We're in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant, but our guest of honour won't be sampling
the menu tonight.
Just through those doors is one of this country's most respected television journalists.
And tonight, we're going to pay him a surprise tribute, which is long overdue.
And no need to feel guilty about it either, because he's done exactly the same thing
to many others himself.
Hello, why are you here?
I've got a surprise for you.
What is it?
Johnny and Keith, this is your life.
I've got a surprise for you, because tonight, Bobby Lim, this is your life.
Now, Mike Willissey has been lured here on the pretext of having a quiet family dinner
to celebrate becoming an uncle again.
So, let's go and do it.
Michael Willissey, sorry to interrupt.
This is your life.
Congratulations, mate.
Who are you?
You got me.
No, you got you too.
You can thank Don and Gal for this one too.
I don't believe it.
Well, you've done it to enough people.
I'll get you back in there.
I know you will.
I know you will.
Feel guilty?
Yeah, you mean people knocking at the door?
Yeah, a fella called Munro.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't know him.
I don't believe it.
Michael, do you mind taking a seat?
Please?
The first person that we'd like to introduce you to is someone that you burdened us all
with.
Hey, beautiful day.
Willow, God's country, would not be dead for quids.
The one and only Doug Mulrae.
Now, before we start researching this, I had no idea really that you introduced Doug to television.
Yeah, he wasn't funny before I got a hold of him.
That isn't the reason, it's just that your show rated so poorly no one knew I existed.
How did you meet?
Well, Michael was canvassing for comedy talent to save his dwindling ratings on a program known as Willis the 81, as I recall.
Now, I don't want to cause you any undue embarrassment, I know it's your night, sweetheart.
But the situation is that he wasn't doing all that well. It was a low point in his career. It was on the Seven Network.
I feel I can say that here at Channel 9.
Heavens, I've lived through it.
And I'd been working on the radio, in fact on Double J as it then was.
Triple J was just around the corner.
And we submitted some radio stuff and went in to see Michael.
I just about burst into tears, but maintain dignity.
And we negotiated for 30 seconds and I went out and jumped in the air and yahooed
and started the most unsuccessful career Australian television has ever known.
And the paranoia, the loathing and the comfy pop incontinence pads I have you to thank for.
Thank you, sir.
Michael, do you mind?
Okay, now to the book.
Michael Robert Willisie. You were born on the 29th of June 1942.
The second eldest of six children to your parents Gwendolyn and Donald.
Your father works in the public service but goes on to become a minister in the Whitlam government.
Your mum and dad can't be with us tonight and in fact always shy away from any publicity
but they send this message from the family home in Perth.
Thinking back to those days, watching you over the years and seeing where you are today,
all I can say is it's a morlody miracle.
Here's a blonde that would like to talk to you, Mike.
Hello Michael. Very, very sorry we couldn't be with you tonight.
But I want to say you've done us proud.
But you're always on the ball, Michael.
Well we salute you.
Thanks, Mum. I know that would have taken a bit.
Now as a youngster you demonstrated incredible resilience.
Your family described you as a real little toughie who didn't mind the odd punch up either.
Now here's a cheerio from one of your childhood sparring partners, younger brother Terry.
Now because he's news reading at Channel 9 in Perth he recorded this message.
G'day Mike. Sorry I couldn't be there tonight. I know you're having a great time.
Because I know how much you love surprises. In fact I can remember going back I think to when you were about 18 or 19,
Mum and Dad had gone overseas on a holiday so you threw a party for about 40 of your mates.
But Mum and Dad came home a couple of days early. Remember that?
It's been time for the party, mate.
That was quite a surprise and I'm sure there are a lot more surprises coming up for you tonight.
Sit back, relax and enjoy it because you deserve it brother. Bye bye.
And three siblings who could be with you tonight are Colleen, Don Junior and Peter.
Colleen you and Mike were in the same class at one stage weren't you in school?
That's right.
What was he like?
I have to tell them.
