Bravery
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ACCC Chairman – Not Me!!!
By the response I am getting it is clear people either can’t read or are visually impaired. Let me see if I can help future inquiries. My name is Graeme Samuels BM. That’s Samuel with an “S” The BM is my legal postnominals (Bravery Medal) Now I maybe a chairman and in fact I am in a chair! Wheelchair that is ..lol BUT I am not the chairman of the ACC (Australian Competition An Consumer Commission) This dude is Graeme Samuel AC (notice no “S” after Samuel ) or did you? Now be honest as you probably wouldn’t be here or still reading this if you weren’t!!! Please stop reading…
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PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
I am asked if I suffer PTSD or depression. When my injury first happened I was just to overwhelmed with what was going on to dwell over what happened to me. I was a very health person and very rarely ever visited a doctor and to be laid out on a bed in the most pain I have ever been in my life while a bunch of Doctors poke and prod me was more devastating than the injury. The slightest movement of even the bed sheet was enough to send me of the deep end. All I wanted to do was to get out of the hospital. Within 5 days…
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BRAVE by Mark Whittaker
Recommend this book. It is well worth the read. These people reflect and give hope for what being an Australian really means. Chapter 20 or 21 if your looking for me. Would you squeeze your way into a shoulder-width, pitch-dark stormwater drain to rescue a kid as it flooded? Would you knowingly cop a 20,000 volt electric shock to save a friend and his child? Would you swim out from the beach to rescue a man bitten by a five-metre white pointer, while the shark is still circling him? Would you run into the carnage of a burning Bali nightclub to save people when anyone who can still walk is…
