the home straight

To use appropriate racing parlance at this time of the year -- with the Spring Racing Carnival leading up to The Race That Stops The Nation --  Hinch’s health is now in the home straight.

Now undergoing Hospital at Home care through Cabrini’s great service. I am hooked up to a ‘singing canary’ machine which dispenses chilled penicillin into a major vein above the heart, 24/7, through a PICC line attached to what looks like a parking inspector’s  ticket machine. Why the ‘canary’ nickname? Because it makes a ‘cheep, cheep’ noise as it intra-venously pumps the antibiotics into your body.  The bird will be with me for another couple of weeks as the septicaemia fades and failed kidneys return to normal. Or close to it.

Still with a racing flavour. We actually passed the Winning Post Oct 27 when I was given a leave pass to attend the launch of my new book You Are So Beautiful – the Passion and Pain of Relationships at Riva on St. Kilda Marina.

Actress and passionate animal rights’ activist Lynda Stoner launched the book with some flattering words about one of her favourite Beasts (moi) and even the chronically TV-shy Chanel Hinch actually spoke on camera.

My plan (hope) is still to return to 3AW and the Hinch Says editorials early November.

Monday, October 30, 2006

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