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S1 E10: Rob & Sarah Cook

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In 2008, Rob was in a helicopter accident on a remote station in the Northern Territory, Suplejack Downs Station. If you want to define remote, the closest centre Alice Springs is +700km away. So, you can imagine the tension when Rob found himself in a crashed chopper, paralysed, and unbeknownst to him, a C4-quadriplegic. Making decisions suddenly became very important to all involved: Rob's life counted on every single one. In this episode, we talk about the day of the accident, the quick-thinking of a mine medic, the generosity of fellow Territorians, and the unfolding realisation that their lives would never be the same. This is a conversation with Rob and his wife, Sarah, who had trained as a nurse prior to the accident. High school sweethearts, business partners and parents, Rob and Sarah are great mates as well as husband and wife. In this conversation, they are very candid about what life is like now: from finding care support workers, navigating how to discipline kids when you're wheelchair-bound, through to those moments of forgetting your own physical limits. We cover a lot of ground, and yet we only skimmed the surface. Luckily, Rob wrote a book with Carl Curtain "When The Dust Settles" that can be purchased online as an eBook with limited hard copies.
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In 2008, Rob was in a helicopter accident on a remote station in the Northern Territory, Suplejack Downs Station. If you want to define remote, the closest centre Alice Springs is +700km away. So, you can imagine the tension when Rob found himself in a crashed chopper, paralysed, and unbeknownst to him, a C4-quadriplegic. Making decisions suddenly became very important to all involved: Rob's life counted on every single one. In this episode, we talk about the day of the accident, the quick-thinking of a mine medic, the generosity of fellow Territorians, and the unfolding realisation that their lives would never be the same. This is a conversation with Rob and his wife, Sarah, who had trained as a nurse prior to the accident. High school sweethearts, business partners and parents, Rob and Sarah are great mates as well as husband and wife. In this conversation, they are very candid about what life is like now: from finding care support workers, navigating how to discipline kids when you're wheelchair-bound, through to those moments of forgetting your own physical limits. We cover a lot of ground, and yet we only skimmed the surface. Luckily, Rob wrote a book with Carl Curtain "When The Dust Settles" that can be purchased online as an eBook with limited hard copies.
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