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Hi everyone,
The last day in China was a bit emotional really, which I didn’t think would be. Everyone was so nice coming to say goodbye. We got some flowers and biscuits, chocs and fruit for everyone to share and one of the cleaners (who were Jacks favorite people) came up to me and gave me a lovely message that someone had written for her in English, saying “Hope you have a safe journey home,all the best to you,hope all your dreams come true”. I didnt expect it, so it made me cry! I gave her a hug and said thank you, then she came into our room just before she went home for the day and gave Jack a kiss and cuddle and said goodbye (in chinese) . This set me off then when I said bye to everyone else and then Jack started getting upset because I was hugging everyone!!
I spoke to one of the Hungarian mums during the day and got a quick update on her 9 year old daughter. She had been to Shenzhen last year with her and she has mild CP with learning difficulties and her eyesight was -9 before going to Shenzhen. After they got back (approx 3 months) her eyesight improved to -2 and her understanding had increased, her memory of people and questions from days before had improved and her aggressive attacks had just about gone. She told me that most children see their improvements in three months or so, because I said I hadn’t seen any improvements in Jack yet.
We got Jack to sleep early because we would be up at 4.30am the next morning, but you know what its like, neither I nor andy could sleep well, Jack woke up at 3.30 am and wouldn’t go back to sleep, so that was the beggining of our tiring 24hrs. 2 1/2 hrs by car to Shanghai, 2 1/2 hrs wait at the airport, 12hrs in flight (which was great, the air crew really looked after us and made such a fuss of Jack) then getting through customs and into Marks taxi for the last leg of just over 3 hrs.
It was great to get back to a lovely clean fresh home(Mum had been busy while we were away). Mum had just been to pick up Matty from footy training so it was great to see them a few minutes later. Jack was so tired though , he’d only slept for two hours on the flight, so he was a bit weepy when he saw them. We all got to bed about an hour later and tried to catch up a little on the sleep that we’d missed.
It’s taken three days but I think we’re getting ther now.!!
We had the Scunthorpe Telegraph round to take some pictures and ask a few questions on Thursday and there is a good write up in todays paper (with pictures of ME and Jack which I tried to avoid, but they were good ones) Then just as they were leaving Calender arrived to interview Andy with Jack, thats on today. Andys been talking to Lincs F.M. and Look North and Radio Humberside today. Just to update everyone and tell them that we’re home and hopeful.
It’s just a waiting game now, I just hope that he has something to show for everything that he went through however small an improvement it may be!
I’ll keep you posted.
7 comments August 11th, 2007
