where's the party tonight? on the dance floor...

today we spent the day at the gautam nagar hospital, dr. shroff's other medical facility nearby, where she mostly treats indian patients and her fertility patients.

there was this beautiful little baby in the lobby when we arrived this morning, she was the most adorable thing i'd ever seen. she was probably about 3 months old, super tiny, and she was dressed up like a little woman - she had a bracelet on and, like a hairdo (i think that was natural). i was really tempted to steal her for ryan. she needs an indian baby.

the procedure today was injecting a larger quantity of stem cells directly into her spinal cord. because the spine is a pretty important and complicated organ of the body, this is the most risky place to inject the stem cells (but also, obviously, the best.) for this reason, the procedure had to be done in an official operating room (the "operating theatre" as the signs said) with doctors and nurses and scrubs and the whole deal.

after the procedure, which took about half an hour, ryan returned to the room and had to lay (lie? i'm losing my english!) inverted (with bricks under the foot-end of the bed) for 6 hours straight. which sucks. i was lucky enough to go to the gym for a few hours, but poor erin had to sit there, and even poorer ryan had to lay there, upside down, for 6 crazy hours. without a pillow under her head. yuck.

and the crazier thing is that this was the shortest procedure of them all. there is also a 24-hour procedure and a 3 day one. good lord. looking forward to those....