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The El Gronda Super Cheap Auto Spectacular & Australia Day Special Rusty, Helen Trustum, Motoring & much more Thirteenth 20182018 Edition a ayear year to to be be positive positive 2018 We hear it every year. New Years resolutions, "I'm giving up smoking", "I'm losing weight", "I'm going to save". We've all said it and we've all heard it but how often do you hear or think, I'm going to be more positive in my life, either work or personal life - or both. Being positive is infectious. The people around you will see it, feel it and become part of this new energy you put out. So, think about being positive and putting the past where it belongs. We are looking forward to 2018, Heartland Magazine has eclipsed our dreams of what it has done for the community and how popular it is. 2017 saw us increase the pages and grow the magazine, we won awards and we've employed more locals, we've made numerous new friends and love every minute. 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Design & Layout by Heartland Media 4 The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine // Call 1300 679 787 www.heartlandmagazine.com.au www.heartlandmedia.com.au Ph: 02 6662 6222 // The NSW Northern Rivers Heartland Magazine 5 Belinda Cordery Green Truck When a ‘thunderclap’ headache struck Belinda Cordery Given to the OLD at work, she at first thought she was BONALBO BUSH FIRE having a stressful day and needed a BRIGADE like this in holiday. Within hours, she was fighting 1990 for life in hospital as doctors operated on a ruptured brain aneurysm. After a 16 month recovery & Return To Work Program, Belinda has just returned to her previous full time job this month and Well I hope you all had a good Christmas and didn’t drink is grateful to be alive. too much on New Year’s Eve. My story this month is about people being kind to their animals whether it be a dog to a horse and a cow. As the year rushes to a close, that I suppose allot of people would think I had fallen out of my headache may be a sign you need tree but showing kindness and being gentle with your pets hospital, not a holiday. One in six reward you in so many ways that you wouldn’t expect. Take Australians are at risk of a brain disorder from migraine the old dairy farmer for instance in the 70s-80s the average to debilitating and life-threatening illnesses like a Stroke, dairy milked about 60 cows and most had a name. Parkinsons, Dementia, or Anuerysms, according to the Brain Foundation and the first symptoms, like a headache, I can still see my old aunty sitting on a stool waiting for one is often discounted as stress. cow to be finished milking by a machine so she could strip her out and the other cow in the adjoining stall waiting Belinda, from Lismore NSW, soon realised that her for her turn to have the machines on after her udder headache was far more serious. was washed and strip started which was the which was ‘I suddenly felt the heat rise through my body and slam the practice those days so they could be checked for into the back of my head like an explosion,’ she said. ‘I mastitis. and knew straight away something was really wrong. They they are all While my aunty sat waiting the cows would be eating the say it's the worst headache of your life and that’s not an housed indoors on a thick bedding straw off her hat while on her head. She never complained understatement.’ of straw (changed daily) bobby calves get the same about it and the only thing she would say “that’s what you treatment. The milking herd is a dual purpose breed called Belinda’s brain had suffered a ruptured aneurysm. call trust and that the cows respected her”. Fleckvieh , this breed on its first lactation is very ordinary According to the Brain Foundation, one in 50 people have It would cost her a new straw hat every week but she loved it’s on its second that they really start to shine. an unruptured aneurysm that can burst from a range of her cows and she would say it was a small price to pay for factors, including high blood pressure, stress, heavy lifting, their attention and respect. All the cows in those days had straining and strong emotions. Most people aren’t aware a name because only milking small herds it wasn’t hard to On the local front they have them & if they burst a high percentage do not remember their names. make it to hospital as they can be fatal. 12 months later hundreds of I would like to make a suggestion regarding cattle being hours of hard work the OLD I still say you can converse with a cow by eye contact and sold at special sales in the Sales Yards. I would like to see Belinda’s body went into shock as spinal fluid contracted BONALBO BUSHBRIGADE if you were buying cattle you watch for things like throwing a health certificate which would be displayed on each pen from the ruptured aneurysm and she felt a ‘crippling pain’ tanker is ready 1991 their heads about you need to pass them by as he or she showing the health of each and every cow in the pen. It through her spine, neck and shoulders. She temporarily is showing rejection to your presence. shouldn’t worry the farmers selling the cattle not unless lost her hearing in her left ear and had blurred vision. they have something to hide. In fact the farmer would show One breeder of Fleckvieh cattle had this to say after being Her colleagues called an ambulance and by early that them up seeing the cattle are clean and healthy. asked this question “what troubled him on the situation morning she was in surgery at Gold Coast University of live stock with large numbers” and he replied “We are • When was the animal drenched last and what year. Hospital and spent the next two weeks in intensive care. missing more and more relationship building with the • Have the cattle been assessed for 3 Day sickness. ‘I wake up every day grateful to be alive’, Belinda says. ‘I animals, this feature is disappearing from farms today”. have been one of the very lucky 5% who have survived Some farms with a high concentration of animals are often • Have these cattle been vaccinated for 3 day sickness without any ongoing disabilities & no other aneurysms unable to keep individual access. • What date were the cattle weaned and how old are detected in my brain though I now have 15 metres of For the majority of these farms are only a means of they titanium in my brain from where it was coiled. No Super production for bringing in money. Dairy milk production powers yet but I’m sure they will kick in any day’. is elevated above the needs of the cow. It is therefore • Have these cattle had access to grain? About the Brain Foundation no coincidence that on these types of farms the cows are Once the seller has got rid of his or her livestock and they leaving the herd and go to the slaughter house often just come down three day sickness they drop in weight and Established in 1970, the Brain Foundation is the largest, after their first lactation.