{"id":274,"date":"2008-01-12T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-01-12T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:06:08","slug":"what-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/what-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What a week!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past week was a real up and down week for me.&nbsp; The week started off reasonably well with me going back to work and getting stuck into catching up with all the things that pilled up during the break.<\/p>\n<p>But from Wednesday things got hectic.&nbsp; Wednesday afternoon my daughter went into hospital for what was to be a routine operation.&nbsp; Having her tonsils taken out and some work on her sinus and nose to remove some blockage.&nbsp; The operation was suppose to take less than 2 hours but lasted almost 4 hours.&nbsp; The sinus\/nose part went fine but there was some complication with the tonsils part.&nbsp; Over the past couple of months she had problems with her tonsils and they could only operate when it was properly recovered.&nbsp; This was not the case and they found it to be still infected and swollen.&nbsp; Lets hope that they got all of it out.<\/p>\n<p>So Wednesday night was spend between the hospital and home with almost no sleep.&nbsp; This is where I am so happy to have a very special friend that was prepared to go through the night with me.&nbsp; I cannot even think how I would have gotten through the night without this special friend.&nbsp; Thanks again .. you know who you are and I just hope you understand and know what your company meant to me.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was a very tough day seeing my daughter in pain and knowing that I cannot do much for her.&nbsp; This and the fact that I was over tired meant that I did not have much sleep Thursday night either.&nbsp; Seeing my daughter yesterday much better and knowing that she is over the worst made things much better.&nbsp; Had a good nights sleep and am feeling much better today.<\/p>\n<p>This week I came across an amazing photographer in South Africa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/andreinafrica\/\">Andre van Rooyen<\/a>. 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