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Re: OAKSY Doggies Tips

Fingers crossed for Ken Gill with the fav in the feature.
by DOC
Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:04 pm
 
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Re: Soooooo, how's this weather?

The high in Adelaide today 9.7 was recorded at 6am.

I can not recall ever a high in winter ever being recorded when it is normally the coolest. I get that it can happen in summer when a big cool change sweeps in but never in winter.
by DOC
Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:59 pm
 
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Re: International ODIs

Haha, ESPN Cricinfo is a wealth if information that I spend alot of time on! Even better now you can access all the individual and team records through the app.

I was quite the same as a kid and a young lad, probably up until about 35, my nickname used to be Unisys bot on or off the field with all cricket stats, even when we were fielding I'd know exactly what the opposition was on and could give a required run rate to two decimal places at any given time :lol: :lol:


are you on the spectrum?, just asking........
No, but someday I'll be gone.

and live the life of luxury
by DOC
Thu Jul 22, 2021 6:14 pm
 
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Re: Who has had the Covid jab?

AZ jab 1 on 22nd April - mild fatigue on 24th was the only reaction.
AZ jab 2 on 15th July - mild head and shoulder aches and a bit tired for about 3 days.
Wife reacted similarly though more reaction to the first than the second.

We are both glad to now be significantly protected from serious risk from CV.

I had the latest Influenza booster mid way between the two AZ jabs - more reaction to that than either of the AZs, but no serious reaction there either.

Small side note.

An ongoing study in the US (very early days) is showing that persons with covid who have had both covid and flu vaccine are having much milder symptons and quicker recovery.
by DOC
Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:08 pm
 
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Re: Coronavirus (Covid19)

So the 15 cases we now have all are either:

The 81 year old returned traveller
His direct family
His guests at The Greek
Those that attended the Winery.

No one else.

All of the above were messaged by Monday night and told to quarantine for 14 days.

No one from the 'general public' has tested positive yet, despite 85,000 test.

Still some things to play out, but for now there hasn't been any cases that justify 1.5m people in lockdown from Tuesday 6pm.

We'll need to get some cases outside of the above groups soon otherwise there would be a fair few small businesses asking the question why we ramped things up to stage 5 lockdowns.


So nearly 100,000 tests its like trying to find those elusive Easter Eggs at the yearly Easter Egg hunt.

Happy hunting :lol:

:lol: :lol:

Has internet hour been extended? Please keep playing!!! :D

Yes free hour also taken my meds this morning :lol:

Which should include chlorpromazine (Thorazine®), fluphenazine (Prolixin®), haloperidol (Haldol®), thiothixene (Navane®), trifluoperazine (Stelazine®), perphenazine (Trilafon®) and thioridazine (Mellaril®). and possibly risperidone (Risperdal®), clozapine (Clozaril®), quetiapine (Seroquel®), ziprasidone (Geodon®) and olanzapine (Zyprexa®)..
by DOC
Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:36 pm
 
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Re: Coronavirus (Covid19)

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:who was the dopey journo who mentioned nappies to Stevens??


Andrew Hough
by DOC
Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:52 pm
 
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Re: Things that you rate!

This may be of interest to anyone who is a car lover. It;s from the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. Fast Forward the first 2 minutes.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=535647430894372&ref=watch_permalink
by DOC
Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:18 pm
 
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Re: AFL Round COVID 19

amber_fluid wrote:People use to complain when Carlton got Friday night games.
FMD this games is as bad as any!


Used to?

When did it stop?
by DOC
Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:19 pm
 
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Re: SANFL 2021 SEASON

Just the order
by DOC
Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:19 am
 
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Re: Soooooo, how's this weather?

