CHINA 2nd Week - On The Radio

Linda is doing pretty good today. The doctor is adjusting her med's as her condition changes. I am going to write this just as it is happening and not trying to put more into it or blame any one or sugar coat anything. When Linda first came the first thing the doc did was take blood for tests, give a complete physical and ask questions about her condition. What they found was a lot of little things to repair before they would start the stem cell treatment. They found her liver function was a little off, her cholesterol was a little high, her BP was somewhat high, her blood fat was high and other stuff I don't know. They started to adjust her med's and IV's to repair the damage. Amy, her Chinese doctor asked Linda what the American doctors said about all the lab results. Linda told her they said everything was fine. Amy was quite for a second, than said, Chinese doctors would never get away with that. I don't know if that's just talk or what but I do see a change in Linda this week. This morning as she walked past me I said turn sideways and look in the mirror. Linda had started to walk hunched up in the last couple of years. She was straight as an arrow. Also I had Linda look at the mirror and check her face and than showed her the pic of her and the dog on the website and she could see a big difference as everyone else can. Her schedule goes something like this. 8:30 she goes to the TCM guys who do their magic. That takes an hour. Than Occupational therapy. Than after that physical therapy. She gets here about noon, we than eat lunch, than comes the IV's. Also, the nurses bring in all kinds of med's all day. So she is pretty busy.

During that time I usually go out to explore. I have been reading "World without End" by Ken Follett and today I could not put it down so I stayed in all day reading. Linda came back and after a while Kotan came in and asked us if we would be willing to talk to a reporter from a radio station. Sure we would. So we met Karen Meirk, China correspondent for Radio Netherlands. Karen would like to follow us all the way thru the procedures and record from start to finish the whole story. She said it would be broadcast in Europe and Washington and maybe picked up by NPR. So she interviewed us what was supposed to be 8 minutes to start, 18 minutes later we ended. I gave the web site for Parkinsonsrebels.org and she will keep up with our blogs and come by every few days to check progress. Kotan put no strings on the interview, told us to tell it like it is and what we feel, than she left. So we could have told Karen anything we wanted, but Kotan even did not stay for the interview. So we might get some more publicity from this. Kind of cool

john and linda in China