The day our son stopped breathing SO scary Ep 118

The day our son stopped breathing SO scary Ep 118

We have visited the four furthest points on the compass of Australia’s mainland. A small achievement for us as we enter Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Unfortunately we wouldn’t be here long, Declan injured his wrist when he failed to commit to the back flip he was performing. Landing on his wrist he had a suspected fracture. With no x-ray facility in the bay we were forced to move on quickly, continuing our journey north, heading to Carnarvon hospital to get the boy checked out.
It took us back to when he was four weeks old and nearly died. Indeed he stopped breathing several times. It was so scary and we feel blessed every day to have him here with us.

Music
Brooke Annibale – Collided
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Looking for Alaska – All that I am
David Mumford – Ball and Chain

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BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob decided to row a tiny seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and Rachel purchased Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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