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Re: End of the road
« Reply #30 on: November 04, 2010, 12:19:06 am »
I have been home a week now and still a little jet lagged. I was gone a total of 40 days. I think the swollen ankles are from all the walking I did.  Seems like I walked a hundred miles or more. I am in better shape than when I left and I lost another 10 pounds while I was there. The ear infection I got was pretty severe. The doc said that if I hadn't come in when I did I would have ended up in the hospital. But the cure was simple enough a couple rounds of intravenous antibiotics and some pills and I was OK in a couple of days. All for under a hundred bucks. I can't stop thinking about the woman I left in Guangzhou. We talk twice a day and are still excited to chat for an hour or more. I am going to get my things in order and head back to Guangzhou as soon as I can. And to think I almost canceled my trip to see her because of my first impression.
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Re: End of the road
« Reply #31 on: November 04, 2010, 05:19:33 am »
Nice pictures and a beautiful woman Gerry.   She looks very happy.  I am sure both of you are.  I expect to hear many more good reports.

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Re: End of the road
« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2010, 09:28:50 pm »
Thanks Shan. She does look happy doesn’t she. She smiles almost constantly and she laughs at even my worst jokes. The smile and the laugh are infectious. I am constantly smiling when I am around her.

I am ready for round two.  I already have my tickets for my next trip. I am leaving December 3rd and I am staying as long as it takes to get married and finish the VISA application. If I am not needed back in the USA I may stay indefinatly.

My house is not sold and I don’t expect it to sell until next spring so maybe I hibernate in Guangzhou. The only thing I will require is my blood pressure meds and I am set for the winter.


About the swollen ankles....

I think you have properly explored your various oiptions and so happy that you got a wonderful result............well done !!

One thing you mentioned that leads me to comment....your rock hard calves and swollen ankles.

For those of us "mature" travellers, whose circulation is probably less than 100 % nowadays, it is always a good idea to invest in a good pair of pressure socks for long distance flights.
They are not expensive and prevent this pooling of blood in the legs and feet which is a major risk factor for Deep Vein Thrombosis.

This brings to mind the events that lead up to my troubles in the first place. I am hypothesizing here, but remember I returned from a business trip and suddenly fell ill with depression and anxiety. I remember vaguely  I flew home from Singapore, a very long flight and slept all the way. Three days later I found myself crawling on the bathroom floor trying to get back on my feet. That is when all my mental problems began. Could it be possibly,  I developed a blood clot in my legs and three days later it caused a stroke and some brain damage? Maybe that is why it did not respond to medication. It has been 8 years and I still have not regained my short term memory and my mental capacity for solving problems is nowhere near what it was before that fateful trip. Something to think about. Would you agree?

So David E. Where can I buy those pressure socks?
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Re: End of the road
« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2010, 09:50:42 pm »
by the way....someone deleted one of my post on this thread between October 19 and October 24th. May I ask why?
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Re: End of the road
« Reply #34 on: November 18, 2010, 12:23:11 am »
Pineau

DVT has been the culprit in many, many strokes, sometimes months and years after the formation of them.

Often they sit unnoticed except for some pain in the first instance that feels just like a muscle strain...then it goes away.

If and when the clot breaks up, usually it is nabbed by the kidneys and dealt with. Sometimes micro pieces can travel around and do further damage....obviously if any get into the brain.....high risk.

I could not say if a DVT caused your original problems, but there is a test that the Doc can do to find out if a certain enzyme is in your blood which is a marker for DVT.

Pressure socks in Aus can be bought in any good Pharmacy...they measure a few points on your legs, feet, calves and ankles and order in the correct size.....dont know about USA.

The only medication I am aware of to deal with DVT is a long term course of Wafarin (yes,,,rat poison) which is an anti-coagulant agent and prevents the full clot from moving and killing you, rather it slowly dissolves and no damage is done.

If your original medical condition did not prompt them to give you Warfarin, then if it was a DVT, it basically went untreated...and that aint good !!!

