LGH Praise
MY husband needed urgent medical attention in the afternoon of May 20, so I called an ambulance and had him taken to the Launceston General Hospital.
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I cannot speak highly enough of the care he received there. In particular, the ability of Dr Fern McAllan was very obvious.
I want to publicly thank everyone who made our experience so very positive.
Clea Eykelkamp, Swan Point.
Energy
CLIMATE change predictions warn of the need to prepare for a drier future for Tasmania.
How could we be energy self-sufficient and include more industry, delivering more employment, not to mention making sure we can turn the lights on?
Tasmania did well with Hydro and with the current tourist bonanza, might even restore Lake Pedder with economic gain.
Where next with energy that meets all needs, including turning the tide on global warming that heats the sea and is destroying our kelp forests?
Look at the solar system as a whole and we see the sun, which has so much fuel in reserve, it will burn fiercely over the next five billion years, until expanding to the orbit of the Earth as a red giant star. What could we do with all that power?
Tasmania may seem small, but we could needle Federally for Australia to get with the future and invest in solar power stations in space. This would allow power to be beamed to Tasmania for our lights and industry.
We would also have the level of power needed to directly extract excess carbon from the air to turn the tide on global warming.
If we win with the election needles, Tasmania could corner the market of carbon extraction from the air and using the power of the sun, process extracted carbon into a useful resource for earth and space industries.
As a space power, Tasmania could also invest in other space needs of the future, like astronaut training for tourists and growing food for space, and later in space.
We could make unemployment disappear on this island, by investing in an exciting energy future.
We could also lead the charge to win back a safe Earth.
Kim Peart, Ross.
Dying expo
IT HAS been well said that, there are only two things that are certain in life – death and taxes.
Most people are well clued up on taxes, but not on death, as they feel they are going to live forever, sorry to disappoint.
I therefore, heartily congratulate the organisers of the very extensive exhibition “Dying to Talk” held on Saturday, May 21. It was not the least bit morbid, in fact quite the reverse, very positive.
Yes, there were funeral companies but that is something everybody should have sorted, pre need.
What did I learn from the exhibition - much, a few examples - that St Luke’s Calvary hospital has a 15 palliative care bed unit open to both public and private patients; how to apply to get into an aged-care facility when needed.
I also got information on two very serious conditions - dementia and Huntington’s, so I can appreciate them more fully and how to access home care should disability strike and advice on a lift chair, which is looming on my bucket list.
I also got an insight into the concepts of a good death and palliative care, with much reading for winter nights.
Yes, there were a good number there, but there should have been many more because it is only when you have to come to terms with death and dying that you can truly live life to the full.
I hope the exhibition will be repeated in the future.
