Welcome to all those new followers from New Zealand. I am over here enjoying the hospitality of the Colorectal group in Auckland presenting the physiotherapy perspective of managing chronic constipation, faecal incontinence and other bowel disorders. We had a successful day today – Colorectal surgeons, lots of physios and Continence nurses- all exchanging ideas, challenging […]
Greetings from the Land of the Long White Cloud Read More »
Dear PM , Congratulations on your resounding success on Saturday 7th September. I am writing to implore you not to see the money going to the Continence Management Scheme as a soft target for spending cuts. Yes I understand that NOBODY is going to complain about the loss of funds – because that would mean
An open letter to Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey Read More »
Oh what a night! The Trivial Pursuit night organized by the wonderful Jacinta Crickmore was an absolute blast- a happy, generous crowd, who tackled the questions and raffle tickets with gusto and rigor. I am pleased to report an interim result on the fund-raising front and that brilliant group (with more donations still to come in) raised around $7653. Dr Judith
Not a Trivial Result Read More »
I wrote the following blog around the time of our last fund raising Trivial Pursuit night in 2013 – organized to help raise funds for the wonderful work that Dr Judith Goh and Dr Hannah Krause perform in Africa. We have just had a great lecture at our CFA State conference at The Pullman (14/3/14) from Dr Judith Goh on the
It’s HADA For These Women Read More »
You may have been wondering why it’s been all quiet on the blog front lately. I have been working hard with my wonderful website designer Lina to design a new website and at last it’s up and running. I think you’ll agree it’s been worth all the hard work. I’m hoping it’s easier to navigate, is informative
It’s been a sad week this week. Two great men have passed away, one definitely before his time. Ross was a farmer, a wonderful family man and had tremendous faith. Bill was a builder, a wonderful family man and has been a loving husband and carer for his lovely wife, Necia. While attending Ross’s funeral
Vale Ross and Bill Read More »
My last blog was my 70th blog – mostly all of them have been about the bladder, bowel, pelvic floor, pain, prolapse, sex and quite a few about fistula repairs and how to donate to HADA. There was the occasional self-indulgent one about Noosa or Italy but as my #pelvicmafia friends around the world will vouch, I have
A Short Interlude from the Pelvic Floor Read More »
Today three things happened which made me think: ” What is wrong with the world?” Firstly I treated a lovely lady who had extremely severe incontinence, just continual leakage when in the upright position- it made me think ……leakage just like when you have a fistula- like I’ve written about with Dr Hannah Krause and Professor Judith Goh and
Everything That’s Wrong With The World Read More »
Over the last two years of my son Micheal’s Architecture degree he has learnt the guitar – self taught – and has become rather good. It’s really quite pleasant being serenaded day and night with renditions of the Beatles, Queen and Jimmy plus many others. His interest in all things guitar led us to Easts Leagues Club last night to catch up with
Friday Night Fever Read More »
In case you are wondering whether I’ve let my iPad go crazy when typing the title of this blog- its a deliberate attempt to start a twitter trend. For those who don’t know too much about Twitter- a ‘trend’ on twitter is signified by a hash tag and we want to start a topic trending. Today I received an
#letsstopviolenceagainstwomen Read More »