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8 Years: annual musings

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 24/04/202127/04/2021
  • My news

IT has now been 8 years since I landed on NZ shores, with just a suitcase, a bike, and big hopes for the future. Here are my stand out moments in the last 12 months, […]

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Poem: There is no time

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 29/08/2020
  • vascular surgery

Everyone says ‘life is too short’. You might think it’s a cliche, but when you are someone who has stared death in the face too closely for comfort, and witnessed multiple deaths at close hand […]

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The fragility of life

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 26/08/202026/08/2020
  • vascular surgery

The signs are all around us, but we often become blind to them, choose to ignore them, or kid ourselves into believing they don’t apply to us. What am I talking about? Life. something far […]

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Poem – Alive, or Dead?

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 01/08/202012/08/2020
  • Opinion

Snippets of memories from my two weeks in Dunedin HDU in the battle to save my left leg. Poetry speaks better than words sometimes.

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