So far, we haven't done anything that we had originally planned on doing. Why, you might ask? Well, the very thing that I was concerned about did happen. Fortunately, it happened at the end of our very lonnnnnng flight, which took us to Beijing. Our plane began to descend, but all at once, it went back up again--and my ears decided that they didn't want to go up with the plane, and they filled with fluid. Yesterday after the plane flight, I could not hear as well, and when I talked, I heard my voice as if it were in a tunnel. But by this morning, it was much better, but since Beijijng has the best hospitals (no typical doctors' offices here), we ended up going to a large Beijing hospital to their international dept. Before that, my parents contacted my ENT doctor in Indy to ask for her advice. She said Prednisone would do t be trick, so our guide communicated that to the doctor after I was examined. At first, she said that there was no such medicine there. However, after our guide explained a little more, the doctor looked it up in a Mandarin to English dictinary, and she discovered that they DID have the drug! Soooo.. I start that today and will actually finish my doses of it in the states, since I have to taper off of it. Please pray that this does the trick. Also, I wanted to mention how supportive Howie was through all of this fiasco.
We did get to do some other things later yesterday as well. We did a little urban exploring and window shopping around our hotel. We enjoyed a delicious meal in a fancy Chinese restaurant. We were amused by the english translations of Chinese slogans posted in the shops. I will post pictures of the signs we saw. If you look in one of them you will see our reflection in the funhouse mirror-like elevator doors. Today we will visit the Forbidden City and Tian'an Men Square!
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