Bugs in Hospital

Hi All

ASRA's secretary and all-around champion dude Colin "Bugs" Beck is currently in hospital after having open-heart surgery yesterday afternoon. He had to replace a faulty aortic valve.

Bugs does a lot of behind-the-scenes work at ASRA, maintaining the rankings and designing all the race formats and whiz-bang excel spreadsheets. He also sets some mean slalom courses and drinks his coffee one way - black!

If you are a friend of Colin's please consider a visit over the coming days, I'm sure he would appreciate it. Or if you would like to send a postcard or motivational pictures of yourself skating, the address is below:

Colin Beck

Level 10, Coronary Care Unit

St Vincent's Hospital

390 Victoria Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Here's a video explaining the problem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jLfPlQBYuw

And for those of you with a strong stomach, here is a video of how they open up the chest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShXlwhLRDI&feature=related

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Alderson on March 15, 2012 at 13:31

Geez, ya don't come on the site for a few hours and Bugs proves us ALL wrong - He does have a heart!!!!

Get well soon mate and don't forget you can never push that button on the pethadein drip too often

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by murrah on March 15, 2012 at 13:59

get well soon

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Permalink Reply by Adam Gale on March 15, 2012 at 14:08

Hey Bugs
The rest of Cambodia wasn't at all like the "Killing Fields" haha. Hope you enjoyed your time there we did.
Wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery. Who knows when we will run into each other again, soon hopefully
Get better quickly!! See you soon!