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intervals to keep you informed and up to date on all things to do
with Waikato Burn Support. Thank you.
Next Board Meeting: Tuesday 14
July 2009
Agenda for Next Board Meeting now available for
Board Members.
Minutes of last
meeting held 28 April 09 available for Board
Members.
 Meet Our
Education Officer..
Colleen works with
children, youth and adults working to reduce the incidence
of preventable burn related
accidents...
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Burns & scalds: Information,
Treatment, Recovery...
An external burn is damage to your skin's tissues caused
by either direct contact with something hot, such as fire, or by
radiated heat from an extreme source, such as the sun. Burns can
also be caused by certain chemicals, electricity and friction. A
scald is a burn that is caused by a hot liquid or steam. Scalds are
managed in the same way as burns. Read more...
Also from the NHS UK Choices Web
Site: Honey for
burns!
“Honey has been found
to be better at aiding burn recovery than standard treatments used
by the NHS,” the Daily Mail reported. The newspaper said that
scientists had pooled data from 19 trials involving more than 2,500
patients with various wounds. They found that mild to moderate burns
took less time to heal when honey was applied than some widely used
dressings. Read
more...
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Click to find out
more about the Happy Blue Whale from Waikato Burn
Support...
Read our Survivors Stories
PowerPoint
presentation featuring Timothy's Story
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Scalds! Bad news for children -visit the Child Safety Foundation web
site and read 18 month old Te-arna's story NOW and work to prevent
this happening in YOUR home! Te-arna's story...
WBS
publication makes front page of the new
SafeKids Newsletter with Carol Hirchfeld. You can download the
full Safekids
September 2008 newsletter in pdf format by clicking
the link. If you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to
allow you to read pdf documents you can download it here
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Carol Hirchfeld shows off
the WBS Keeping Safe Careful & Cool book to children in
class...
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Delores Lekowski's Articles Available
now!
Delores is the author of 'The Hurting
Angels', a book with a vital message for children, young people
and parents. When she was 10 years old, she was burning trash in
her backyard when her dress caught fire. She was severely burned over
85 percent of her body and was not expected to live. She had many
setbacks over the course of the painful and frightening year she spent
in the hospital. She underwent countless surgeries and therapy. But
with the love of her family, the grace of God and an abiding optimism
and faith, she miraculously survived.
Delores has gone on
to lead a full and satisfying life. She has 3 children and 8
grandchildren. She is active in the Phoenix Society (an organization
for burn survivors and their families) and works with other burn and
trauma survivors, helping them to manage the various social, school
and job situations that can be so intimidating when someone feels
"different."
We learned that in her intense desire to help
others, Delores had written a message to all children who had suffered
burns, illness or other trauma that might hurt their self-esteem. She
called it "The Hurting Angels."
All Delores wanted was to
get her words of hope into the hands of these children, to assure them
that they were special, that it was OK to be sad, and that the
emotional and physical pain would heal. Delores is living proof of
that.
Delores has gone on to write many articles targeted
at burn prevention. Many of those are on this web
site...[Valentine][Safety At the Gas pumps]
[A Square
Box] [Hurting Angels] [Tragedy At A Night
Club] [College
Fires & Staying Safe] [How Safe Is Our Clothing?] [Preventing Heating Related
Fires]
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More on burns...check
these two helpful sites...
The BBCc H2G2 Site...
To find out
more about h2g2 take the tour... or visit their Home Page
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The Everybody Site: everybody aims to
provide useful and accurate consumer health information
for New Zealanders. It is written and reviewed by medical writers,
consumer health organisations and health
professionals. everybody is a consumer health
information resource is owned and published by CMPMedica
(NZ) Ltd. The product is distributed in print (free to
New Zealand GPs) and on the internet.
FREE from
WBS: Children's (parents
will enjoy them too) Books! Keeping
Safe Careful & Cool follow the adventures of our WBS burn
prevention characters as they learn how to STOP
preventable burn related accidents dead in their
tracks. More ...
 The
New Zealand National Burn Centre
National
Burn Centre On the web: http://www.nationalburnservice.co.nz/nbc/ Find out about our National Burn
Unit www.burn.org.nz.
Have you read Jacqui's
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| SURVIVORS STORIES |
 Read in their own words the stories of
burn survivors who have "been there and can tell it
like it is". "I'm a Burn Survivor" - Timothy's
Story, Robyn's Story, Miranda's
Story, Jacqui's Story, Nicole Mize -45% Burns, Michele's
Story If you are a burn survivor find out
how you could add your own story and encourage others by
clicking anyone of these links and reading
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 Read all about this and our
featured burn survivor Timothy Grainger McDonald
featured on the 20/20 Programme on Sunday evening the
30th June 02 by clicking the picture on the
left.
View photos online of our
Book Launch at Pukenui School, Te Kuiti by
clicking the book image on the left. Thank
you.
To view more literature
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Check out...
Some Golden
Rules of Burn Prevention
and print a free
poster for your home, school, business or work notice
board!
ALL ABOUT WBS
You can find out all about WBS, what we do and
how we do it here: About WBS
This section
covers matters of governance, organisation, aims &
purposes, membership, activities, funding and so
on.
Founder & Pioneer of
WBS
Our Founder and Pioneer
of the work of Waikato Burn Support is Trish Ball.
Her story and pictures as she receives her QSM in
recognition of her services to the community are
recorded here: Founder & Pioneer
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