15 Hours!

Well, as far as I can tell, we slept, and we slept straight. I would say that this was the first night that we could sleep tight, for almost 9 hours without interruption! It might sound like a commodity to you but in our case, this was platinum, no, this was plutonium. Since she was born she has never been a good sleeper. Be it for the fact that she suffered severe reflux or simply because she is a baby and will sleep short, she will always wake us up in the middle of the night. Not last night, no way, last night she went for a full 15 hour nap!

The symptoms after the spinal injection are supposed to be common in all patients. Fever, back pain, poor sleep, vomiting, dizziness and more. But she went all the way without any of those. She had a couple of degrees of elevated temperature, but that did not last an hour so she slept through the day and night and day again. I am not pretty sure what that means, if it's better or not for her, but I suppose that the more sleep you will get the faster you will recuperate. And we do want that to happen because remember that we came here for the big shots, the spinal, not the IV. I guess that doctors will not object for the treatment to be all spinal from now on.

It has been a very relaxing day for all three of us as everyone took their course. I worked some, they slept some; Marujita had some more acupuncture, this time seven little needles came to play the "blood flow" game and she behaved like a champ. After that she had "standing therapy" which consist of a horizontal table at first that tilts vertically for her to work on her feet. I am thinking of doing some of this standing therapy back at home, and I just figured out how to. What I will do is, go to the Home Depot and buy some really strong duct tape. After that, I will strap her to the wall in our family room while we watch TV. Same thing ah? Just kidding there for a while, exercising my imagination and creativity for a change, so don't worry it won't happen like that (I will buy double sided 3M tape.) And so she cried, she played and then she cried some more. To our surprise, she wanted to sleep again and so to sleep back she went. Now I sound like Joda (remember, the creepy little green ugly fellow from Star Wars?)

After standing therapy she went on to physical therapy which is conducted with the soul purpose of stimulating those areas that might be kind of idle some times, the ones she has little control over. That went well, nothing out of the ordinary and so we expect she will be tired for again, more sleep.



After the physical therapy she had her first "electrical therapy" which consist about 220 volts of pure, full blown discharges conducted by a cable that look more like a battery car jump starter. Another poor joke, ja! It is actually a very stimulating process because two nods are wrapped around her legs first, and then her arms, that in essence makes her muscle contract involuntarily for stimulation.



All these different therapies are done to further stimulate the stem cell injection process further more. If nerves of the brain are not functioning to full potential, and outside requests are being made to them demanding some sort of reaction, the stem cells magically identify the poor undeveloped cells and work with them to fully generate to its maximum potential. Man isn't this exciting! Who would've thought of that?



These different therapies are going to be conducted on a daily basis including Saturdays; Sundays we rest, read, eat and watch movies. Actually Sundays is mom and dad stimulation day, so to compensate for everything, we work on our abdominal section by having delivered to our room, a huge Pappa John's Pepperoni Pizza and a couple of beers! See, where the Chinese to follow the great words of their emperors when they rejected foreign trade (you will read about this on my next blog where I will talk about a real event in Chinese history, circa 1790) we will be bound and hence forced to eat their extremely good Kung Pao Chicken, fried noodle or rice and their amazingly sticky tasteless but excellent rice.



Until then, and for a little education on history, wait for my short writing titled "A Little Reflexion in History", I hope you have a great Monday (I already did).



Best wishes to all, today and forever,



Tuto