Letters: Stroke brings out fighting spirit

Stroke survivor Candice Donner of Te Puke. Photo / George Novak

Re survivor embraces life two years after stroke (Rotorua Daily Post, June 25).

A big well done Candice, there's not much hard work can't conquer and it is hard work trying to get back to being normal after a brain injury - the simplest of things become your worst nightmare. As for your dignity going out the window who cares you're alive aren't you?

I know it's a life-changing event and catastrophic but in later life you will look back and think it was just a blip and has brought out your fighting spirit. You have got a second chance at life, superior inner strength and have taken a new direction so make the most of it.

Never look back, full steam ahead and don't listen to doctors when they say what you can and can't do it's your life.

GAVIN MUIR
Rotorua

Debates will go on between creationists and evolutionists forever (and good to see another writer adding his comment about the Bible in Friday's paper).

I may not agree with creationists' beliefs (e.g. dinosaurs around just a few thousand years ago - surely that would have been recorded in ancient writings?) but I will defend to my death the right of everyone to express their opinions on any subject and make absolute ninnies of themselves.

We are lucky to live in a country where we have the freedom to speak or write of our opinions on politics and religious or non-religious beliefs.

Let us use these columns to concentrate on matters of local importance: traffic, housing, drugs, roading, violence, rates and crime. And council follies and spending!

Now to try to convince a relative that NASA's Apollo Moon landing programme was not a hoax..

R.G. MAYES
Rotorua