Hello all and thanks for the warm welcomes. I’ll do my best to keep you entertained with pics of frogs on stix and the likes. Carting supplies from Canada ain’t that bad so no sympathy needed there. As for encounters with the Chinese medical system, I can’t knock it ’til I’ve tried it. (I have had one experience, non-diabetes related … rabies shots after losing a battle with a cat in an airport, which I was transporting for a friend … long story, which I will post in the non-diabetes section in the future … and the hospital and docs/nurses had a smooth running system … didn’t have a clue what they were saying to me, but I didn’t die from the injections, which I had to trust was not concentrated SARS virus. BTW, interesting Guangzhou tid bit … this city has the honor of being ground zero for SARS … found in a hospital not far from where I work.) So, as I say when out recruiting, “Come to Guangzhou … It’s better than you think”. 
I’m happy to host a shoot-up gathering for anyone visiting this neck of the woods.