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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is an amazing story. It's in page seven of

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Speaker 2: the Daily Telegraph today. J Ma's done it and I

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Speaker 2: didn't hear about this story, and it's about, well, how

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Speaker 2: lucky are you.

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Speaker 3: To still be? A live story? Love Story thirteen twenty

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Speaker 2: If you know of a story of someone that they

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Speaker 2: should not have survived, what they went through and the

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Speaker 2: miracle that they've come out the other side and they're

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Speaker 2: still living. If you've got a story, get involved. But

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Speaker 2: this is the story of Oscar Blaxlen. This is back

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety seven in Neutral Bay and an apartment

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Speaker 2: block Haven. Listen to how he was four years of

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Speaker 2: age and how far he fell.

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Speaker 4: The four year old captain our hearts when he somehow

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Speaker 4: survived after.

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Speaker 3: Falling from a five story building.

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Speaker 4: The fall broke both his legs, but it failed to

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Speaker 4: break his remarkable spirit.

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Speaker 1: The winber.

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Speaker 3: Did you climb up that winer.

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Speaker 1: Like that?

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Speaker 2: That's unbelievable that a kid has climbed the balcony window

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Speaker 2: god five stories up and he has survived the fall.

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Speaker 3: Now he broke both legs, he had scrambled legs.

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Speaker 2: Yep, but he The thing is he's fine now and

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Speaker 2: he and his sister are writing a book on it

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Speaker 3: That they've had.

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Speaker 2: Look, he said, he's he's got very little cartilage in

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Speaker 2: his knees, and I think one day you'll have to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but look at him. He's a big man now.

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Speaker 4: When he's strong in his fit. That is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that's a twenty meter Now, if you've

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Speaker 2: been if you've seen a local diving board, right and

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Speaker 2: the highest that you can go you can't even jump

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Speaker 2: off these because they're too dangerous.

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Speaker 3: That's ten meters. Yeah, he's done double that and he's survived.

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Speaker 3: He's landed on his legs.

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Speaker 2: Broke, but both both both broke, both legs and he's survived.

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Speaker 4: You could get it. I'm just hug you. Do you

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Speaker 4: know what can you imagining the parents? Can you imagine

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Speaker 4: being the parent in that situation thinking the quickest way

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Speaker 4: down there is to get down those stairs and try

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Speaker 4: and get there. It would just be the worst thing in.

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Speaker 3: The world just to know that he was gone.

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Speaker 2: And then you're like, ok now, what do we do

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Speaker 2: net do we go down and check on him?

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Speaker 3: Or there's no way he's surviving that.

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Speaker 4: Those stories like there was a show that used to

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Speaker 4: be on the disco channel, I think on Discovery and

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Speaker 4: it was simply called I Shouldn't Be Alive and those

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Speaker 4: stories where a parachute hasn't opened. You know, We're a

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Speaker 4: guy on the show a while ago and he was

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Speaker 4: in the parachuting division of the Army and his parachute

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Speaker 4: didn't open and he landed on a fence, broke his femur.

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Speaker 4: I think he may have lost an eye as well,

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Speaker 4: but he's fallen from god knows how high and he survived.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're that fence company, that's your new

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Speaker 2: tag because survive a parachute fall. But yeah, these stories

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Speaker 2: we would love to hear from you. Maybe Tommy, we

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Speaker 2: should try to get Oscar.

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Speaker 3: On as well. But yeah, yeah, I'm on text with

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Speaker 3: him now, so I think he might join us next.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'd love to hear him just to see how

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Speaker 2: he's going. Jess has given us a call from Karen's here.

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Speaker 2: What happened to you?

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Speaker 3: Jis?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So me and my friend were rock hopping in

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Speaker 5: Bullye and when we jumped off, we weren't It was

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Speaker 5: the first time we did it, and so we were

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Speaker 5: kind of being wept out into the ocean, and then

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Speaker 5: at the last second, a massive wave just came and

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Speaker 5: basically took us straight back to the rocks. Like it

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Speaker 5: If not that way, we would have been gone.

