ReadersDigestAustraliaNewZealand-April2018

April• 2018 | 99 READER’S DIGEST © 2015 BY SUSAN NERBERG. AIR CANADA’SENROUTE(JANUARY 2015). ENROUTE.AIRCANADA.COM CAUGHT ON THE ...

All in a Day’s Work HUMOUR ON THE JOB 100 | April• 2018 GLASS HALF FULL A friend of mine is a trauma counsellor who helps people ...

April• 2018 | 101 hereplied,“Oneforshortsight, another for long sight, and the third pair of glasses is to search for the other ...

102 | April• 2018 HEALTH VIS LONG-TERM Howtoreduceyourriskof age-related retinal problems BY LISA FIELDS GRETEL SCHMITZ-MOORMAN ...

April• 2018 | 103 ION ...

104 | April• 2018 LONG-TERM VISION “Ifyouthinkofadarkspotwher- ever you look, that’s almost ex- actlywhatmyvisionislike,”says Sc ...

April• 2018 | 105 READER’S DIGEST bleeding, but they must be given frequently, often over years. Although the injections aren’t ...

106 | April• 2018 LONG-TERM VISION Glaucoma – A STEALTH DISEASE G laucomaisanopticnerve condition that doesn’t directly damage t ...

April• 2018 | 107 READER’S DIGEST Ophthalmologists can easily iden- tify a detached retina. Reattaching it quicklycanrestorevisi ...

BY MARC MCEVOY With the last remaining soldiers of World War II well into their 90s, Ernest Brough and veterans like him represe ...

Ernest ‘Ern’ Brough, pictured here soon after the war, was just 20 when he signed up ...

110 | April• 2018 PARTISAN PROMISE his apprentice butcher from Drouin, in rural Victoria, had very little life ex- perience behi ...

April• 2018 | 111 I had also experienced war in that part of the world. I’d been shot at and trapped under artillery and mortar ...

112 | April• 2018 PARTISAN PROMISE Eric, escaped the prison farm camp. Armed with only a tiny compass and a stolen map, the thre ...

April• 2018 | 113 Ern says. As if the cold wasn’t enough, the raft began to come apart and they lost most of their meagre suppli ...

114 | April• 2018 escapees reached the Serbian town of Banja Luka in Bosnia, from where they were eventually evacuated on an Ame ...

April• 2018 | 115 READER’S DIGEST months of World War II. “I reckon you can use it more than me, now,” he said. I was reluctant ...

116 April• 2018 PARTISAN PROMISE he suffered from PTSD. He tells me about a time on a train to Melbourne when he attacked a man ...

April• 2018 | 117 On February 6 this year, on a hot, dry Canberra morning, I arrived at the Australian War Memorial ready to han ...

118 | April• 2018 PARTISAN PROMISE paying respect to a frail, decorated war hero from their own defence history. Ern visited Eri ...