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Wednesday 1 February 2023
‘Please save my girl’
Baby born at 27 weeks, mother left with no bowel or colon SARA HOLLYMAN Summah and Brad Fuller remember the day their daughter was born like it was yesterday. “We had tried to conceive for two and a half years so she was my miracle baby,” Summah says. Just over a week ago the couple welcomed their son Brooklyn into the world, but this time they
will remember his birth for different reasons. Brooklyn was born via emergency surgery in Christchurch Hospital at just 27 weeks. Summah was then rushed straight to surgery, having her bowel and colon removed, and is now facing a long uphill battle to recover. Summah’s rapid health decline began in November when she got
Covid-19. She says, from there, her health went downhill. “A week after I got Covid I was hospitalized with kidney troubles, which was thought to be kidney stones.” It turned out to not be stones and she was discharged a week later, the day she had her scan and found out they would be welcoming a little brother for 19-month-
old Sienna. A week later Summah was readmitted to hospital with “excruciating” back and stomach pain. “It was withering pain, it was so much worse than labour,” Summah recalls. She had a JJ stent inserted, which helps urine drain from the kidney into the bladder. But after struggling to breath she was also diag-
nosed with a pulminary embolism, or blood clot, on her lung, so was immediately put on blood thinners which, once again, upset her kidney. Summah’s mother Karen Marfell spent the next six weeks taking Summah back and forth to Nelson Hospital “almost daily”.
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MTB’s best hit Nelson trails JACK MALCOLM Some of the best downhill riders in the country were in town last weekend for the third round of the MTBNZ National DH Series presented by Santa Cruz. With more than $5000 in prize money available, racing got heated as athletes pushed their bikes to the limit on Saturday and Sunday after a practice day on Friday. A mixed bag of weather over the weekend created conditions where the best would emerge as favourites. Saturday saw the non-UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) races and the UCI Elite and U19 qualification rounds in the dry before Sunday’s racing in the rain.
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Jack Gale gets air as he speeds downhill during Saturday’s leg of the MTBNZ National Downhill – Round 3. He finished the Open class (17-29 men) with a time of 6.12.65. Photo: Evan Barnes: Shuttersport.
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