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Liz lives life to the fullest Not many people know the ups and downs and deep complexities which come with kidney disease better than Ashburton woman Liz Carrick. For Kidney Health Month, Adam Burns spoke to the Ashburton committee’s vice president about the obstacles she faced with kidney failure and how her father taught her to rise above the disease.
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“It seemed like I was too young. “But when I had my first child, I had problems with blood pressure.” Liz was assessed and was eventually diagnosed with the disease after going her whole life thinking she was fine and healthy. Uncovering the disease is one thing. Receiving a kidney transplant was another sizeable complication. This is due to rigid guidelines around the eligibility of organs, where risk was balanced against sheer economics. One transplant usually amounted to about $100,000, Liz said. “I had to go for a yearly review and they had to check that I was healthy and that my longevity was going to be worth the money to do it.” On the flip side, the cost of someone on dialysis is not cheap, with costs ranging between $70 to $80,000 per year. When Liz trained in home dialysis procedures at a time when her kidneys failed, the Ashburton College teacher had three-and-ahalf months off work. Her income shrunk to a sickness benefit amounting to $300 per week. “You can’t afford a mortgage, you can’t afford all the other stuff that goes along with it,” she said. A simple case of giving back has made Liz’s move from kidney invalid to kidney advocate a logical one. She knows exactly how strenuous the process can be, both
physically and emotionally, and she has observed the trials faced by her loved ones. “I have a family who has lived with the disease.” Her father Norman withstood the disease for years and was one of the original trailblazers of kidney awareness in the district. Liz described her dad as an “excellent role model”. “He would do dialysis from 8 o’clock at night to 6 in the morning, clean the machine, get up, have a shower, get dressed, and go to work every day. “He never took a day off work.” Like her father, Liz did not allow dialysis procedures to impact her working life, even in far-off spots such as Jakarta during one of her international teaching stints. “I would go to work all day and then on the way home I would stop at the hospital where I would do four hours of dialysis, then I would go home. “If I hadn’t had any experience with kidney disease and that happened, I would’ve been a cot case.” Unable to get a transplant in Indonesia, Liz returned to New Zealand where she would have dialysis sittings in Christchurch before learning to knock the process off at home. Christchurch Kidney Society was able to cater to her wayfaring instincts, with a mobile dialysis machine, which Liz would grab mostly for holidays. “That was my lifesaver.” The road towards a possible transplant has not been without its setbacks. A scheduled transplant was
abandoned last minute just as Liz was about to go into theatre. “They told me the kidney was not viable,” she said. “It was awful, it took me about four days to come right after that.” But the day she had been waiting for eventually came. She went under the knife on Christchurch Show Day in 2019 after been told by medical staff earlier that morning to make a beeline north. Expecting to be overcome with euphoria during recovery, Liz was “crook as a dog” for the next few days. Liz has essentially followed in her father’s footsteps by converting experience into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. continued over page
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Above – Liz says her kidney transplant has changed her life.
From P19 She is one of a handful of Mid Canterbury committee members on the Health Consumer Council National Collective’s kidney representative where they advocate for people on dialysis and having transplants. Of concern for campaigners such as Liz is the trend of kidney failure cases are growing rather than slowing. Where the proportion of hereditary
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cases had declined, issues such as diabetes, obesity and poor lifestyle choices were becoming more prevalent around the onset of kidney disease. “As a result the numbers are just getting larger,” Liz said. Capturing the disease as early as possible is crucial for alleviating the disease, however, it was a catch-22 situation in that people often feel well when they are carrying the illness. “We can prevent a whole
heap of [problems] by early detection. “The bottom line is that it’s blood pressure.” As far as what the Ashburton branch offers, Liz explained that the organisation offered a broad scope of services. “It’s just to highlight that there are a group of people in Ashburton who can help and support you if you need it,” Liz said. “You’ll find pretty much everyone has
had somebody in their whanau or family affected and they just want to give back to the community and offer advice.” Since her transplant, Liz says her life has changed, enjoying greater energy levels and less stress in the process. “I feel like a normal person. I have to pinch myself sometimes and remind myself of what can happen at any time. “I have no reason to believe my kidney won’t last for a lifetime.”
