A week in the hospital.

It's been a week in the hospital. The most I've ever stayed over in a hospital. Even for my mum's cancer removing operation, I also didn't stay for 24 hrs. @_@

Anyhow, Hong yan's mum had arrived, settled and is now fully adjusted to be a stay-at-hospital-cook for her daughter. The hospital provide great food, I must say. But to people from their culture, it is still quite foreign, bland, unhealthy..... So we brought her mum to various asian stores, groceries supermarket to stock up on items for her cooking spree. It's good that Hong yan has the appetite to 'order' food. We even had a takeaway beef noodles soup for her one night.

The accommodation organised by the hospital's social worker is really good. A basic room just 2 blocks down, where staff n patient's family can stay over. Costing only $30/day! It includes breakfast and have a small furnished communal kitchen where people like her mum can cook her rest of the meals. There are 3 big fridges to put her groceries in, with labels to identify the owner of  the food. Shared toilets n showers.

So her mum has settled down well in the hospital. She has even found a chinese speaking friend in the hospital! The cleaner who comes to tidy up the place speaks chinese. And she claimed that Hong yan's mum is the first Chinese to ever live there in the past 20 yrs. Wow! It's quite a blessing to have someone she can talk to there, as she speaks no english.

So this week, we will cut down the visits and focus on things which we had put off for the past week.

Need to get back to routine!
Hope your week is good too!

kcan