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Date: 09 October 2005 18:44:37
Sorry for the lack of communication... it's been a bit of a trying time. Anyone who knows what newspaper i work for will realise tomorrow why I have been working til 10pm at night most of this week. As for the rest of the time - a lot of it has been at the hospital with my father-in-law, who scared us pretty badly. Thanks more to prayer than medical expectation he seems to be pulling through this time
It makes me reassess my priorities every time this happens, but it is such a rollercoaster - one minute you think you're going to lose him, and the next (so it seems) he's talking again and I'm back in the office trying to make up for time lost. As for sleep lost - that might have to wait a while - I have to go to a big launch party at Claridges tomorrow night. The way I feel now, I may just sleep in the corner.
On Friday, my brother-in-law ended up in hospital too - probably the virus he had was caught whilst visiting his dad in Intensive Care. The teddybear in the waiting room, which he was handling but the rest of us weren't, has been renamed Mr Sa bear (possibly only someone with a sense of humour like ours would get it).... it was the stuff of black comedy.
I feel like I am living my entire life under fluorescent striplights. That Alpha sign-off "Is there more to life than this?" just about sums the whole thing up right now.
On a bright note, though, a real answer to prayer. Had the first real conversation with my new news editor on Friday who said "you don't really want to be on the Sunday rota, do you?". Obviously I said no, which apparently means i no longer have to work Sundays. Such an unexpected gift (I'd offered to do late shifts sundays so I could go to church, so maybe they had borne that in mind) . God is so good.