Chris Hrabik’s SCI Blog

Day 15 - Hun He

October 4th, 2006

I have nothing new to report as far as the effects of the stem cells and therapy here at the 463rd Hospital. Once again, the hospital and Beike staff are great, everyone gets along very well, and most of all, everyone is working hard for the patients. Since it has only been one full week since my first injection and just a day since the second, I realize it is still very early in my treatment. Below I am including a segment of my dad’s journal about the Hun River (He is Chinese for River).

“Chris was in good hands in the afternoon so Linda and I decided to go to a park along the River Hun. We first took a taxi to the Northeastern University (General Education campus). We walked right past the guard who must have thought we were students, but when we took out our camera he realized that we were tourists. He told us (through an interpreter) that we needed a university ID to stay on university grounds. So, we were allowed to walk around the main entrance, take a couple of photos, and then we left.

It was a fairly long walk to the park (Wulihe Park) and river. When we got there, we found people seining and dip netting for small fish and a few using pole and line. There were people picnicking, eating, flying kites, playing badminton, and just walking to get some exercise. The park lines the river for several miles and has a walkway (covered by soil, probably from floods), benches, and many small trees. The river is large, about the same size as the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, Missouri but flows very slowly. It does not appear to be dammed based on the maps we have. The water is dingy and has that