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Speaker 1: You might recall just a couple of weeks ago, we

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Speaker 1: spoke to Michelle Cavapulus while she was in Greece after

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Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible situation which had unfolded that saw her

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Speaker 1: brother assaulted in a home invasion and her and her

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Speaker 1: sisters and mum trying their best to bring him back

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Speaker 1: to Darwin. Now Michelle joins me on the line right now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Michelle.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well and Michelle, I understand. Good news.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're home. If we went on Friday night, Mom

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Speaker 2: and I and we have bought Charlie home with us too.

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Speaker 1: Oh you must be so incredibly relieved.

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Speaker 2: Oh so appreciative, grateful, very relieved.

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Speaker 1: Michelle, talk us through how you're able to get him home.

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Speaker 2: So we ended up with another quote from another carrier

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Speaker 2: called Unicare, which careflightterally put us onto. That quote came

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Speaker 2: in fifty thousand less than the next price, and with

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Speaker 2: the gofund me page achieving one hundred and twenty three

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars in donations, we got to a point where

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Speaker 2: we were able to kind of start some proceedings and

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Speaker 2: ask them to look at doing it. So Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: a combination of everybody's you know, financial assistance, what mum

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Speaker 2: had ready to go, and the fact that we got

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Speaker 2: something that was a little bit more attainable. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we've been able to get him home on a private

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Speaker 2: plane and fly him into ice.

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Speaker 1: You at ROYLDO and Hospital, and so he's in it.

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Speaker 1: See you now here in Darwin.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeh, oh, very well cared for.

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Speaker 1: How relieved is your mum?

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Speaker 2: Oh, she's stoked beyond words. It's very emotional. It's very overwhelming.

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Speaker 2: And look it continues here with his care. But you

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Speaker 2: know we can go home to our families every day.

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Speaker 2: You know, we're in a place we can understand what's happening.

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Speaker 2: And the amount of visits and specialists and doctors and

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Speaker 2: nurses that have just been working around the clock the

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Speaker 2: last couple of days doing assessments, tests, scans, specialists. They've

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Speaker 2: done so much. They've done so much in two days,

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Speaker 2: everything that he need in the last three months in Greece.

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Speaker 2: It's all happening, all happening.

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Speaker 1: And Michelle, how is Charlie.

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Speaker 2: I'm really pleased to say he was awake and alert

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Speaker 2: for a lot of it. His communication and understanding is

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Speaker 2: extremely high. His responsive his short term memory is a

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Speaker 2: bit how you're going, it's coming and going, but that's

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Speaker 2: sort of expected with the head injury and the isolation.

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Speaker 2: But he is doing remarkably well. The doctors here are

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Speaker 2: really impressed with how strong he's been and how far

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Speaker 2: he's come despite these obstacles of no progression with his

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Speaker 2: medical condition. But he's a fighter, and yeah, he's doing

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Speaker 2: really well.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Michelle, you guys must be so relieved and so

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Speaker 1: grateful to the community as well for you know, for

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Speaker 1: their support.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very overwhelming. It's been an extremely emotional time,

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Speaker 2: very humbling. We certainly didn't expect this level of support.

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of financial contributions that have just

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Speaker 2: made this possible. I mean, one hundred and twenty three

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars is not a small amount. It has made

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Speaker 2: such a difference to us being able to commit to

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Speaker 2: the rest and then put the rest of the difference

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Speaker 2: that we didn't have. We've been able to put it

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Speaker 2: on the credit cards and now, so that's good. But

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Speaker 2: yet I'm just so grateful. My entire family is very

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Speaker 2: emotional over everybody's contribution. And you know, there's been a

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Speaker 2: lot of other support that we've been able to get to,

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Speaker 2: emotional support and even that you know, the people in

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Speaker 2: our business running the business in our absence. It's just

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Speaker 2: they've just been so impressed. And it's hard to explain

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Speaker 2: just how happy and surprise and grateful we are with

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Speaker 2: everybody's support for our family and for Charlie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you must just be so relieved that he's home,

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Speaker 1: that he's back in Darwin and you know, able to

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Speaker 1: be at the hospital here in Darwin and get the

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Speaker 1: treatment that he needs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. By Wednesday, we should have a fair clear idea

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Speaker 2: on what is necessary, how much is involved, and that

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Speaker 2: which we just weren't getting. But I've got to say

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Speaker 2: super impressed with RDH and ICU and the director of

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Speaker 2: the ICU, which had accepted Charlie Charlie's case many weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: which was something we couldn't get in Greece, and they've

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Speaker 2: just been wonderful, very attentive and caring and very thorough. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and we've been a few days. We're going to know

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Speaker 2: what's involved and how long it's going to take and

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Speaker 2: what he needs. Yeah, can look towards now a recovery

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Speaker 2: and a progress for his recovery.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you what, Michelle, it is the thing

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Speaker 1: that I love the most about the Northern Territory is

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Speaker 1: that when something goes wrong, when there is a territory

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Speaker 1: and in need, when there is a community member, you know,

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Speaker 1: like like your family, who needed that bit of support.

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Speaker 1: I love the way the Northern Territory rallies behind each

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Speaker 1: other and supports each other because you know, none of

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Speaker 1: us know when we're going to be in a situation

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Speaker 1: where we where we need each other and we you know,

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Speaker 1: we need that little bit of help.

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Speaker 2: It's very special. It's very special. Indeed, it really is.

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Speaker 1: It really is, Michelle. I'm so pleased to hear that

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Speaker 1: you've got your brother home. Your mother must be so relieved.

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Speaker 1: I'm really glad that you know that things are going well.

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Speaker 1: And please keep us up to date and let us

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Speaker 1: know how Charlie's going.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely on behalf of my family and my mum and

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Speaker 2: Charlie too. We just like to thank everyone for their support.

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Speaker 2: I mean even your support in these interviews and being

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Speaker 2: able to speak and you address our community to say

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Speaker 2: thank you. It's a relief for us as well to

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Speaker 2: be able to have that opportunity. I haven't had a

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Speaker 2: chance to get up on the goho fund the page,

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Speaker 2: which i'll do today that I'll update and upload some

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Speaker 2: photos and videos as and being transported, and just let

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Speaker 2: everybody know the great news and the great achievement and

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Speaker 2: how their help has really helped all of us. Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Michelle. Thank you so much for having

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Speaker 1: a chat with us this morning. I know that there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening who were really concerned for

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Speaker 1: your family when we've spoken to you when you're in Greece,

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Speaker 1: and and you know some of you would be the same,

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Speaker 1: all those names as we are coming up on the

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Speaker 1: go fundme page, all people that you and I and

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Speaker 1: everybody else knows around the community, all rallying together so

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Speaker 1: that we didn't Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, Michelle, I'm so pleased that you know that

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Speaker 1: you're able to bring Charlie home. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for your time too.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Like