Saturday, December 02, 2006




The rehydration was temporary and Huck ended up back in the ER on Friday morning and was admitted to Beijing United Family Hospital. It's an international, western-run hospital. The doctors are all western trained. The care was excellent. Huck had a private room. He was hooked up to an IV and was given fluids rapidly at first and then more slowly. The nurses are Chinese but all speak English. Every single person in the hospital thought Huck was a girl. Huck lost between 2 and 3 kilograms. Of course everything is done in the metric system, so sometimes I was a bit lost. At the beginning of his stay, when they'd take his temperature, I had to ask for a conversion. When we first got there, his temperature was nearly 40 degrees (103.5). He's all better now.

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