Well it was a bit difficult actually Mike because Mike was not only academically good but he was painfully good and I wasn't.
And the teacher left the room, he was put in charge and the idea was that he put the names of the people up on the board who were talking all the time.
And my name went up first every time.
He was a dobber.
He was a big dobber.
And then he got a double barrel because he used to go home and tell Mum and Dad too.
Hey Mike Munro, Mike you mentioned those punch ups.
I've got to tell you about one that just came to mind. I just thought I'd slip back in Mike.
Hey Terry.
Sorry I just thought I'd drop back in.
Please.
Yeah there was a time, we used to have a lot of punch ups as you mentioned when we were kids as brothers tend to do.
And because he was a bit bigger and older he used to win most of them.
But there was one particular fight, I got a couple of good ones in.
So I took off after that, headed for the back door and headed out through the back flywire door and slammed it shut and locked it.
And then started giving Mike a barrel full of cheek who was standing on the other side of the flywire.
But all of a sudden this fist came straight through the flywire, his fist on the point of my chin and sat me on my bum.
Now Mike I think this is your life and this is a very good time for you to make a public apology for that.
Yeah I apologise, I was aiming for your nose.
Thanks Terry.
Bye Peter.
Bye Lyn John, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you Terry.
And after the break we'll continue with the life of the man who revolutionised current affairs on Australian television.
A man never afraid to confront any issue.
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Welcome back to This Is Your Life.
Tonight we honour Michael Willissey.
Michael, you spend your school days in Leederville, Perth, and it's during this time you develop your love of sport.
In 1960 you graduate and like your dad you join the public service as an accounts clerk, but that was never really you, was it?
No.
It never was, was it?
No.
You stuck at that for 12 months and then by accident you fall into journalism.
At 20 you successfully apply for a cadetship at the Perth Daily News.
When you're 22 you marry Joan Stamberry and become a Canberra Bureau Chief,
the youngest ever fully accredited political correspondent in the nation's capital.
He was also a founding member of the Truth Club.
It's your old mate newspaper columnist, Alex Mitchell.
So Alex, what's the Truth Club?
Well, it's the early 1960s, the Canberra Press Gallery, Eric Walsh, Paul Doherty, Mike and I would have a regular meeting
and there was a simple rule in the Truth Club.
You had one chance to ask one question and that person had to answer the question absolutely truthfully.
And the point was that Mike in this game, I'd be asking, who's your favourite actress or something?
Mike would reach deep into your soul and ask the most, you know, pitiless questions. It was hellish.
Was there any question that you never asked him that you'd like to?
Well, in front of his family and millions of viewers I'd ask. Well, yes, there is, as a matter of fact.
Mike, after you interviewed Dr Jermaine Greer 20 years ago, what happened that night?
Yeah, I just can't recall that night.
You've heard it live on television, Mike Willis in denial.
Alex, thank you.
That was a good evening.
Thank you very much.
By age 24 you become Vice President of Canberra's National Press Gallery.
A year later you move to television and join the ABCs this day tonight and straight away you're given the big assignments.
During your career you've asked questions of every Prime Minister, from Sir Robert Menzies in black and white to Paul Keating in colour.
I was the only Prime Minister who knew Michael before he became a millionaire.
The unmistakable voice of Goth Whitlam.
When did you first meet Michael?
He was 11.
11.
It was my first year in Parliament and I decided I'd better go over and visit Perth.
And a contemporary of mine in the Senate took me down to Bunbury with his sons, Michael and Terry.
And they were running around kicking a ball, football, one of those Australian drill ones, around the beach.
But 20 years later it was a very different ball game because I was Prime Minister, his father was my Minister for Foreign Affairs, and he was still wanting to kick goals.
In interviews?
Yes, he was a top interviewer.
But nothing had changed, still wanting to kick goals, so occasionally I let him.
Thank you very much for joining us.
Thank you.
Back to 1969 and you were 27.