Power just went out. Due back on at 2 am. Guess I'll have to go to the pub to watch the olym..... oh, yeah. :(
Poor bastard, I was just saying to the missus that if power went out in lockdown I'd have to slit my wrists.
God, only things to do would be root and read, rooting would take 30 seconds so I'd have to dig up a lot of books!
Thoughts with you mate!
Reading will be difficult 'coz I don't have any books in braille. I better go tap the missus on the shoulder...

doe's she have some?
by DOC
Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:10 pm
 
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Re: Coronavirus (Covid19)

daysofourlives wrote:
tigerpie wrote:Simple, don't touch the bloody horse, its assaulting an officer.!
If it comes up behind you on tip toes, and you don't hear, just it jog on son!
Dickheads!

Ah so its ok for the police to charge at people with their horses and use them as a weapon?


Sure is.
by DOC
Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:27 pm
 
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Re: AFL Round COVID 19

woodublieve12 wrote:This Errol Gulden kid is super talented


I had a kick with him at Norwood one day when he was over watching his brother. He would have been about 10. Both sides, no floaters, great hands.
by DOC
Sun Jul 25, 2021 2:53 pm
 
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Re: AFL Round COVID 19

Just saw Buddy's elbow. 2 weeks maybe 3.
by DOC
Sun Jul 25, 2021 3:15 pm
 
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Re: Coronavirus (Covid19)

Apachebulldog wrote:
Brodlach wrote:We can all have an opinion but the constant posting the same shit gets frustrating.


Well it is the Corona Virus Covid 19 forum.

Personally i read every ones posts articles and opinions.

So if you get frustrated just by pass this forum simple.


That's right.

Not the Delta 21 forum.
by DOC
Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:21 pm
 
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Re: Things that you rate!

This sunshine.
by DOC
Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:38 pm
 
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Re: Horse Racing Tips & Discussion

Might take it with the 2 which is down in weight from the same race as your runner.

Good luck.
by DOC
Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:05 pm
 
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Re: I need to know....

What we don't know we make up.
by DOC
Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:10 am
 
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Re: Coronavirus (Covid19)

SkyNews given a 7 day ban from YouTube for persistent Covid misinformation.

Alan Jones has been sacked as a columnist from the Daily Telegraph for persistent Covid misinformation and personal abuse directed at the NSW Chief Health Officer.
by DOC
Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:10 pm
 
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Re: AFL 2021

Still have JJ in reserve, As good as home.
by DOC
Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:01 pm
 
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Re: Port Adelaide 2021

Our go to Cafe in Tanunda is the Red Door. Main drag near all the shops. Make all their own cakes etc, Very good.
by DOC
Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:44 pm
 
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Re: Tokyo Olympics 2020(1)

Drama at the cycling. Mens team pursuit

As an expert I will sumarise...

Danish team cheated yesterday, caught out, but allowed to ride today stopping us riding for gold.

The cheats riding against GB crash into the back of the third GB rider knocking both off. Danish rider has a go at the GB rider even though he caused the crash.

Denmark having spat it walked off. Quite probably expecting a restart. Nope.

The injured GB rider eventually got back on to complete the ride.

Denmark out.

Karma.
by DOC
Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:31 pm
 
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Re: Things that you rate!

All these people (and the hundreds of others ) who make football clubs what they are. Well done.

Volunteer of the Year Finalists:
Craig Harley
Central District zone
Central United Football Club
Years of service – 45
Types of service – former A grade coach, B grade coach, chairman, secretary, football director, barman, cleaner, BBQ cook and now the Auskick coordinator.

Words from nominator: “Craig has led this club back to a thriving club, winning games, financial and starting to get juniors in the area playing again with the Auskick he runs. He has done every job there is to do at a local football club, all as a volunteer. His family have also been involved over the last 50 years. Craig Harley deserves recognition for his efforts.”

Steph Contin
Glenelg zone
North Gambier Football Club
Years of service- 5+
Types of service – current Committee member, League delegate, Women’s Footballer & Coach, Auskick Coordinator.

Words from nominator: “Steph has many roles, both at her home club of North Gambier as a valuable committee member and in delegate and executive roles across three leagues: Western Border FL, Western Border Junior FL and the Limestone Coast Women’s League. Best described as an organisational powerhouse, Steph is currently our secretary and ensures that administrative requirements such as player registrations, transfers, COVID-19 guidelines, game day coordination, apparel designs and orders, washing of guernseys, creation of volunteer rosters and any and all other tasks are completed. Steph is the go-to person for any and all issues, she is critical to the success off North Gambier’s senior men’s, juniors and women’s football teams.”

