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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to talk more about stroke awareness, but joining
me in the studio not only to talk about Stride
for Stroke this month, but some other issues. It is
Richard Crooks. Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Crooksy morning wolf Go.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We're really good, lovely to have you in the studio now. Mate,
Before we talk about Stride for Stroke, I want to
ask you. I understand that you were yesterday at the
private hospital after your appointment and you decided to have
a bit of a step back in time, because it
is coming up to nearly five years since your stroke.
You thought you'd retrace some of your steps from when
you were learning to walk again, from ward to ward, upstairs, downstairs,
(00:37):
anywhere you could push the damn frame that you were in.
But a bit of a surprise to you then when
you were there at the private hospital, tell me what
you saw?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, mate, Well, as you said, I went there for
my appointment yesterday and as you know, Stride for Strokes
coming up for the Stroke Foundation, and I just was
feeling a bit down about things, and you know, because
I've I want to try and do thirty k's and
raised ten thousand dollars and the hard drive wasn't working
too well. And I just couldn't get in the year. Anyway,
(01:10):
I went seeing, had my appointment and so on, and
then I was about to leave the building and I
was flicking through some photos of you know, back in time.
Got to the exit door and then I thought, stuff this,
so I hit that my app on my phone, you know.
I walked the floors and I started walking around downstairs
(01:33):
where I was back in time, you know memories and yeah,
so you know, I pushed that frame around and around
and up and down before it could even go anywhere.
And I did that. The nurses used to get sick
of me because it was such a busy place anyway.
So yeah, it was a bit dawning while I come across,
(01:55):
because I all went upstairs and walked around and went
down and seen a few of the nurses and physio
is it's still there? And then I sort of took
a bit of a breath and walked back towards the
Corrella ward, which I spent five months in which most
people know. And as I went to walk into the ward,
(02:16):
it was just darkness. I thought, what's going on here?
And so what passed the control center, which is the
nurses station, which was right outside my room because I
was in bed seventeen there for five months, and I
would walk to there and I just had a few
moments and I thought, what the hell's going on is?
(02:36):
I walked through the whole ward and it's a ghost
town there. So it's empty, twenty eight empty rooms with
beds in them, and not one person, not a cleaner,
not a physio, not a nurse, not a doctor, just
a ghost town.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What is the go because we got told that it
was on this situation where the maternity ward was classing,
so obviously there's twenty eight empty rooms, and safe to say,
you're pretty worried about the fact that there's twenty eight
empty rooms. So what's happened with the maternity ward or
what if they said to you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
The maternity ward is now the post ward?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And the correl Bard is a ghost town. That's twenty
eight empty rooms and some of their moons can have
two beds in. And I remember when I was in
there for the five months that they were bringing patients
from the public hospital over into the private hospital when
(03:44):
I was in there that five months because they needed
the beds. So now we've got twenty eight empty rooms
we've got people double ringing in other rooms in the hospital.
Plus we've got all these straight pace which I visited
a few yesterday, who could benefit from having their rooms
(04:07):
for rehabilitation because having a stroke it's quite personal and
doing everything, because why aren't they Why can't we put
these stroke patients out there?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like yeah, And so there's room there, there's space there,
but the private hospital is choosing not to use it.