You moved from this day tonight to host the ABC flagship Four Corners.
You then set your sights on commercial television.
In 1971 you're not even 30 and you present the Nine Network with a concept for a nightly prime time show that is still running to this day, A Current Affair.
Before I met you, the only thing I really knew about television was how to turn it on and turn it off.
It's your producer and mate with A Current Affair and for shows after that for another 10 years, Phil Davis.
So Michael taught you a fair bit about TV?
He taught me a lot about television, Michael.
He's the best television interviewer I've ever seen.
He would rather interview a politician than a big star any day, even though the audience often would rather see the big star.
Mike would rather get into something and get his teeth into, or the person perhaps he'd get his teeth into.
Phil, thanks very much for joining us.
Thanks, Mike.
Michael, in 1975 your first marriage ends in divorce but you remarry the following year to Carol Brent.
Meanwhile your career is going from strength to strength.
You win several Logies and Cleo Magazine dubs you the Thinking Woman's Sex Symbol.
Yes, I read that article in Cleo. Mike Willis the Enigma, a quiet sex symbol or a dull man with thick lips.
I read that.
And of course as Anchorman on A Top Current Affair show you learn pretty fast that you also need a top team of reporters.
It certainly wasn't glamorous but at least my scripts got shorter.
The show is reported from Willis at 7, Jackie Weaver.
Jackie, what are your memories of those days?
Well before that I just want to say about Jermaine Greer.
I never believed it.
What I wanted to say was that one afternoon I had to do a pre-record of an interview with Yvonne Goulogon-Cauley for the program.
And Michael said I'll hold the baby. She brought in the most gorgeous little baby.
And he said I'll hold the baby while you do the interview.
So I did the interview with Yvonne and he's jiggling and bouncing his baby all during the interview behind the camera.
And then the interview finished and they said now for some publicity shots.
And Michael said here you are and gave the baby to me.
And this sweet little baby all over my best interview bloused it a technicolour.
Jackie, thank you very much.
I'm sorry.
Now in 1980 you meet someone who touches your heart.
And not only your heart but the hearts of millions of Australians.
It's the start of a very special friendship.
You once told me you wanted my job.
Yeah, you said you could do it as well as I could.
I probably wouldn't be able to do it as good as you but I could show it to you.
It took more than lollies to make me talk.
From Adelaide, Quentin Kenahan.
Quentin, what's this about lollies?
Well he was doing the documentary and he spent three or four weeks in San Francisco with us.
And he tried getting an interview with me.
Of course I was too busy with surgery and interested in the camera crew and everything.
And I just didn't want to do one.
And eventually he tried to bribe me, a seven year old, with lollies.
And I'm thinking hang on a second, he's a journalist, publicity and all that.
I said hang on, no lollies, I want toys.
So you accepted the bribe?
Of course.
And that would be your only bribe ever I guess, would it?
Well there might have been a few inducements along the way.
On the way.
Quentin, thanks very much.
You're welcome.
After the break, the personal side of Michael Willis.
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Welcome back to This Is Your Life.
Our special guest is Michael Willis.
With television still dominating your life it's a wonder you have time for anything else.
But ever since those days in Western Australia you have an enormous love of Aussie rules football.
In fact you like it so much you bought the team.
In 1988 you become part owner of the Sydney Swans.
He would have been a great football player if he didn't have such an eye for the girls.
He would have been a great football player if he wasn't such a great card player.
Two legends of Australian rules football, Ron Barassi and Graham John.
I didn't know he was a card sharp.
A lot of people think Mike got his start out of television but he didn't.
He got it out of cards.
Out of cards.
Where would the Swans be without this play?
Well it would be a long story.
One day it might be told but there's no doubt the Swans wouldn't exist now.
If it wasn't for guys like Mike Willis.
Gentlemen thank you very much for joining us.
Michael it's 1989 and your second marriage ends.
But that same resilience you showed as a kid sees you through.
You're no longer hosting a current affair but you're very much a major player.
