Pegasus Post: June 16, 2022

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1 – 3 July 

2022 

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2022 

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A mother’s story of loss, 

grief and a cancer blow 

A Burwood mother who 

has experienced tragedy 

still manages to find 

joy in the small things. 

After losing her 13-dayold 

baby and being 

diagnosed with stage 

four ovarian cancer 

with a life expectancy 

prognosis of five to 15 

years, Sarah Luxon uses 

her blog to write about 

the “messy things” in 

life. Emily Moorhouse 

reports 

FOUR YEARS ago Sarah Luxon, 

34, gave birth to what appeared 

to be a perfectly healthy baby girl 

named Mackenzie. 

However, the second week into 

Mackenzie’s life, Sarah noticed 

she was becoming quite grizzly 

but after a check up from the 

midwife, was told everything was 

okay. 

• Turn to page 4 

LOSS: (Above left) – Sarah Luxon lost her baby Mackenzie to a heart defect when she was 13-days-old. Since then Sarah 

has raised more than $3000 for Kenzie’s Gift, a charity that supports families through grief and loss. (Above) – Sarah and 

husband Greg, along with daughters Hazel, 7, Willa, 2, and step-daughter Tayla, 19, travel to Tekapo each year on the 

anniversary of Mackenzie’s death to connect as a family during what can be a difficult time. 

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Kawhe and Kōrero 

Thursday, 10-11am 

New Brighton Library 

Want to practice your reo? Go 

along to New Brighton Library for 

a cuppa to build your korero skills 

with fellow learners. This session 

is aimed at adults who would like 

to build confidence speaking te reo 

Maori in a relaxed environment. No 

booking required, places are limited. 

Rummikub club 

Thursday, 10am-noon 

Linwood Library 

Go along to enjoy a game of Rummikub, 

a tile-based game for two to 

four players that combines elements 

of the card game rummy and mahjong. 

Free, no booking required. 

MATARIKI WĀ Kōrero- 

Storytimes 

Thursday, 10.30-11am 

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Celebrate Matariki with Parklands 

Library. Meet others in the community 

when you and your preschooler 

go along for a fun variety of Matariki-themed 

stories, songs and rhymes 

which foster children’s literacy while 

celebrating the Māori New Year. All 

whānau and caregivers welcome. 

Guardians and children 12 and over 

will need to wear a face mask. 

Barrier Free Computing 

Saturday, 10am-noon 

New Brighton Library 

Barrier free computing, provided 

Scrabble Club, Friday, 10am-noon, Linwood Library. Go along to the 

Scrabble club every Friday. No obligation, just go along when you can 

and join the friendly group. All materials are supplied. Free no bookings 

required. 

by Computer for Special Needs Trust 

is an organisation that helps people 

with disabilities assistance with using 

computers in a friendly and supportive 

environment. Tutors will be 

on hand to help beginners as well as 

provide assistance with emailing, accessing 

the internet, playing games, 

researching a homework assignment, 

and literacy or numeracy development. 

Standard library printing and 

copying costs apply. Free to attend, 

no booking required. 

Steady As You Go exercise 

classes 

Monday, 10-11am 

Parkview Community Lounge, 75 

Queenspark Drive 

Go along to an exercise class, 

designed to make people more 

stable and mobile physically, while 

providing a happy hour each week 

to meet new people in a local 

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Seniornet New Brighton 

Monday-Thursday, 10am-noon 

202 Marine Pde, New Brighton 

Go along and learn how to use 

modern technology and the internet, 

such as your computer, laptop, tablet, 

smart phone, and discover how to 

capture and send digital photos, 

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required. Phone 382 6048 to register. 

Marshland Table Tennis Club 

Monday, 7.30-9.30pm 

Ouruhia Hall, 225 Guthries Rd 

Marshland Table Tennis Club 

invites those in the community 

interested in playing social table 

tennis to go along on a Monday 

night. The club plays both single 

and double games. Ages span from 

school aged to those in retirement. 

Club membership and casual players 

are welcome at any time. Casual play 

fees $5 adult, $3 school aged. For 

more information phone Lynley on 

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Tuesday, 10-11am 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022 

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WHEN STEVEN Muir isn’t testing X-ray 

machines and printing 3D models for surgery 

a the hospital he’s busy fixing up bikes for the 

community. 

