I feel like I’m on some emotional rollercoaster lately. One moment I’m fine and the next I’m not. Reading other people’s blogs is a nice way to distract myself from the madness that is going on and to keep sane. I think I will have to book a flight back to Amsterdam soon and just go there without being in doubt all the time whether to go or not. Today was a good day, all was fine until my friend JdB. sent me an email telling me that she had just spoken to CH.
CH. is still in hospital suffering from a stroke. Yesterday my friend KvD. sent me an email telling me CH. would be going home over the weekend. They’ve found fluid in the cavities and if it would turn out to be a sinus infection she would get antibiotics and she would be released from hospital. I was very much in doubt about that, knowing she is not okay at all after I’ve spoken to her on the phone, no matter what these doctors say, I could tell and it was frustrating me.
So today I received an email from JdB. after she had spoken to CH. telling me that she needs more surgery done on the brain, there’s too much pressure *duh, she still had terrible headaches and the drain was still filling up with blood* caused by the brain sucking up blood like a sponge… I really wish this nightmare was over. That she will be a healthy woman again ready to get married in June…
I’m supposed to design her wedding announcement but I just can’t, it doesn’t feel right somehow. I’m stuck. AS. has been very supportive he can tell it’s causing a lot of stress, I warned him I might be snappy at times. So forgive me if I have a bad day and won’t be in the mood for posting. I’d rather read about other people’s lives and leave them a nice comment than being stuck in this whirlpool. So anyone out there reading this, feel free to leave your blog url so I’ll stay sane, it’s for a good cause…
Thanks! 
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Update on Upgrade
I just called TH. in Amsterdam, he told me CH. is off the machines *finally* and moved to a different section of the hospital. The surgery went well last Friday, they were able to narrow a blood vessel which could’ve burst but there were still several blood clots causing risk to the brain. She’s getting morphine and paracetamol to reduce the pain in her head.
I called her last Monday to see how she was doing, she sounded tired and slightly confused but good [as in conscious], I’ve only spoken with her for five minutes, she’s wearing an oxygen mask so she couldn’t speak much. It was good to hear her voice and talk to her even if it was only for a couple of minutes.
In the meantime I have been HQ over here sorting out other friends in Amsterdam who needed to stay updated as well. I organised things from here, sent faxes and emails and made sure someone would bring something for me and from me to CH. I’ve called the hospital several times and sent a fax to CH., the nurse made sure I could send one from the UK to her so she could give it to CH., isn’t that sweet?
So after a stressful weekend [plus Monday, plus Tuesday], I really needed some time to relax and not having to think or organise… I stayed away from the phone and fax for a while and used the upgrading of this blog as a distraction, just something else to focus on for a while… I’ve finished installing most of the plugins, although I can’t get a few to work, which I will have to have a look at over the weekend. I ‘lost’ my tagcloud and I’m working on it to get it back as it was…
It’s good that Movable Type decides to release an upgrade but they don’t realise that most of the developers who design the plugins in their spare time as a hobby will only upgrade their plugins as soon as they are aware of the new release, followed by a test period to find bugs etc. it will take months before they release their latest version… I found out that since this last upgrade a lot of developers didn’t upgrade their plugins hence they’ll stop working with the new structure/architecture of MT and that is a shame and at times even annoying!
So by upgrading I got myself in a little bit of trouble that I will hopefully work on over the weekend. Btw I was wrong in my post about AS. being on standby last week, he will be this weekend, starting tonight. So I reckon this will be the sleepless weekend instead of the other one. Last week he had a power down weekend, he worked from Friday morning 08.30 – Saturday morning 04.30, had to spend the night in a 150 pound hotel room only to have two hours of sleep, no breakfast and having to be back in the office by 07.30…
What a waste of money isn’t it???? It would’ve been cheaper to get a cab home!!! I really don’t understand the policy of some of these banks… They just book rooms like that, have monthly meetings at restaurants with the teams but partners are not welcome to the annual xMas party, it just doesn’t add up. I would not have gone btw, I don’t like work do’s, wrong type of thing for me; too many people [about 600 employees] getting drunk and behaving like idiots… but it’s the thought that counts, isn’t it?
Anyway I will have my sleepless nights this weekend so expect a grumpy 
person [or perhaps not, who can tell?!]. I’m going out in a while buying myself some earplugs at Boots, cleaning up the house because that really needs to be done and then sort out my tag cloud! I’m back again in the land of the living!Talk later 