Pictures post!
Hi everybody!
Okay, now I know how to include pictures in a post!
But first, before the visual feast, I have an update about the date of the first injection. It is delayed another day. Now it is on Thursday (Wednesday night your time). That is when she will get her first IV stem cell injection (not the spinal).
Here’s some pictures to share so you have a visual of our adventure………enjoy! If you want to see any picture bigger, you can double-click on it to enlarge it.
At least Jillian was roomy and comfortable on the long plane ride!!!!! 
This is the hospital: ZheJiang Xiaoshan Hospital…..and our room plaque with Jillian’s name from the USA
This is our rigged up luxury bath for Jillian. The child’s tub is tied in by a belt I used to have…..it was a braided belt that we unbraided and used the three lengths to tie it onto the safety rails around the toilet. The tub is kind of suspended in air above the john. It works though! Good thing Jillian’s not snooty!
This is a typical day outside. Although today as I’m writing this, it is sunshiny outside and I can actually see blue sky and see for miles! But it’s still very hazy. I was starting to think you never saw blue sky.
This is our room in the hospital. We’ve rearranged it so Jillian’s bed is alongside the wall so there’s more room.
This is the night I cooked spagetti for us and about 4 other families. It was a hit! What you see here is pretty much the whole “kitchen.”
This is Jillian in standing therapy.
Jillie and Grandmommy chillin’ and hangin’.
This is our first venture out of the hospital. We walked to a small park nearby. There’s tons of pictures…….
This is the night we went OUT! We went with an interpreter and a driver to (pronounced) Woo Shan Square. We didn’t stay very long because Jillian was tired and anxious to get to pizza. She didn’t give a hoot about being surrounded by Chinese culture….she wanted pizza. There’s a few I just have to narate…….
This is my favorite picture…..
This is all carved in wood…..there’s also a wood carving inside of some kind of warrior. it was very detailed and pretty.
Okay…..here’s where it gets really good. Remember I told you about throngs of people gathering around Jillian, saying how she looked like Barbie, etc.? Well, in these pictures, what you don’t see is the dozen or so people that stepped back so they wouldn’t be in the picture…….but this gives you an idea. And it’s been like this everywhere she goes. If they don’t stop and talk to her, they openly stare/look at her.
Jillie and Grandmommy by some lion statues
This is just some fancy apothecary…….I think that’s ginger in the big glass bowls. I just had to take this picture….for those of you that know me, you know I dig this kind of stuff…
The only part of the evening that Jillian cared about……Pizza Hut. She couldn’t wrap her mouth around a piece of pizza fast enough. They were shocked at how much she ate. And those of you that know her, you’re probably not shocked at all!
This is the Chinese lady that we have as a helper after Mom left. She LOVES Jillian and Jillian loves her right back……most of the time. She even bought a couple little presents for Jillian yesterday….some little hair ties and a Hello Kitty pen. It’s great having her here, because, for instance, when I am making lunch or at the nurses’ station, she is playing with Jillian. Even right now while I am doing this post, she has Jillian in the “play room” and they’re having a great time. I have to admit that I have to kind of fight to hold my little girl though!!!! She is ALWAYS trying to take her from me. Last night she helped me give Jillian a bath (you know, the part that scares me most because she’s so darn slippery and heavy when she’s wet.). So last night I was bathing Jillie….and the helper was “helping” me. She’s got her hands in there washing too………next thing I know I was slowly inched away to the side…..and before I knew it, I was out and she was in! She scrubbed and scrubbed Jillie. I don’t think Jillie has ever had such a thorough washing. She was taking her hands and rubbing, rubbing, rubbing……. I swear she removed a layer of skin! So I went ahead and got the towel ready……and I became the helper!
We went to the grocery store and walked through a park on the way. It was really pretty. (Mom, this park is prettier than the one we went to……it’s the one we see out of our window)
This is Jillian’s physical therapist, Anna.
Okay, that’s all the pictures I have for now…………but I’m sure it was enough, right???!!!!!! I’ll post a little as I go from now on so there’s not so many at one time.
We love you all! I’ve got to go get my little girl back now…………
P.S. >>>>> Just a thought…….still no comments to read from Daddy yet. 
12 comments September 9th, 2008