Muir is the founder of the Aranui Bike Fixup 

Project, a group that meets every Thursday 

afternoon to restore old bikes and teach youth 

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VIOLINIST ARNA Morton 

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different. 

Morton traded the view of 

the stage for the view of the 

audience as she performed 

with the Christchurch 

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Saturday night’s Sparks in 

North Hagley Park. 

Although performing 

at Sparks was a firs time 

experience for Morton, 

she said the concert went 

rea ly we l and had a great 

atmosphere. 

“I was just so excited to be 

back performing together 

with the band,” she said. 

“Obviously last year we had 

a lot of disruptions so it was 

nice to have everyone get back 

into it.” 

Even after playing the 

violin since she was five, the 

coastal area resident said 

it was normal to sti l get 

nervous before a performance, 

especia ly for a large crowd. 

“There’s this heightened 

sense of adrenaline before 

you go on stage. I definitely 

still get nervous, which is 

important,” she said. “It’s 

about channe ling the energy 

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“It’s 

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be others putting up a hand closer 

to the election date,” Donovan 

said. 

Money was the board’s 

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to personal circumstances. 

Now she says those 

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and the timing is right for her to 

throw her hat back in the arena. 

“I’m keen to get back again and 

represen this community that I 

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do need that experience from the 

coast sitting a the council table 

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Money said it had been 

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unfinished things she needed to 

do. • Turn to page 4 

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In Brief 

SUCCESS: Museum volunteers Quintin Sumner and 

Jim Insull with the ‘thank you’ sign for the grants and 

donations, which have enabled the museum to buy the 

building. Right – secretary Peggy Butterfield. 

Museum hits fundraising target 


IT WAS smiles all round from 

volunteers at the New Brighton 

Museum, knowing it can finally 

purchase the building on Hardy 

St. 

The museum was granted 

$105,000 from Lottery Environment 

and Heritage, which gives it 

enough to buy the building with 

some leftover. 

Museum secretary Peggy 

Butterfield said volunteers were 

“over the moon” to hear of the 

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the end of June. It’s good news 

for the community for once, 

instead of bad news,” Butterfield 

said. 

The leftover money will 

go towards upgrades to both 

the inside and outside of the 

110-year-old building, with the 

roof needing repairs and the 

walls a revamp. 

Butterfield said the museum 

has already had engineers come 

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for upgrades, which the volunteers 

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She said the idea of buying the 

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to finally have that “sense of 

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“It takes away the worry of 

having to worry about applying 

for grants to pay the rent all the 

time because that was getting 

quite hard,” she said. 

Museum president Tim Baker 

had a new sign made as a ‘thank 

you’ for the grants and donations 

received. 

The lottery grant was applied 

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fundraiser and Butterfield 

said the money should come 

through any day now. 

She said the museum received 

more than 200 likes when she 

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“We don’t get a lot of visitors 

but obviously we’ve got a big 

following, people support us 

because they want to see us keep 

the museum, they don’t want to 

see it go,” she said. 

“It’s a big relief and I think the 

community are right behind us.” 

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areas for almost two weeks now. 

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running seven days a week with 

multiple passes each day to give 

good coverage. 

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Community Board approved a 

grant of $15,000 to Parklands 

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‘It’s made me appreciate what’s actually 

• From page 1 

A few days later, feeling like 

something wasn’t right, Sarah 

took Mackenzie to an after hours 

medical centre. 

Within minutes of arriving, 

Mackenzie’s heart stopped beating. 

“It was horrible, just watching 

my wee baby being resuscitated 

and having to call my husband 

to tell him that her heart had 

stopped and to come in,” Sarah 

said. 

“She passed away very suddenly 

and I had no idea what had 

happened until the post-mortem 

came back, and it took months.” 

Mackenzie died from a heart 

defect where a hole in her heart, 

known as a patent ductus arteriosus, 

hadn’t properly closed over 

after being born as well as having 

high blood pressure in her lungs. 

Sarah said while the hospital 

staff did an incredible job at trying 

to help Mackenzie, it was too 

much for her little body to handle 

and she died at 13-days-old. 

