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		<title>Signing off&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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A guest blog by Jesta
My last post: I would like to say a huge “Thank you” to QY for hosting this guest blog. I know that it is something that she does very rarely, and I feel honoured that she allowed my writing to appear in her personal space.
I do hope that I haven’t managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a wrap – done and dusted!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Urumuqi airport – where coffee costs more than wine
I write this sitting in the departure lounge of Urumuqi airport. We left the hotel at 6 am (well, the local equivalent which is 6.30am, or &#8220;Whenever the coach turns up&#8221;). We arrived at the airport to discover that despite being booked on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting there – the end is in sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Firstly, sorry that nothing has been posted for a couple of days. Day 4 and Day 5 (Saturday and Sunday) were very long hauls with each surgeon seeing at least 7 patients – the OR was running up to 7 tables at a time, with 6 being more normal.
Each room had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faces of Hope - Picture Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Sanati:

She&#8217;s the girl who I talked about in my last post.
Here she is on her way out of the OR (most of the OR pictures are a bit too graphic):

These are the parents waiting outside the OR for their first glimpse of their children. Sanati&#8217;s grandfather is at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 Hours on a Donkey, 15 Hours on a Bus</title>
		<link>http://sheylara.com/2008/08/22/24-hours-on-a-horse-15-hours-on-a-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Short post, no pics yet (I&#8217;ve asked OS for permission to use some of the pictures that I shot yesterday).
I&#8217;ve just come out of the Operation Room (OR) where I spent most of my morning. The main event was a repair of a cleft lip and palate of a girl (I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Day of Screening – cutting tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://sheylara.com/2008/08/21/first-day-of-screening-%e2%80%93-cutting-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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The first real day has now finished. The numbers weren’t as great as we expected, but the team managed to screen a total of 78 patients and 72 have now been identified as surgical cases.
The OR starts work tomorrow afternoon with 8 patients spread over 4 beds.
The reason that we didn’t [...]]]></description>
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