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Hakatere v Hampstead: Naming a suburb
By Connor Lysaght
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he interplay between the press, the public, and local bodies can be something to behold. A war of words took place in 1886 which would lead to one of our suburbs losing its initial Maori name, Hakatere, in favour of the title of Hampstead. According to the Guardian on May 3, 1886, the town district of Hakatere had just been gazetted, and the first elections of the Hakatere Town Board were to be held on the 29th of that month. The name was contested right from the start. There was already a school district by the name of Hampstead that comprised an area greater than the new Hakatere Town District, which was one reason why some opposed the change – it would cause confusion. Others believed that keeping the name Hakatere would still cause confusion, as there was another area nearby generally referred to as Hakatere. Many were upset to see the Maori name set aside in favour of what they called yet another “hackneyed imported article”. The whole affair began with a ratepayers’ meeting, where the number one topic was what to call the new town district. The Hakatere Town District On May 11, 1886, a public meeting of ratepayers of the new Hakatere district was held in the Hampstead schoolroom, attended by 40 ratepayers and chaired by Mr C. Ward. Immediately, the dissatisfaction of some attendees regarding the name was brought up, with several people present agreeing that the district should be named Hampstead while one gentleman wanted the district to be Trevorton. Arguments against the name Hakatere were that the meaning of the word, which they interpreted as “poverty-stricken”, was unfavourable to them, and that there was an area across the railroad like that they already called Hakatere. Several members of the ratepayers’ meeting laughed at and mocked the name Hakatere, exclaiming loudly “we won’t have it then!” Mr J. A. Caygill then spoke in defence of Hakatere.
Hampstead School standards 1 and 2, 1905. The students are standing in front of the original school building, which was built in 1884.
He thought it a preferable name to Hampstead, and thought that “provided they got a name which was a nice one, and at the same time stamped some individuality upon the district, they did not care what it meant”. Mr W. W. White clarified that he had been led to choose the name because the new town district of Hakatere encompassed the areas known as Hampstead, Trevorton, and Netherby, thinking that it would be wrong to pick one of these names for the wider district. Some minor arguments ensued between several attendees, mainly having to do with Hakatere having not been part of any naming petition, and eventually it was decided to pick a new name for the town district. Predictably, this decision had racist motivation for some – Mr Caygill moved that a committee be appointed to consider a suitable Maori name for the district, and a voice from the crowd responded “I object to Maori names. We’re not Maoris; we’re white men”. His comment was, unfortunately, met with laughter. It should also be noted that even though Mr Caygill thought that Hampstead should have kept a Maori name, he only said this after mocking Native American and Australian Aboriginal place names in their native languages, calling them of “the most uncouth and jawbreaking character imaginable”.
George W Andrews, an inaugural town board member who denied there having been any quarrels at their meetings. From the Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1903.
The Trevorton area was named after Doctor J E Trevor, who cut up his holding for building sites in the early days thus creating the suburb. Trevor first came to Ashburton in 1872.
Even though he defended having place names in Te Reo, he was not exonerated of all attitudes which were normalised in nineteenth century white European society. The town board meets After much more discussion than necessary, the meeting of ratepayers failed to establish a committee for a new Maori name, and they could not decide on Hakatere, nor Hampstead, nor Trevorton. They decided to leave it up to the town board election candidates. The first town board was chaired by F. T. Mayo, and included Messrs W. W. White, G. W. Andrews, B. Carter, and P. Fawcett. Mayo expressed that he would like a majority vote by petition to change the district’s name to Hampstead, after Mr Fawcett brought up the dreaded topic.
