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4 Tuesday May 31 2016 FLAME FILES PEGASUS POST McMaster & Heap Veterinary practice TINKER – THE SURVIVOR There is never a dull moment at McMaster & Heap vets and funnily enough the critical serious cases mostly show up on weekends, or 7pm at night. I’d arrived into work one Saturday to help out and Tinker was in our surgical area, having just been transferred from the After Hours Clinic. He looked terrible ( his face had taken the full impact of a collision with a car) but he was on a fentanyl drip and his pain seemed well managed. Miraculously he had survived and his success story is due to not just our surgical efforts that Saturday but also the events that took place by many people prior to us seeing him. His accident happened Friday night and some great human being saw him on the road and immediately delivered him to the After Hours clinic, which incidentally saved his life. We are so fortunate to have an emergency centre open through the nights and weekends when other clinics have closed. The team there swiftly examined and stabilized Tinker and started him on pain medications, antibiotics and intravenous fluids. Then his owners were contacted as Tinker wore a collar with nametag attached. This means of identification (or a microchip) is so important because without an owners consent we can’t really treat a critically ill patient to save its life. He was monitored and cared for all night until he was dropped off to us Saturday morning. Even though it was a weekend with less staff rostered on, I knew Tinker couldn’t wait until Monday for surgical repair. His lovely, worried owners wanted for us to do “everything” we could to ensure Tinker came home. That’s where our outstanding team need to be greatly commended, because regardless if any of them had plans that night, they all, without me asking, stayed late to ensure the best possible care and attention was given to a critically ill patient. Tinker was anaesthetized, his skull was radiographed and I repaired his mandibular jaw fracture with wire and his hard pelate injury. He had a massive gnash under his chin that required suturing and he had several broken teeth. A feeding tube was placed in his oesophagus to enable us and his owners to feed him post operatively. Cats with fractured jaws can take weeks to eat on their own. Steve was called in to assess his eyes as they were completely closed over and I wasn’t sure whether he had retinal injuries, lens or corneal damage. Luckily Steve felt there was no ocular damage, just a lot of bruising and facial swelling. Tinker was managed intensively over the coming week, his days spent with our hospital nurses and nights at the After Hours. He needed everything done for him from feeding six times a day, loads of medications to be given, his face washed and he needed grooming as he couldn’t do this for himself. His owners visited him daily and he really loved their visits. He was the perfect patient to treat – he was stoic, obliging and grateful. Tinker was a FULL TEAM effort and I’m so pleased to report he’s home now, lounging on beds, walking around his section, able to groom himself and even eating a little on his own. Steve and I couldn’t do the job we do without the dedicated, caring staff we have. A fantastic outcome and even though Tinker looks a little facially different now, his owners report they have their “old” friend back. Dr Michele McMaster Don’t leave the kitchen when cooking • Mark Thomas – Fire Risk Management Officer IT’S BEEN a while since I’ve talked about cooking fires in kitchens but there were five of these this week including a couple that caused quite considerable damage and inevitably one that resulted in ambulance treatment for the house occupant from smoke inhalation. As always the advice is the same. Don’t leave the kitchen when you’re cooking on the stove top. If you are cooking with fat or oil have the lid of the pan, an oven tray or a breadboard always available to slap on the top if the worst happens and flames appear. A quick fix with no ongoing problems or a kitchen on fire with the weeks of inconvenience that involves. It should be a no-brainer really, shouldn’t it? A number of quite odd fire calls featured this week. A fish smoker was found on fire in Barrington Park. A distraught Mum was attended to in Addington where she had locked herself out of the house with two toddlers inside. A lady rang for help because she had found a mouse in her laundry. A crew were called to accident and emergency the hospital to help a young woman whose finger was somehow struck fast in a doorknob. Finally, we had a call to a car fire at Rent Me Or Buy Me NO BOND REQUIRED Rental - From $75 p/w Size 10m2 • Accommodation –teenagers, elderly, guests • Cabin Sleep out • Site office • Storage • Home office/ small business • Games room 0800 HouseMe 468 736 houseme2015@xtra.co.nz DAMAGE: Kitchen fires require a lot of cleaning up. a service station that turned out to be a blown engine and two calls to low hanging smoke that turned out to be mist. I suspect we’ll have some more of these now with winter starting to bite. Stay warm, stay safe! 