My last acupuncture treatment in China. I’m a big baby when they stick me in my toe with those needles. This morning, a very nice woman came by and stood next to me while I got stuck. She smiled, gave me thumbs up and said nice things to me.
Yesterday when we were in here, there was a baby sitting on his mom’s lap. He had at least 7 needles sticking straight up out of the top of his head. I knelt down to say hello to him and he grinned, reached up and pulled out 3 needles. I grabbed his hands before he was able to hurt himself with the needles he was clutching. A nurse came by and poke, poke, poke put 3 new needles back in the top of his head. He didn’t even flinch. Me, I squeal every time they stick me. I’m such a wuss.
They put these little clamps on the needles that send a teeny tiny bit of electricity into my body. One of them makes my fourth toe twitch even though there isn’t even a needle in it.
When the treatment is done, the machine I’m hooked up to plays a little song to let the nurses know it’s time to unhook me. I don’t know what song it is but when it’s over, I sing “Hey Mararena!”
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Don’t ever become a diabetic & have to give yourself shot! You’ll be dead in a week! Other than that, how is the foot? Are you finishing or do you have to call it quits. If so…there is always next year and it will be a cakewalk at this distance! Everybody admires both you & Doug either way! And I know Hippolyte would be proud and that is really what matters!
I will do my best to avoid diabetes. The trip is over for this year. We will pick it up next year towards the end of June. We will fly into Hong Kong and then catch a flight to Nanning. From there it’s a couple hours bus ride to Beiliu. We already told Dr. Vincent to expect a call from us. We will stat at the same hotel we’ve been at for the past few nights and then take a cab to the hotel where I dislocated my toe and start walking from there. I’m very disappointed and depressed by this turn of events. It’s not at all how I had envisioned this trip playing out but I guess that’s life. Maybe we are supposed to come back here for a reason that only time will reveal.