Brooklyn’s CP Blog

Coming home soon

June 15th, 2007

It is Friday night and all of the kids are sleeping here at the Wilson’s. I am about 95% packed and not looking forward to the flight home on Sunday. I am hoping that Brooklyn will at least spend some time in her carseat and sleep maybe a little this time during the flight. I have been doing some last minute errands around Shanghai and will be spending the day with my sister in law tomorrow for one more day around Shanghai. The weather here has not been so great, unlike at home. Brooklyn will start physical therapy on the Monday after we get home and then will begin speech therapy the following Wednesday. She will have PT three times per week and speech once a week. I am not sure what is going on with the funding for special education so I guess I will have to see if that will impact the services she would receive in the fall.

There will actually be some things I will miss about china: the cheap food, the cheap clothes, the beautiful landscape, the convenience of being able to walk/ride your bike to places, Mary and Mr. Lu, and being able to spend time with my niece and nephew. There are some things that I will not miss about china: lack of personal space, everyone wanting to touch Brooklyn, the public bathrooms (which I have tried to avoid), babies butts and other things sticking out of the crotchless pants (if you need an explanation email me), language barrier (that is my fault though), and no Dr. pepper to drink.

This has definitely been a journey and I hope I can make a wonderful scrapbook for Brooklyn to have to tell her about our journey and everyone that has helped us. If you would like to send Brooklyn a special wish for me to include in her scrapbook please email it to me or you can also mail it to me - if you need our address let me know or one of our family members know and we will get it to you; you may also send a picture to me to put with your note. I want Brooklyn to know how many people helped make this journey possible and how many people out there care about her. I know she won’t remember any of this trip but I hope one day she will understand what this all meant for her. I hope this will open many opportunities to her and will minimize her physical limitations so that one day she will be able to walk unassisted.

We will be leaving on Sunday morning (Saturday night in the US) and will be arriving Sunday afternoon in Detroit. Please pray that we have a safe flight and that things go smoothly for us. I hope to see all of you soon and I can’t thank you all enough for the support and encouragement you have given our family even when I was in the hospital before Brooklyn was born, through her hospital stay and everything else we have endured. She is one tough little girl with an attitude and I hope that will get her very far in life!!

So long from China - see you all soon in the States!!!!

LOVE - Heather & Brooklyn

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