Two days of developing Jill’s cold and now I am starting to understand how she fells – lacking energy and not sleeping again. Enough complaining we had a FREE day on Friday except for the Doctor’s rounds. They did various neurological tests on Jill – reflexes, finger to nose (eyes closed) and heel to shin. I don’t know whether they saw any changes, they discussed the sleep apnoea and their only suggestion was that we should go back to the doctor in Australia. Regards Jill’s cold they will keep up the current treatment, the TCM cough syrup and the nebuliser. I have had a couple of doses of the TCM cough syrup and appears to stop the coughing a bit. Jill is on her bed connected to the Electric wave therapy and Owen has left us to treat some one else.
I went shopping yesterday to Guo Huo Mart. I caught a taxi form out the front of the hospital and he drove to the end of the road a T intersection, he cut across and down a narrow lane, not much room for cars to pass, but we did. From the lane into another road and several large shops and the Mart on the right. The taxi costs 8RMB ($2Aus) each way. The Mart is similar layout to the other marts I have been in with ground floor having luxury items. Jewellery, clothes, shoes and makeup Up the escalator to the fresh food and then to the second level to processed food etc. I purchased a small hair dryer so that Jill can wash her hair on Sunday 50RMB ($12Aus)
Owen has been back in and set Jill up with acupuncture needles into her legs. She has 21 needles between her thighs and ankles. At the moment she wants to go to the toilet but is unable to move with the pin cushion look. The infrared heater has just clicked off so I have unplugged it – so we hope it is not long for Owen to return. He has finally arrived and removes the needles.
We are sitting in our room listening to the cricket on the ABC via the internet. After lunch I made another venture out to a local supermarket and purchased some cough medicine for myself from a chemist in the complex. Used the trusty electronic translator ,the young girl showed me a box – looked the same as Jill’s I nodded my head and she wrote out an order and instructed I take it to the cashier , once I had paid I was given a docket to return to the sales assistant to retrieve the medicine. I had also to visit the toilet while at the super market , extremely clean and fortunately I only needed to use the urinal as the toilets were Chinese – hole in the floor. I’m glad the toilets in the hospital are western. The taxi driver took me the reverse way round back to the hospital so at least I saw a bit more.
Dinner tonight is bacon, eggs and tomatoes with toast which I cooked in the kitchen. We were both feeling that lousy that we went to bed at 8 pm I put a DVD on and we both went to sleep and did not see much of it. A fairly disturbed night with coughing, visits to the toilet at least there was no rush to get up this morning as there are no doctors rounds. The other stem cell recipients are off on a trip down town Qingdao – It is about an hour to drive down town. We certainly were not fit enough to go.
Lunch today is cup of soup (Allison’s care package) and left overs. We are still having trouble purchasing sanitary pads and this afternoon I went down stairs to the shop near the ATM’s and I have become fairly friendly with the elderly lady and I though I would take a sample down and ask. She showed me several and then reached under the counter and came out with the closest so far – success at last.
I think that I feel so lousy that I am assuming Jill must be as bad as me , however she tells me that she is feeling a lot better, She just added that I am the worst patient she has ever seen. I decided to take a couple of Ibuprofen tablets and I am free of a headache for the first time in three days, Panadol were not touching the edge. I said at the start enough complaining and I think I have continued all the way through SORRY
We will need another early night as Jill has her fifth spinal stem cell tomorrow afternoon.
See you on the net tomorrow