Sarah Konoski

and caught it, landed on my back and another kid, I would have been 16 years old, 17 years old, he landed with his bony knee on my spleen and it exploded the organ.

Not that I knew it at that time, I just kind of hobbled off the oval and went to the bathroom and looked at my face and realised I was a very strange kind of bluey, grey, yellow person

And then I got very cold and went and laid on a heater, turned the heater on.

It was summer, so that was concerning.

I was just shaking from the cold.

No, they actually thought that I just had internal, deep internal bruising.

But there was this doctor, a Chinese man who came up and he started doing some acupressure, like some pressure point work.

And this, yeah, this...

This ended up saving my life because he, as he said, if this boy is not in surgery in the next couple of hours, he'll bleed out.

So, yeah, I was internally bleeding and lost quite a few litres of blood.

But they cut me open and the scar is about a foot long and these days it would be, you know, keyhole.

But maybe that was the urgency of needing to get it out.

Whatever it was, yeah, I've got a ridiculous scar now and no spleen.

Yeah, it's actually, it seems like there's more and more research to show that the spleen is a pretty important part of your immune system.

So yeah, not having it as, it makes me more susceptible to colds and viruses and bacteria.

Yeah, because...

We'd actually had the pond emptied so that our actor, Kim Gingell, brilliant comedic actor you might remember from Fast Forward and Full Frontal, you know, was making this short, co-directing this short trailer, I think it was, for Raindance Film Festival in the UK.

And it required for the actor, for Kim's character, to...

go underwater and find coins because he was hustling to buy his next independent filmmaker, just trying to earn enough money or steal enough money from the bottom of the NGV pond wishing thing to buy another canister of film.

But Kim was like, I'm not putting my head under there.