Wu Yi is starting to speak English!! For the past three days, she has been saying "hey" instead of grunting to get our attention. Today, "hey" became "hey look". So cute! (No other words come out of her mouth).
Today we got together with a translator for the first time to explain the upcoming surgery to Wu Yi. No surprise ~ she refused to speak and barely acknowledged the conversation. I could tell she was listening though. She didn't respond to the discussion of going to the hospital, although I could see she was concerned talking about pain and needing to take medicine that might not taste very good. After giving her all the pertinent details, the translator decided to make some more casual conversation and asked Wu Yi if she enjoyed going to school in China. Wu Yi nodded that she did. When asked if she had good friends there, Wu Yi nodded and started to sob. I held her for a half hour while she cried. The translator apologized for bringing up a sensitive topic, but I told her that I wasn't sorry that she did ~ its good for Wu Yi to think about her friends and to be able to grieve in my arms. I'm sure her friends weren't the only reason she was crying anyway.
Surgery on Wednesday.
Poor girl! It's good she's been able to get those tears out, but I'm sure it breaks your heart. How fun that she's starting to speak some English!! I'm hoping that Wu Yi has a successful surgery tomorrow and will look forward to hearing how everything goes.
ReplyDeleteThat's so sad. I hope that when Eva comes home both girls will be comforted by knowing that the other one is "nearby" (as in, not across the ocean).
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