Just before the meeting was adjourned, Mr Carter tried to slide in with Trevorton again, but was brushed off. By the July meeting of the board, it seemed that Carter had had enough and he resigned, a decision which he was urged to reconsider – whether this was because of the naming problem is unclear, but he was not the only one to resign. The Guardian wrote, “we confess our sympathy is entirely with those persons who prefer an euphonious native production to a hackneyed imported article”, and went on to lament that they “do think the indiscriminate adoption of European names for colonial towns and places is open to very serious objection”. However, the Guardian also gave justification to the district being named Hampstead. Letters started coming in to the
Guardian about the naming fiasco, slamming the Hakatere Town Board for the whole affair. Hakatere v Hampstead For many days straight in July 1886, the ‘HAKATERE V HAMPSTEAD’ column seemed as regular as a popular serial. One man claiming to be a fishmonger and a patriot wrote “I hereby contract to telegraph to Kimberley for a consignment of fresh alligators to serve on the Hakatere Town Board in place of the two candidates resigned”. Another wished to enquire “why the Hakatere Town Board did not try and work together for a time before commencing to fight?” “County Mayo” wrote to the Guardian complaining of the ineptitude of the board, slamming the fact that they were trying to change the name of the district “before any business whatever is got through”. One letter from George W. Andrews sought to dispel the accounts of the arguments at the ratepayers’ and board’s meetings, claiming that he had “great pleasure in informing (the Guardian’s correspondents) that there never have been any quarrels”. The matter died down for a bit, and then in September it was learned from the Government that Mr Mayo was told a month before that “there is no power to alter the name of the Town District”. Despite this, on October 4, it was reported that the town board had managed to change the district’s name to Hampstead, which appeared in the Gazette the next month. With that, the suburb we recognise today as Hampstead got its current name, but thankfully the name Hakatere lives on in so many ways, as the Hakatere river provides for us. Reel Life of Ashburton New video footage is now showing at the Ashburton Museum as part of our summer exhibition Reel Life of Ashburton. The new film on display is called Anama District 1975 – 1980 compiled by Bruce McLauchlan, which showcases various people and activities around the Anama District, and will be on display for a week. The Reel Life of Ashburton exhibition is open until March 22.
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Tips for your egg hunt Easter only comes around once a year and the pinnacle is the Easter egg hunt. Here are tips for happy hunting!
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Count your eggs! Remember to count the number of eggs you have before you hide them. Telling everyone that you have one last egg left to find can help bring everyone together at the end of the game.
Setting ground rules before you begin can also help you have the ultimate Easter egg hunt. For example, you might want everyone to find seven eggs first before they are allowed to find anymore. This tip is particularly helpful if you have younger and older children in your family. It’s useful to plan ahead for the older ones. For example, once your older child finds seven eggs you might give them a special task to find a treat that is hidden in a more difficult spot.
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– Place eggs in a pot and cover with an inch of water. Stir in 2T white vinegar and the food ingredient for desired colour. – Bring water to a boil. When the water reaches a boil, reduce, simmer and cook for 15-30 minutes (the longer you cook the eggs, the tougher they will be).
– Check the eggs to see if the desired colour is achieved. – Let the Easter egg hunt begin! – If you want the eggs a deeper colour you can remove them from the pot, let the colour mixture cool and pour it back over the eggs and refrigerate overnight or longer. The longer the eggs are covered with the colour, the deeper the shade will be. We also found that the colour of the eggs deepened after they dried.
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Dr Diane Young, I presume?
150 years ago this year Welsh journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, strode into a clearing in Africa, recognised the man he’d been searching for and uttered the immortal but disputed words “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” Ashburton doctor, Diane Young, followed in Livingstone’s footsteps and spent nearly 15 years of her life working in an Aids infected population in Malawi, treating families infected by the disease. This is her story, told by Malcolm Hopwood.
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n the back of Diane Hampton’s mind, there was always a time when she wanted to work overseas, to serve on the mission field. The desire came early. Diane and her parents, Knox and Colin Hampton, attended St Andrew’s Church in Ashburton and supporting missions was part of the church’s outreach programme. Diane wanted to be a nurse but left Ashburton College too early to go into training. So she spent a year at Otago University
Dr Young worked with mothers and children, many infected with HIV related conditions.
