Control your dogs
On Thursday morning while walking my dog, I saw three large dogs running loose along Culburra Beach, with no owner in sight. They came from north of the area that is patrolled in summer, and, after bolting to safety with my dog, I watched them continue for about a kilometre along the beach to the southern end of Tilbury Cove, where I lost sight of them. They were large dogs, one black, one brown and one brown roan – I wasn’t close enough to identify the breeds. They behaved like they knew where they were going and did this regularly.
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I have no doubt that if I had stayed on the beach with my dog, they would have acted like a pack, circled around us, come in close and intimidated my dog until he lashed out in fear, and, with three against one, it wouldn’t have ended well.
If readers know who owns these dogs, please notify Shoalhaven City Council and help to avert an attack. If they are your dogs - act responsibly and don't pass it off with “my dogs wouldn't hurt anyone” - packs behave differently to single dogs, and there's always a first time for any dog, which is why letting them run loose and uncontrolled is illegal.
K. Darcovich, Lidcombe
Medical emergency
A relative of mine has been going treatment in the Radiology Department at Shoalhaven Hospital for cancer treatment. After four weeks of treatment, where I drove him to the hospital each day, he was sent home and basically left to his own devices.
After a week at home, where he couldn't eat and drank very little, I called an ambulance on April 30 to get him back into hospital.The ambulance that arrived was from Huskisson and, only having one person on duty at that time they had to pull in an off duty chap to ride shotgun. Is Huskisson ambulance station so understaffed? If so why?
The fiasco doesn't stop there. The reason that I called an ambulance, rather than drive him into emergency myself, was so he could be checked in and get immediate attention as he was in serious pain. Imagine my surprise, when I arrived with a bag of personal items for him and was told "he will be out shortly". Out came the ambulance officers with my nephew in a wheelchair saying "they don't have any beds free at the moment" and off they trotted back to Husky.
The ambulance had arrived at the hospital at 10.45am and we sat there until a doctor stuck his head out of emergency around 2.50pm to say how sorry he was for the delay and a bed was just being arranged for my nephew. Another hour went by because it was after 4pm before he was allowed back into the emergency ward.
I understand emergency can get very busy at times but to leave a man in severe pain, sitting in a wheelchair for over four hours just isn't right.
L. Boucher, Sanctuary Point
Not above politics
Having worked in a call centre, petty insults don't faze me. I am writing not to say that the mayor offended me but that her comment demonstrates she cares far more about her political posse than she does about youth in the local community.
Out the front of Ann Sudmalis and Sussan Ley's forum about Medicare I was with a group of people who were peacefully and silently holding up signs reading "Stop Mr Turnbull's Hospital Cuts". As Mayor Joanna Gash was walking past our group, she smirked and then said to my friend and I, the two youngest in the group, "Go get yourself a real job.” What would give Cr Gash the prerogative to say that? She was simply reinforcing false and damaging stereotypes that all young people are lazy and unemployed. My friend and I both study at university and work casual jobs.
I believe someone is unfit to be mayor if they are happy to make degrading generalisations to further their political agenda especially in a role that should be above partisan politics.