“She coped with what ended 

up being fatal very well right up 

until her body went: ‘We can’t do 

this anymore’.” 

Afterwards, Sarah felt there 

was a lack of mental health 

support offered with no funded 

clinical psychologists or counsellors 

to talk to. 

She attended a support group 

but said she would have benefited 

much more from one-on-one 

therapy, and feels as though her 

seven-year-old daughter, who 

was two at the time would have 

benefited from this as well. 

Every August, for Mackenzie’s 

anniversary, Sarah goes to Tekapo 

with her husband Greg, their 

daughters Hazel, 7, and Willa, 2, 

and her step-daughter Tayla, 19, 

to connect as a family through 

what is a very hard time. 

Last year when they were checking 

out of their accommodation, 

Sarah asked to book for the same 

time next year and got talking to 

the woman at reception. 

She opened up about the reason 

behind their yearly visit and 

the pain of loosing Mackenzie. 

The woman said to Sarah: 

“That’s given me goosebumps,” 

and told her about Kenzie’s Gift, 

a charity that supports families 

going through grief or loss. 

The charity was doing a winter 

swim challenge to raise money 

for mental health to go towards 

helping families in similar situations 

to Sarah’s. 

So Sarah decided to commit to 

the winter swims, mostly at New 

LOVE: Sarah 

Luxon is making 

the most of 

time she has 

left with her 

family and said 

she’s enjoying 

the small things 

like picking up 

the kids from 

school. 

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Brighton Beach to raise money 

for what she described as a very 

worthwhile cause. 

“I’m not a big putting myself 

out there person but I did 13 dips 

so one for each day of Mackenzie’s 

life,” Sarah said. 

Sarah, who isn’t a strong 

swimmer started off with a goal 

of raising $300 and was “very 

touched” by people’s generosity 

when she raised more than 

$3000. 

However, during her dips, 

Sarah noticed a lump on her 

abdomen that she assumed was a 

hernia. 

But after feeling fatigued and 

experiencing bowel issues, she 

went for a check up. 

After multiple visits to doctors, 

a gynaecologic oncologist, orthopaedics, 

an ultrasound, an MRI, 

a biopsy and months of waiting, 

Sarah was diagnosed with stage 

four ovarian cancer and given a 

five to 15-year prognosis. 

During this time, Sarah continued 

with her winter dips, in 

spite of it being painful on her 

abdomen. 

Sarah said she felt frustrated 

with how long it took to get a diagnosis 

and said if it was a lump 

on her breast she would have got 

it checked straight away. 

“As women we get told to check 

our breasts, but we don’t hear 

that there’s no screening at all 

for ovarian cancer. It was not 

something that I knew about or 

considered,” she said. 

“There’s just not enough awareness 

about all of those issues and 

people feel really awkward talking 

about ovaries.” 

Faced with a prognosis of up 

to 15 years and still grieving the 

loss of baby Mackenzie, Sarah 

realised she felt alone, so started 

a blog in hopes of helping others 

going through something 

similar. 

She called it Joy in the Small 

Things and posts regularly about 

navigating life with her diagnosis 

and sharing her experiences. 

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and Banks Peninsula that regularly use large amounts of water. 

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We don’t charge ratepayers for water itself. We charge for delivering it - 

through our network of pipes, pumps and other infrastructure. 

When the district’s water use doubles over summer, the cost of 

delivering water goes up significantly too. That increase in demand isn’t 

spread evenly, with most of the increase due to a small proportion of 

households. 

When demand on our water supply network is at its peak we’re at risk of 

not being able to supply enough water to properties, which could have 

serious impacts on public health, and our ability to fight fires. 

If everyone uses water like we oughta, we won’t need to spend as much 

money expanding our water supply network, and it will also improve 

the sustainability of our city’s water supply, which helps us achieve our 

climate change goals. 

Seek the leak and reduce your use 

You can use our Water Reporter online tool to find out how much water 

your household uses – visit ccc.govt.nz/WaterReporter 

If your household is using a lot of water there might be a leak on 

your property. You have time to find the leak and get it fixed. 

Our website tells you about how to read your water meter, check for 

leaks and reduce your water use*. 

*Some properties’ water use is not recorded on the Water Reporter. 

