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I used to say to the Health Workers, it
was very important to fill in the pink form
in the chart because that helped with the
discharge summaries and all of those sorts
of things, and to me that was very important,
what was written down etc. Then one day the
health worker said to me ‘would you like to go
hunting, Janie?’ and I had my little daughter
who was about four or five at the time. We all
jumped in my car with buckets and things,
there were 10 of us in a two wheel Suzuki.
Off we all went, I had my white shorts
on. Going hunting in the mud for crabs
out at the beach and as we were walking
behind them they were running over these
mangroves and they turned around and
said to me ‘too slow, go back’, and they
made two of the children, the seven
and eight year old come back with us.
They made us damper, sitting there in
the sun. They were very reluctant about
actually doing it because they wanted to
be out there with their parents, catching
crabs, and they saw these people who had
no ideahowto survive in this environment.
It gave me a moment to reflect, to actually
think, we could sit here with our white
skin burning forever and never find our
way back and it made me realise just how
unimportant the pink formactuallywas. .
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