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Sport 36: Winter 2008

Five weeks

page 110

Five weeks

I am up. This time it's for real. No x-ray, just the nod from my surgeon and I'm allowed showers and trips to the toilet. The word from the nurses is that they didn't know I was so short.

Paul's death notice is in the local paper.

Hudson, Paul Roderick—On August 21st 2001, tragically, aged 17 years.

I talk to my visitors about it. We look at the line-up of cards along the windowsill. Many have been sent from Wendy in New Plymouth.