Self-care, Health

Date: 1960, 1965

From: Host, Bent Svitser Muusfeldt, 1918-2000: Collection related to research by Bent and Emily Host

Reference: MSX-9531

Description: Emily Host's personal diary for 1960 and parts of 1965. Entries for 1965 cover the period 28 June to 13 August and are written over those dates for 1960. Entries record and discuss Host's work as a journalist (daily schedules, interviews, articles she is writing), her and Bent's social life (friends' news, parties, events, travel), and their domestic life (gardening, sewing, meals). Material related to sewing includes garment sketches and lists of patterns she intends to make. Many entries also discuss matters related to a house they were building (section clearing, construction, decorating). Host also notes details about her health, including sleep patterns, and receiving treatment for cancer. Diary arrived at the Library with annotations inside front cover, possibly created by B Brewster. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Hardback notebook with red linen cover, 22 x 13.5 cm

Date: 5-13 Apr 1993 - 05 Apr 1993 - 13 Apr 1993

From: Women in Welfare Work Oral History Project.

By: Hawker, Anne, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0086/06

Description: Anne Hawker was born in New South Wales in 1951. Her parents were school teachers and the family moved around Australia. She graduated Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) and Diploma of Education from the University of New South Wales. She settled in Mosgiel as her husband had a job at Invermay and had two children born 1978 and 1982. Recalls being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when her eldest child was a few months old. Describes coping with children and multiple sclerosis. Describes attending a seminar run by the MS Society and the way in which the International Year of Disabled People (1981) was a point of change within the disability movement. Describes movement towards the DPA and her role in it. Describes setting up an improved local centre, the Mosgiel Abilities Resource Centre (MARC). Discusses funding problems and her transition from a voluntary to paid worker. Discusses being one of the first women managers of a disability welfare organisation. Talks about difficulties in being a disabled person in a caring role. Mentions children being taken into foster care. Comments on the low self-esteem of people with disabilities. Describes a change in philosophy whereby disabled are encouraged to do things for themselves. Talks about addressing issues of transport and accommodation for people with disabilities. Talks about the Dunedin Council for Social Service and the Vocational Opportunities Support Programme. Looks at the interface between a number of organisations involved in social welfare. Describes the emphasis in the disability movement on ensuring that people have an adequate income to buy services needed. Talks about problems after the death of her husband and her employment as Taieri Home Care Co-ordinator under MARC. Venue - Mosgiel : 1993 Other - Anne Hawker has also been interviewed as part of the Multiple Sclerosis oral history project Interviewer(s) - Penny Ehrhardt Venue - Historical Branch, Internal Affairs, Molesworth St, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHLC-006380; OHC-006381; OHC-006382 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1480.

Date: 24 Feb 1994

From: Multiple Sclerosis Society Oral History Project

By: Hawker, Anne, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0205/07

Description: Describes being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1979. Talks about becoming President of the Otago Multiple Sclerosis Society and in that capacity becoming a regional representative of the national society. Explains the development of the standing committees and the establishment of the Mosgiel Abilities Resource Centre. Describes being Vice-President of the national society. Comments on the division between governance and management. Recalls attending the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies Conference and being the New Zealand representative on the Persons with Multiple Sclerosis international standing committee. Describes the process of empowering those with multiple sclerosis by increasing their involvement in the organisation. Talks about setting up a carers network. Discusses the work of the Information and Education Standing Committee which included setting up the Information Service, establishing the Field Officer training course at Massey, ongoing training for Field Officers and the establishment of the Medical Bulletin. Talks about the work of Tudor Caradoc-Davies. Comments on advice given about having children while suffering from multiple sclerosis. Venue - Wellington : 1994 Interviewer(s) - Miriam Clark Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1084. Search dates: 1994

