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Hospital badge

March 20, 2010 Carly Findlay 4 Comments

When I used to stay at the Royal Children’s hospital, there was always such great things to do.

I went to school there – I did maths and English, but I also made a lot of crafty things.

I remember doing heaps of Garfield artwork on a very advanced computer program for 1989. I think it may have even been on an Apple Mac. I’d make a lot of comic strip type stories cutting and pasting pictures of Garfield and friends into scenes. If anyone remembers the name of the game, please let me know.
(Edit – Wikipedia – the ever reliable source – says: ‘There is a computer program called “Scholastic’s Comic Book Maker Featuring Garfield” which allows users to make their own Garfield comics by using different characters, objects, and scenery from the strip’.)

I went to the zoo once, all bandaged up and in a wheelchair.

I watched a lot of Lift Off and Round the Twist. Brilliant ABC kids TV shows.

Mum bought me Paul Jennings, Roald Dahl and Pollyanna books, and she and I would read them.

And I met children’s author Morris Gleitzman.

I learnt a lot in hospital, and despite the pain of it all, I enjoyed it there. I felt safe away from teasing, and I enjoyed being around people who seemed to value me. As mentioned, school was difficult for me so hospital was a bit of a safe-haven and a chance for me to be myself. I even made some lifelong friends there.

Each stay in hospital, I’d make a badge. The pink ladies would have a badge making machine set up occasionally, and we could choose any picture in the world to put inside the badge.

I found this tonight when I was hunting for things to make into brooches.

(Excuse the photo quality – my Canon Ixus is flat from all the dinner/brooch photos so it’s another iPhone not-so-special.)

I used to treasure this – my May Gibbs blossom babies name badge.

I know the hospital has changed a lot. There are laptops for kids to use – with internet access! I used to queue for the pay phone! Adolescents are allowed to come and go. And there seems to be a lot more social support services.

But I really hope they still have the badge making machine. I know it was the best part of my stay.

I like rediscovering things from years ago.

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  1. Mez says

    March 20, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    WAH! I used to play that Garfield program at school, I think I still have print outs from it. Hilarious!!

    ♥

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  2. Carly Findlay says

    March 20, 2010 at 10:45 pm

    http://www.garfield.com/fungames/comiccreator.html

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  3. marloperry says

    March 21, 2010 at 10:16 am

    That's so cute, I love May Gibbs!

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  4. Lanelle Elizabeth says

    March 23, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    😀 GORGEOUS! xoxox

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