Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi

I am a PROUD SA National Member and Passionate about commonsense and providing a balance between Australia’s political extremes. @illwah #WakeUpAustralia

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

If you want a politician with spine, Vote 1 for the Nationals Today!!

✅️ Protecting Prime Ag Land

✅️ Backing Law Abiding Firearm Owners

✅️ Decentralising Health

✅️ Returning Royalties to the Regions

Think Local. Vote National.

@SaNationals @The_Nationals

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

I want to thank absolutely everyone for praying for me, sending DMs, Messages of encouragement. I have been in hospital since the 7th Dec until 7th of May this time. I can now stay home for 4 weeks only before returning to hospital for another 3-4 months for reconstructive surgery.

Sorry for the break, but thank you for the support, it really means more than you know!!! 🙏❣️
I'd love your continued prayers as I navigate the next few months 🙏

For now I am sooo happy to be in my own environment, my own bed, not being woken up all the time, and this puppy on my lap who I have missed immensely 🥰

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

So this face really explains everything in the last 5 months. To think i have been in hospital this long is unfathomable. In the last 12 months I have been here for nearly 8 months now. I'm literally scared of my own shadow now. Not much more can happen then it has in the last 12 months. I've had 7 surgeries, MRSA Golden Staph, Sepsis twice, Bactermina, normal Staph twice, and the scariest of all and what's had me here nearly 5 months in a row with a 10 day break home is this rare bone eating infection that only 1% of people in the world get, and 70% don't make the first 12 months.

I'm pretty numb to be honest and in disbelief most of the time. Dissociation is my new best friend. I'm usually the talker and I've gone quiet. It's impossible to even grasp the reality of the last 5 years let alone 12 months. My nursing ward has become my family and safe place, because it's extremely hard to talk to anyone about it all because it's emotionally taxing, and when I finally do, I find myself talking about everything else that is completely unimportant butttt what is actually happening to me as it makes me re-live it. I only have family visit to keep the risk of further infections at bay as I am completely immune compromised. I'm constantly telling others around me it's ok I will be alright, but I don't actually feel that way. It's like I have this need to over compensate by comforting others around me who show emotion towards what has happened to me, except myself.

I am still on track for reconstructive surgery and praying the date doesn't change from June 12th. Then I'll be here for another long stay. Praying like mad there is no more hic ups that puts that date off, as I am holding on to it for dear life. In-between that, I hope I make it home for at least a few weeks before that.

But I want to thank everyone for their prayers, messages and reaching out. I have had a peace at times that really does surpass normal understanding, and have needed that peace to get me through, because God knows I'm at my limit mentally and physically. So Thank you 🙏❣️

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

So proud of our many volunteers today out there on polling booths!! Wish I could be with you all, I definitely am in spirit!!
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Think Local, Vote National.

@SaNationals @JP4TheNationals @rikkilambert @The_Nationals @YoungNationals

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

We are so greatful to so many volunteers and the @YoungNationals for showing up in droves!! Thanks for your support today guys. We appreciate you!!
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Think Local, Vote National.

@SaNationals @The_Nationals @JP4TheNationals

[The National Party South Australia @SaNationals]

Great to have Bridget @senbmckenzie down supporting the team this week.

Think Local, Vote National..
@the_nationals #SANationals

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

Great to have Bridget Mckenzie @senbmckenzie down supporting the @SaNationals team this week. Think Local, Vote National..

#SANationals
@the_nationals

[The National Party South Australia @SaNationals]

WITHOUT TRUCKS, AUSTRALIA STOPS BUT WITHOUT FUEL, AUSTRALIA STARVES

True words spoken by Rikki Lambert @rikkilambert SA needs to have security and independence, especially around fuel & energy when we have such an abundance of resources in our state.
@mattjcan @SenMcDonald

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

So after being in hospital for 3 months, I have another major surgery tonight. It wasn't in the plan, and it is more invasive then the others which is saying something, and more risky due to the level of infection still present in my body and bones.

So I would love to ask you for your thoughts and prayers tonight. Your encouragement has really helped me along the way, especially in the days that have been significantly harder. It's definitely been the toughest fight to date.

I haven't been very active, as I've just been focusing getting better. But I do want to thank everyone for all your lovely encouraging messages, I read and appreciate them all.

