Pre – Christmas 2025
Christmas was just around the corner and although we did not have the joy of putting on the Christmas dinner there were errands to do.
Those errands took us to Westfield Carindale and that is where our luck started to change. In one of the elevators, we ran into this fellow giving me quite a start. We had caught him having his lunch break and despite his calm demeanor in the photo below I now think he placed Kerry under a spell and before we knew it, we had finished shopping at Samuel St Camp Hill and walked done the stairs into the carpark. Kerry had very carefully held the railing going down the stairs, but she missed her step and ended up face down in the car park. She fell to the floor fracturing her ankle on the way down. She knew she was in trouble and just lay there. Looking back, I hold the bearded fellow responsible.
Photos: at Carindale and Kerry in the car park
The Woolworths store provided a member of staff to sit with her and called the ambulance. The Ambos raced her off to Greenslopes Hospital emergency department where she was triaged and her ankle and foot were placed in a caste. This lasted about a week or more until she could be seen by a specialist lower limb doctor Dr. Miller. After x rays the caste was replaced with a moon boot which was to stay in place from the beginning of December to early February – not an entirely happy Kerry at Christmas.
Christmas/New Years Eve
Still the moon boot did not stop her from dancing on New Years eve. Photos – Kerry in caste then moon boot and her ankle after the boot. Dale and Zdravka, Vladimir and wife
Post New Year
The moon boot came off, but we had to keep up the treatment on her ankle. For some time, she had received treatment for a sack of fluid hanging off her right kidney, but the pain continued so the moon boot came off and then she was in hospital for the removal of the fluid sack. In fact, it was on her birthday, Kerry was admitted to hospital for surgery to remove the sack by 5 keyhole incisions.
Now I have been on the Board of Directors of a licenced Club for some time and circumstances pushed me into the position of Chairman of the Board. I needed Kerry to recover quickly. The surgery was quite an experience, but I was hardly coming to grips with caring for Kerry when there was a tragic incident at the Club. That was an experience.
So, Kerry now had wounds from her surgery and a sore foot, and the Club was in turmoil requiring my attention. I buckled down, nursed Kerry with due care and concern and dealt with the incident at the Club with due care and concern, in the hope we would still be able to travel to Melbourne for the F1 race in roughly two weeks’ time. They say everything happens in 3s and good fortune was coming our way again. We got on the plane to Melbourne for the Formula 1 as scheduled on Thursday 5th March 2026. Keep following along and see how we fared at F1 in “THE RETIREES GO TO THE F1 IN MELBOURNE“
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