Get Well Clarkie!

 Hi everyone
Aaron has asked me to send a very special Christmas thank you and a million happy wishes to you all.  We had a lovely day yesterday with our extended family, outside under the awning with the sun shining and a lovely warm 21 degrees celcius (70 degrees F).  Everyone contributed to a lovely day.
Aaron [...]

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Yesterday Aaron and I had a visit to the Nerve Specialist at Auckland City Hosptial.  The goal was to continue on from the Sensory tests that the physio’s at Rehab Plus had done to try and confirm a reason for the tingling and numbness in Aaron’s left leg and arm.  He has had this [...]

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We’ve had the best weekend – Aaron came and stayed with Andrew and me on Saturday night!  We packed up the car with all the hardware midday on Saturday and headed 15 minutes up the road to our place in Epsom.
The weekend was very relaxed and we just hung out at home, watched movies and [...]

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Sorry, I have just been told that the first cell phone number that I posted was missing a ‘1′.  The CORRECT number is:
+6421-1790-118
(NOT +6421-790-118)
Apologies for those who have been trying to contact Clarkie and wondering why he isn’t texting back!  Lock and load the new number and get those text fingers going!
Meg

Hey everyone
Clarkie had a huge day today…he had his consultation with Dr Chris Campbell, one of NZ’s top Orthopaedic/Pelvic specialists.  He arrived with another ortho registrar and nurse and did a very in-depth examination of his movement in both pelvis and knee.  They then did a further examination of the many x-rays they did of [...]

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Sorry it has taken so long to give you an update on Aaron’s journey to NZ but it has been such a chaotic week since we arrived a week ago.
As Tedi mentioned, the medically assisted flight went extremely well and the medical and support team were wonderful…professional, friendly and very experienced.  We felt in [...]

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Following Aaron’s initial Swallow Test the med team did another “x-ray video” yesterday where they tested and tracked his ability to swallow various types of liquid, from water consistency to nectar consistency.  This test wasn’t quite so successful unfortunately.  His Speech and Language therapist showed us the video which was interesting to watch and helped us [...]

I can’t believe that it’s suddenly December and only 24 days to Christmas…who knows where November and half of Oct went…
We had a pretty event filled day today.  Aaron has had his MRSA infection (and the reason why we have had to be gowned, gloved and masked for four weeks) deemed ‘colonised’.  This means that [...]

Hi to all the NZ’ers who have been following Aaron’s progress. 
I want to give a massive thanks to the many caring and generous people who have donated to the Aaron Clark Trust which we set up in NZ 1 month ago.  There are too many people to mention in person and there are so many [...]

Hey team
We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with your families.  I collected Mum from the airport in Denver yesterday and arrived back into the Springs to snow.  Very pretty but hard to drive through and a little chilly to boot.  We arrived back at the hospital for Mum to see Aaron for the [...]