We have made so many new friends here and they all LOVE the kids SO MUCH!!!  Here are a couple pictures of our Chinese friends from the hospital and another one of the kids at the park here across the street from the hospital.

Gryphon has had two treatments so far and has done so well!  One with IV and the other spinal.  We are excited to see what the future holds for him!  God has been so wonderful with our whole process and even the doctors are saying they can’t wait to see his progress.  They believe Gryphon is in the final process before being able to walk and talk.  After the course of 7 treatments they say it will be a couple of months and we should see results begin to happen.  They seem really excited about Gryphon and of course we are as well!  Jocelynn had a really hard time with Gryphon going for the spinal yesterday and we were surprised about that, but she is doing good now and we pray she will have an easier time as the treatments go on!  LOVE and MISS YOU ALL!!  God Bless

We were admitted to the hospital today and Gryphon got to meet his therapist named Carrie.  We also found out his first treatment will begin on Friday and he will have therapy five days a week.  Physical therapy, Standing treatments and Electrical wave therapy to help reduce the tone in his muscles.  It will be interesting to see how well he adjusts to the new things.  Continue to keep us in your prayers, especially on thurs. for you because that’s when friday will be for us.  We have met many families, some from the US and a couple from outside and it’s nice to talk to them and find out kind of what to expect.  Their children have been really sick from the treatments for a couple days after, so pray, pray pray for Gryphon!!!  THANKS and we Love and Miss you all!  Oh and we had wonderful Pappa John’s Pizza yesterday  YUMMMMM!!

On May 7 at 8:00 p.m. we boarded

Just checking things out!

our first of three planes to get to Hangzhou, China.  On May 9 at 11:00 a.m. we left the airport in Hangzhou.  Gryphon and Jocelynn did great on all the flights.  God really answered our prayers with that.  We were held for “swine flue” questioning at the Hangzhou airport for about an hour.  Once we were free to go we had the great experience of lost luggage.  It was surprisingly easy to report the loss, and the airport found and returned it to us by the end of the day.  Rebecca, our patient representative, was there to meet us with a car to take us to our hotel.  Rebecca speaks english well and has been very helpful to us.  She checked us in to our hotel,  showed us around the area, took us to exchange money and has been great to work with.

We are staying at the JinJiang Inn just down the street from the hospital.  We unpacked and got a little settled in just in time to realize that the thermostat is not working.  So we went to the front desk explained that it was extremely hot in our room and they moved us a few doors down to a wonderfully cool room.  The staff at the inn are nice, but we have a hard time communicating with them.  Between the 4 of us we can come up with maybe 20 words in chinese, but they are mostly just greetings or goodbyes.

Today we did alot of sitting around, sleeping, and just trying to get the kids adjusted to the time here.  I think we have now, they were in bed at 9:00 tonight.  We also went walking in the area looking for places to eat.  We found a few, but after eating at 2 of them I think we need to keep looking.

Gryphon and Jocelynn are doing well.  Jocelynn wants to be back at home and misses school. So far she has only missed one day of school.  Gryphon is all over the hotel room climbing on the beds and chairs.  We went out to buy a few toys for him.  We got a small truck and 3 balls that cost less than 1 dollar but you wouldn’t know it if you saw the excitement in his face.

We check in at the hospital on Tuesday.  Rebecca will be helping us with that.  So from Tuesday on Aleesha and Gryphon will be staying at the hospital and Jocelynn and Mike will be in the hotel.

Thank you for the prayers

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support!! To everyone who was involved in anyway, we are so grateful to you! WE HAVE NOW MET OUR GOAL for Gryphon’s Treatments! PRAISE BE TO GOD!! We raised $16,070.00 at the Dinner and will now be preparing for our BIG trip!
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