The day started with blood tests and shots, lots of
them! I had two heparin shots to the
stomach and a warfarin tablet to try and thin the blood as quickly as they
can. I have two heparin shots in the morning
and two at night all in the belly area. Some
nurses do it with very little pain and others do it with pain. I’m not sure what makes the difference, but
some are more painful than others. They
tried to get blood samples out of my left arm, but had no success, so they
moved to my right arm. They also tried to
put the IV in my left hand, but none of those veins were coming up, so that one
had to go in my right hand. That makes
it hard to eat, write, type or anything that I would normally do with my right
hand. I have to do things with my left
hand, or very carefully with my right.
David came about 9 a.m.
He had stopped at the Hanlin Hotel first to get a USB from Jim Purnell
that had the five sessions of General Conference and the Women’s Conference on
it. We had to wait to watch it until Dr.
Tricia had talked to us and some more specialist had seen me before we could
turn it on. The other Jinan members were
watching it over at the Hanlin. When they
were done with dinner, Simon brought over some dinner for David and me.
While Simon was here, he talked about sponsoring people from
China to come to the US and what it takes to do that. It sounds really complicated. Simon takes groups of people to the US every summer
for education purposes, so he knows all about what it takes.
After the other members watched a second session of
conference, they all came over to the hospital and we had a good visit
here. When SUN Fang’s shift came to an
end, she came in to say good-bye and told us she would be back on Tuesday
evening. Also, Dr. Wang came again to
see me.
Jim and Wendy Purnell came over late on Sunday evening. Jim’s Dad has a massive stroke and they were going
to Beijing later tonight to catch a flight back to Calgary. They are pretty sure he will die, he was
having some other problems. They brought
over some of their vegetables and fruits that wouldn’t last until they got back. She helped Kathy get assignments made for the
Sisters to come sit with me when David couldn’t be here and bring in food.
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