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important’ 

“I started it up just as a way 

to share with people what was 

happening with cancer and 

the treatment and I found that 

writing helped me work through 

quite a few things emotionally 

and mentally.” 

“I felt quite isolated 

or separated 

because I didn’t 

know anybody 

else who had been 

through a similar 

experience with 

having a daughter 

die at 13 days and 

then finding that 

there’s not a huge 

amount of awareness 

on ovarian 

cancer as well,” 

Sarah said. 

Sarah has undergone 

surgery 

to have all the 

visible tumours 

removed and began 

chemotherapy 

on Christmas Eve, 

and is now on 

hormone blockers to prevent any 

further growths. 

“Scientists haven’t done studies 

on people with this cancer [ovarian] 

so they don’t know how best 

to treat it so it’s not that there 

are drugs out there that aren’t 

funded, it’s that they don’t know 

what drugs to actually make 

available for us,” Sarah said. 

“There’s no research so it feels 

quite lonely. They can’t even give 

me a prognosis better than five to 

15 years.” 

Sarah said she’s still trying to 

get her head around her prognosis 

and gets tripped up on a 

daily basis by her seven-year-old 

asking questions 

like will she ever 

be a grandma? 

“How do you 

respond to that? 

Yeah, it’s very 

hard.” 

Sarah has 

stopped working 

to spend as much 

time as she can 

with her family 

and said she tries 

her best to stay in 

the moment. 

“I can’t bring 

myself to miss out 

on the potentially 

short time left 

with the kids. I’m 

enjoying taking 

the kids to swimming 

lessons and 

being there at the 

school gates for pick-up.” 

Sarah said she feels incredibly 

lucky for the people she has 

around her and after all she’s 

been through it’s changed her 

perspective on life. 

“It’s made me appreciate what’s 

actually important, I don’t sweat 

the small stuff,” she said. 

“I just want to help people, I 

just want to make a difference in 

someone else’s life.” 

Bid for lower excess water 

rates in coastal areas 


A COMMUNITY board 

member wants people living 

in the coastal suburbs to have 

cheaper excess water rates. 

Community 

board 

member for the 

Burwood Ward 

Linda Stewart is 

concerned not 

enough people 

are aware of the 

Linda 

Stewart 

excess water rates 

that will come 

into effect on 

July 1. 

“I can see a lot of people are 

going to be upset,” she said. 

Stewart said the coastal suburbs 

are sand-based, so people 

tend to use more water to irrigate 

their gardens. 

“We water more frequently so 

I’m feeling a bit sorry for us over 

here, I wanted to see a cheaper 

rates struck for the coastal 

suburbs, any suburb that is sandbased,” 

she said. 

Stewart posted to a local 

Facebook group asking if people 

knew about the rate and included 

a link for residents to check how 

much water they use. 

“The feedback was they were 

shocked and horrified because 

they’ve discovered they’re a really 

high user.” 

Head of three waters Helen 

Beaumont said councillors are 

considering 

whether implementation 

of the 

rate gets delayed, 

which will be 

decided at the annual 

plan meeting 

on Tuesday. 

Stewart is urging 

residents to 

check their water 

use through the 

Helen 

Beaumont 

water reporter on the city council’s 

website and said water use 

will only increase over summer. 

The rate was passed last year 

in the city council’s annual plan, 

in spite of the Waitai Coastal- 

Burwood Community Board 

making a submission against it. 

The targeted rate will apply 

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Saving the planet one skateboard 


A 15-YEAR-OLD plans 

to educate people on the 

importance of recycling through 

his skateboard business. 

Neith Absalom has found a 

way to reuse plastic bottle tops 

by melting them down to make 

skateboard decks. 

Neith is a student at special 

character school Ao Tawhiti in 

the central city and got the idea 

to make skateboards during a 

self-directed learning session. 

Neith decided he wanted to 

take up rowing, but needed 

funds to cover the cost of the 

sport, inspiring him to start a 

business that worked towards 

eco-friendliness at the same 

time. 

After some researching, Neith 

learned that number two plastic 

(high-density polyethylene), 

made out of plastic bottle tops 

often isn’t recycled. 

