27. February 2007 02:36
by Rene Pallesen
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In early 2006 my Mum had a stroke while my parents were on holiday in Thailand.
A few months later in April when I was in Europe for work I used the opportunity to go and visit and check up on how my mum is doing.
She is now in a wheelchair and still getting used to finding new ways of doing things.
I didn't do much while I was there, because it was mainly a social visit to help my mum and dad.
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27. February 2007 02:17
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I have a number of photos that don't really justify being in individual albums. I have now added all these photos from 2006 into one album.
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27. February 2007 01:41
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In early 2006 I went a trip to Seattle for our annual kick-off event.
Some of us flew over there a few days early to go skiing in Wanatchee east of Seattle. If was a weekend of perfect skiing. It was my first time skiing so I took some lessons after which I was doing fine (blue slopes).
During the week we had lots of meetings and dinners. There were award nights as well as just social nights where we could meet up with the rest of the company.
The following all of us in International went down to Crystal Mountain at Mount Raineer to do some more skiing. It was a lot of fun and we all had a great time.
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27. February 2007 01:30
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Mid 2006 I went with Soeren and his family (visiting from Thailand) to Thredbo to do some skiing. We drove down there Friday night and returned Sunday night. Thredbo is located in the Australian Alps 5 hours drive south of Sydney.
Generally the skiing conditions are pretty good, but last year was pretty bad, but we did get some skiing done.
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This weekend we went to Sasha's and Mavis's wedding.
Family and friends were invited to attend the ceremony at Greenwich at 10am. The location they had chosen had a stunning view of Sydney Harvour and skyline.
When we arrived neither the groom or the bride were there. Approximately 20 minutes later the bride arrived, but still no groom, so she did another round in the car.
Finally at 10.30 Sasha arrived with his dad after having been stuck in traffic, shortly after Mavis arrived in her beautiful wedding dress and the ceremony could get under way.
It was a beautiful ceremony, beautiful location and beautiful weather.
After the ceremony it was photo time.
The reception was at a restaurant called Occilate Wildly in Newtown. The food was nice and at the end of the afternoon everyone went on their way.
27. August 2009 12:18
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27. August 2009 10:27
by Rene Pallesen
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The week before we went away on holiday I experienced pain in the pelvic area. I quickly got it diagnosed with ultrasound to be a hernia. Furtunately it could wait until we came back from holiday to be fixed although it was giving me some problems along the way carrying suitcases etc.
As soon as we came back I went to see the specialist and he told he that it would have to be fixed with surgery and that he could schedule it for the following week.
In the morning of the surgery I had to be at the hospital at 6.30am in the morning. Surgery started at 9am and by 11am I was awake again released at 1pm.
So it terms of the surgery it was very smooth...but it was very painful afterwards. I had problems standing up and sitting down.
This photo was taken two days after the surgery:
The cut is 13cm long and at this point I am still very much in pain.
The feedback from the doctor was that this was an Indirect Inaugural hernia and apparently the type that can cause a lot of problems later on if not fixed.
Unfortunately part of hernia surgery is that they have to cut some of the nerves so that they don't get caught in the mesh they use to repair it with.
This means that now two and a half weeks after the surgery there is still a large area around the cut that has got no sensation to touch or pain and some areas are hyper sensitive with the result that even the lightest touch is painful.
I hope the eventually all the sensation returns to normal (apparently in 25% of the cases this doesn't happen). I also hope that the scar won't be too bad and will mostly disappear long term.
