Jackie Kay’s Blog

Monday, July 10

July 10th, 2006

Yesterday’s adventure.
To satisfy a burning need from my sister, Lynne, we needed to find postcards. It seems that the sending of postcards isnt a popular pass-time in China because none of the shops or kiosks sell them. Anyway we were eventually directed to the Post Office which is about a 20 minute walk….. so it is a fair distant.

The Post Office has 6 steps to the door, so it was a bit of a task getting me in. But once there an assistant who spoke English was immediately there to assist us with our purchase. So Lynne, your post card is on its way. It rained all the way back to the hospital, but beng a swimmer, I enjoyed the tropical drenching. Again a little girl came over to speak English. What a pleasure it is that the young generation is so keen to talk English with strangers.

So all being well, there will be more stem cells for me this afternoon. In the meantime it is resting for the remainder of the day. Here are some photos of our room in the hospital. It is kept impeccably clean by the wonderfully efficient Mary. This morning our shower rose fell off, and it was only a matter of about 10 minutes before the maintenance man was here. Repairs were instigated in mere minutes, so we continue to be clean. We are looked after very well here.

My computer is connected to the stemcellschina server. It crashes sometimes and sometimes it is difficult to connect, but on the whole I am pleased to be able to maintain communication with everyone……. oh, and here’s a photo of my sister and brother-in-law (Lynne and David). Before I came to China we all spent a lovely afternoon with Sailability Point Piper on Sydney Harbour.

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