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PEGASUS POST Tuesday May 31 2016 5 News In harmony for last time • By Fraser Walker-Pearce TWO EASTERN schools celebrated a last musical hurrah before one will close its doors forever. It was a bittersweet ending to May, New Zealand’s Music Month, for Chisnallwood Intermediate School and Avondale Primary School, as it was the last time they would ever sing together. Chisnallwood and Avondale joined forces on Friday to sing, as they have done for the past five years. But this time was different. Avondale is closing at the end of the year to make way for the new super school being built on the site of Aranui High School, Haeata Community Campus. The two schools celebrated their last chance to collaborate, by singing the annual Hook, Line and Singalong competition’s winning song, We are Aotearoa. The competition was set up by the New Zealand Music Commission for schools to submit original songs for judging. The winning tune was recorded by its Auckland-based creators in a professional studio. Chisnallwood’s head of music Judith Bell said the two eastern IN TIME: Avondale Primary School and Chisnallwood Intermediate School combined for the last time to celebrate NZ Music Month. schools have sang each year’s competition-winning song for the past five years. “We have had a tradition for the last few years of combining Chisnallwood with Avondale to celebrate New Zealand Music Month by singing the winning song together. Almost 1000 voices singing along with ukuleles,” she said. Mrs Bell said Chisnallwood had decided this year they would turn the singing into a school house competition, with each house’s rendition being judged. “When we hosted the New Zealand Ukulele Trust’s development squad, one of the girls in that squad learned that week that she’d won. So she performed We are Aotearoa to the school. Then we took the group to Avondale and they sang it there too,” she said. She said this year was particularly special to the two schools, as it would be the last time they could perform together. “This year’s event is especially significant because it is the last year we can do this with Avondale Primary as they close at the end of the year,” she said. In Brief DRIVER HURT IN CRASH A teenage driver was taken to hospital with moderate injuries after a car crash in Avonside last week. The crash happened on Avonside Dr on Wednesday. St John was alerted at 11.20am. MODEL CLUB OPENED A club in New Brighton recently celebrated its first public event, and plan to expand further into Rawhiti Domain. The New Brighton Radio Controlled Car Club was set up by Phillip Cossar earlier in the year, but was only opened to the public earlier this month. The first event took place on Sunday. The club was set up with funding and help from the Rawhiti Community Sports Inc and the city council who have given the group some land at Rawhiti Domain. Mr Cossar said he hopes the radio controlled car club could be the first step in creating a hobby park that could include a lake for radio controlled boats, and somewhere to fly radio controlled planes. NEW PLANS Residents can now finally have a look at the first design of the Eastern Recreation and Sports Centre. Concept designs were released on Friday by the city council, and are available at www.ccc.govt.nz for viewing. YOUR ONE STOP SHOP FOR ALL YOUR AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS HELPING US, HELPS THE COMMUNITY Drop off or buy 2 family stores in your community 30 Main North Rd, Ph 352 4581 520 Cranford St, Ph 352 0515 • WOF + Services • European / German / BMW specialists • Mechanical repair • Tyres • Scan tool / Scope diagnostics • Petrol / Diesel / Light commercials • Brake Testing & machining • Insurance warranty work welcome Gainsborough Auto Services Ltd Ph 03 384 4957 281 Dyers Road, Bromley, Christchurch gainsboroughauto@gmail.com Great Service. Awesome Food. $ 15 for STEAK NiGHT Wednesday Night FREE MiNi-PuT kids with accompanying paying adults. Great option for dinner while the kids are entertained! Friday Night FRiDAY HAPPY HOuR 5 - 7 PM UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP Open for lunch and dinner Wednesday to Sunday 50 FERRYMEAD PARK DR, FERRYMEAD www.ferrymeadevents.co.nz Phone 03 384-0522
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