instead of the ” the assistants” because they hurt, we got the doctor to do it now and it is not as painful. No birds but seeing him not suffer is reward enough.

I am writing this on Sunday morning because this web page was not working last night. JC was walking very very unsteady lastnight. This morning not to bad and we get another stemcell injection today, we can’t wait. I am not allowed in the stemcell room and even if I was I probably wouldn’t be allowed NOW. I am very home sick but I try not to think about how many days are left but focus on how many days we have to get him better, it’s a little easier that way.

Thanks for all the prayers…………………

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