Mia’s PLS Blog

“We’re all in this together”

June 29th, 2010

Just waking up from my 3rd spinal infusion and feeling darn good!  No headache or leg aches, but i still have to take it easy today.  We are leaving a few days early on July 6th- if all goes well.  We need lots of prayers because we are flying on Buddy passes from my sister Mindee’s friend Roxanne who works for United- and they are standby tickets, but also business class if there’s room and at a reduced rate, but all flights out of Shanghai nonstop to Chicago are overbooked.  That leaves us in limbo so we may have to fly to San Fransisco and then catch a domestic flight to Chi-town.  i am not stressed- there are so many things in life that are much worse than that- we’ll make it home- just not sure how or via which city!

I wrote about all of the English we see each day if we go out and it is so strange.  During the first week we were here the translators sent us to a restaurant for lunch called Tacos-  well for those of you that know us this is hands down our favorite cuisine, but we forgot we were in China.  It was an infusion restaurant which means they take all different types of cuisine and meld it into one dish.  So the chicken tacos i got were part Mexican and Chinese and delicious and then they threw some french fries on the plate as well.  Noah had pizza- plain- no infusion for him.  So the restaurant was really nice and over looking one of many, many plazas with a huge fountain.  The staff wore t-shirts that said on the back, “we strive to infuse the best of the best,” the menu had English as well as Chinese, the name of the restaurant was Tacos, but the waiter spoke no English and we could not get Noah a Sprite- even after they sent over 2 other servers and the manager.  They do not use ice here either so he had warm water and plain pizza!

I am a keen observer and read all the t-shirts i can of the people we see because they are all in English and that particular day i saw several that seemed to be speaking to me:

Live, Laugh, Love

Strive to do your best, ALWAYS

Love with all your heart

No painting – no gaining (my personal favorite that got lost in translation)

But when you are walking through the mall or on the streets and cannot communicate with this different, very interesting culture it seems there is still something that someone is wanting to say to me.  So i know there is a presence here that is loving me through this and  all the prayers that are helping me get up each day to receive the treatments i so desperately need.  That force are the prayers being said by all of you and Jesus and i thank you all for caring enough to keep pluggin’ along with me as i try to create a better quality of life.

As we walked into the hospital that day i saw my favorite t-shirt, We’re  all in this together- it spoke volumes and brought me to tears in knowing how many people contributed to get me here and how their ongoing support allows me to search for better health.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

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