The hospital we are currently staying in is located in a district about 20 minutes outside of Hangzhou.  I guess you could call Xiaoshan a suburb even though there are about 1.6 million inhabitants.  The city of Hangzhou has somewhere between 7-9 million residents.  Our hospital is called the Zhejiang Xiaoshan hospital and from our understanding it is well known as a "birthing" hospital.  The 20th floor (ours) is for stem cell treatments for foreigners.  There are a bunch of patients here from Hong Kong, but Hong Kong is almost like it's own country in China.  One of the interpreters here told us that citizens of mainland China need a passport to even visit Hong Kong.  There is another floor in this hospital for the mainland Chinese citizens to undergo stem cell treatment as well.

Most patients from the unit are from America, Canada, Australia, Romania, Japan and Italy.  With each of our trips I'd say probably half the unit is American or Canadian.  Each room has one double bed and either a hospital bed or hospital crib depending on the age of the patient.  All of the rooms are private for one family with a private bathroom.  The bathroom has a sink with a small vanity, the john, and a walk in shower...kinda.  There's pretty much just a drain in the middle of the bathroom floor, so everyone wears shoes in the bathroom at all times unless you want your socks soaking wet.  

Every room also has a 25 inch TV with a DVD player.  The unit has a huge DVD collection of movies that just came out in theaters.  They're really cheap and fun to read the subtitles.  Our room always has fresh water from one of those water dispensers you always see in office buildings.  The hot water feature always works, so you can make a cup of tea or instant whatever at the drop of a hat.  There's also air conditioning which is definately a plus!!!  Every room also has at least one tall dresser to stuff your clothes/suitcases in and a couple smaller bedside dressers.  There's a tiny refridgerator in every room like the ones everyone had in college to store their 6 packs.  Don't worry, handsome guy is only allowed space for 2 cans of Reeb.  The rest of the space is used for Drew's various dairy products and my honey aloe tea.  Our unit also has 2 small kitchens to cook in, store extra food, or put food in a big deep freezer.  There's also a community storage area that everyone can leave or take items from.  I (Kristin) usually leap for the gigantic jars of peanut butter and some silver ware, plastic plates, etc.  One kitchen in particular has two giant sinks to wash your dishes in.  This is the first time Handsome Guy has ever begged and pleaded to clean the dishes.  It's a great place to chew the fat with our fellow neighbors here.

Our unit wraps around in a circle with the elevators taking up most of one side, patient rooms taking up two sides, and the therapy rooms taking up the other side.  The nursing station is in the middle with a large room behind it with maybe 5 computers for the doctors/staff to use.  The main therapy room has 3 padded tables that are about 2 feet off the ground.  I'd say they are almost the size of a queen bed.  This is where the business happens.  The patients receive 1 hour sessions 5 days per week by a physical therapist.  There are also two adult sized standers in the same room, so this is definately the place for all of the action during the day.  If the patients need standing time, they receive at least 1/2 hour 5 days per week.  There is also a standing station out at the nursing station that I noticed most of the adult patients flock too. There is pretty much just one strap for support in the back, so you need pretty good posture for this type of standing.

The other therapy room is pretty much just called "the amusement room."  There is a little kid section with toys, one therapy table, a couple of couches, a 42"  flat panel TV and a couple of computers.  There actually wasn't even room for all of the patients this morning.  So this one local mother who brings her 2 year old in for PT every day shared our table with Drew.  We got a couple of cute pictures of the kids listening to Drew's Dora book.  They each got a turn turning the pages.

Tonight we had some time after dinner to take a walk around the hospital.  It was the perfect night.  We walked over to People's Square which is huge.  We got to watch a bunch of little kids roller blade and their crazy instructor practically run them over.  Then we watched these huge kites complete with blinking lights fly in the sky.  Next we watched the teenagers of stake boards with wheels that flashed a bunch of different colors.  Then we observed the Chinese version of the electric slide with probably 40-50 women dancing.  Drew was of course busy flirting with the little girls shaking their bare booties.