Day 5 - Operation China, Disease Strikes!
It has come to our attention that we may need to install a new version of our disease firewall in the Dan. There seems to be some new variants in the forign lands that we hadn't accounted for.
-The Shadow Keepers
my beijing cough turned into a beijing cold, wah, i hate getting sick, let alone in a place like beijing
last night we walked over to the hard rock cafe and i love enterance to the hard rock here in beijing, in big gold letters it says "no drugs or nuclear weapons allowed", lol its pretty hilarious, on the walk over to the cafe i got approached by several people saying "u want girl? u want massage, you want good time?", street peddlers are littered outside as well, buy this that and whatever else, inside the cafe it was typical americanish, when we left we somehow picked up a straggler, a little 4yr boy all dirty just looking up at us pointing his finger in his mouth, how sweet.. someone near by fishing
todays proceedure was at the china japan friendship hospital, after i changed into my scrubs i wear one of their area to area gowns, basically a size medium garmet, talk about discomfort, finally we get to the or, the doc explains the plan, this patient 46 has pancreus cancer, they hope the infected region of the pancreus is small in which case could be easy or hard since its right next to a main vessel, and major artry, the open her up and find the whole pancreus is infected by the tumor, bad, they wanted give this gal a shot at 1-2 yrs more life, at best they can do now is zap the region with radation and do some snipping here and there and she may live 6 more months
todays proceedure had like 20 people crammed into a really small frickin room, i'm sweating like all hell and my cold isnt helping and im tired of standing and then i kinda realize, this lady isnt going to make it past 12 months and im bitchin about standing?,
during the proceedure theres all kinds of odd antics happening, three guys are playin with the ultrasound in the corner, another two docs are checkin out the features of one docs camera, a group of nurses chat up a storm in the corner, and oh ya, this lady..her chest is held wide open with scary stainless steel medevil braces and wires, rib spreaders, no this time it was like the jaws clamp that holds the whole chest open
i dropped my sony camera twice today, its still working
the docs come to the end, he leaps off his wood block and motions us to follow, we join him for lunch, we've been in the or for 6 hrs, im really tired, he gives us two beers and gives us hospital food which wasnt bad,
the local beijing beer is actually quite good
we plan to go to the silk market tonight, its the end all be all place for rip off goods