Kuala Lumpur: Popo in hospital
Popo fell this morning and fractured a vertebrate so we took her to the hospital. She was looking for money to give to us (as she generously does whenever we visit), and she lost her balance as she bent over to look in a box. One of the vertebrates in her spinal column, brittle from osteoporosis, collapsed on impact. Her back hurt too much to walk, so my dad carried her downstairs and Second Uncle drove her to the hospital. The nurses should have sent her home after taking an X-ray, but they instead admitted her for a day.
I'm sure Popo is frustrated that she's bed-ridden for a week. She can return to her daily exercise of riding a stationary bike in three weeks.
I'm returning to the States in a few days but my parents and sister are traveling in Tibet for the next month with Fifth Aunt. This morning Fifth Aunt took us to buy airplane tickets to Kathmandu, Nepal, from whence they'll depart for Lhasa.
We ate Mouse Tail Noodle and chicken rice at a hawker center for lunch. We took some extra food and pastries to the hospital for Popo.
Fifth Aunt took Kweilin and me home so that we could pack, since Kweilin is flying to Kathmandu tomorrow. We saran-wrapped the tingklik box and packed our souvenirs for me to take back to San Francisco.
We again experienced horrible KL traffic. What should have been a 15-minute drive to the hospital ended up taking an hour and a half.
We ate an excellent dinner at a hawker center near the hospital. I love eating at Malaysian and Singaporean hawker centers: the shops offer a wide selection, they prepare food quickly, and they charge little.
Auntie De Xia and her son Didi kindly brought over durian at midnight. They had just closed their hardware store and came to say goodbye before my dad and sister left. We ate the durian together.
posted by Unknown at 5:56 PM
