When we heard that Juliana’s daughter broke her mugs in a medicinally induced fit of rage and that her treasured Carrol Boyes mugs were destroyed in the process, we reached out to her to join us for coffee and a chat. Anneke’s temporal lobe in her brain was damaged due to an encephalitis infection at the age of 7 and this altered the course of both her life and that of Juliana and her husband Fanus.
Anneke’s illness resulted in seizures and her health gradually deteriorated with her communication skills and intellectual development severely affected. Now at the age of 31, Anneke is in a care home just outside of Hermanus and Juliana shared with our marketing and PR team that she has now reached the stage of acceptance and she is moving forward in life focusing on all that is good. Her period of mourning the child she knew before the viral infection changed her daughter has come to an end and she has accepted her lot in life.
We were treated to an intimate short reading by Juliana herself from her latest book, “Die kind se naam is Anneke” a sequel to her struggles in raising an intellectually disabled child beautifully captured in “Bloedvreemd”. Medicine prescribed to treat Anneke adversely affected her and one night she went into the kitchen and in a fit of rage took Juliana’s mugs off a shelf and smashed them on the floor. “I had the white Carrol Boyes mugs with the sketches on them, which the kids gave to me and she just took them one by one and threw them on the floor,” Juliana said. Her entire collection of mugs, bar one Carrol Boyes mug on her bedside table were destroyed.
Juliana frequents our Somerset Mall store and as a token of our support and admiration, we gifted her with a bespoke hamper including her most loved Sketchbook mugs to put back into her kitchen. “We admire Juliana’s courage and strength and can only begin to imagine the painful journey her family have been through and we are incredibly grateful that she was able to share her experience with us both in person and in her books,” Janine George, Chief Product and Marketing Officer.
When we heard that Juliana’s daughter broke her mugs in a medicinally induced fit of rage and that her treasured Carrol Boyes mugs were destroyed in the process, we reached out to her to join us for coffee and a chat. Anneke’s temporal lobe in her brain was damaged due to an encephalitis infection at the age of 7 and this altered the course of both her life and that of Juliana and her husband Fanus.
Anneke’s illness resulted in seizures and her health gradually deteriorated with her communication skills and intellectual development severely affected. Now at the age of 31, Anneke is in a care home just outside of Hermanus and Juliana shared with our marketing and PR team that she has now reached the stage of acceptance and she is moving forward in life focusing on all that is good. Her period of mourning the child she knew before the viral infection changed her daughter has come to an end and she has accepted her lot in life.
We were treated to an intimate short reading by Juliana herself from her latest book, “Die kind se naam is Anneke” a sequel to her struggles in raising an intellectually disabled child beautifully captured in “Bloedvreemd”. Medicine prescribed to treat Anneke adversely affected her and one night she went into the kitchen and in a fit of rage took Juliana’s mugs off a shelf and smashed them on the floor. “I had the white Carrol Boyes mugs with the sketches on them, which the kids gave to me and she just took them one by one and threw them on the floor,” Juliana said. Her entire collection of mugs, bar one Carrol Boyes mug on her bedside table were destroyed.
Juliana frequents our Somerset Mall store and as a token of our support and admiration, we gifted her with a bespoke hamper including her most loved Sketchbook mugs to put back into her kitchen. “We admire Juliana’s courage and strength and can only begin to imagine the painful journey her family have been through and we are incredibly grateful that she was able to share her experience with us both in person and in her books,” Janine George, Chief Product and Marketing Officer.