My First Day
Monday, 25 August 1997

I hardly had a chance to say 'G'day' before they whisked me off into a corner of the room. Suddenly all these people were wiping me and placing cold pieces of metal on my heart.

But everybody seemed to be happy. Dad was a bit stunned at first and the nurse had to tell him he'd better start taking some pictures. I wasn't out of Mummy's tummy for longer than a minute before I posed for my first picture.

Mummy really wanted to see me and was straining her neck to watch me but she had to stay on the operating table. They wheeled me up to her but she hardly got a chance to look at me before I got the RIDE OF MY LIFE ...