Neurosurgery

Dunedin's mayoral car park has undergone a subtle refurbishment this week.

When her father's illness prompted an interest in neurology, Irene Mosley had no idea how important the medical field would be to her and those she loved.

It was during the 2010 neurosurgery campaign that Margaret Sykes started to think something was wrong with her right arm.

It is typical of low-key Dunedin that the work and good deeds of a 51-year-old medical teaching trust fly under the radar, Dunedin Basic Medical Science Trust chairman Richard Bunton says.

Fundraising for neuro-surgery is climbing, with $1,149,874 raised towards the $3 million total, project manager Irene Mosley says.

An undiagnosed brain tumour turned the world of Ted and Heather Turner, formerly of Palmerston, upside down.

The neurosurgery fundraising campaign is a third of the way to its target, with just over $1 million raised.

Next month, cyclists can pedal confident in the knowledge their efforts will contribute to both their own fitness and a new neurosurgery fundraising campaign, writes Shane Gilchrist.

University College finance administration manager Pip Falloon, of Dunedin, had emergency neurosurgery at the age of 48 in 2009 after an aneurysm in the right side of her brain ruptured and haemorrhaged. Pip tells her story ...