Bail's Tales - March - "BAIL has bailed"

Working in our lovely facility at the Allan Bean Centre is almost a faded memory already! Yet it was only a few weeks ago that we were faced with having to move into Ward 7 as quick as we could. The earthquake issues were significant enough to provoke our engineers to declare that most inconvenient of phrases “you need to leave toot sweet”.

So along with our NZ Spinal Trust and Library friends we have all moved into the first two rooms of Ward 7. The move went extremely well, with all the staff and a good number of the Blue Team orderlies getting the job done in super quick time. We are now well settled in and extremely grateful to all whom worked hard to move us.

Special thanks go to the Burwood Management team for making this happen and allowing us to remain together on site here at Burwood. We may have bailed from the Allan Bean Centre but it is business as per usual.

This month we hosted the highly respected Dr David Berlowitz from Melbourne at a function in the Transitionz Lounge which proved to be a most appropriate alternate venue to the ABC. We also celebrated the presentation of two of our research masters projects with Claire Freeman completing her Master’s Thesis around intimacy in relationships following an SCI and Johnny Bourke just beginning his project and presenting his fresh proposal on the experience of rehabilitation from the perspectives of individuals in NZ with tetraplegia.

We hope to be back at the ABC soon however one never knows what is around the corner when you live in Christchurch.