We get Eli TOMORROW and a little visit to the ER

We have made it to Wuhan.  I wish I could upload pictures, I have not been able to yet. We have heard some news about Eli. We were so happy to hear today that Eli has been prepared for our arrival and to come home with us.  This will be a difficult day for him, he will need time to adust.  He will be spending his last night with his foster family tonight. We are sure it is a difficult day for his foster parents, foster brother and sister.  We feel fortunate that his best friend, another boy with albinism whom he has grown up with, is also meeting his parents tomorrow and coming home to Colorado!
Just in case that is not exciting enough, we have more news.  Unfortunately today we had to visit the ER.  It was quite a remarkable experience.  It started Saturday, I awoke with what I thought was a bug bite on my nose. The next day it had spread up to my eyebrow. It itched, it was red and today it was painful.  By this afternoon my eye hurt too.
Boyd kept saying "that does not look like a bug bite to me....I think you have shingles"....by my eye?!  In China?!  The evening before we meet our new son?! On a Sunday?! We called our CCAI rep, she immediatly came back to our hotel to go to the ER.  It is dangerous to have shingles near your eye, we knew it needed to be taken care of tonight.
We left the hotel at 5pm.  I have worked in the ER.  We were not convinced that we would get in and out in a timely manner on a Sunday night.
It's about 97 degrees outside here.  Wuhan is a beautiful city.  Joanna our rep thought it would be faster to walk the 2 kilometers to the hospital than to find a cab at 5pm.  We are quick walkers, and we were damp by the time we arrived. Walking in China requires one to be alert.  Sidewalks are also road ways for electric scooters that you cannot hear.  Occasionally a car will even beep at you to get out of the way...on the sidewalks!!  Joanna got us registered quickely, we paid up front to be seen, about $1.20.  We walked to the ER nurse. "Do you need to see the women's clinic", she asks...."no".  "Do you need the skin clinic?"  "yes" we exclaim. To our slight confusion, Joanna walked us up to the dermatology floor, not in to the ER. The hospital complex is big, it is old. It does not smell of anticeptic and it is not sparkling clean. Joanna leads us down the hall, up the stairs and right in to the charting room and introduces us to a Doctor. The young female Dr. did an exam, she asks alot of questions. We suggested that it might be Shingles.  "No" she says. This worried us...we were pretty sure that this was what I had.  Then a man turns around from his chair, he is the "professor".  How lucky are we feeling now, not only have we made it to the hospital before it closed, but that the dermatologist is still there on a Sunday night!  He quickly agree's with our suspicions.  They order the medications, but feel that we probably wont make it to the pharmacy before it closes.  They discuss keeping me there for IV meds....
Joanna is speaking in mandrin, asking for oral meds.  Please, we hope, let us get the oral meds tonight, we have a very big day tomorrow!!  They quickly order the meds on a computer in the charting room.  Patients with various skin diseases are peeking through the door way at the caucasion couple (Us!). We are worried we won't make it to the pharmacy on time.  We are told if we do not make it to the pharmacy and the condition gets worse than we must return for IV antivirals.
We rush back downstairs, we have to pay our bill for treatment and medication before we can go to the pharmacy...656 RMB, which is about $104.00.  We rush to the pharmacy, it was open!! They fill our order of 3 medications in about 2 minutes!  We need one more cream, walk to pharmacy number 2, it's open!  We pay $3.00 for an acyclovir cream.
We walk the 2 kilometers back to our hotel in complete amazement.  We are first feeling very blessed, very lucky, and safely held.  We walked into a Chinese hospital and got immediate treatment and medications.....cool. One of our biggest fears of being out of the country is that we would need medical care. The right people were there, the pharmacy's were open, and Joanna efficiently maneuvered us through the process.
I am not happy that this has happened, but we are releived to have the treatment, and amazed at the process. We have been asking for prayers for Eli tomorrow, please add a speedy recovery for me, and that the meds work quickly.
Boyd and Jack just looked out the window.  The sun has gone down, the buildings are lit up and reflecting on the lake outside our hotel.  The lake is surrounded by a beautiful green park and a large walkway.  There are people dancing, there are people roller skating.  They are going to go check it out, and we will then try to sleep!