and prepared for medical school instead. She received high grades, felt the calling and carried on. Five years later she graduated in 1987 as Dr Diane Hampton. Even then, she knew that serving overseas would be part of her future. The opportunity came early with a three-month elective while still studying at university. She chose the Philippines and joined Youth With A Mission as a medical student. “It was an opportunity to carry out community work in Manila and then further south in Mindanao, providing medicine for people in need. It was a real eye opener. I administered basic health care to people who were malnourished, living in poverty,” she said. “For some of them, every day was a challenge to survive. They lived on a rubbish dump and would search it, scavenging for items to sell.” An important part of going was to use her skills and the medicine at her disposal to help people in need. That desire never left her. After graduating, she
was appointed to Canterbury DHB as a house officer. During that time, she spent two, three month periods at Ashburton Hospital. “It was really good experience. I was often the first person to deal with whoever walked through the door. I rotated around the various wards, gaining experience in all kinds of hospital care,” she said. Canterbury was followed by further experience at Invercargill Hospital. Diane completed a year-long post-graduate diploma in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a year in child health before working with GPs in private practice. “I was learning a lot but felt there was a lot more to learn. It was great experience.” Her life changed when she met Jim Young, a Presbyterian Minister, based at the Wallacetown Parish, on the way to Riverton. They married in 1993 but the desire to go overseas was still as strong as ever, even if she had to park it for several years. “I didn’t want to end up in a rocking chair in a retirement home, without having pursued that call,” she said. Jim was appointed to Cromwell Presbyterian Church and Diane, now a mum, supported his work. Robert, Sarah and Michael were raised in Central Otago. As they grew, the opportunity arose for Diane to return to private practice in Alexandra. In Cromwell, they started preparing through Serving In Mission (SIM) for an appointment in Africa. Diane had mentioned her calling early in their marriage and “Jim was open to the idea”. The family left for Malawi via Liverpool in 2003 where Diane completed a diploma in tropical medicine. “It was very helpful, getting specialised training in the illnesses I needed to deal with,” she said. Their 15-year commitment to church and medicine had begun. One of the great 19th century medical missionaries in Africa was David Livingstone and, in her own way, Diane was to follow. He was born in Blantyre in Scotland and it was to Blantyre in Malawi that the family was first sent.
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Above – Dr Diane Young, back in Ashburton. Top right – Dr Young worked with fellow doctors and clinicians at a clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi. Right – Dr Young worked with mothers and children, many infected with HIV related conditions.
“During that time, I received training in Malawi’s language, customs and medical practice,” Diane said. With the training over they moved to Lilongwe, where she was based at a clinic at the African Bible College. Livingstone was remembered for many things, especially inspiring healthcare and education for the local population. Diane wanted to do the same. HIV had spread through countries south of Sahara causing devastation and drugs were only becoming available. The average life expectancy of young men was 32. They were dying of Aids because there was no treatment or medication. “It was horrible. About 30 per cent of babies, born to HIV infected mothers, were infected themselves. My focus was caring for people in the community as well as staff and students at the college,” she says.
“I clearly remember people presenting themselves with late-stage Aids. It was an illness that killed families. “It was caused through sexual contact, sometimes they received contaminated blood products and there was mother to child transmission.” Diane recalls heart breaking situations. When the outcome was bad, “we worked on making a difference,” she said. Through the generosity of Bill and Melinda Gates, the World Bank and the US Government, medication became free or affordable and gradually the tide was turned. “Once you administered treatment, you saw remarkable results. We saw a huge recovery,” she says. Close by was a refugee camp with up to 12,000 people from Rwanda, Congo, Burundi and Somalia. The Bible College provided medical care and helped them with food, transport and
nutrition. “We also offered hope, prayer and spiritual help,” Diane said. In Lilongwe she liked to get out of the clinic and go to another base on the outskirts of the city to treat epilepsy sufferers. It is a significant problem in Malawi caused by contagious diseases such as malaria infecting the brain. “People would walk five hours to receive medical help. I recall one young person who was so jubilant after being successfully treated, she came back a month later and danced for joy.” While Diane was attending to Malawi’s sick and infected, Jim trained Sunday School teachers. He established a team and provided resource and guidance to them. It’s a legacy he still continues back in New Zealand. Their children had returned and Diane and Jim were ready to come home after nearly 15 years. She said the timing was right and they’d
fulfilled what they set out to do. With Jim retired, Diane joined Three Rivers medical practice. “I keep remembering how blessed we are in New Zealand and not to take anything for granted,” she said. “I hope one day we can revisit Malawi. In the meantime, I’m finding joy in simple things and being more than just a doctor to my patients.” She’s also returned with African costumes. “I’m more African in my thinking and attitude now and recently celebrated Waitangi Day multicultural celebrations by wearing the clothes. I loved it.” It’s the 150th anniversary this year when Welsh journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, walked into a clearing and said the immortal but disputed words, “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” Diane Young feels proud of being part of that heritage and continuing his work.