Danny McNamara
North Adelaide zone
Fitzroy Community Club
Years of service – 50+
Types of service – committee member, secretary, junior football president, Auskick coordinator, umpire & works committee member

Words from nominator: “Danny McNamara is the doyen of Fitzroy…As his playing days came to an end, Danny joined the club’s steering committee and acted as secretary for many more years to come. He was instrumental in the push to find new facilities, as Brampton merged with four other clubs throughout the 1980s to form the Fitzroy Community Club in 1987. From 1993 to 2009, Danny volunteered to coach many of Fitzroy’s junior teams, serving on the junior committee throughout and taking on the role of Fitzroy Junior Football Club President in 2017. He has been the Auskick coordinator for as long as anyone can remember. Danny is always the first to the ground for training and game days, painting lines, setting up goals and pumping up footballs. He takes the time to get to know junior footballers and their parents, ensuring that our youngsters are getting the best opportunity to succeed.Danny McNamara is renowned in our local community for his dedication, generosity and friendliness.”

Felicity Chinnery
Norwood zone
Kimba Districts Football Club
Years of service – 8+
Types of service – Junior football secretary, Junior Football safety officer, football rep on committee.

Words from Nominator: “Felicity has been a big part of KDFC for a number of years. Her support and work ethic towards junior football at our club has been outstanding. From organising weekly junior football job rosters to developing our junior safety policy, Felicity has contributed significantly to junior football at KDFC over many years. Felicity also takes time out of her busy Saturdays to take photos of the day’s play and posts on our Facebook page…her involvement has been admirable. You won’t find a more committed parent or club volunteer.”

Gordon Thomson
South zone
O’Sullivan Beach Lonsdale Football club
Years of service – 35+
Types of service – current vice president & sponsorship coordinator, past president, fundraising and sponsorship, cooking meals.

Words from Nominator: “If there are volunteers needed it would be unusual not to see ‘GT’ there, from making sure everything is set up on Saturdays, manning the BBQ on game day/training nights, making Thursday night meals, match day co-ordinator, sponsorship recruitment, mail collection, fundraising events, working bees, down to making sure the bins go out on bin day and taking the cans in to the collection centre. If something needs fixing or modifying you’ll usually find that GT has either organised someone to do it or he has found a solution to get it solved. It’s people like GT that keep small clubs like O’Sullivan Beach Lonsdale going.”

Shane Snell
Sturt zone
River Murray Football League/ Imperial Football Club
Years of service – 25+
Types of service – media and livestreaming of games, website and digital marketing, committee member.

Words from Nominator: “Runs and organises our live feed and commentary of match day games every week in the RMFL. Spends 16 hours per week finding out information on each club to promote them weekly and then edits and posts highlights and replays from each weeks game. Instrumental in organising sponsors to build our commentary box (which he designed and had built). Shane is on the Executive Committee of RMFL and has helped write our by-laws and constitution, plus maintains our website which he set up and keeps up to date. Also updates our Facebook page several times a week. He was previously a player and past president of Imperial FC – a player of over 300 games and 25 years on the management committee.”

Steve Dirksen
West Adelaide zone
Flinders Park Football Club
Years of service – 15
Types of service – Junior committee member and club registrations, team manager for junior teams and former zone rep for Auskick and Mini League.

Words from Nominator: “Steve joined the committee in 2020 and immediately took on the role of registrar which is one of the busiest roles in a junior football club. Steve has trained all of our team managers and up until a few weeks ago was also in a team manager role for our under 11 team. Steve has a real ‘can do’ attitude and has been an excellent contact point for all new and returning members at Flinders Park. Prior to joining Flinders Park, Steve had been involved with volunteering in the Auskick and Mini League at another SANFL club zone for more than 10 years. His longevity in the junior development makes him a worthy and popular nomination.”