And I dare say it's the people that I own
the private hospital, not the staff that work in there,
who I'm sure want Territorians to have that space.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So I'm guessing, well, yeah, well, like I said, there's
twenty eight empty rooms. What happened to that? All them
nurses which would have been probably eighteen twenty odd houses yep,
plus physios and others specialists, And then you've got people
who are paying for private cover and they got to
wait because there's no specialists, or you've got other people
(04:57):
with any other ailments can't go anywhere because there's no bets. Yeah, well,
what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah? Well, I think it's a very good question. And look,
I wouldn't have any idea about it if you hadn't
come in and told us about it. I'm sure that
a lot of people listening wouldn't either, So we'll see
what we can find out. I know Krystal will be listening.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, isn't play schooling at the White House?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, that's it is. It is currently underway, yes, at
the wedding cake. So we'll see what we can find out,
and you know, definitely try and follow it up. But Crooksy,
I want to talk about some of the other stuff
that you're doing as well. Stride for Stroke. Now it
is this month, so it's essentially for all of September,
(05:42):
isn't it Where you are trying how many kilometers are
you trying to walk?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well, I'm going to try and walk thirty as long
as I've got plenty of assistance along the way, which
i will have a bit. Yeah, and my aim is
to try and walk thirty k's it's September and try
and raise ten thousand dollars for the Stroke Foundation. So
I'll be doing a few works with people that join me.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You can join me when you after the win exactly, Crooxy,
stop making yourself laugh for you.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So yeah, so that's the plan. I'm just trying to
get out there make more awareness because people don't know
what's really going on. Over seven hundred territorins get struck
by a stroke every year every year. Yesterday when I
(06:37):
had my experience at the hospital and then I went
straight out to the Palmerston and Rehab to catch up
with somebody I know who's had a stroke, and all
of a sudden, around three other people who had strokes.
Then ment another person had stroke and it's hard for
me because I'm only one person. And they found out
(07:01):
that I created a YouTube channel for physio and stuff
so people could see, because it's help for their families
to assist so they can see the stuff because the
first three months is detrimental and anyone whos had a
straight for physio and we haven't enough physios here to
spend four hours a day with each straight patient, which
is so sad. Plus having the rooms from so and
(07:26):
giving the information and what I say on what I
can do with my shirts and hats and calls for
people to see and people can ring me. I don't
care what time, and I is. Somebody knows how to stroke,
you know, to help. I'm here. I can't be everywhere,
but I try and do my best to help people,
to give them some information about stroke and that's what
(07:48):
they're straight raising money with a straight foundation doing strike
a stroke is to create more awareness and get the
information because they get no support from the government at all.
Absolutely all the money he's done by fundraising events.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like this, which is incredible. It's so good. So how
much money did you end up raising last year?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, I end up raising seventeen thousand dollars last year. Yeah,
I was the highest in Australia, the nice individual in Australia.
So if I could do that again, I'll be, you know,
pretty well staated because that money goes to a lot
of things. Education, which you know is the main thing.
(08:30):
Like what's happening was stroke now because it's fifty percent
of the straight patients are males. Females are still having them,
and young kids is having which is sad. You know
when I go to Adelaide and I visited young kids
who have had strokes. It affects everyone, it does. Some
(08:51):
people think, oh, it doesn't affect everyone some people, but yeah, anyone,
at any time, anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Can have a stroke. Few messages of support for you
this morning. One here is saying Richard is a hero.
That one there from Heidi from the Stroke Foundation. She's
listening in now. As you said, I'm going on holidays
for two weeks from Friday. But when i'm back, let
me know if you want to come and have a
walk before we do the week that was, or if
you want to do something else. Always happy to try
(09:20):
and you know, to try and help you to raise awareness.
However we can Where can people go though, if they
want to jump online and they want to make a
donation to you or they want to, you know, to
just support you in some way.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Ye, or they can message me, or they can go
on to Strive for Stroke web page yelp and then
look for my for my name there, or apparently they're
setting up a Facebook thing for me. Again awesome to
do it, yep, because technology me, my hard drive doesn't
(09:54):
work as good as you used to. But they're going
to set up that for me. So hopefully that'll be
up and running by the end of the day. And plus,
oh put it on book face about do some walks
and people good Johinny. I'm still waiting for confirmations. Last
year I did the racetrack and but there's a new
(10:19):
CEO there. So I'm just waiting for him to get
back to me and as soon as I know that,
we've got to go for that. Hopefully you do two
laps that because I end up doing two laps with
Live Baxter's Legends walk around. So yeah, so yeah, so
you know that's the plan. Otherwise I'll just keep walking
(10:39):
and you can just give me away or two lads,
I'm going down the street.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I love it, Crooksy mate. Thank you as always for
coming into the studio for a chat this morning. We'll
talk to you again throughout this month. Absolutely good stuff.
Good on your Crooky, Lovely to catch up with you.
