Hi All – Chris has had a meeting with his therapy team today. He’s getting more words back & can now stand unassisted albeit very briefly. Chris is in a good mood and his current favourite gags are pretending to be either catatonic or bursting into tears – still the attention seeker! He’s also getting […]

Hi All – MGMT’s manager David has contacted me saying that someone stole one of the band’s iPods on Monday night. I can’t believe how uncool this is! MGMT put on a show to help Chris out at a really terrible time in his life – they took no profits, organisied the show in a […]

Hi All Thanks to MGMT for last night’s DJ at the Bacco Room set & thanks to everyone who came – we’re sorry about the late start time but it just had to be that way due to the gig upstairs. Hope you had fun. Thanks also to Kerre for the poker set! It’s had […]

Press release for Friday 17th July 2009 “Barbara Ward and the Ward-Knox family would like to thank everyone that has assisted them over the 5 weeks since Chris’ stroke – from cards & letters, to gifts, dinners, lawn-mowing, and much more. There are so many individual people that we simply can’t get back to everyone […]

Hi All – Cool news! MGMT, who the Tall Dwarfs were about to support next week, are doing an all ages  DJ set on Monday night at the Bacco Room at 53 Nelson St with all proceeds going to Chris. Doors open at 8.30pm and tickets are only $20. It’s an amazing thing that MGMT […]

Hi All – We took Chris out to Cornwallis Beach on Saturday and sat in the car as it was pissing down. We had to start the windscreen wipers every few minutes so we could see out – the patheticness of the situation was not lost on Chris. Chris is getting into his iPod & […]

Hi All – We’ve had meetings with health care specialists this week. Chris is making progress but he has had a major stroke and the recovery process will continue to be slow. It’s tempting to try and guess the future but it is still pretty unclear. Chris’ days are spent working intensively on his recovery […]

Hiya – Yesterday we took Chris out to Murawai Beach – it was raining as we left town all bundled up in the station wagon. A friend was over from the States and as we talked the conversation veered from record production to discussing a voluntary euthanasia society in the US she works with called […]

Hi everyone – Chris is doing well. He’s looking more alert each day and words are slowly beginning to come to him – I think I got an ‘hello’ when I walked in yesterday. He’s finding the weeks hard work at the moment, focusing on his recovery, so hopefully this weekend will turn out to […]

Hi All – We’ve decided to slow the rate of blog entries down a bit as the phase Chris is now in means a slower rate of progress hence there is less to write about. That said, Chris IS making really good progress & we see daily improvements. He’s active & working hard on his […]