Richard Wells visits | Giving Day

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I'm not going to be able to deal with
continually looking at the tally board. It's at fifty three thousand,
two hundred and eighty two dollars around it up again,
please God goes. I blame John Collisure. He's just made
a donation of six hundred and sixty six dollars. What
are you doing to me? It's probably a lucky number,
but you're giving me the unevens.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's gone. The old six sixty six drives passed with
some horns coming out of his head. John, m'd be
all of what you had anyway. Listen, we have a
relationship with this Gold Coast hospital because we are Gold
Coasters and we are one hundred percent local at Hot Tomato.
One of the things we do is gaily to the

(00:39):
rescue to help Gold Coasters who need a little bit
of help. And one of the people we helped a
couple of years ago was a friend of ours, Richard Wells,
and we were working it for Wells. You remember he
had a terrible accent where he fell off the roof
at home and then we had to raise money at
out the front of Subaru. As a wavyman, I was
a wavyman for twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
But Richard, we first saw him here. It was two
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Two years ago we saw him roll out.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You'd only just woken up almost from your coma, and
you came to You couldn't even speak. Your beautiful wife
spoke on your behalf, and here you are two years later.
You look amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I feel good. I'm really impressed with where I've
got to. Yeah, and it's only going to get better
from here. You're so lucky to be alive, I know,
truly about it.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
You nearly died what seven or eight times?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, six or seven times. Yeah. They had met calls
on me that they were going to turn the switch
off a couple of times. And fifty six days in ICU,
fifty six days in a coma.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
We were just talking before about the nick Who and
the research that a midwife there, Kobe Best, is doing.
It's called sense and it's all about playing the mother's
voice to these little premie babies. Did you hear people
talking to you? Because I know there was a steady
stream of people that were around the clock coming in
to spend time with you.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'd love to say yes, but I don't recall anyone
talking to me. But I do sense there were people
around me.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Is there a question? A lot of people ask you.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, A lot of people ask me that.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I just say, or do you do you remember anything
in the camera, And I say, well, no, I don't,
but I do sense there were there were people around me.
The odd time I'd squeeze someone's hand and do things
like that, it'd make a difference every now and then.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So when Pardo came in and he was seeing you
and he said that you smiled at him, you just
had wind exactly just like a baby in the nicking
exactly exactly what he claimed that it was him as
he would but I would have. Don't blame him. I
have this gets back to him too.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
That's good to know. Though you are you often wonder
if people can hear, you know, in a coma and
things like that.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
But Richard, is there anything like obviously we're here on
Giving Day with the fan and we're raising money, is
there anything that you'd like to say to everyone to donate,
but also to the team that looked after you in
the ICU yeh.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Look, I cannot thank you the Gold Coast Hospital and
enough they I was in in ten and a half months.
They looked after me every step of the way. There
were probably five months where I really didn't know where
I was. And so whatever you do, whatever anyone does,
please donate money to the Gold Coast Hospital because they

(03:31):
deserve more than you can focus the gap.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, Richard, it's great to see you, mate, and go
the pie.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Is that what you were whispering? Do you support Richard.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Collingwood?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
How many people came and whispered in his ear other teams,
and he was like, I'm going to sleep a little
bit longer now.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
They're the ones who didn't hear. He just heard the one.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Anyway, look we're here all day. We're going to hang around.
All the beautiful volunteers are taking your calls right now.
They're here, they're in bright orange, and we've got to
salute all the volunteers. Five six, double six, double five,
double five is the number to donate GC. Donate dot org.
Dot au is where you can go online.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
All the things Live is coming in next. But don't
forget Casey Barnes. Later on this afternoon, he's playing live
here after three o'clock with Moira and trev.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
And so maybe tram it in or bust it in
because the car parks will be full today. Today. It's
a busy day here. But have a great day everyone.
Thank you for your donations already, except for John Collisia
for his six sixty six, because you just keep putting
the balance out up there on the screen.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
We're still grateful. John works.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
We love you John, and we love you jewelry too.
I love it even more.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Bye everyone, Thank you, Bye.