Monday Night in Monterrey

Our first full day in Monterrey, and YES, it was full!! Started off this morning with a continental breakfast here at the Comfort Inn. Then, a car was provided for us to take us to the hospital. There, we filled out a couple of forms and saw the room we will be staying in, starting tomorrow (Tuesday). Following the ´tour´of the hospital, the nurse drew some blood from Cheryl. Cheryl said one thing. "She´s Good!" From there, the hospital´s drive, Victor, drove us back to the Comfort Inn, where we freshened up (that meant a nap for me) and met up with a driver whom Victor recommended to show us the ´sights´! First, he took us to the Riverwalk. It is about 2 miles long and we took the boat from one end to the other. Very pretty and LOT´S of waterfalls and cascading water.

From the Riverwalk, he took us to a restaurant, which served, as its main meal, baby goat parts. We passed on that and said, thank you very much. I did have a margerita, though, before we left. We were informed by several people about the ´caves´,here in the Monterrey area, which house thousands, if not HUNDREDS of thousands of bats, since they heard that we have an interest in wildlife. So, the driver drove us to the ´caves´to get there before the tram closed at 5pm. What he didn´t tell us is that the caves are UP the tram, about 1500 - 2000 feet AND that once inside the caves, there are about 2,000 stair steps!!! Now, don´t forget, we are talking about a person here who is about to undergo a procedure to get her knees BACK into shape. We don´t want to destroy them altogether before we start the procedure. Well, you know Cheryl. So, once we started the climb, there was no turning back. Once we finished, she said SHE was finished and to "GET ME HOME!" I think were her exact words.

Needless to say, we stayed in the room tonight, vegging. She did ask me to tell you that she is REALLY looking forward to getting this procedure started. Dr Estrada feels very confident that she will have NO pain (or at the very least, LESS pain) within hours after he begins with the Ozone treatment. We plan to leave the hotel for the hospital around 10:30am (our time - two hours earlier than Tahoe time) tomorrow morning. So, by 1pm, she will feel MUCH better.

The Ozone is the first step, THEN he will begin with the C34 Stem Cell injection into her body. She will start off with 10 million tomorrow. Not a bad start. Weather was ´warm´but not hot.

We are getting close and ready to go. Thank you to all of you who have written us and asked how we are doing. We appreciate knowing that you are concerned for Cheryl and her situation. We will be home late Friday night, so Saturday, we will be able to start the REST of Cheryl´s life (as Paul Harvey would say). Talk to you soon. Tom