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Terry Martinelli Memory LaneTerry Martinelli Recently Contacted Us:- I have just come across your website, and was amazed to see my photo in the Peter Lapper photo archive. I remember Peter quite well, and Frances Fagen and Jimmy Martin, who I was friendly with. My name is Terry Martinelli. I am the big one in the photo with the mop of hair!!! I was a patient at Heatherwood in 1949 for 11 months, with a TB left knee. And I too was operated on by Mr Ahearn, and what a brilliant Dr he was too. but unfortunately he had to take my knee away and I was left with a stiff leg. but it has not deterred me and has been trouble free since the op. I am now 70 yrs old and still fit and well. TreatmentThere was also a male staff nurse, I think his name was Roberts, who used to hold the needle from the syringe, in his thumb and forefinger, and after slapping your leg a couple of times with the side of his hand, would suddenly put the needle in, and we never even felt it. He was magic at giving injections!!
I also had 20 injections directly into my knee, which was performed by Dr Ahearn
himself We also had daily doses of PAS. FriendsThe ward orderly I remember was Ron Knobbs, who always made us laugh and was a smashing bloke! Our school teacher then was Mr Fenner. My favourite nurse was nurse Kennerly. There was also a young eight year old girl in our ward called I think, Edna, who was deaf and dumb, she taught me the alphabet in sign language, which I still remember to this day. There was a boy (I can't remember who..) who kept hitting Edna, and because I was in traction at the time, I could do nothing to help her. A lovely girl, and did not deserve it. I wish I knew what happened to her! Frances Fagen he hated being in hospital, and 2 or three times decide to walk out to go home, and even climbed a tree once in a bid to hide, and all this with a plaster from his hip to his ankle on one leg, and halfway down the other leg. Time On My handsWhile I was in there, I did a lot of drawing, and after having my photo in the evening news one day for drawing a picture of black bob, I (a dog in the comic book "The Dandy" ) I received a letter from a couple in America asking me to do one of 2 Great Danes , which I duly did, and felt very proud at the time. Terry Martinelli Terry is now enjoying retirement and living in North DevonIf you
have any pictures and recollections of your stay at Heatherwood and would like to donate them to the league archive, we would love to hear from you.
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