Made it to China

Wow what an adventure so far. It took us about 17 hrs of flight time to get to China. We flew on three different plans. Joey was great the whole time. He only had fits going through security, which actually made it easier for us because we got pulled aside and made it through security with help and not having to rush. Finally after the second day we made it to our final destination. It is 15 hours ahead of CA time here. When we got here we got settled in our room and of course we are all off on our sleeping. Joey has been falling asleep early and waking up early. Our room has two beds a mini fridge, microwave, tv and dvd. It is an average size room.

We will find out today our course of treatment. On the first day they came and took blood from Joey, he had and x-ray and EEG. Boy are there medical instruments old school. Joey will get more blood taken this morning and then at 4:00 will have his first IV injection. We are going to see if we can add in another injection before the end of the trip, so we might do 6 not 5 injections. We will see later if this is possible. We were told that we will have two days off a week to go and sight see. 

There is a huge mall, target like store and market right across the street. The hospital will take our lunch and dinner order and order food for us, or we can go to KFC across the way or the mall. I ordered noodles soup at the mall to go the other day and they dumped the soup in a plastic bag. It was funny. Everything is fish here, NO BEEF. ha ha ha The people here stare at you. They are not subtle here. They stare and follow you with their eyes until you are far out of sight.

We have meet a lot of people here. There are many people from California. One gentleman actually lives only 15 minutes away in Northridge, another in Calabasas and another in San Jose. Small world. Most people are her for 5-6 weeks doing as much therapy as they can. Many people are here with their whole families. We have been hanging out with a gentleman and his son who are here for 40 days. the boy starts his treatment the same time as Joey. The boys name is Braden and has CP like Joey. He is 6 yrs old. Looks just like Joey.

I have ichat on my computer, so anyone that has a mac computer and want to talk, my email is jessjackjoey@yahoo.com. It is very cool.

I am going to post videos and pics on Joeys dropshot site. The site is www.dropshots.com/fightingjoey

I will also try and post some here. Well thats all for now. The internet is controlled by the government here so they can shut it down whenever and many sites are blocked, so bare with me when sending emails or wanting to talk.

Bye for now.