Well they just came with a gurney and hauled Linda away for the lumbar injection of stem cells in the spinal fluid. The hospital is in full operation again after the new years holidays. For a day or two we have kicked around if we should do this additional operation and decided as long as we are here lets get it done. I guess in for a penny, in for a dollar. What this is supposed to do is insert stem cells into the spinal fluid and that carriers the cells into the brain and floods the brain with stem cells that can reach places the brain surgery may have missed. Linda is the only patient here that is having both procedures done. All the others have had only the spinal fluid done. What they tell me is that only the patients that are in good enough shape to start with get the brain injection, but it took them 3 weeks to get Linda into that kind of shape. She had all kinds of little things wrong they had to fix before they could do the first operation. So she should come back a new woman. But still it takes 9 months for the cells to grow and reach the full benefit.
Last night 4 parkies and their others and Diana went to a restaurant called Grandma Kitchen. Steve you will remember that one. If you took up a small restaurant anywhere in the American Midwest and plunked it down in Beijing it would look the same. I got a hamburg that was as good as any I could get at home. Linda got a BLT and finally some root beer. She has been looking for root bear ever since we got here and last night she was able to quench her thirst. And than she topped that off with a chocolate ice cream Sunday with a cherry on top. So today she is ready for anything.
When she comes back I will update this and let you know how she is doing.
john and linda in China
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