Mark Murphy
Woodville-West Torrens zone
South Clare Sports Club
Years of service – 35

Types of service – Trainer for the entirety of his 35 years, water carrier, former vice president, cleaner and safety.

Words from Nominator: “Mark is usually the first one to arrive at the ground on Saturdays and one of the last to leave when the boys have finished in the change room. He is viewed a great mentor and advocate for all things South Clare. He is highly respected across the league and particularly at South Clare. He leads by example and carries himself with integrity. The amount of hours he has put in the club is not short of incredible. I am sure every club has a ‘Mark’, but it would be great to formally recognise him for his contributions on and off the field.”
by DOC
Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:43 pm
 
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Re: International ODIs

Yes. MT's total reputation on the line here.
by DOC
Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:44 am
 
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Re: 2021 Player movements

Aiden Grace.

Quite probably the best recruit this year. Looks a real talent.
by DOC
Wed Aug 04, 2021 1:00 pm
 
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R16 One bunch of HPP v another bunch of HPP.

**** off out of our league.
by DOC
Wed Aug 04, 2021 4:25 pm
 
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Re: Things that you rate!

That's not only great advice LM but I gather a true reflection of you.
by DOC
Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:31 pm
 
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Re: TDK's International Test Cricket Update's

That's right TDK

Jofra Archer has been ruled out for the rest of the year after a scan revealed that he has suffered a recurrence of a stress fracture of his right elbow; the fast bowler will miss the rest of the English summer as well as the T20 World Cup and the Ashes in Australia
by DOC
Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:00 pm
 
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Re: Things that make you laugh

Quick poll:

Did Spargo say Yes or No?
by DOC
Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:20 pm
 
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Re: OAKSY Doggies Tips

Yep and (I think) if you are nominated already they will still accept (if you win the preceding race)
by DOC
Sat Aug 07, 2021 12:50 am
 
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Re: OAKSY Doggies Tips

Only trainer in Australia to be prosecuted for having a bet in a race that was not on his dog.
by DOC
Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:26 am
 
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Re: What are you reading now?

Ver good footballer.
by DOC
Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:44 am
 
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Re: R16 Centrals v South Sat 2.10

We do have more flags....
by DOC
Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:39 pm
 
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Re: OAKSY Doggies Tips

Choccies at $2.70 tote.
by DOC
Tue Aug 10, 2021 6:44 pm
 
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Re: Horse Racing Tips & Discussion

Balaklava R 4

#11 Egyptian Queen

Transferred from NSW to the Jaensch's in the South East. Long trip to Balaklava.

6 Month spell and it's last 2 starts were both at Kempsey on Heavy tracks finishing second both times.

Draws barrier 1 with Todd Pannel on board.

$26 fixed
by DOC
Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:26 pm
 
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Re: R17 Glenelg v Centrals Saturday 2.10

I guess you could call Gazza a supporter.
by DOC
Wed Aug 11, 2021 5:39 pm
 
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Re: Coronavirus (Covid19)

Really?

I've been sending them. I will have your chip checked.
by DOC
Thu Aug 12, 2021 5:14 pm
 
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Re: TDK's International Test Cricket Update's

I see The Hundred is presenting England problems with their selection for Tests. Similar to the problems we have with Big Bash. Both have to consider selecting guys who have not been playing any first class cricket.

Atherton interviewing the England CEO regarding this.

Suffice to say Atherton is no fan of it.


On the Ashes:
The CEO has stated that no players have said they will not go and he does not think any will not go.
by DOC
Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:00 pm
 
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Re: I need to know....

Well you need heat, moisture and fertilizer so yeh ideal conditions beneath that mask
by DOC
Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:39 pm
 
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Re: North Melbourne

No it's not.

Never played a league game.

Timothy Mcgenniss
by DOC
Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:50 pm
 
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Re: Hawthorn 2021

Lightning McQueen wrote:Shaun Burgoyne announced his retirement.

