Southern View: December 11, 2018
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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Shakes and shivers a battle for Sintes<br />
•From page 10<br />
“There were about three or<br />
four days where I couldn’t quite<br />
believe it, I felt alive again.<br />
One day I mowed the lawns, the<br />
next day I was out for a coffee in<br />
Sumner and I started feeling not<br />
too good again,” Mr Sintes said.<br />
His wife Jan suggested he go to<br />
hospital.“The aches and shakes<br />
were back and I thought, ‘no, I<br />
don’t want to go to hospital’. But<br />
I had to tell my wife to ring the<br />
ambulance.”<br />
He ended<br />
up spending<br />
another<br />
six days in<br />
hospital.<br />
Mr Sintes<br />
was discharged<br />
from hospital<br />
for the second<br />
Tim Sintes<br />
time 10 days<br />
ago.<br />
The pneumonia had spread to<br />
his other lung. “That taught me<br />
a lesson. Listen to your doctor<br />
when they say you need to rest. I<br />
didn’t think it was much, I didn’t<br />
think of the consequences and<br />
now I’ve been sick for five weeks.”<br />
After losing 8kg, Mr Sintes<br />
believes he may be on the road to<br />
recovery and has been getting his<br />
appetite back.<br />
“I’m so cautious now. I don’t<br />
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Although most people are<br />
lamenting the cold start to<br />
summer, Mr Sintes said it has<br />
been great.<br />
“It would be torture if I had<br />
to lie here and it was sunny. I<br />
enjoy life so much. Believe me,<br />
this weather has been bad for<br />
everyone except me.”<br />
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Six weeks ago, Mr Sintes<br />
had an accident with a<br />
chainsaw and cut his leg. Two<br />
weeks later he was back out<br />
surfing. “It’s hard to believe you<br />
can be right two weeks after<br />
being cut by a chainsaw, but<br />
you can be knocked for six by<br />
something like this.”<br />
But the cause of his pneumonia<br />
remains a mystery.<br />
“It’s the strangest feeling.<br />
I’m the kind of person that<br />
needs explanations and needs a<br />
reason, but this time it could be<br />
anything,” he said.<br />
Mr Sintes said people had<br />
asked if it was related to stress<br />
from his city council work and<br />
the code of conduct investigation<br />
•Canterbury District Health<br />
Board data shows in 2017<br />
to <strong>2018</strong>, there were 1736<br />
patients admitted with<br />
pneumonia and 124 deaths<br />
•In 2016 to 2017, there were<br />
1585 admissions and 104<br />
deaths<br />
•In 2016 to 2015, there were<br />
1442 admissions and 95<br />
deaths<br />
•In 2015 to 2014, there were<br />
1416 admissions and 109<br />
deaths<br />
•In 2013 to 2014, there were<br />
1353 admissions and <strong>11</strong>5<br />
deaths<br />
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chairwoman Kim Money and<br />
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their comments alleging city<br />
council staff tampered with the<br />
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property owners in flood prone<br />
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“I can easily say it’s not. I’m not<br />
a stress kind of person. My way<br />
of relaxing is being busy, that’s<br />
different.” Raising the issue has<br />
been a “weight off my shoulders,”<br />
he said.<br />
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