The Never Ending Adventure

We were scheduled to leave Sanya 8/28, but then Oscar broke his foot on 8/25 and we had a whole new level of adventure to contend with. There were two Chinese hospitals, no translators, one hospital had great CT and xray machines but no facilities to care for children, the other hospital was something like a prison but slapped a make-shift cast on his leg. A very long day, quite an ordeal. We decided that we needed to get him seen by a real doctor in Hong Kong so we moved up our departure until Aug 27th.

That meant packing up the whole family on Aug 26th, giving away all of the possessions we had purchased in Sanya to our babysitter, an unbelievably grateful person who was in shock at all the "nice" things (plastic mug for our toothbrushes, etc) we were giving her for free. She brought her whole family over to move all the stuff out into a waiting taxi and they were overjoyed, as were we to get rid of it all. I did get weepy parting with the mattress cushion though... Just kidding.

We also were happy to get out of there early because we learned that Bryce was "coming back to Sanya" to check us out of our apartment at 10am on Saturday the 28th, and that was just one bit of drama none of us needed at all. We never saw him again in Sanya after he bailed on Haley and their wedding way back at the end of July. Guess he stayed in Shanghai that whole time. Bye Bryce. Oh and for those who care about the soap opera, Haley did officially break up with him after hearing what he had to say in Shanghai and at least we know she made the right decision.

We got to Hong Kong and got Oscar to the right doctor (pediatric orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Chang), who cut off his make-shift cast that was on too tightly and changed his treatment to a simple elasticized stocking and use of best judgment. The Sanya docs said Oscar had to stay off it for 4 weeks.

He already is walking on it here, after a week of refusing to. All will be well.

Two days to go. Hong Kong has been so-so because we've been toiling away at some market research reports due tomorrow and because of his foot. We've seen the key sites though and will attempt to visit Ocean Park tomorrow for a grand finale.