David and I left a little before 8 a.m. and we were able to
get a taxi as soon as we got to the south gate of campus. We got to the hospital at 8:20, and Dr.
Tricia wasn’t there until 8:28. She took
us into her office where she had asked the head orthopedic surgeon to come in
and look at my right knee. He poked and
moved it and said it needed an X-ray. A
nurse came to take my blood and then we went to the building of the hospital
where the labs and the x-ray machines are.
Dr. Tricia knew that we needed to be at Church at 10 a.m.
and so she tried to expedite everything for us.
They put us in line before other people, but when it was 9:45, David
needed to be over at the Hanlin Hotel and open the room for those that were
coming, he left and I stayed with Dr. Tricia to get the x-rays and have the
surgeon look at them.
To add to my walking woes, I now have the cartilage in my
right knee deteriorating and causing the swelling and pain. The surgeon wants me to take a prescription
of Glucosamine Sulfate to see if the swelling will go down and help stabilize the
cartilage. I need to go back in two
weeks to have it checked again. Why
couldn’t all of this have waited for three more months when I would be home and
not have all this pain in China? We do
so much walking in China!
When I was finished at the hospital, I walked to the hotel
and met the others for Church. We were
kind of a sparse group today. Purnell’s
still in Canada, Clarke’s and Pam at Weifang with their school sponsored trip,
Kathy home with a sick Hansen and Lulu probably had class. That left just Pace’s and us. They didn’t do the sacrament until after the
meeting because they had problems getting into the Arkadin system for Church on
Skype. That was nice for me so that I was able to be a part of it. After the Sacrament, we called Rachel and
chatted with her for a while. We would
like to have talked longer, but dinner was ready and I was having trouble with
the internet connection, so we said goodbye.
After we had dinner cleaned up, Pace’s came home with
us. Nancy helped me make banana bread
and we were having a good visit, then Eva came over with one of her
friends. We talked for several more
hours. The friend of Eva didn’t speak
English, but she sure understood some of it.
She had a good laugh along with us.
I sent them all home with some banana bread.
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