Wonder if he was pushed and enters the rookie draft?



Will get to 450 at Geelong.
by DOC
Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:06 pm
 
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Re: Things that you rate!

Thanks Spargo. Pity you won't see the pictures. I know it's long but

Sarah Kelly desperately needed oxygen.

Covid-19 had left her gasping as though she was sucking air through a tiny straw and, without help, she wouldn’t survive.

But each time intensive care nurse Steven Moylan and his colleagues tried to place oxygen tubes in her nose the anxious 22-year-old with Down syndrome resisted.

“She didn’t like wearing them. She would take them off and she’d catch you trying to put them on,” Steven says.

“We would try to sneak them on while she was sleeping but she was too cunning and would just knock them away.”

Staff at Royal Melbourne Hospital’s specialist adult intensive care unit had little experience caring for such a non-compliant patient.

Neither they nor Sarah’s father could help her understand that putting the tubes in her nose was becoming a matter of life and death.

The best they could do through a very long night on July 22 was to take advantage of Sarah’s love for the Wiggles, playing clips on a screen to keep Sarah awake, calm and sitting upright, to ease the strain on her chest.

By morning, Sarah’s situation was critical and she had to be placed on a ventilator in an induced coma.

But even if the machines sustained her long enough for the virus to pass, as soon as she was woken up Sarah would again need the oxygen tubes to survive.

Then Steven had a crazy idea.

Even if the best medics couldn’t get through to Sarah, maybe the Wiggles could.

GEELONG WINS, THE KELLYS LOSE
Just before Greg Kelly had gone to bed on July 13, he began to feel a bit ill.

The next morning he felt a lot worse, and he soon after feared why.

The Geelong victory he’d enjoyed at the MCG on the weekend was announced as ground zero for a new coronavirus outbreak.

Worse, Young and Jackson bar in the CBD, where he’d been with mates before the game, was an exposure site.

Greg, his wife Debra and daughters Lauren, 24, Sarah, 22, and Emily, 16, jumped in the car, drove for a Covid test and returned to isolate in their Point Cook home.

Initially, only Greg’s test came back positive, but after Debra started feeling sick a rapid testing team was dispatched to the house to take another swab. By July 16, all five family members were confirmed cases. Lauren’s boyfriend Daniel Boyd, who had been staying at the house, also tested positive.

Greg, who’d had his first shot of AstraZeneca, says: “It was the worst illness I’ve come across in my 56 years. The fatigue, nausea, loss of taste, loss of smell, temperature fluctuations. It was bloody awful. It was the worst flu times 100.”

And it hit the unvaccinated Debra much harder.

Fully-vaccinated Lauren had no symptoms and was “walking around the house as though nothing was wrong”, while unvaccinated Daniel spent days curled up on the couch unable to move. Emily had only mild symptoms.

But the biggest fears were for Sarah.

Down syndrome is among the medical conditions that make a person more vulnerable to Covid-19 and she had not yet been able to get a Pfizer jab.

Being non-verbal and fiercely determined to get on with life, it was also difficult to know whether she was having symptoms.

To help, the family bought an oxygen reader and frequently monitored it to ensure Sarah’s blood-oxygen levels remained somewhere near the healthy 95 to 100 per cent range.

SARAH’S STRUGGLE BEGINS
When Sarah’s levels crashed on July 21, the Kellys immediately called an ambulance and paramedics took her to hospital.

With Greg sick and Sarah needing somebody to support her, the two were admitted together into RMH’s Nine East Ward – the specialist infectious disease unit that was the epicentre of the state’s deadly second coronavirus wave in 2020.

But while they had neighbouring beds, the unfamiliar and stressful surroundings made it difficult for Sarah to co-operate.

In an unprecedented move, a second bed was set up in a sealed-glass intensive care room so the infectious daughter and father could go into ICU together if things worsened.

“Sarah didn’t understand what was going on. That’s why I was there, to try and keep her as calm as I could,” Greg says.

“She is a normal daughter with a bit of a difference. She’s not treated any differently from her siblings, other than she needs some assistance with doing things.”

