I spent many a day in Colton ward in the new wing. As I wasn’t well enough to go on outings I spent most of my admission time in the ward; so I eventually came up with things to occupy my time. What is now legendary are my ‘hospital videos.’ I would often take my old video camera & porta pak into hospital with me and carry it around following the nurses. I recorded many early day funny hospital video footage. This was way back in the days when nurses wore hats! On one infamous occasion, to my delight, I managed to get some footage of three nurses doing the ‘Can Can’ in the kitchen! Sometimes I would get a group of us CF's together & we would shoot our own music videos. Each individual would bring along their favourite song on cassette & it would be played as they lip-sinked the song on video! Other times we would just video discussions around the room
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Without doubt my favourite footage occurred at about 2am one morning out in the waiting area outside the ward where we shot our own ‘Dirt Dancing’ video. A group of us were motivated by recently watching the movie. We found a music cassette of the movie soundtrack & we all did the moves of dirt dancing with partners on camera. Except me, I was behind the camera. Obviously we were not sleepy that night. Well done guys. Great memories!
These videos will remain very special to me as they contain footage of friends long passed whom lost their battle with Cystic Fibrosis.