The demands of a booming business mean plenty of overseas travel.
And it was during one trip that you catch up with another international Australian.
I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me for a while.
All the way from LA the glamorous Carmen Duncan.
I'm not a Germaine Greer.
Do you remember when you came to New York and I had that photo shoot and I was all dressed up as Bette Davis in whatever happened to Baby Jane.
I mean looking 110 in a shade.
Anyway we were running very late for a really important 21st birthday at that restaurant.
And I said to you, are you game?
And he said to me, remember?
And you said, am I game?
Have a look at you.
Are you game?
I said yep, so off we went the way that he dropped dead when we walked in the restaurant.
Me, Mike and the rat.
Carmen thank you very much.
Michael over the years the array of people you come in contact with is astounding.
Heads of state, sporting stars to the world's biggest celebrities.
But there's one unknown person you've never lost touch with.
He's always been there when I've needed him ever since we were 12.
Your oldest friend from Codoo in Western Australia, Ken Booth.
Now your friendship goes back 40 years.
Can you sum up Michael Willis?
Well a few years ago I got very ill and I had to have open heart surgery and Mike when he heard the news
dropped everything and flew across to see me in hospital.
He got there when I was still unconscious but that's what mate's all about.
Ken thank you very much for joining us.
Thanks for coming out.
And after the break a whole new generation of Willisies.
Friday, Strictly Ballrooms Paul Mercurio heads this year's Emmy award winning movie special.
Leslie Ann Warren and Oscar winners Ben Kingsley and Martin Landau.
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It is a day woo.
Yeah that's right, go and have a look.
See, I told you it's a Cielo from day woo, can't you read?
Now get in the car.
Good boy.
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Come on boy, come on out of the car, come on.
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Welcome back to This Is Your Life.
We're honouring Michael Willissey.
And yours, Michael, has been a charmed life.
But it's had its fair share of ups and downs.
And there's probably one famous television appearance you wish you hadn't made.
But nevertheless, the world of journalism is a more just and robust place, thanks to you.
But all this is the public face of Michael Willissey.
The private side remains one of intense loyalty to family and friends.
One of those friends is your personal assistant for the past 15 years, Susan Cain.
Please give her some of the audience tonight.
And that family includes your five children.
So please welcome the next generation of Willissey's Katie, Michael, Lucy, Annie and Jarrus.
Can I just ask you guys what it was like growing up with such a famous dad?
To us, as kids, he never seemed famous to us.
He was just dad.
You know, it was other people who did think he was famous.
And he wasn't famous for anything important like tennis or golf.
But a great dad.
Certainly a great dad, actually.
Best I've got.
Michael Willissey, this is your life.
And now in Sydney, our guests choose to stay at the Sheraton on the Park.
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Tonight, an RPA.
After four normal deliveries, Rhonda is having problems with her fifth baby.
It's a pretty emotional thing to find out.
You know, like nine months you're carrying a baby, it's all right and all of a sudden bang, it needs an operation.
It's a bit hard to take in sometimes.
Twelve months is the same.
I don't mind staying here. It's such a wonderful hospital.
And Rita's story continues.
One thing, doctor, you must make sure I don't leave without my teeth back here. Please.
Tonight, her surgeon operates on the brain tumor that threatens her sight and her life.
My name's June. I'm going to check your armband to see if we have all the right things on it.
You tell me your name.
Margarita Wall.
And your birthday.
First of March, 1934.
Mrs. Wall, is that your signature just there?
Yes.
What's the doctor going to do for you today?
He's removing the tumor.
All your own teeth or dentures? You still have them in?
The top denture. I'll be removing it in a minute.
That's quite all right.
Sister will take it back to the ward for you and put it safely in your locker.
Allergic to any medications that you know of?
No.
And when did you eat and drink something last?
Quarter to eleven last night.
No breakfast this morning?
No.
Okay. Thanks, sister. What's that?
Do you want me to take your teeth now?