Through the night, Sarah became critically ill, though nobody could teach her how to tolerate or use the high-flow nasal prongs needed to ease Covid’s toll.

In order to at least keep her awake and upright, Greg suggested showing Wiggles videos.

“The Wiggles are it. She loves the music, she loves the dancing, she loves the actions. It is all stimulation for her,” he says.

By the morning, Sarah was fading too quickly, barely able to breathe and with her blood-oxygen down in the 70s. RMH head of intensive care Associate Professor Chris McIsaac says doctors had no choice than to place a tube into Sarah’s lungs and connect her to a ventilator as she was anesthetised to sleep.

“She started to deteriorate late on the Friday (July 23),” Greg says.

“She wasn’t moving around as much. She wasn’t that interested in listening to her music and if that’s the case you know something is seriously wrong.”

HERO NURSE COMES TO THE RESCUE
Like many of his ICU and Covid ward colleagues, Steven was still scarred by the trauma of the pandemic’s worst in 2020.

Racking his brains over what could be done to convince Sarah to take the oxygen she’d need if she came out of her coma, Steven’s mind wandered to his brother Kieran.

“My brother also has an intellectual disability and has a big obsession with Spider-Man,” Steven says.

“Kieran would do whatever Spider-Man would do.”

So, he thought, if he could convince the Wiggles to record a personal clip for Sarah, showing her how to wear the oxygen tubes and take deep breaths, maybe she would accept them.

“For Sarah, the Wiggles have been something in her life for so long, but we’re just complete strangers trying to deliver care,” Steven says.

“So, to have something familiar like the Wiggles wearing something that she is not familiar with, I’d hoped the two would marry up.

“It was super important that we got her to do it because it could have been the difference between being successful off the ventilator and not.”

There was one problem.

“For a nurse like me, how am I going to get in contact with the Wiggles?” He says.

Steven tried reaching them through the ABC, their website and a friend who worked at the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

After 37 phone calls and a week of dead ends, he turned to Google, searching “how to call the Wiggles”.

Among a host of fan sites, one included a phone number.

A mystery superfan answered Steven’s call and was moved by Sarah’s story, so they passed on an email address enabling Steven to finally contact the world-famous group directly.

As soon as the Wiggles heard about Sarah’s plight they were desperate to help.

After a series of emails they worked out what Sarah most needed: to be comfortable wearing high-flow nasal cannula, undertake sets of five deep breaths followed by coughs, and do chest physiotherapy exercises.

With caps on the number of people who could gather under Sydney’s Covid restrictions, Blue Wiggle Anthony Field and “Dr” Red Wiggle Simon Pryce were joined in a studio by a dummy Dorothy the Dinosaur to simplify the vital messages, complete with real ICU oxygen equipment which Steven had couriered to them.

The Wiggles even used a bike light to make their own pulse oximeter – or in Wiggles-speak “the red glowing thing” – so Sarah would let ICU staff place one to her finger so they could monitor her vital signs.

“She was scared. She needed oxygen,” Anthony says.

“We thought we could present it to Sarah in a way that we were her friends, and we do it so it is not as scary.

“She could relate to it: ‘the Wiggles are putting that on, Dorothy is watching, hey, I’m going to do it too’. We tried to make it so it was fun.”

When Steven and his manager watched the clip together in an office at the hospital, both cried at the beauty of what had been done.

IT’S WIGGLE TIME
Sarah had been kept in a coma for three weeks.

Fears she would not be able to use oxygen once the ventilator was removed saw doctors keep her sedated longer than usual, in order to buy more time for her lungs to gain strength.

“Because we were concerned about our ability to deliver oxygen to her off the ventilator, we wanted to really make sure she was stable and safe on very low levels before we took her off the ventilator,” Assoc Prof McIsaac says.

On August 8, she was woken up, but only after Steven played the sleeping patient the Wiggles video for the first time.

“We were all very nervous,” Steven says.

