Medical Exam Day

Katie in her jammies

The doctor's office is always tough for kids (and sometimes for adults) but you should try it in Chinese. Katie had to get a medical examination yesterday morning, which is why I didn't send out a blog at the usual time. Katie is usually a little cranky in the morning anyway, so the early morning appointment did not sit well with her. We went through the medical center in stations she cried at each one. We did find out some useful information through our guide that translated what the doctors were saying. She weighs 19.8 pounds, she's 30 inches long, her tempature was normal and...the doctor described her heart condition as "extremely mild." He had to look at her paperwork to confirm that she even had a heart condition. We were praising God for this report. We thought that her condition was mild, but to have it confirmed was a big relief. It will be even more so when confirmed in the U.S. as well.

The down side of the exam was that Katie had to get six shots. Ouch! These hurt Katie as welll as mom and dad. They gave us a choice of doing all six in one day or three a two different days. We chose to only put her through this trauma once. So, they use four nurses and administered two shots to her arms and four shots to her legs all within less than a minute (which seemed like 10 minutes as she screamed. She was not happy and neither were her parents. This was the toughest thing we have had to do since we got her on Monday.

After the doctor, the rest of the day was pretty laid back. We decided to lay low and just stay in the room. We did give her a bath in the sink which she loved. At nap and at bed time we had five minutes of whimpering followed by sleep.

We didn't take a lot of pictures yesterday either,

I'll throw in a few. Two are Katie.

Two are of the Pearl River waterfront right outside of our hotel at night.

Heather's Moments

• As Katie was getting her shots. I (Heather) was holding Katie as tight as I could. Doug was behind me rubbing his hands on my back. I felt the comfort of Jesus through Doug as he comforted me at this very stressful moment.