Jessie and London in our room
Hello All;
Last night after the lumbar stem cell transfer London fell asleep for some time then woke up at about 2:00 AM and cried for a couple hours. We finally got her back to sleep in the early morning hours. Dr. Apple came to examine her this morning and told us they were going to try to get the MRI again today. They gave her some medicine and she fell fast asleep had the MRI and slept the entire day. (last time they tried she woke up and they couldn’t do the MRI) I should say she was passed out the rest of the day, we even took her for a walk outside hoping she would wake up but nothing seemed to get her going.
We went to Pizza Hut for dinner with a whole bunch of people from the hospital including the wonderful translators and had a nice meal. It was great to get out of the hospital and have a good meal. Pizza Hut in China offers a great menu nothing like the ones we have seen in the U.S. London decided to sleep through the entire dinner so we had to get hers to go. We got back to the hospital and don’t ya know she wakes up and is having a ball now. Looks like it will be a night without sleep for all three of us.
Tomorrow we have PT in the morning and stem cell transfer number 5 by IV in the evening. Today’s photo is of our room at the hospital, Jessie on the bed and London passed out on the big bed in the distance. Thanks everyone for your continued support and we still enjoy reading your messages and look forward to seeing everyone in a few weeks.
Blessings to all from Qingdao, London, Jessie and Ruby
December 29th, 2009
- 4th stem cell transfer by Lumbar 1/2 way through procedures!
Hello All;
Well today marks our half way point with London’s Stem Cell Transfers. We started off the day with the normal Physical Therapy. Then we had to make a trip to the Bank Of China with our translator Jack. On December 23 I had to make a withdrawal out of our account for the Electric Wave Therapy machine we are bringing home with us for London’s continued treatment. Well the ATM took my card (my mistake) and I had to go to the bank to show my passport to retrieve my card. Thankfully that all worked out and we were able to get the card back. We were down to our last RMB (Chinese money) and had to use credit for last night’s dinner. Yugg, but everything is okay now thank God.
After retrieving my card we were in desperate need of diapers, milk and a few other items London needed. So the translator told the cab driver to take us to the “RT Mart” this is a market you can get diapers and such for a little less expense than the mall across the street from the hospital. So we arrived at the RT Mart, paid the cab driver and thought he would wait for us, but no………….we did our grocery shopping and came out to catch the cab back and no one new what we were saying and we didn’t have the hospital address or anything written on paper for the cab drivers lined up at the RT Mart to help people.
We went to several different cabs trying to tell them “Peoples Hospital” as this is the name of the Qingdao hospital but no one understood us. Finally this Chinese man driving pretty much a 3 wheeled motorcycle with a camper on top talked to us and we were able to communicate enough with him as to where we wanted to go. This cab was so small I didn’t think the 3 of us and our groceries would fit and we were still scared he couldn’t understand us. Jessie said “No way am I getting in there” and I said ”he seems to understand where we need to go and no one else understands get in.” So off we go in this beater little thing laughing our butts off because I for one could barely get in the side was so high off the ground I had to assist my foot to get in. Off we were door on my side wouldn’t close, and this thing is so loud and bumpy London is laughing hysterically which made all of us laugh.
Sure enough the nice man knew what I was conveying to him and we made it back to the hospital without any major malfunctions. It was a ride we will laugh about for years to come. I can’t explain how funny the entire experience really was and when we were safe and sound in the hospital parking lot, again we burst into laughter.
The rest of the afternoon we waited on London’s stem cell procedure, we went down to the pediatric department to get her IV line in and that took 3 tries before they were able to get a vein and London was screaming her head off. They wanted to put it into a vein in her head but we insisted on the hand and they were able to get it on the 3rd try. We didn’t want to put it into the head because London sleeps on her tummy and rubs her face into the bed, back and forth, left to right and we just knew she would rub the iv line out of her head. So that was finally taken care of, got her back to the room in time to give her some dinner (she has to eat at no more than 2 hours before a lumbar procedure.)
With dinner over we relaxed a little while then went to have her 4th stem cell procedure about 8:30 PM. She was difficult for the doctors this time and didn’t want to lay on her side for the lumbar and cried because she was mad. The procedure went well other than she didn’t want to cooperate. We had her back in the room about 9:15 PM she fussed a little over an hour and now she is sleeping well. She has to stay flat for 6 hours after a lumbar treatment and it is now a little after midnight.
That is the news for today I will let you know in the morning how she rested and if there were any side effects.
Until tomorrow; With Light and Love; Ruby, Jessie and London
December 29th, 2009
