Richard Scolyer

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My dad had to take us for a kick at the football or play cricket.

And maybe I was a bit sulky too, but if things didn't go my way, I'd get upset.

And I remember dad and Mark being kinder to me than perhaps they needed to be.

Yeah, that was a tough time, Sarah.

Mum was a school teacher and she'd gone on some oral contraceptives just after they came out.

The local doctor prescribed the new oral contraceptives and they had high levels of estrogen and estrogen spores your blood to have a high risk of developing blood clots.

And people didn't know this at the time, but

Mum ended up having three strokes and I don't know if it was the last or the second one but I remember being at home with my brother and she was sitting at the table and couldn't talk properly, collapsed to the ground and couldn't move one side of her body so...

My brother ran to the next door neighbour's place and they called an ambulance and the ambulance came and took mum into hospital.

And then after that, mum and dad went to Melbourne and I think spent a week there.

Then they came home.

And it was a tough, tough period.

And in the end, she ended up spending six months in Hobart.

And Dad had to go back to work, but was obviously going back and forward.

My brother was at school, so he lived with one of the many, many relatives that we had in Hobart.

in Riverside and I'd stayed on a farm with an uncle and auntie for six months and they didn't have any children who were living at home.

Yeah, so it was a tough period.

Well, I remember doing things on the farm.

I remember my auntie being particularly close and kind to me.