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Speaker 6: What were your injuries, Jess, Well, just like we got

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Speaker 6: washed back to the shore, so we had he was

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Speaker 5: We nearly just got washed out into the ocean, and

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Speaker 5: we were only with like two other friends, so no

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Speaker 4: You know what. I've seen those videos and very quickly. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: it often goes the other way. You washed out instead

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Speaker 3: Adam in Chatswood, You're lucky to be with us Atsi.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, mate, I was rock fishing and had a stack

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Speaker 7: the infection got into my brain and put me in

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Speaker 7: a camera. I was an arsenal for like twelve month.

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Speaker 3: You're kidding me, So what was the cut?

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Speaker 4: Were you on a shell or something? At him?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just from falling on the rocks where I was fishing,

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Speaker 7: and they just got infected with some sort of bacteria

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So how how quickly does that infection spread through the

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Well I went home and rather than going doctors, try

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Speaker 7: to clean it myself. And then within a couple of

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Speaker 7: luckily my mate was at home with me, and he

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Speaker 7: it like light out.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you don't you.

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Speaker 4: Think about those things, do you? I would have done

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Speaker 4: exactly what you did, Adam, go home, black a band

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Speaker 3: DS. He lucky that you're still with us.

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Speaker 2: We were just talking about Oscar Blackslan before in nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety seven he felled five stories from a Neutral Buy

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Speaker 3: Legs and he joins us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Oscar, welcome to the show, buddy, thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 1: Oh good morning, Thanks thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 4: Oscar. Do you remember anything about that day?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, At the time, I had

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Speaker 1: like perfect memory recall, And the problem was that, you know,

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Speaker 1: this sort of post traumatic stress disorder and everything, and

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Speaker 1: my hair was falling out in clumps and and but

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Speaker 1: as the years have gone on, those memories have kind

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Speaker 1: night after the accident, or or two nights after the accident.

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Speaker 1: I remember looking down as a three year old at

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know those those things that they

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Speaker 1: a really inquisitive three year old and just being I

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Speaker 3: On my thumb.

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Speaker 1: And that's the only memory I have.

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Speaker 2: You visited the apartment block with your sister the other

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Speaker 2: day and the Daily Telegraph.

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Speaker 3: Did you get a bit emotional? Was it was it

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Speaker 3: weed to go back there? Oscar?

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Speaker 1: It was actually quite emotional. I think it's it's interesting because,

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, because it's something that it's like

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Speaker 1: one of the it happened so early on in my

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Speaker 1: it's it's too early for me to even really remember

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Speaker 1: these days. And so for me, it's it's been something

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Speaker 1: that's that's always just sort of been a part of

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was probably eight years old, I

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Speaker 1: well that's where they that's where they stuck tubes in

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Speaker 1: And so it's something that's always kind of been it's

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Speaker 1: this is something that really sort of you know, changed

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Speaker 1: and it almost as we know it almost I mean,

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Speaker 1: it should have killed me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, scar be hard being your parent too, after

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Speaker 4: that moment, because one of two ways, as you become

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Speaker 4: so overprotective, it doesn't matter. Don't do that downe to

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Speaker 4: that or you sit back and out on the meter.

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Speaker 4: He fell twenty a while ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, miracle.

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Speaker 4: All right, nothing can kill us hip, askarr what a story?

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Speaker 4: Thank you for sharing me my pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And for anyone out there, your mother has

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Speaker 2: released a book called Miracle Boy.

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Speaker 3: Where can you get that? I ask you? If anyone

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Speaker 3: wants to get that book?

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Speaker 1: Oh jeez, that's a good question. I think if you

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Speaker 1: go to I think if you go to at the moment,

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Speaker 1: I think if you go to Charlotte Blacksland dot com

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Speaker 1: you I believe, I believe it's the website. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just can't remember that. I just can't remember exactly.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, if you if you look it up, it

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Speaker 1: might actually be in the in the Daily Telegraph article

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Speaker 1: today as well. I think that you got there as well.

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Speaker 3: And your high career hasn't taken off Oscar at all.

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Speaker 2: It's well, my high career stuffed, but but I did

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Speaker 2: have a pretty successful rowing career.

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Speaker 1: And rugby career when.

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Speaker 3: I was in high school.

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Speaker 4: That's what a great story. Thanks Buddy, thanks for coming

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