“It’s really easy to melt safely. I 

had a thing with skateboards because 

I really love skateboarding 

so it turned into art pieces and 

skateboards,” Neith said. 

“The current crisis that we’re 

in now is people kind of saying 

it’s going to be alright and really 

it’s not, and my whole thing is to 

open people’s eyes up to the stuff 

that we’re not recycling which is 

quite easily recycled.” 

Neith uses just over 1000 bottle 

tops to make a board, shredding 

the plastic before melting it 

down at 120-150 deg C in a metal 

frame using a “bake oven.” 

Neith made his first board 

last year with an old heat plate 

he found on Trade Me, using a 

wooden frame, but this burnt so 

he switched to a metal frame that 

his friend Monty shaped for him 

in their school’s tech room. 

‘As long as it’s not thrown 

back into the rubbish I’m 

happy’ 

– Neith Absalom 

Now, he uses what he calls a 

bake oven, but said it’s really just 

an old barbecue. 

It takes about one and a half to 

two hours to fully melt the bottle 

tops down, applying pressure 

with a non-stick sheet. 

Neith then takes the board to 

the school’s tech room to smooth 

out the edges and put holes in 

it where the wheels would be 

attached. 

A problem Neith ran into during 

the process was the lack of 

grip on the board, which didn’t 

matter if the board was put on 

display as art, like the ones he 

has in his school’s cafe and New 

Brighton’s Pier People art gallery. 

However, if they were being 

used practically, they needed to 

have more grip on the surface, 

so his mother Natalie suggested 

getting old coffee sacks that cafes 

throw away and pressing them 

into the board. 

This would not only create a 

cool pattern but gives the surface 

of the board a much better grip, 

Neith said. 

He said his mother has often 

chipped in to help with his 

business and is very supportive 

of him as well as his learning 

adviser (teacher) Ian Hayes. 

“He’s real good to me and 

helping me get on the right track 

and believes that I can do it and 

MELT: Absalom shreds the 

bottle tops in a shredder 

before melting them down 

into a steel mold in an old 

barbecue. 

nothing’s going to get in my 

way.” 

Now that Neith has figured out 

the right process to making the 

boards, he plans to start selling 

them and working on getting his 

brand out there. 

ART: (Above left) – The 

board Neith Absalom 

designed for the Pier 

People art gallery in New 

Brighton and (above) the 

one that sits on display in 

Ao Tawhiti’s cafe. 

He sells the boards for $120 

each and said the money he 

makes will go straight back into 

the business for now before he 

can start making a profit. 

When asked if he was going to 

take up rowing soon he said he 

wasn’t sure anymore. 

“I’ve kind of made this really 

good eco business that I kind of 

maybe want to carry on forever,” 

he laughed. 

When people ask Neith if the 

boards are strong enough he says 

they seem to be stronger than the 

wooden ones you get from places 

like The Warehouse. 

“As long as you know how to 

put a skateboard together then 

you’re sweet,” he said. 

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at a time 

Neith, of Greta Valley, 

sources the bottle tops 

from cafes around the city 

and a retirement village in 

Amberley, as well as the 

Halswell Community 

Hub. 

He’s even received a 

load of bottle tops from 

someone in Waikato 

who had come across his 

Facebook page, which he 

said was pretty cool. 

When he leaves 

school, Neith wants to 

be a chiropractor or 

physiotherapist, as he likes 

helping people but doesn’t 

like blood. 

He has future plans to 

make longboard decks 

and include wheels on 

them as a step up from the 

smaller boards he’s making 

without wheels. 

He said he doesn’t 

mind what people do with 

the skateboards, whether 

they use them practically 

or hang them up on 

display. 

“That’s cool with me as 

long as it’s loved, as long as 

it’s not thrown back into 

the rubbish I’m happy,” he 

said. 

To have a look at Neith’s 

work go to ‘Over The Top 

Recycling’ on Facebook. 

CREATE: Neith Absalom uses just over 1000 

bottle tops to make a skateboard, melting them 

down in an old barbecue. 

PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE 

& 

McMaster Heap 

Veterinary practice 

THE IMPORTANCE OF 

GIVING BLOOD 

Recently my wee Macy, two year old Black 

Labrador, gave her blood in the hope of 

saving a dogs life. Lola donated blood 

frequently in her earlier years before she 

got kidney cancer and had chemotherapy, 

rendering her unsuitable. 