“Before we extubated her I did show her the video, and that I was wearing the nasal prongs and that Anthony was wearing them, and then I put them on her,” he says.

“And she was very compliant … she wore them all day.”

Watching outside the glass room, Greg was overcome after seeing Sarah not only wake, but put on her oxygen tubes to mimmick her heroes and breathe along with the Blue Wiggle.

“It was absolutely brilliant,” he says.

Hours later the nurse caring for Sarah through the night reported she had continued to do the deep breathing exercises along with the Wiggles whenever she watched the clip.

HEALING FOR ALL
By August 13, Sarah had recovered so well she was able to leave ICU and again be cared for on Nine East, this time embracing the oxygen support.

And word of the Wiggles’ inspiring performance and Sarah’s recovery was lifting spirits across the whole hospital.

“We have obviously been dealing with Covid stuff for the past year and a half and I think we are all a little bit tired and burnt out,” Steven says.

“Everyone is just so excited that the Wiggles would go to that effort and it has just been something positive to talk about rather than daily case numbers and all the stuff that is a bit of a downer in ICU.

“We see some extremes where people don’t make it out of ICU and some people do.

“Seeing Sarah extubated and making it to a ward has been really uplifting for all of us.”
by DOC
Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:26 am
 
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Re: US

Imagine being so shit that Biden beat you.
by DOC
Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:54 am
 
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Re: Restaurant & Pub Reviews

Villeroy Norwood

Small menu (small restaurant) but would have eaten all of it.

Entree Chicken and duck pate.

Absolutely first class pate. Smooooth and flavorsome.

Mains

Hers Chilli prawn linguine. Cooked perfectly. Beautifully cooked home made pasta with "enough prawns" to satisfy a hungry eater. Pasta sauce had great depth of flavor in part due to it being "flambed" with a rich prawn and chili oil.

Mine. Duck Bolognese short pasta. No kidding the richest sauce I have had with a pasta ever. Great duck flavor and the pasta was fantastic. Sauce had benefited from a long slow cook and with just a touch of parmesan was top notch.

Desert. Only a choice of two. So we had both.

Brioche bread and butter pudding. Great. Lemon meringue. If you like lemon deserts then you will know what I mean. After rich courses before this was the perfect ending.

Wine. Rockford Rifle Range Cab Sav. Went with everything.

Bill $200

Small place that could/would lack atmosphere if not many there but it was fine the night we went. 50% capacity is making it tough. Service was fine.
by DOC
Sun Aug 22, 2021 12:19 pm
 
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R18 West v Glenelg Friday 7.40

Only a fool would tip against Glenelg.

West by 2 goals.
by DOC
Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:40 pm
 
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Re: R18 West v Glenelg Friday 7.40

I've had you as flag faves (refer my 300 or so posts on the matter) from early on. I am a subtle but never the less distinct shade of green.

You, Pseudo and Spargo in the main have admirably tried to deflect your chances in order to cushion yourselves from a loss.

I do not think losing is possible. Winning it from here is the same as the USA beating Botswana in basketball. No other result possible.

You should win all three remaining grades by very comfortable margins in your 101st year. A combined 303 point margin is certainly on the cards.

I have even stopped stirring the pot as it has proven futile given the clubs ability to keep winning.

Congratulations must go to Liam McBean who should kick his 50th goal this week and has at present a 16 goal lead in the Ken Farmer medal. Liam has been very accurate this year, staying closer to the goals as evidenced by his kicking 43 of his 49 goals from the goal square all from free kicks. His cousin Corey Bowen who has paid 33 of those alone said that it was often confusing as sometimes he was on his own and therefore made it difficult grabbing the defender before being awarded a free.
by DOC
Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:47 am
 
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Re: R18 North v Norwood Saturday 2.30

Would you believe North to kick 10 goals?
by DOC
Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:34 pm
 
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Re: Port Adelaide 2021

Woowee.

Working on a Sunday.

Last four words just plain unnecessary. That's how arguments start. Hopefully.
by DOC
Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:14 pm
 
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