Yes. Am I going in now?
Yeah, we're just going to put you in the holding bag.
All right.
Are the gentlemen coming in with me?
Well, they can't go in till they've changed, but they will be.
I think she wants some film with the teeth.
No.
I'll take you through now.
See you back there.
Always make sure you look after your teeth.
See you later.
See you, sweetie.
See you later, boys.
See you.
What's happened today?
It started at nine o'clock.
She's had a physio, she's had a suction, then she's had a chest X-ray,
and she's had a big day.
The chest is a little bit hazier than before,
so they're thinking about starting antibiotics again.
The head's fine, on the cream, there's no bleed there at all.
She's had problems with her eating feed.
She started feed two days ago.
Mrs. Green, have you met Katri?
No, I haven't.
Katri is going to look after Lucy in the afternoon,
so I'm just giving her everything.
All right.
So at the moment, observation-wise, she's not a problem.
Her blood pressure's never been a problem.
Her saturation's fine.
What the plan is, is to remove the U of E C today
and start the feed again.
Sure.
I was hoping in ten months' time you'll have something about this size
to take care of.
It's hard to believe.
Hello.
I can't believe that he was that small, but of course...
I think he might have been just a little bigger than that.
She's tiny, isn't she?
Very tiny.
She's tough.
It's going to be a long, tough road,
and there's no two ways about it.
No.
And they say that the first three or four days are very crucial,
so if she's shown strength to get through that, that's good.
Yeah.
Can you remember the first week?
Very clearly.
Yeah, sure.
Very clearly.
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But there will be times ahead where you think...
You know...
Look at the fat little arms.
I know.
But he was just like that.
Yeah.
He's pretty hungry at the moment.
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We've just performed a frontal craniotomy
and retracted the frontal lobe of the brain and exposed the tumor.
So we're just going to put in the operative microscope now on things
and start progressively removing the tumor on things
and dissecting it from the brain surface, from the optic nerves and from the carotid arteries.
On things.
I'm just looking a little to the right hand side of the optic nerve.
Look for the carotid artery which supplies blood to the right side of the brain.
Let me have the number four.
It looks like it also is surrounded by tumor.
There is tumor here.
You just can't work quickly here because the seminal nerve is in the brain.
You can't work here because there's so much at stake.
We damaged the optic nerve, it will go blind.
We damaged the carotid artery, it will have a stroke.
So there's no quick way of doing it.
Blunt hook, thanks.
And you just have to dissect very slowly and carefully.
Hi, good morning. How are you doing?
All right.
Ready to go?
How are you feeling?
You have a thermometer in your mouth.
You ready this morning?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
It's a little bit easier to speak now, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
So it will take about 20 minutes to get the epidural in and working.
And then we'll just see how we go from there.
Okay.
You will feel pushing and pulling, a bit like a normal delivery, I guess.
You shouldn't feel pain.
If you're feeling pain, just let us know.
I think maybe these babies might have turned a bit for you.
Might have turned a bit?
Make it a bit easier.
You think so?
Yeah.
We might have to have a feel of your baby actually to know where it's going.
It certainly helps us from beforehand if we know where the head is.
I don't think it's here anymore.
You don't think it's there?
We'd better have a feel of the baby's head.
Can we do that?
Yep.
Okay, let's do it.
On a cold morning, I'm afraid, we've got the cold hands.
So I apologize for that.
Just turn that right here.
Okay.
Because last night I was doing all sorts of somersaults.
Was it?
Yeah.
You certainly got a lot of fluid on board, don't you?
Yeah.
I think that's part of the...
Now I think there's actually a head probably down there.
So it's still lying across ways like this with the head there.
You might be able to feel the head.
You want to feel the head?
There and over there.
You're just feeling there.
You feel something bouncing around in there?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's baby's head.
Oh, right.
So it's probably lying across like that.
So I've got to remember to come in from that other side and there's nothing down there in the pelvis at all.
So really this baby's not going to come out normally.
