I Woke Up During Surgery

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Donna Penner was admitted to hospital for surgery. It should have been a straightforward procedure but Donna woke up during the operation and was completely unable to alert the doctors. William Lindesay describes himself as a "wall nut". He's been obsessed with the Great Wall of China since he was a child and he recently drove the full length of it. Laila Haidari is called the "mother" of Kabul's drug addicts. Afghanistan produces 90% of the world's opium and has a huge heroin addiction problem. Laila has devoted her life to helping thousands of those addicts. (Photo: In the operating theatre. Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten/Getty Images)