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June 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Dave Pearson (l) who was attacked by a shark while surfing at Crowdy Head, NSW with the man who rescued him, Aaron “Noddy” Wallis. Picture: Nathan Edwards
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Netballer Michelle Den Dekker’s son Jakeb Hordacre (glasses) has been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma. Pictured with her husband Glenn Hordacre and Jakeb’s brother Riley at their home. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe
Source: The Courier-Mail
Jockey Kristy Banks at the Princess Alexandra Hospital Spinal Unit after a crash which left her a paraplegic. Photographer: Liam Kidston.
Source: The Courier-Mail
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IT was only when he heard his mate’s reassuring words that Dave Pearson knew he would be safe: “Come on Dave, let’s get you out.”
In the early evening surf off Crowdy Head, Aaron “Noddy” Wallis had heard the loud smack of the shark hitting Mr Pearson’s board before he saw the beast’s white belly as it thrashed on top of his friend. And then they both disappeared beneath the waves.
“It was like being hit by a train,” Mr Pearson said.
When he surfaced, he shouted to the other surfers to stay away because the shark was still beneath him.
He could see the blood in the water and feel the loose flesh flapping about where the shark had torn a huge gap in his left arm. As the waves washed him off his board again, he thought: “This is probably it, I may not get out at all.”
Mr Wallis takes over the story.
He said that he really didn’t stop to think while he paddled over to his friend and guided him and what was left of his surfboard on to a wave to get him back to the beach.
“It all happened so fast,” said Mr Wallis, a real estate agent.
“The same thing could happen again this afternoon and I might deal with it completely differently because you don’t stop to think.”
Hero is a term the 30-year-old says he would use for other people, not for himself – despite Mr Pearson, 49, nominating the man he credits with saving his life for the Outstanding Bravery medal in this year’s Pride of Australia Awards.
Once they reached the beach, Mr Wallis shouted instructions to get an ambulance, to get a helicopter, and to Mr Pearson to keep his arm above his head to stem the bleeding. Volunteer lifesaver Adam Eady clamped an oxygen mask to his face, fellow surfer Sean Carson used the leg rope as a tourniquet.
Mr Pearson said yesterday that among the lessons he learnt from the experience last year was that: “Your mates will come to your aid no matter what.”
“The mental torment of leaving someone in need was just too great for Noddy to leave me,” he said. “For this I will be forever grateful. If it wasn’t for the actions of Noddy I was in major trouble. He saved my life.”
Father-of-two Mr Pearson, whose partner Debbie rushed to his bedside after he was flown to John Hunter Hospital following the shark attack, said he had also learned how everything you hold dear can be snatched away in seconds. “You never know, the next time you speak to someone may be the last time,” he said.
Mother inspired by her son’s courage
THE day before Adelaide schoolboy Jakeb Hordacre was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he had been water skiing.
A lump under his arm had been cleared but on New Year’s Day 2012 it swelled to the size of a tennis ball. His mother, former Australian netball star Michelle Den Dekker, took him to emergency and his illness was diagnosed.
A diagnosis of cancer in a family of athletes with a preference for naturopathy over medicine was a terrible shock.
A few days later Jakeb, who has just turned 16, began four cycles of chemotherapy followed by a month of radiation. He will have tests in the next few weeks and is hoping to be in full remission.
Den Dekker was living every mother’s worst nightmare but she was so inspired by her son’s courage, strength and generosity she quietly nominated him for a Pride of Australia Child of Courage award. She didn’t tell Jakeb, who is slowly returning to his Year 11 studies, until last week.
“I feel that this journey has changed him,” says Den Dekker.
“What I loved was that he reached out to others in his difficult time.”
At the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Jakeb was one of the oldest patients and befriended some of the younger children.
“Some of these kids come in now and they look up at him,” Den Dekker says. “He became a role model for some of them.” Jakeb, who raises money for the Starlight Foundation through his Facebook page, says he tried to stay normal during the treatment.
On the day he had a drug catheter inserted in his arm, he came home and shot a netball hoop from the bottom of the driveway, beating his netballer mother’s distance record.
Strength has Kristy in front
IT is with the courage of a champion that jockey Kristy Banks declares that she will walk again.
It was on New Year’s Day this year that 30-year-old Ms Banks was told she would never walk again after an horrific race fall at Toowoomba’s Clifford Park.
“I am just not the type of person to let things bring me down. I do have my down moments, but I do what I have to do,” Ms Banks said.
“People asked how I can be so positive but I have to be.”
Ms Banks has been nominated by The Courier-Mail for the Courage Medal in the News Limited 2012 Pride of Australia awards.
“I still believe I will walk again. I believe via medicine or somehow, I just know.”
One of five children to former jockey Graham and his wife Julie, Ms Banks rode 311 winners and cemented herself as one of Queensland’s top female jockeys.
Ten categories make up the Pride of Australia awards: Outstanding Bravery, Courage, Heroism, Community Spirit, Child of Courage, Young Leader, Care and Compassion, Inspiration, Environment and Fair Go.
Join The Courier-Mail in celebrating everyday heroes by nominating someone you know for one of these special Pride of Australia medals.
Visit prideofaustralia.com.au and explain why your nominee deserves a medal. Nominations close on Tuesday, July3. Visit http://www.facebook.com/prideofaustraliamedal and Twitter: @prideofoz
– with Penelope Debelle and Kris Cane
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