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Well we all three finally ventured out to the Jimo Market today. It’s about four stories tall with everything you can possibly imagine. They love to bargain there. You will not see prices on anything. You just walk up and say how much. They will punch in a number on a calculator. Then you punch in a counter offer. It just goes back and forth until you both agree. At first it was really weird, but after awhile it’s kinda fun. This pic is all three of us outside the Jimo Market. We figured we’d go out today because Josh has his 2nd spinal injection tomorrow. We’ll be in the room most of the day. We are missing everyone terribly! We are ready to get through this and get back home. It’s neat getting to visit in another country but there’s no place like home. Please pray that Josh’s treatment will go well tomorrow. Josh says tell everyone hi. He enjoys reading all the blogs from everyone. It definately brightens his day. hugs and kisses to everyone
Melissa, Josh, and mom
July 22nd, 2008
This is Josh and Braden eating at the Paradise Club. It’s really close to the hospital. Josh tried lamb chops for the first time and said they were excellent. We also ordered desert and the waiter actually came over to Josh and helped him take the first bite. You couldn’t have asked for sweeter people. You will see the table in the picture. It is lower than our knees. That took some getting used to.
July 22nd, 2008
We went to KFC yesterday. They still say they don’t have shrimp sandwiches so Josh got wings on a stick. He said they were pretty good.
July 22nd, 2008
Josh is scheduled for his first injection in the spinal canal today. The nurse just came in and put an iv in his hand and is giving him fluids right now. They say stem cells love fluids. He is supposed to get the injection around 2:30 pm. The whole procedure is supposed to only take around 15 or 20 minutes. When they bring him back, he’ll have to lay flat of his back for 6 hours. He can slowly roll over on his sides, but he is not supposed to raise his head up. I guess it has to do with keeping the spine straight.
Sorry it took me so long to get some pictures on here. I still haven’t figured it out 100% but I’m getting there. I appreciate everyone’s comments. It’s nice to here from everyone back home. Mom says hi to all her customers. She misses all her people from the rest. We are already home sick. We are slowly getting more used to things here. Everyone says it’s hard the first week. We love and miss everyone. Please pray for Josh that his treatment will go well. Thank you…
Melissa
July 18th, 2008
We were walking around one day and we saw this woman selling bottled water. We bought a couple and I held my camera up. She came running up and wanted her picture taken with all of us. She was very sweet.
July 18th, 2008
We went walking at the park for awhile. They have everything decorated for the olympics. It is absolutely beautiful. We had Josh pose in front of one of them.
July 18th, 2008
Josh didn’t like this too much
July 18th, 2008
Josh says “wasn’t too bad”
July 18th, 2008
Joshua had his first stem cell injection through an IV yesterday. He did good. It only took about an hour to complete. Most of the day we just laid around. I think we are still recovering from traveling here. It takes awhile to get adjusted.
About 7:00 last night we were bored so we finally ventured out by ourselves. Josh has been wanting to try KFC here, so we took him to the one in the RT Mart. When Kacie was here she really liked the shrimp sandwiches so Josh wanted to try one.We looked at the menu with pictures when we got there and we couldn’t find it. Nobody spoke enough english to understand what we were talking about so Josh just got some chicken and mashed potatoes. He said it was pretty good. Next time we’ll have someone write it down for us in Chinese.
We got Josh’s schedule for the week. He will have acupuncture today, wed. and thurs. Friday he will have his first spinal injection. Hopefully everything will go good. He’s a little nervous about it but I guess that’s to be expected. After Friday, he’ll know what to expect so he won’t worry about it so bad. Everyone here is super nice. Thank goodness for our translator Jessie. She has been a lot of help. I’d like to take her everywhere we go. That’s the hardest part is trying to communicate with people here. It gets very stressful.
Today after Josh’s acupuncture, we will probably venture out downtown and do a little shopping and hopefully try some different food. We get a little stir crazy sitting in this room all day. We miss everyone very much. We wish it was time to come home. As always we ask you pray for Josh that his treatments will go well. I’ll try and get some pictures on here soon.
Melissa
July 15th, 2008
We have finally arrived. It was an exausting trip. We are trying to get settled in. Josh is very excited about getting started. We just made a trip to the RT Mart and picked up a few things. We are back at the hospital and just ordered Chinese food for supper. Our translator just informed us that Josh would be getting his first stem cell injection through an IV in the morning (Monday) at 10:20. Hopefully everything will go well. It is only supposed to take around an hour. I will try and keep everyone informed. Right now I am using the hospital computer. The converter box I brought doesn’t fit my plug in for mine. Hopefully I will figure that out soon. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers for Joshua. Talk to you soon
Melissa
July 13th, 2008
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Well we all three finally ventured out to the Jimo Market today. It’s about four stories tall with everything you can possibly imagine. They love to bargain there. You will not see prices on anything. You just walk up and say how much. They will punch in a number on a calculator. Then you punch in a counter offer. It just goes back and forth until you both agree. At first it was really weird, but after awhile it’s kinda fun. This pic is all three of us outside the Jimo Market. We figured we’d go out today because Josh has his 2nd spinal injection tomorrow. We’ll be in the room most of the day. We are missing everyone terribly! We are ready to get through this and get back home. It’s neat getting to visit in another country but there’s no place like home. Please pray that Josh’s treatment will go well tomorrow. Josh says tell everyone hi. He enjoys reading all the blogs from everyone. It definately brightens his day. hugs and kisses to everyone
