Valerie's Bilateral Optic Atrophy

We arrived!!

November 17th, 2010

Hello!!

We arrived safe and sound on Monday at around 4pm after a long trip here. All our flights were delayed so we were very tired when we got here. Really nice flights over, thank god! Ethiad airways were great!! Jack picked us up at the airport with a big welcome! We were also greeted by Matthew and Keith from Beike so we headed straight back to the hospital. We have a diffeerent room this time, room 6! Everyone from thr nurses to the cleaners recognised us! It really feels like we never left….strange feeling! Alice is gone so its a bit different here!

I then met my doctor, she is lovely! So happy with my improvements. She wants me to consider getting 1 retro bulbar injection, into the eye! Im a bit unsure yet.

Anyway, we fell asleep at around 6.30 that evening until around 2 am Had by blood work done at 6 am and busy morning again. Doctor came around to discuss a treatment plan and go through tests etc. Joyce brought us to the hospital downtown for tests even the doc down there recognised us! We sure do sstand out i guess:)  All mu tests show improvement from  when i was here last march.So hopefully this round will work just as well.

When we got back to the hospital,the translators had arranged a party with loads of food! We got to meet all the other familes, there is 14 here now…big difference to when we first were here!! Its great to have Loretta and Larry from Meath right down the hall. They gave us bread and eggs for our brekkie cos we didnt get a chance to nip over to the shop yet!!!

Well, thats about it for now. Were trying to stay awake a bit longer tonight so we’ll see how that goes!!

Chat again tomorrow

Valerie and Matthew

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