Nurse Teresa Sevilla making progress in long recovery
29 Dec, 2020 06:33 PM
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The Sevilla family, (from left) Nio (5), baby Estella, Teresa, and Heylon, spent Christmas together at Wakari Hospital. Photo / Supplied
Otago Daily Times
By: Daisy Hudson
It is two steps forwards and one step back for Dunedin nurse Teresa Sevilla, who is still recovering after collapsing while heavily pregnant five months ago.
She is recovering in Wakari Hospital s Isis unit, where she has been for the past month, and preparing for what will hopefully be her last surgery.
Her progress has been slow but steady, and her husband, fellow nurse Heylon Sevilla, is hoping 2021 will be a much better year for his family than 2020.
Head impaled on fence in crash, Dunedin woman tells of recovery
21 Dec, 2020 06:41 PM
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A car crash 30 years ago has had lifelong consequences for Dunedin s Mel Marshall. Photo / Linda Robertson
Otago Daily Times
It has been 30 years since Mel Marshall s head was impaled on a fence.
She knows all too well the lasting impacts a crash can have the consequences affect her life every day.
On June 17, 1990, Marshall (now 48) was in a single-vehicle crash on Three Mile Hill Rd in which another passenger died. Marshall was thrown 33m from the car, which was travelling about 160kmh, after it hit a power pole.