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Scan update: the magic of collaterals?

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 11/08/202012/08/2020
  • vascular surgery

This whole vascular surgery journey has taught me a heck of a lot about the vascular system that I simply didn’t know before. Having all my previous surgical experience firmly planted in orthopaedics, this has […]

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You could have lost your leg.

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 23/06/202024/06/2020
  • My news

This is the truth. You might say I am seeing the worst in a situation, being melodramatic, or perhaps scaremongering. But this is the raw truth of the situation. Because several medical staff failed to […]

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Life with 1.5 legs: the return of LIVE rugby!

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 21/06/202021/06/2020
  • Dunedin

We were so excited when New Zealand went 24 days absolutely Covid – free… then there’s the drama of the last few days with 5 new active cases – all from people entering New Zealand […]

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The struggle is real

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 17/05/202017/05/2020
  • Opinion

The pool opened again this week, after more than 2 months of being shut. So guess where I went?! Yep… I was on the doorstep the moment the opened for the first time on Thursday!

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Dealing with lock down nerve pain – the story of the nightmare leg

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 19/04/202019/04/2020
  • My news

As you know, I have nerve damage in my lower back, and right before this Coronavirus thing kicked off, I had been for an MRI and seen a nerve pain specialist who had then, as […]

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