I want to talk more about stroke awareness, but joining
me in the studio not only to talk about Stride
for Stroke this month, but some other issues. It is
Richard Crooks. Good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Crooksy morning wolf Go.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We're really good, lovely to have you in the studio now. Mate,
Before we talk about Stride for Stroke, I want to
ask you. I understand that you were yesterday at the
private hospital after your appointment and you decided to have
a bit of a step back in time, because it
is coming up to nearly five years since your stroke.
You thought you'd retrace some of your steps from when
you were learning to walk again, from ward to ward, upstairs, downstairs,
(00:37):
anywhere you could push the damn frame that you were in.
But a bit of a surprise to you then when
you were there at the private hospital, tell me what
you saw?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, mate, Well, as you said, I went there for
my appointment yesterday and as you know, Stride for Strokes
coming up for the Stroke Foundation, and I just was
feeling a bit down about things, and you know, because
I've I want to try and do thirty k's and
raised ten thousand dollars and the hard drive wasn't working
too well. And I just couldn't get in the year. Anyway,
(01:10):
I went seeing, had my appointment and so on, and
then I was about to leave the building and I
was flicking through some photos of you know, back in time.
Got to the exit door and then I thought, stuff this,
so I hit that my app on my phone, you know.
I walked the floors and I started walking around downstairs
(01:33):
where I was back in time, you know memories and yeah,
so you know, I pushed that frame around and around
and up and down before it could even go anywhere.
And I did that. The nurses used to get sick
of me because it was such a busy place anyway.
So yeah, it was a bit dawning while I come across,
(01:55):
because I all went upstairs and walked around and went
down and seen a few of the nurses and physio
is it's still there? And then I sort of took
a bit of a breath and walked back towards the
Corrella ward, which I spent five months in which most
people know. And as I went to walk into the ward,
(02:16):
it was just darkness. I thought, what's going on here?
And so what passed the control center, which is the
nurses station, which was right outside my room because I
was in bed seventeen there for five months, and I
would walk to there and I just had a few
moments and I thought, what the hell's going on is?
(02:36):
I walked through the whole ward and it's a ghost
town there. So it's empty, twenty eight empty rooms with
beds in them, and not one person, not a cleaner,
not a physio, not a nurse, not a doctor, just
a ghost town.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
What is the go because we got told that it
was on this situation where the maternity ward was classing,
so obviously there's twenty eight empty rooms, and safe to say,
you're pretty worried about the fact that there's twenty eight
empty rooms. So what's happened with the maternity ward or
what if they said to you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
The maternity ward is now the post ward?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah? Right?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And the correl Bard is a ghost town. That's twenty
eight empty rooms and some of their moons can have
two beds in. And I remember when I was in
there for the five months that they were bringing patients
from the public hospital over into the private hospital when
(03:44):
I was in there that five months because they needed
the beds. So now we've got twenty eight empty rooms
we've got people double ringing in other rooms in the hospital.
Plus we've got all these straight pace which I visited
a few yesterday, who could benefit from having their rooms
(04:07):
for rehabilitation because having a stroke it's quite personal and
doing everything, because why aren't they Why can't we put
these stroke patients out there?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like yeah, And so there's room there, there's space there,
but the private hospital is choosing not to use it.