It'll come out sideways and then you run a considerable risk of the cord coming down.
So I mean, this is really, if we want to deliver today, this is the best way to do it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay, then.
Terrific.
See you in the operating theater.
See you then.
Okay.
Turn to the front a little bit.
There is a little specimen in there.
I'll give you more later.
I'll take it.
At this stage, probably about a quarter of the tumor's been removed.
The tumor's quite solid but not bleeding excessively and we're just sort of progressively dissecting it.
We've got quite a bit more work to do.
Probably about six or seven hours on things.
Just a glimpse of the optic nerve there going towards the chiasm.
Just give me the blunt hook, please.
There's the mountain just there.
Yep.
There's a little promising intent.
Look at that.
It's coming right here.
Just how well she can see.
I don't think we'll let her come out.
Monday.
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You can do it.
Could it really be happening?
It's a beautiful experience, right, Mary Ann?
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I was surprised to bump into Roy way out here.
I'd like you to meet someone interesting.
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Hello.
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there was no stopping her.
You know, one thing about you, you have to believe.
Been right for a year.
You should take one home.
Punish yourself.
I mean, you'll really enjoy it.
So, you're the famous Gillian.
What's he been telling you?
You're very pretty.
This woman is, I might just pour her in.
Please don't, Megan.
Roy needs someone now, really.
Rebecca's gone, and you shouldn't be on your own either.
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Yeah, these look great.
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Bitch.
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Okay.
Go, come on.
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Yeah.
First baby?
No, fifth.
Fifth?
That's a key.
That's stupid to leave it.
Going for the football team, are we?
No, no, this is it.
This is it?
Yeah.
No more?
No.
Okay, number two, please.
I can't do it.
I can't do it, sir.
Yeah.
Want some places?
No, first K.
No, I don't think so, do you?
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting.
I'll take the chance.
Thank you.
That's it.
Not much room left for our baby.
No.
It gets pretty crowded.
I am.
I am.
It's the worst thing when you've got a camera on you.
I was actually at the cricket one day, and I was watching the cricket, and I looked up
on the sides, down the scoreboard, you know, those pans, crowd shots on the scoreboard,
and they had a shot of me.
I actually, I recognised the guy sitting next to me, I said, yeah, it looks like Greg Wark.
I thought, hey, I'm talking to Greg Wark.
That's me up there.
And I'm thinking, like, be cool.
Just keep talking, you know.
I instantly adopt a really cool pose.
I couldn't resist it.
About five minutes, I had to turn around and go, like a total idiot, sitting up in the
member stand, turn around and go.
And as soon as you do that, they just go, oh, I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do this.
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I'm going to do this.
I've had some previous surgery in this area, haven't you?
You've had an ectopic pregnancy in the past?
It's going to take a little while to get in.
This is going to be the old scar tissue from before.
So we'll just have to see where we go.
We'll just follow that old line.
OK?
Terrific.
Ready?
How are you feeling, Rhonda?
Terrific.
We're almost started.
His tissues are pretty good.
OK, you got the clips?
How are you feeling, Dad?
Terrific.
I can't really say.
I can't really say.
OK.
Apparently you can see it through the reflection on my glasses.
You can't see it today?
People have told me that.
I just looked deep into my eyes and you're fine.
So far so good.
I've got to go.
I've got to go out.
You want to come back in there?
Yeah.
Here you go.
You all right?
Getting a woozy?
I'll get right at this one.
Can I have a bit of a hand?
Put him under his side.
Grab him.
Put his head down.
You all right?
Just grab someone to grab an oxygen cylinder.
What's happened to Dad?
He's getting a bit faint.
He's a third person this wet.
Greg does not have a good treatment for that.
I might have something about my surgery.
Harry, do you want a rapid?
Can we have a moment?
Here's his fainted rapid.
So if you want to see him pop in, feed him something.
Is that okay?
We're going to have a baby very shortly.
Okay.