Date: 30 Jan 2001

From: Upper Hutt Uniting Parish Millennium Project

By: Cade, Jean Winifred, 1915-2007

Reference: OHInt-0593/12

Description: Jean Cade talks about a friend, disabled at birth, and describes the contact she has with her son. Talks of childhood games and behaviour. Refers to a murder of a jogger currently in the news. Talks of respect for women and elderly people, when people stood up to offer seats. Comments on discounts, delayed interest purchases, use of washing machines, ironing, mending, home baking. Mentions her deep vein thrombosis. Refers to Norman Vincent Peale and Emily Dickinson's writings and the power of positive thought. Relates her contact with a newborn baby at church, a relative's colostomy reversal and heart attack. Describes what she thinks her after death experience will be like. Talks of her health assessment at hospital and memory test. Mentions forgoing theatre trips and using her soldiers' allowance allocated after the death of her first husband, to afford to build her house. In her unrecorded interview Jean Cade talks about the repair of St. David's Church roof during the Wahine storm, moving the belltower, building maintenance by her husband George and his role in finding the missing bell. Talks of changes in church life, the social life and bustrips. Relates giving many children holidays. Talks about childbirth. Mentions support of friends and church, their own business, the regard of their employees and self-sufficiency. Interviewer(s) - Elaine Bolitho Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009248 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2975, OHDL-000932. Portrait photograph of Jean Cade. Includes shelves with decanters, piles of letters, books etc. Part of oak sideboard with silver tray and some items covered with an embroidered cloth.

Date: 7 Jul 1998 - 07 Jul 1998

From: Lower Hutt Women's Centre oral history project

By: Andersun, Allison, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0560/1

Description: Allison (Ally) Andersun born Lower Hutt 1950. Recalls attending an assertiveness course after the birth of last child, run by Beth Wood and Corianne Graham and later running a six-week assertiveness course at the Women's Centre through TOPS. Mentions Dale Little. Describes the content of courses. Mentions Vicky Gregory, employed to research women's needs in the Hutt Valley. Talks about Centre's move to new premises at Knights Road and attitude of neighbours. Describes role as co-ordinator and how it has changed. Recalls getting a qualification in counselling and comments on being more interested in personal development and psychodrama. Describes setting up a course for teenage girls. Mentions that some women are freaked out by the lesbian presence at the Centre. Reflects on the difference between the Women's Centre and other women's centres. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Mathea Roorda Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009415-009416 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3049.

Date: 2006

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009144

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip. Shows Doctor Hal being frustrated with his job as a physician. He heads to a bar to heal himself. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1979

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-133-030

Description: The cartoon shows a number of people at a hospital adopting a do it yourself attitude. There are patients giving themselves surgery, x-rays, injections and feeding themselves. Refers to reduced funding for public hospitals. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 495 x 355mm.

Date: 2001

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009022

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip. Shows Doctor Dolly saying to herself, as a patient leaves the room, that if she gets another internet self diagnosis of a terminal condition she is going to scream. She opens the door to call her next patient and screams when she sees the waiting room full of people looking at their laptops. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005975

Description: Shows a man holding an electric drill up to his open mouth. In one hand he is holding 'DIY Doctor It Yourself' instructions. Refers to the shortage of doctors. Published in The Press Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2008

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0007287

Description: Shows a man visiting his doctor and giving him fake notes off the internet. The doctor knows they are fake because he can read them. Refers to problem of self-diagnosis and notes off the Internet. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0012061

Description: Kiwi searches the internet on an Apple Macintosh PC in an attempt to diagnose his ills. Refers to the news that over a third of New Zealanders surveyed use the Internet rather than see their doctor. The kiwi says 'You know what they say..'"an apple a day..."' which makes a word play on the Apple Mac and the saying 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009055

Description: "Just Practising" cartoon strip. Shows Doctor Hal talking to Doctor Dolly about how his patients are self diagnosing using homeopathy using health articles that they have torn from their waiting room magazines. Dolly asks why they are still coming to see him. Hal replies that they have fixed his warts and now they are working on his arthritis. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 5 April 2020

From: Orchard, Samuel, 1984- : Digital comics created for the Rooster Tails website

Reference: DCDL-0040121

Description: Five part comic providing information for those having to administer testosterone shots themselves while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part one details the medical equipment required and where to obtain it. Part two provides methods to help people relax before injecting. Part three shows a step-by-step guide to drawing up. Part four details how to administer intramuscular shots. Part five details how to administer subcutaneous shots Originally published at www.roostertailscomic.com. Title taken from file name. Quantity: 5 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 25 January 2019

From: Orchard, Samuel, 1984- : Digital comics created for the Rooster Tails website

Reference: DCDL-0039761

Description: Five panel comic in which the artist summarises his year which included learning to driving, having therapy, started practising yoga, stopping his anti-depressant medication, working on various projects including the Out Loud report, comics, podcast, and "trans love" stickers, and undergoing top surgery. Originally published at www.roostertailscomic.com. Title taken from file name. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).