Dave Pearson

So good on it.

Sort of.

But as a 20-odd-year-old male who...

was paying the mortgage and working, it was my job to make sure I got back to work and paid the bills.

And so I kind of put that in a basket for a while.

My wife at the time, we had a ladies group around that.

Unfortunately, a number of women who'd lost children and they would get together and talk about it.

and hopefully it would help.

For me, I had my young son at the time.

He was only a couple of years old, so busy at work, busy at home.

I'll deal with that later on.

As most of us do with trauma in our lives, we just put it in a basket and I'll get to that some other time in my life.

And it was

quite a while later when, you know, a shark tipped over that basket for me and said, start dealing with this Dave.

And yeah, I have to.

I come out of hospital on the Tuesday, Saturday morning I was down the beach in the water and it was the scariest experience of my life.

It was every little bit of seaweed in the water was a shark.

It was so weird.

I got back out of the water and not happy with the situation at all.

And I walked back in and I went, you've done this like millions of times in your life.