Lorraine shares photos from China from her visits with friend Christina Smith, who she met through Ed and Toni Smith. From left, Christina Smith (Gao Yan), Lorraine Weil, Shawna Weil, Gary Weil and Smith's friend, William.
From left, Gary Weil II, Christina Smith (Gao Yan), Lorraine Weil, Shawna Weil.
Here is some video of the Weil family in Shawna's hospital room - shared by Ed Smith.
Ed and Toni Smith put the Weils in contact with a friend in China -- Christina -- who has been visiting. Here are a few photos she took.
It has been crazy, but it can only get better, right? It is so difficult to be so far away from home and with a language barrier prohibiting us from getting what we need to make things so much better.
We were supposed to go out tonight with a group ... sort of to get acquainted and find out where some places are ... but Shawna took ill last night, so we decided we best stay in.
We are now trying to adjust to day being night and vice versa ... that's not going so well yet. Shawna doesn't care if it is daytime here; to her, it's night and she sleeps right through whatever we do with her.
The power adapter that we bought from AAA is a joke; we can't plug anything in to it. It plugs into the wall, but where we are supposed to plug in the equipment is only 2 prong and all of our equipment is 3 prong ... go figure! Anyway, we already fried the Nebulizer machine trying to see if multiple adaptations were going to work. The hospital is ready to kick us out for blowing circuit breakers constantly. Tomorrow, Isabella is going to take us to the Circuit City-type store to see if we can get the proper adapters.
Pray that we find one because Shawna's tube feed depends on it.
What a long flight!
We finally arrived at Beijing; things not going so well yet. I'll have to report tomorrow because a guard is here pointing at his watch right now. lol. I'm in the computer room at the hospital and he wants to lock the door.
