For blokes who spend the better part of their day doing some hard physical work, taking the time to head to the doctors for a health check is often something that gets put in the ‘When I have time’ basket.
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To give farmers that time, especially during a drought when they’re even busier hand feeding, Blayney primary and community health nurses Kylie Beddie and Kylie Mackillop took the clinic to CTLX to offer them a quick health check-up.
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Held during the store sale on Friday August 10, Ms Mackillop said that men could get quite competitive when they visited.
“They’ll all sit around comparing their readings and seeing who has the highest or lowest,” she said.
“It’s actually a good way to get them to open up about any health problems that they may be having.”
Mark Logan
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