Hope this helps...David


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Re: End of the road
« Reply #35 on: December 01, 2010, 01:01:19 am »
On the road again.
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It was cold and windy yesterday and it is predicted to be 12 degrees. In Guangzhou it was 61 degrees this morning and the high will be 80. Guess where I am going to be at Christmas?
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I am headed out of Denver to Guangzhou on Friday morning. My plan is to get married  and file for Spouse VISA during this trip.  I plan to stay indefinately.

I have my divorce decree. My “non Criminal” affidavit from Colorado bureau of investigation. Last three years of tax returns. My birth certificate.

Any suggestions for other things I will need while I am there?

So move my Google peg pin on the map from Longmont to Guangzhou.
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Re: End of the road
« Reply #36 on: December 01, 2010, 03:51:37 am »
Just a thought...

Have you got documentation to prove your relationship over the past period ??....QQ records, air tickets, reciepts etc etc ??

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Re: End of the road
« Reply #37 on: December 01, 2010, 04:20:20 am »
My congratulations and blessings to the both of you Pineau. Kind of got scared reading "My plan is to get married  and file for Spouse VISA during this trip.  I plan to stay indefinitely."
Sounded like you where staying in China while moving her to the States :o  but then I read it again ;D
Wish you both a long happy life together. James
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Re: End of the road
« Reply #38 on: December 01, 2010, 02:31:04 pm »
Hey thanks David.

I went looking at the QQ records and found our very first conversation after we first met on CLM. 7-23-2010. That was great browsing through the progression of our relationship. There are 79 pages on this computer and as many more on my two laptops. That was fun. I am smiling.

That makes me think. It may be a good Idea for everyone to make a post on this public forum occasionally to updated his status. That would provide a record to refer back to when dates, places and events slip you mind. You never know when you may need it.


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Re: End of the road
« Reply #39 on: December 01, 2010, 09:00:25 pm »
Pineau,
 it would be a big help if the documents were already translated to chinese.  Other than that.  Best of luck.  Will be thru Denver this February, doubt if you will be back by then,  buzz

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Re: End of the road
« Reply #40 on: December 06, 2010, 07:36:23 pm »
Back in Guangzhou now. Somewhat jetlagged but having a good reunion. My arrival card said that if I am not staying at a hotel then I should register with the local police within 24 hours. I tried that and they dont know what the hell i am talking about. They sent me to another department which referred me to a different office. Seems like no one knows what to do but they all want to charge me sort of fee for helping me out. Anyone with some experience can send me to the right authorities? I never had to hunt for the police in  Shenzhen. The police found me.

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Re: End of the road
« Reply #41 on: December 06, 2010, 11:47:35 pm »
I never registered at the police on all my trips. Only this last trip did I stay the whole time in a hotel. My wife moved to a new place with her son and the accommodations were quit small. So she and I stayed for 254 rmb a night in Shenzhen. My take is if the Police don't know what you are talking about, it probably doesn't matter.
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Re: End of the road
« Reply #42 on: December 07, 2010, 05:08:55 am »
I have never registered with the police.  Even in a small place, 3.2 million, like Shaoguan no one bothered me except the bad pick pocket who didn't get anything.

I don't think I would worry about it but you didn't hear that from me.  ::)

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« Reply #43 on: December 07, 2010, 06:15:43 am »
If your planing on staying in China for any length of time. Such as getting married and changing your visa to a long stay L type valid for 6 months to two years. The PSB will have everything about you on computer records, They will know when you arrived in the country and if there are any gaps as to where you have been staying up until now they will want to know why. This happened to me when I went up to Inner Mongolia with my wife. We stayed free of charge in a hotel there as "guests" and where told not to register, on my return I had to renew my residence permit and the PSB wanted to know where I stayed for those few weeks. A couple of swift phone calls and we had it sorted out, but they do like everything to be in order.Of course if your just visiting then you don't have to be so concerned. Long term it's a different matter completely.

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Re: End of the road
« Reply #44 on: December 07, 2010, 12:58:46 pm »
Its strange, when we were in Changsha the hotel didn't bother with the foreigner form and in Wuhan  they insisted on it. In Gong'an we had to fill out a foreigner form in the hotel as well as the local police station! One extreme to another. Like everything else, in China just go with the flow, the rules seems to change place to place.
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