Love Emma xx ❣️🙏

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

Peter please have a read of this post from Loma Silsbury who has been trying to contact you without a response. @PMalinauskasMP
Loma is
a valued lifetime member of the @SaNationals

STAND BY FOR SERIOUS rant:
Malinauskas, 47th Premier of South Australia
https://t.co/XlDmyW6NCv…

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

This country is in trouble. We need people who are elected to stand up and be heard, to stand up and speak without losing their voice for the safety of their seats. It's time to stand up and get loud and proud!!
@SaNationals
#WakeUpAustralia

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

Well i've been in hospital for 10 weeks now, fighting a rare infection. Only 1% of people have this is the world and 70% don't make the first year. I've had 3 surgeries, 2 x ICU stays. I find myself longing for my bed, my house, home cooked food. But for now I just want health and to make this fight. 2.5 months down 😘

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

So It's been up there with the hardest couple of days of my life.

Which has now bought me to my HARDEST fight to date.

As you know I have been fighting MRSA Golden Staph for nearly 6 months, and have shared many of the challenges that have happened along the way, as well as the surgeries and a few things inbetween.

I was given some terrible news a couple of days ago. During my surgery last Monday they took some cultures and aspirations from my bones, and they have come back that I have an extraordinarily hard to fight fungal infection that has spread throughout my whole system, and is throughout my bones. It is about 10 times harder to fight than golden staph.

As you can imagine my body is already incredibly weak after fighting MRSA for 6 months, and that's what happens with other infections like this, they get in when your immune system is down. They believe it must have been growing in my system for about 3-4 months to have already got to this stage.

As of now. I will have surgery on Monday, tomorrow, and they will have to take absolutely everything out again. The hip replacement, plates, screws, everything and fill it in again with concrete and antibiotics. Then I will be having 9 hours of IV antibiotics a day.

Now the medical mortality rate is very low, but I believe in God, 🙏 and I believe in miracles, and most importantly the power of prayer, and we NEED that now. So im going to ask for all of those.
I'm in for a really tough fight and I need your love, support, and prayers.

Please know I don't know or have all the answers, and will not be readily responding to everyone, but I do read every message and they definitely help to encourage me, and I definitely need that encouragment now.

For now I will bunker down and fight as hard as I can ❣️

Love Emma xx

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

Start by doing whatever it is you can do with what you have. Then suddenly, you are doing what you thought was impossible a week ago that you couldn't see <

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

I'd expect to see this from @abcadelaide
But not @9NewsAdel
Or @7NewsAdelaide
How dare you try to tarnish a 40+ year stellar career, from one of the best Commissioners #SaPol has had @SAPoliceNews
Shame on you!!
Go find some REAL news worthy stories!!

https://t.co/YoK27N3tlO

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

The state runs on gas, wind & solar contributing embarressingly low, chart below. 100% net renewables by 2027 ⁦@TKoutsantonisMP⁩ is in FANTASYLAND holding hands with @AlboMP They use climate change as a fear monger, while Australians struggle to run a household with COL #Auspol

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

This is the Australia I know!!
27 trucks loaded with hundreds of tonnes of donated hay has arrived at Jamestown South Australia. 👏 Australians helping Australians, we need more of this!!
@7NewsAdelaide
SO AMAZING when there's so many struggling!!

@SaNationals
@D_LittleproudMP

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

Many of us have been told who we are or who we should be. Here's your chance to either reclaim that or forge forth with a new plan. Be empowered by the act of articulating your true self. Knowledge is power. What better than to use that power to transform your own life <

[Emma Longman - Azzopardi @illwah]

If you are looking for a surgeon who cares about his patients outcomes, is trained in all the up to date techniques and options, and more importantly actually listens to his patients and expresses sincere empathy, Andrew is your guy.

I've been in a unique position where not many patients would find themselves in, and due to little education, blind trust and rushed surgeries, at the age of only 43 I found myself in the terrible position of having to find a new orthopaedic surgeon who was willing to take on another surgeons mess.

Firstly, it is EXTREMELY rare to find, especially in the same state. He took me on without hesitation, and with only my outcome at the forefront of his mind, not the situation.

I have now had 6 major surgeries with him and another yet to come. I feel supported, educated, comfortable, and, more importantly, heard. Andrew is an EXTREMELY rare surgeon where his patients needs come first, not his tally on the board.

He's professional, curtious, and extremely empathetic to my plight and journey thus far. I will be forever fortunate that he took me on.

You see real true surgeons that get into surgery to literally help patients, and their outcomes are extremely rare to find. If you take the time to read this, use this as my testimony to utilise his services and choose him to be your orthopaedic surgeon.

I am forever grateful, fortunate, and blessed. Firstly that he took me on, and secondly, because he wanted a better outcome for me at such a young age. Look no further. Make Andrew your orthopaedic surgeon. 🙏

https://t.co/BUGj5nOzAZ

[Proud SA Nat - Emma Longman - Azzopardi @ProudSANational]

So when do we start powering up nuclear again??? @SaNationals