Glad to read that you're home!
Wishing you a continued smooth recovery!
Jim
Wishing you a continued smooth recovery!
Jim
Back home in China
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hall
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Welcome home! You sound great.
Ross
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i learned something last night.........stay warm!!!! had gotten used to the balmy
weather, guess all the sunshine thinned my blood even more in addition to the effects
of the "blood thinner." getting ready for bed and started getting chills, so body starts
shaking to build warmth. (this is normal....i'm a warm-weather dude, love bicycling
in death valley at noon in summer) so chest starts to shake, oh crap, like my whole
body wants to lock up. hardest thing i think i've ever done, trying to bend over to
put on sox, then reach up to grab a comforter from atop the wardrobe. it hurt
soooo good trying to climb into bed!
fun fact.....buildings in the south of china generally have no heating systems (also no
insulation and no double-paned windows). stores and shops and restaurants often
have no front wall or doors or glass, just a roll-up metal garage-type door. most
people use space heaters unless they're in newer buildings and have installed their own.
why? long ago, chairman mao determined that heaters were not necessary
south of the yangtze river. of course mao lived to the north and had heating.
weather, guess all the sunshine thinned my blood even more in addition to the effects
of the "blood thinner." getting ready for bed and started getting chills, so body starts
shaking to build warmth. (this is normal....i'm a warm-weather dude, love bicycling
in death valley at noon in summer) so chest starts to shake, oh crap, like my whole
body wants to lock up. hardest thing i think i've ever done, trying to bend over to
put on sox, then reach up to grab a comforter from atop the wardrobe. it hurt
soooo good trying to climb into bed!
fun fact.....buildings in the south of china generally have no heating systems (also no
insulation and no double-paned windows). stores and shops and restaurants often
have no front wall or doors or glass, just a roll-up metal garage-type door. most
people use space heaters unless they're in newer buildings and have installed their own.
why? long ago, chairman mao determined that heaters were not necessary
south of the yangtze river. of course mao lived to the north and had heating.
You don't have a fever do you? So did Mao have a squotty?
Herburban1
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Nice pic, are there zig zags on the tables? So good to hear from you.
Ross
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Blasphemy! Anticoagulant
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hensylee
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those toilets look like torture chambers instead of chamber pots. How does one even arise from those little holes. what if you can't squat to begin with? very strange, indeed. too often there is just no consideration for the little people.
glad you made it home. hope you have enough clothes to keep you warm day and night.
best wishes.
glad you made it home. hope you have enough clothes to keep you warm day and night.
best wishes.
Yikes!
These squatty potties would be a real challenge for me since I haven't been able to squat for years since my knee accident on my ATV! Seriously, I hope you are doing well & glad you made it home okay! Please continue to take care of yourself & the best of luck to you. And keep in touch!
Herburban1
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I can imagine not alot of clean shoes there...
No place like home, huh.. How do you navigate 4 flights between 3.5 airports..
Stay warm and recover at a good steady pace.
Stay warm and recover at a good steady pace.
I've flown out of a ".5" airport before....it's not fun.
Standing out on the tarmac waiting to get on some dinky, crappy, little plane to fly up into the bush in Northern Quebec.
Standing out on the tarmac waiting to get on some dinky, crappy, little plane to fly up into the bush in Northern Quebec.
Nupur
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So good to hear from you! Glad you are back home safe. Sounds like you are doing great, but do take it easy!
I've flown out of a ".5" airport before....it's not fun.
Standing out on the tarmac waiting to get on some dinky, crappy, little plane to fly up into the bush in Northern Quebec.
Oh right Bina.. I remember the airports at Phalaborwa and Skukuza -- those would be .5 airports..
the upside to the little airstrips is the speed with which they can be navigated.
one entrance/exit, one gate, one toilet, no luggage carousel.
our small commuter jet landed at 6:30, 25 or so passengers deplaned
and grabbed their luggage at the cargo door, walked the 100' to the
"terminal," and jumped on the bus to town, which left at 6:42.
one entrance/exit, one gate, one toilet, no luggage carousel.
our small commuter jet landed at 6:30, 25 or so passengers deplaned
and grabbed their luggage at the cargo door, walked the 100' to the
"terminal," and jumped on the bus to town, which left at 6:42.
the latest from china....as recovery continues.
day before yesterday took a walk around the perimeter of the city, total of about
six miles. learned i'm already the fastest walker in town. yesterday went to the
university to use the track for some "speed" work, doing some 1/4-mile "sprints"
at a 12-minute pace. that's about as fast as i can power-walk without breaking
into a jog. a little sore afterwards from arm-swinging, but not too bad.
taking today off to watch pirate dvd's. still planning on a first attempt at jogging
on the 10th. maybe do 4 reeeeeealllly slow 1/4-mile jogs, each separated by
1/2-mile recovery walk.
later moseyed over to the affiliated hospital to see dr. huang, head of cardio-
thoracics. (he's soooooo cute......4'6"!!) managed to explain my testing requirements,
and we'll be doing our first INR on monday. fortunately, many of our english acronyms
are used, so i was able to find the prothrombine time test on the blood test menu
as a "PT" test.
and in the event they have to fiddle with my acitrom/coumadin over the next few
months, the hospital pharmacy has warfarin 2.5mg, 60 tablets for $2.75
oh, the fun of trying to explain anti-coagulant with a limited vocabulary!
for anyone travelling here, warfarin is "huafalinna"
and the bad news. as expected, my travellers insurance denied my claim.
you'd think they'd at least cover the flight. next time i'll just make them arrange
for a medical evacuation flight to the states. yeah, they'll cover that up to something
like $100k !!
i'm surprised life insurance companies don't deny benefits....since death is a
pre-existing condition.
day before yesterday took a walk around the perimeter of the city, total of about
six miles. learned i'm already the fastest walker in town. yesterday went to the
university to use the track for some "speed" work, doing some 1/4-mile "sprints"
at a 12-minute pace. that's about as fast as i can power-walk without breaking
into a jog. a little sore afterwards from arm-swinging, but not too bad.
taking today off to watch pirate dvd's. still planning on a first attempt at jogging
on the 10th. maybe do 4 reeeeeealllly slow 1/4-mile jogs, each separated by
1/2-mile recovery walk.
later moseyed over to the affiliated hospital to see dr. huang, head of cardio-
thoracics. (he's soooooo cute......4'6"!!) managed to explain my testing requirements,
and we'll be doing our first INR on monday. fortunately, many of our english acronyms
are used, so i was able to find the prothrombine time test on the blood test menu
as a "PT" test.
and in the event they have to fiddle with my acitrom/coumadin over the next few
months, the hospital pharmacy has warfarin 2.5mg, 60 tablets for $2.75
oh, the fun of trying to explain anti-coagulant with a limited vocabulary!
for anyone travelling here, warfarin is "huafalinna"
and the bad news. as expected, my travellers insurance denied my claim.
you'd think they'd at least cover the flight. next time i'll just make them arrange
for a medical evacuation flight to the states. yeah, they'll cover that up to something
like $100k !!
i'm surprised life insurance companies don't deny benefits....since death is a
pre-existing condition.
Glad everything is going so well. just wanted to say PT/PTT are not the same as an INR http://surgery.about.com/od/beforesurgery/qt/PTPTTINRtests.htm
