On January 17th after 6:00 pm they came and removed bone marrow from Jason's hip. This was a very painful procedure as the needle was shoved through the bone. They swabbed the area with iodine, then they did a bunch of injections for local freezing and because Jason is on pain medication already they didn't give him anything else. Jason imagines the needle was in two parts making like a littel hammer and discribes it as a tap, tap, tap. Then they put a larger...

The rest of the day yesterday was quite stressful after the hospital came to try and collect our passports and told us they were going to keep them until Jason was discharged. Neither one of us was happy about this but Jason was very adamant and I ended up having to go to the hospital administration office to meet the administrator. The administrator set up a meeting with Dr. Malik and called Surjio. After all was said and done our passports were returned to u...

Sorry about the break in the blog but when we arrived in Munich the airport didn't have any free Internet service. I could have bought some but I didn't know how much it would have cost in Canadian funds. That flight was very long but at least Jason and I had two seats all to ourselves in a row. Jason likes the window seat which suits me fine. I wish I could sleep like he can, I haven't had more than a cat nap since we left Edmonton. I am trying to wait unti...