Let's go.
Hugging the limelight.
Feeling for a foot.
I've got a foot.
That was lucky.
Okay.
Well, that works.
Beautiful.
Okay.
Happy little bub.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Did you see what sex it was?
Excellent.
There we go.
Terrific.
Bottom retractor.
Did the trick as well.
Did you see it grasp the forcums?
Sorry?
Did you see the baby grasp the forcums?
No, I didn't.
Oh, it did.
It was beautiful.
She's got chubby cheeks.
He doesn't look like mum or dad.
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Everything's going really well.
So far so good.
Doing well, Rhonda?
Yep.
Can't we have a...
You've got eight layers to sew here, Rhonda.
Eight layers and we're on about the fourth, I guess.
Can't we have a recall of what happened?
What happened is I took the baby out, came out feet first as we predicted, because it
was just side on.
You had to get the arm out first and you've got a baby side on.
So you had to get the feet out first.
They came out really well.
Screamed, looked a whole lot like it's dad.
Poor girl.
Yeah.
Rhonda was fantastic throughout.
Absolutely.
Is everyone at home going to know you passed out?
No, because I won't show them the video.
Rhonda knows.
No, but I'm going to make a deal.
I can sell copies.
Oh, right.
You scene stealer, you.
I can't believe this, boy.
I didn't know.
All of a sudden I looked up.
It was getting towards the good parts.
I had all my vest lines saved and I looked up and there was nobody there.
I thought the cameraman might have stayed on here and started to see.
Sorry, Harry.
You were very excited.
Yeah, the action was.
You were here.
You might even be doing the next one.
You never know.
Never know.
Maybe we better discuss this one afterwards.
I'd better have done it now.
I can't get up and run.
I haven't met many ladies actually who just had babies who want to have another one.
I usually come back there.
Perfect.
OK.
That was gangsta fun.
Let's do it again next year.
How many fingers can you see?
Two.
One.
Looking at you.
Yeah, look at the fingers.
Look at the fingers.
Three.
So you can see Mrs. Wood.
Yeah.
OK.
That's fantastic.
You know that it was benign.
It was benign.
Yeah.
And we got the whole tumor out.
And doctor, did it never return?
No, it's been completely benign.
Completely.
Absolutely.
And will I have any form of epilepsy?
No.
I wait.
Oh, it's wonderful.
OK.
Thank you so much.
God bless you and this hospital and all the wonderful staff.
Yeah.
It's very good.
Thank you, too.
OK.
Or perhaps I could have a chat to you.
I'll be seeing you again, won't I?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'll see you every day until you leave hospital.
Thank you.
But she can see you.
Hello.
Bill.
Hello.
Hello, Dean.
She recognized me straight away when I walked in.
The field of vision is sort of narrowed, but she can definitely see.
Isn't that wonderful?
Beautiful.
Thanks to this wonderful surgeon, gift from God and hard work.
You behaved yourself during the operation.
I tried to.
Oh, did I, I mean?
Yeah.
Oh, did I behave myself?
Oh, yes, that's the first thing I asked one of the sisters this morning.
Did I behave myself?
And he said I was excellent.
No swearing.
No, no.
You had a good sleep.
Yes.
And they put my teeth straight back in.
Yeah, you've got your teeth.
That's important, isn't it?
Hello, sweetheart.
Good news, too, for Rhonda and Harry.
First time I've really seen her.
Yeah.
Actually, she's so beautiful.
Yeah.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
I'm so happy.
Yeah, actually, she's so alert now compared to before she was sleeping.
She must know you're here.
Despite early concerns, baby Tamara got a clean bill of health.
Yeah, I've been really good all afternoon.
Next week.
And then her little white outside didn't come out here.
Yeah, right.
I think.
She survived one heart attack, but now Grace needs to make a critical decision.
There's risks, yeah.
Well, what we have to balance here is the risk of you dying.
Well, that's the thing.
I have the risk anyway.
That's right.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
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