And I dare say it's the people that I own
the private hospital, not the staff that work in there,
who I'm sure want Territorians to have that space.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So I'm guessing, well, yeah, well, like I said, there's
twenty eight empty rooms. What happened to that? All them
nurses which would have been probably eighteen twenty odd houses yep,
plus physios and others specialists, And then you've got people
who are paying for private cover and they got to
wait because there's no specialists, or you've got other people
(04:57):
with any other ailments can't go anywhere because there's no bets. Yeah, well,
what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah? Well, I think it's a very good question. And look,
I wouldn't have any idea about it if you hadn't
come in and told us about it. I'm sure that
a lot of people listening wouldn't either, So we'll see
what we can find out. I know Krystal will be listening.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, isn't play schooling at the White House?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, that's it is. It is currently underway, yes, at
the wedding cake. So we'll see what we can find out,
and you know, definitely try and follow it up. But Crooksy,
I want to talk about some of the other stuff
that you're doing as well. Stride for Stroke. Now it
is this month, so it's essentially for all of September,
(05:42):
isn't it Where you are trying how many kilometers are
you trying to walk?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well, I'm going to try and walk thirty as long
as I've got plenty of assistance along the way, which
i will have a bit. Yeah, and my aim is
to try and walk thirty k's it's September and try
and raise ten thousand dollars for the Stroke Foundation. So
I'll be doing a few works with people that join me.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You can join me when you after the win exactly, Crooxy,
stop making yourself laugh for you.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So yeah, so that's the plan. I'm just trying to
get out there make more awareness because people don't know
what's really going on. Over seven hundred territorins get struck
by a stroke every year every year. Yesterday when I
(06:37):
had my experience at the hospital and then I went
straight out to the Palmerston and Rehab to catch up
with somebody I know who's had a stroke, and all
of a sudden, around three other people who had strokes.
Then ment another person had stroke and it's hard for
me because I'm only one person. And they found out
(07:01):
that I created a YouTube channel for physio and stuff
so people could see, because it's help for their families
to assist so they can see the stuff because the
first three months is detrimental and anyone whos had a
straight for physio and we haven't enough physios here to
spend four hours a day with each straight patient, which
is so sad. Plus having the rooms from so and
(07:26):
giving the information and what I say on what I
can do with my shirts and hats and calls for
people to see and people can ring me. I don't
care what time, and I is. Somebody knows how to stroke,
you know, to help. I'm here. I can't be everywhere,
but I try and do my best to help people,
to give them some information about stroke and that's what
(07:48):
they're straight raising money with a straight foundation doing strike
a stroke is to create more awareness and get the
information because they get no support from the government at all.
Absolutely all the money he's done by fundraising events.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Like this, which is incredible. It's so good. So how
much money did you end up raising last year?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, I end up raising seventeen thousand dollars last year. Yeah,
I was the highest in Australia, the nice individual in Australia.
So if I could do that again, I'll be, you know,
pretty well staated because that money goes to a lot
of things. Education, which you know is the main thing.
(08:30):
Like what's happening was stroke now because it's fifty percent
of the straight patients are males. Females are still having them,
and young kids is having which is sad. You know
when I go to Adelaide and I visited young kids
who have had strokes. It affects everyone, it does. Some
(08:51):
people think, oh, it doesn't affect everyone some people, but yeah, anyone,
at any time, anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Can have a stroke. Few messages of support for you
this morning. One here is saying Richard is a hero.
That one there from Heidi from the Stroke Foundation. She's
listening in now. As you said, I'm going on holidays
for two weeks from Friday. But when i'm back, let
me know if you want to come and have a
walk before we do the week that was, or if
you want to do something else. Always happy to try
(09:20):
and you know, to try and help you to raise awareness.
However we can Where can people go though, if they
want to jump online and they want to make a
donation to you or they want to, you know, to
just support you in some way.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Ye, or they can message me, or they can go
on to Strive for Stroke web page yelp and then
look for my for my name there, or apparently they're
setting up a Facebook thing for me. Again awesome to
do it, yep, because technology me, my hard drive doesn't
(09:54):
work as good as you used to. But they're going
to set up that for me. So hopefully that'll be
up and running by the end of the day. And plus,
oh put it on book face about do some walks
and people good Johinny. I'm still waiting for confirmations. Last
year I did the racetrack and but there's a new
(10:19):
CEO there. So I'm just waiting for him to get
back to me and as soon as I know that,
we've got to go for that. Hopefully you do two
laps that because I end up doing two laps with
Live Baxter's Legends walk around. So yeah, so yeah, so
you know that's the plan. Otherwise I'll just keep walking
(10:39):
and you can just give me away or two lads,
I'm going down the street.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I love it, Crooksy mate. Thank you as always for
coming into the studio for a chat this morning. We'll
talk to you again throughout this month. Absolutely good stuff.
Good on your Crooky, Lovely to catch up with you.
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