Macy used to be needle phobic and it 

would take a lot of persuading and many 

treats just to get her still enough to take her 

own blood for testing. She has watched 

me lots pulling blood from other dogs, so 

this time around she was brave. Firstly we 

needed to blood type her to make sure 

she was a match for the patient. The dog 

requiring her blood had 

already had one past 

transfusion, so this time 

around we needed a 

perfect blood match. 

Luckily our external 

laboratory move fast to 

cross match the blood, 

so within the hour we 

knew Macy was going 

to be a donor. Both 

were DEA 1.1 negative. 

Macy was then sedated 

and prepared for her 

transfusion. Blood is 

taken via a large bore 

COAGULOPATHY can happen with 

poisoning like rat bait, shock, cancers, 

parasites, liver disease and acute blood loss. 

To see whether a patient needs a 

transfusion we clinically and physically 

evaluate them. There are blood tests 

we run to check RBC numbers, platelet 

numbers and clotting times. Blood 

products are not a benign treatment 

and do come with potential risks, and 

are also a financial consideration to the 

patient’s owner - choosing the best time to 

transfuse to provide the maximum benefit 

is also essential, especially if finances are 

limited for multiple 

transfusions. 

Then we need to 

decide what blood 

product to give. A few 

types are fresh whole 

blood FWB, fresh frozen 

plasma FFP, packed red 

blood cells PRBCs and 

frozen plasma FP. The 

patient in question got 

FWB from Macy. This is 

blood collected from 

the donor in whole 

form and contains both 

ADJUSTABLE MASSAGE BED 

by 

needle from her jugular 

vein and it takes 10-15 

minutes to pull so she 

needs to lie perfectly 

still, hence the sedation. 

She wasn’t readily 

giving up her blood 

but we managed to 

get about 400mls to 

transfuse. Immediately 

the transfused Whole 

Blood is administered 

to the dog needing 

it, slowly infused 

via a pump system. 

Often the recipient 

immediately feels better and has more 

energy. 

The main reasons we transfuse a patient 

is for ANEMIA (where a patient has a 

reduced number of Red Blood cells) and 

COAGULOPATHY (clotting dysfunction). 

RBCs deliver oxygen to tissues so we can’t 

do without these. 

ANEMIA can be acute (road traffic 

accidents) or chronic (as in cancers, poisons 

like rat bait and Immume mediated 

disorders). The dog Macy helped out 

had Immune Mediated Anemia and 

Thrombocytopenia (low platelets). 

red blood cells and 

plasma elements. It is 

easily collected and 

requires no processing 

before transfusion. 

Main purpose - acute 

blood loss or active 

bleeding, as it replaces 

what is directly being 

lost. Unless transfused 

to the patient within 

6-8 hours of collection, 

it is a poor source of 

clotting factors. Main 

indication for use is 

anemia. 

Blood transfusions don’t happen every day 

but when a patient does require blood, it 

needs to happen then and there if we are 

to save a life. Many of the staff pets have 

been blood typed so now we have a pool 

of donors to call on if needed. Obviously 

they need to be healthy, fully vaccinated, 

the right weight to give up 1/2 litre blood 

and not receiving chemotherapy or 

immunosuppressive drugs. 

A great gift to be able to give another dog, 

I’m very proud of my Macy. 

Dr Michele McMaster 

Open 7 days Cnr Hoon Hay & Coppell place ph: 338 2534 

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HOME & HEATING 

Keep cosy with 

RD Petroleum 

this winter 

DEDICATED: Ross Stubley, of Avondale, with his Ford Capri soft top. 

Ford fans put their 

ponies on show 

• By John Cosgrove 

BETTING ON the odds 

of it not raining in spite of 

the forecast, Ross Stubley 

of Avondale, chanced the 

weather by taking his Ford 

Capri soft top out for a run 

to a Ford event at Leithfield 

on Sunday. 

Stubley said like many, 

his passion for Fords began 

at an early age. 

“I started off with Ford 

cars, buying EB Falcons 

and Fairlanes, and yeah, 

I’ve got a few now, I just 

like the smoothness of 

them and the way they 

look,” Stubley said. 

