Top Ten Reasons You Know It Is Time to Go Home

When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time To Go Home - Erma Bombeck

You consider discharging goods you bought a few weeks back because of concerns of excess luggage

The delivery boy from Papa John's Pizza is on a first name basis with you

You are bored of KFC and McDonald's

You act out all your PT and OT exercises in your dreams

The person on the restaurant takeout phone says, "Oh, it's you again."

The following quote makes sense: "Healing is 90% attitude, 90% medication"
[ I had to insert this bit of Yogi Berra-ism ]

You know your way around Lo Wu City shopping center

The street vendors recognize you and refuse to bargain with you

You are greeted in every language except English

It was extra busy at PT and OT today because the interns have just finished their training and the doctors are left to tend to all the patients by themselves. Godzilla (the construction machinery) is again screeching for her young.

We had an interesting encounter in OT. We met a Chinese ataxia patient who is being treated with stem cells on a different floor. He is from Hong Kong and has SCA6. He says that there are about 100 known ataxia patients in Hong Kong. As we find out more information, we'll post it.

We're on the home stretch now. I'm feeling energetic enough to use my walker within the hospital building. In the evening, as I walked on the floor I heard one of the Italian patients called, "Bravo Ricardo!!" Subtle signs of improvement have been noticed.