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Transitioning your garden into winter M
arch is definitely a transitional month and depending on the weather, it’s either an extension of summer or the early warning signs of winter. As always, it is a busy time with harvesting late summer fruit and beginning the preparation for your winter vegetable garden.
In the veggie patch March and early April are the final months for harvesting summer vegetables including; beans, beetroot, cabbage, carrots, celery, corn, cucumber, eggplants, jerusalem artichokes, lettuce, melons, onions, potatoes, pumpkins, radish, silverbeet, spinach, tomatoes and yams. A gardening diary helps you keep track of your garden across the seasons. Make note of which summer vegetables performed best and why, and to rotate crops next summer into different positions in the veggie garden. The benefit of crop rotation is that as one plant depletes the soil of cer- Start sowing seeds and planting seedlings for winter tain nutrients, the next plant will replenish the soil as it grows. Some soil diseases can also be controlled well this way. Towards the end of March start preparing your winter garden, adding fresh compost to existing soil and raising ‘beds’ to improve drainage over wet winter months. Some winter vegetable seeds and seedlings can now be sown/planted, including; beetroot, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, onions, radish, silverbeet, spinach, swedes, and turnips. Leave enough room for further plantings of all these vegetables over the next few months to extend harvesting time.
Flower garden Summer flowering annuals have been quite magnificent this summer. Continue to deadhead finished flowers and cut back some annuals such as petunias which can look a little scraggly this time of year. As with the vegetable garden, it is time to start preparing the winter flower garden or container garden for decks and patios. Winter flowering annuals that can now be safely planted include; alyssum, calendulas, cinerarias, cornflower, lobelia, nemesia, pansies, primulas, snapdragons, stock and wallflowers.
Bulb planting March is the final month for planting new bulbs. Thorough preparation of the soil is critical to the ongoing success of bulbs because the area in which they are planted is often not disturbed for several years. Add plenty of compost before planting and ensure the soil is friable (crumbly) and drainage is good. Bulbs to plant include anemones, daffodils, hyacinths, ixia, lachenalias, freesias, ranunculus, sparaxis, tritonia, tulips and watsonias.
Harvest the last veggie summer crops
Fruit tree harvesting Harvest time for many apple and pear varieties, and the last of the peaches (Golden Queen), plums (Satsuma and Burbank) and nashi pears (Hosui and Kosui). Fruit will be forming on all citrus trees so mulch to retain soil moisture and suppress weeds.
Lawn repair
Apples and pears are ready for picking
preparation is critical for establishment and success. As temperatures cool and rain becomes more regular, begin applying Daltons Premium Lawn Fertiliser to existing lawns.
Roses It can be a bit of a mixed month in the rose garden depending on the varieties growing. After the hot, dry months of January and February, some roses now have a second wind and produce masses of stunning blooms throughout March and April. Start fertilising all rose plants now with specific rose fertiliser through to early April. Keep dead-heading finished flowers and carry out light pruning where needed.
As soon as regular rain arrives, work can begin on repairing or renovating existing lawns or laying new ones. Good preparation is absolutely critical and the key to success. If importing new soil/topsoil, make sure it’s of the highest quality and weed-free. Using a mixture of lawn seed can produce a more resilient, all-yearround lawn. Always use fresh lawn seed for For more gardening advice or informathe best germination rate. Ready lawn can tion on the wide range of Daltons products Autumn is the best time for sowing new lawns be useful for small areas, and once again, visit www.daltons.co.nz. and repairing old ones
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FLOWERING RED SILK Bernie Jopson is this month’s winner with the following question: I have an Albizia julibrissin “Red Silk” Tree. It is a couple of years old, when will they start to flower and is there any special care they need? Thank you. This selected form of the Southern Asian Silk Tree has soft, ferny type leaves on wide-spreading branches and produces a spectacular display of showy pink pom-pom like silky flowers as the plant matures. There is no exact time interval from when it was planted to when flowering commences. It can sometimes be up to five or six years. The good news is that once your Albizzia starts flowering, it will continue to do so every year. It is worth noting that even though it is not flowering right now, the tree will continue to grow at a significant rate and requires no special attention in terms of preferred soils or watering. Albizzia are exceptionally hardy trees! You may find it helpful to read our free How to Grow Guides: www.daltons.co.nz/how-to-guides.
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