Nearly 200 Fords of 

all ages and descriptions 

turned out to show off 

their lines, curves, engines 

and pedigrees. 

Even though they were 

built in Australia, England, 

Germany and of course 

Detroit, who could not 

fail to see the passion in 

the eyes and voices of the 

hundreds of owners and 

enthusiasts who turned 

up for the Ford day at 

the Waimak Classic Cars 

museum. 

There were Falcons old 

and new, Fairlanes, Mustangs 

from both centuries, 

Capris, Thunderbirds, 

Cortinas, Escorts, Zephyrs 

and more. 

Chris Ash, 70, of Parklands, 

turned up with his 

2021 5-litre Mach Mustang 

and said he had grown up 

with early Ford coupes. 

“As a young fella I grew 

up with all the earlier 39 

Ford coupes. I saw the earlier 

Mach 1 models back in 

the 70s and I thought: ‘Gee 

look at that.’ 

“I thought I would never 

own one until I got to 

a stage when I can now 

afford one and thought I 

might get an old one, but I 

bought this 21 model Mustang 

because Fords don’t 

break down,” Ash said. 

Greg Herrett of Linwood 

said he has always just 

POWER: Chrisopher Ash, of Parklands, with 

his 5-litre 2021 Mach Mustang. (Below) – Greg 

Herrett, of Linwood, with his Falcon AU. 

PHOTOS: JOHN COSGROVE 

liked them. 

“Over time, just the way 

they’ve been performed, 

and enhanced, and you 

can’t go wrong,” he said. 

Standing beside his 

immaculate 66 Mustang 

coupe, Rick Paulsen, said 

he had been a Ford fan all 

his life, owning many over 

the years, from Escorts to 

Mustangs. 

“I’ve been a blue oval 

man through and through 

for all my life. My dad had 

Falcons, and the reason I 

own a 66 coupe like this one 

was because my uncle had 

one when I was six years old, 

and I said one day, I’m going 

to own one and now I do,” 

Paulsen said. 

Waimak Classic Cars 

spokesperson Sally Lane 

said it was an honour for 

them to host the event. 

“We were holding the 

Ford event for all the Ford 

lovers, drivers, dreamers 

and owners. 

“There was a very good 

vibe there and we had the 

Mustang club here as well 

as the hot rod club turn 

up and compete for a wide 

variety of prizes for best in 

show,” she said. 

Many Ford fans said 

they had been born into 

Ford families. 

Bruce McCormick of 

Harewood, said he had 

followed in his father’s 

footsteps and had a lifelong 

passion for early Fords. 

“My father had 46, 48 

sedans, and I have a 37 

Ford V8 sedan and a 37 

club ute, I just love them,” 

he said. 

RD Petroleum (RDP) is a familiar sight 

for farm and rural residents around the 

Canterbury region, however now days urban 

residents also enjoy the same excellent 

customer service for which RDP is known for 

in rural communities, through their home 

heating diesel. 

RDP began its home heating diesel delivery 

service to the lower South Island’s main urban 

centres of Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin 

and Invercargill a number of years ago. 

Customer demand has continued to increase 

year upon year, and RDP has responded 

with specialised improvements to its delivery 

equipment. 

The trucks that deliver RDP’s home heating 

diesel in each urban centre are drawn from 

the company’s extensive vehicle fleet. This 

means they have the latest communication 

and GPS tracking technology on board, so 

the operations team always know where they 

are and how far away they are from their next 

delivery stop. 

RDP’s home heating diesel trucks come 

equipped with a specially-designed hose, 

through which the diesel is pumped from 

the truck into house tanks. The length of 

the hose allows the trucks to access tanks 

without having to enter the property, avoiding 

damaging the driveway. RDP is the place to 

go if you require diesel conveniently delivered 

to your home and as a loyal RDP customer 

you’re offered discounted pricing and can 

become eligible for value-added benefits. 

For all enquiries please phone 

0800 44 00 14, or visit the RDP website at 

https://www.rdp.co.nz/home-heating or 

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They will recommend the most energyefficient 

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With new regulations now in place for 

Landlords to provide heating in rentals, 

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Inadequate heating and ventilation can 

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