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Annabelle Brayley - Outback Vets

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The stakes are high for the smart and spirited vets charged with caring for Australias rural livestock, wildlife and beloved family pets. Those who call the outback home often depend on animals for their wellbeing and, in many cases, their livelihood.
In far south-west Queensland, Rachel Wilson and Will Nason vet all the horses at the famous Birdsville Races; in the Victorian High Country, Dave Halls own life-threatening car accident fired his ambition to make a difference; and in her mixed practice in north-west New South Wales, lone vet Mary-Jane Stutsel has had seven days off-call in twenty years. Among others, we also meet Jan Allen, who works with camp dogs in remote Indigenous communities in the Top End, and adventurous Rick Fenny in the vast Pilbara, who cared for the regions beloved nomad kelpie, Red Dog.
Outback Vets is a walk on Australias wild side, from the glistening coast to the dusty desert. Get to know these hard-working animal lovers as they ride, drive and fly across some of the most remote regions of Australia, rescuing and treating creatures great and small.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Annabelle Brayley has lived on an isolated sheep and cattle station in Queensland and worked in rural and remote health. After retiring from health to pursue her passion for storytelling, she has become a regular contributor to R. M. Williams Outback magazine, collected and edited the stories for the book Bush Nurses and written the bestselling Nurses of the Outback. She lives in the small south-west Queensland community of Morven with her husband, Ian.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First thanks go to Andrea McNamara, my publisher at Penguin, for giving me the opportunity to tell more stories of some of the fascinating people who live and work in rural and remote Australia. I didnt exactly plan this particular pathway but I truly cant think of anything Id rather be doing.

Thanks also to Jo Rosenberg for sharing her prodigious talent for editing so generously that, even though it was a team effort, in the end it felt as though it was me who knocked them into shape. Thanks for gifting me that sense of achievement, Jo.

There are lots of people involved in producing the book youre holding in your hands even if its as an ebook so thank you to everyone else in the Penguin team who helped create Outback Vets. Seeing the front cover for the first time is always incredibly exciting and this one, like the last one, is perfect and a credit to both the designer Alex Ross and to Karen Brook, who took the photograph at the Birdsville Races. Thanks too to vet Rachel Wilson, for taking time out for the photo shoot

And long before it gets to production stage, theres the search for stories and the job of writing in the first instance. So thanks to the swag of people who helped along the way, especially Judy Treloar (who stopped whatever she was doing to read something whenever I asked), and the Sharley family and Megan McNicholl, all of whom read stories when I needed a perspective other than my own. Thanks Helen Miller for the timely electronic prod when I most needed it and, not least, to Leigh Griffin for then sooling me along like one of her best girls. Special thanks to my daughter-in-law, Bec Brayley, who checked for veterinary viability and interpreted vet speak for me, and to Julie Ford who had the last say.

Thanks to various people for good company, hospitality and/ or introductions around Australia, in particular Ian and Jenny Morrison in Tasmania, Charlotte Ford in South Australia, Fleur McDonald and Boo, Cate and Digby in Western Australia, the Bretts in the Northern Territory, the Tilleys in New South Wales and the Brook family, Scottie Rathbone and Robbie Williams in Queensland. The people (and dogs) met along the way just added to the fun!

And then there were really special treats like meeting Donna Dabala in the ABC studios in Albany, Western Australia. As soon as she said (more or less), I actually trained as a vet I went to Katherine its a tough gig out there I knew I found the perfect person to write the foreword. It is a tough gig out there and I thank her for encapsulating it so succinctly. And for her generous words Covering the vast distances of the outback can be challenging when time is pressing so thanks Tom White for giving me a lift to Birdsville best flight ever! And to Jane Edwards for orchestrating me a lift home again. Without you both Id have missed so much more than a story opportunity

Heart and hugs to Ian and our extended family, who are ceaselessly encouraging and supportive.

Last, but never least, thanks to the vets and their families who shared their stories. Yours is a world I knew very little about before this year and its been a fascinating journey. Clearly you do all make a very real difference, not just to animals you treat/rescue/ care for, but also, in most instances, to the people who own them. The fact that most of the time youre working in remote locations with all the challenges peculiar to geographic isolation just makes what you do all the more admirable.

I tips me lid.

ALSO BY ANNABELLE BRAYLEY

Bush Nurses

Nurses of the Outback

Mountain Man

Dave Hall, Walwa, Victoria

In October 2007, Dave Hall decided it was way past time for him to kick his lifelong smoking habit. Knowing from past experience that he was a cranky bugger whenever he tried to give up, he went to his GP for help. His regular doc was away so he saw a locum, who prescribed him Serepax, a drug used to manage anxiety and tensions associated with stress.

One Sunday soon after, Dave decided to take himself out to the Upper Murray Resort, west of Walwa, for an afternoon of music. Although he wasnt a regular drinker, he admits he could tie one on when he was partying. That night, because he was taking a sedative and trying not to smoke, he decided not to drink any beer. Instead, he sipped a glass of port. Later, he sipped another...

From there on, its all hazy. He vaguely remembers deciding to leave but cant recall getting into his car. He also remembers a falling sensation and then feeling profoundly comfortable, as though he was having the most wonderful sleep.

He doesnt recall trying to crawl out through all the vet gear strewn around the back of his old, upside-down Landcruiser. He just remembers waking up and seeing the stars in the sky, closely followed by faces looking down at him.

He heard someone tell him not to move because he might have broken his neck. Thats when the pain kicked in, slicing through his neck and head and across his face where hed smashed his nose on the steering wheel.

Strapped into a hard collar and loaded onto a spinal board, Dave was transferred to Albury Base Hospital by ambulance, where he was X-rayed and stabilised. A doctor told him he was lucky. Then he was transferred by air to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

Dave woke again flat on his back in the trauma ward. He couldnt move, which was instantly terrifying. As one of the nurses explained his situation to him, he realised he was in traction. He had a big steel halo bolted to four points of his skull. Weights on the end of a rope attached to the ring hanging over the top of the spinal bed pulled on his head to relieve the pressure on his spine. Dave had fractured his third cervical vertebra (C3). It was split diagonally from top to bottom through the canal and body of the vertebra, and pushed out of alignment. His C4 was also damaged. Against the odds, his spinal cord was not. He understood that was the lucky part.

The nurses werent really sure whether he was an orthopaedic patient or a neurological one. Hovering on the edge of a claustrophobic panic, Dave didnt care and decided right from the first conscious minute to be a really good patient. He was in there for two months, flat on his back except for when four nurses log-rolled him on to his side to attend to his back. His head was effectively lying flat on two bars and it was either really sore or really bloody sore all of the time. He was completely dependent on other people for everything and although he could feel his fingers and toes, he lived in dread that his status might change. Remembering, he says almost to himself, You lie there, shit-scared, hoping youre going to get better. He thought a lot about what it would be like to be quadriplegic and now, every day, he thinks what a privilege it is to view the world standing upright. He spent the hours and days and weeks reflecting on his life.

Unlike some vets, Dave didnt grow up wanting to be one, but he did grow up knowing he had an affinity with animals. His father was a school physics teacher and his mother was a commercial artist, which undoubtedly accounts for his unusual logical creativity... or his creative logic. His family moved to wherever his father was transferred, so although he was born in Hamilton in the western districts of Victoria, he spent his teenage years in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, back when they were still semi-rural, home to small farms and orchards and plenty of animals.

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