Usually it's either fruit or alcohol, in a nice packaging and box. When you go to meet your partner's parents for the first time, you also bring a gift. I went home that day and said to Mum, "Are you sure?"Īnd she said, "Yes, we're sure." And she told him to come over. And what a pleasant surprise it was when my parents decided to dig that box up and say they were prepared to look inside it. She said that I was older now and that they trusted me.įor the longest time, I thought I would have to keep this secret, you know, buried in a box covered in concrete, six feet under the ocean. Joanne: My mum called me while I was out with friends. How did your family come to accept your relationship? I remember him getting up, saying his first words, smiling, taking him home, making him beef noodle soup because soup was the only thing he could eat. And I remember telling myself, "Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry." And I did a little bit. I could see the incision, and the doctor said everything would be fine. Joanne: I sat in the chair and I looked at him. The doctors had removed the disc and put a bit of bone from my hip between the C5–C6 section of my spine.
Jo: The first person I saw when I woke up was Joanne. Joanne: I remember the day that he went in, I was terrified. I got the MRI and then went to the neurosurgeon.Īnd what had happened was my disc, in my C5-C6, had herniated into my spinal cord. Jo: The doctor recommended me to get an MRI and a CT scan. I remember in that moment I envisioned our lives together in the worst possible scenario. Joanne: Jo texted me afterward and he told me about this feeling of not being able to move his limbs and feeling paralysed from the neck down, until his body came back. I knew something was really, really wrong. Being that I'm the eldest daughter of a Vietnamese family that migrated to Australia, I'm everything to them.īut I remember looking at my mum as if I'd broken her heart.
Joanne: My family are the back of my hand. How did your family react to your relationship? It was like putting IKEA furniture together without the instructions. I'm a fan of Lord of the Rings.Įverything just became began to click. Joanne: He really loved science, he loved all the geeky things. She's very understanding, open-minded, quirky, and funny. Jo: She was so different to other people I'd met. Joanne: When I heard him laugh, I think I fell in love. I'd posted those photos that evening, and he reached out to me and asked me out to dinner. Joanne: Flash forward to when I had taken this photo of Jo at a different battle in Marrickville. Jo: I do remember seeing a pink wig and wondering who you were.
Someone pointed Jo out to me as the organiser of Destructive Steps. Joanne: There were twirls, flips, people moving in a synchronised way, people dressing really cool, like the people on Rage music videos.Īnd there I was in a flannel shirt and a pink wig, coming from another convention.
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