Justin Hartman

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I must pay Netcare so my son can visit his brother!

With only days to go to the birth of my new son I find myself waiting in anticipation for that call from Colette to tell me it’s time to go. Being a father for the second time round is even more daunting for me than the first but I’

Waiting at the hospital

Two weeks ago Colette slipped on some wet tiles at our home and hurt her foot really badly. We thought the foot was broken but after further investigation the doctors realized that it was just badly infected. The net result after three days in the hospital is that I’m

What is the point of a Medical Aid?

One of my reasons for moving to The Times was the lucrative medical aid offer from Discovery Life. Having not been on a Medical Aid for more than 12 months this was quite a critical issue for me as family medical costs have to be a top priority. In recent

Sometimes I Hate South Africa

Last Friday morning Rian Kerkhof (53) died in hospital after being robbed earlier that Thursday evening. Rian was a good family friend and news of his murder only made its way to our household early yesterday evening. Rian was shot in the right side of his body and was then

Time to rethink what I'm doing here

Friday evening was a particularly difficult evening for my marriage and I’ve been rethinking my existence ever since. Not to bore you with semantics but the overall gist is that because of my professional existence both at The Times and with my other various projects I am having no

Making a grown man cry

This morning Luke had his operation and thank God, all went well. I was dead scared about this operation but thanks to some great comments in my earlier post I lost a lot of the pre-op concerns and in truth I was completely fine up until Luke got his anesthetic.

Anaesthesia for my 4 year-old son?

Ok I need help. A few weeks back we took Luke, my son, to the dentist. Apparently he suffers from the Hartman “weak-teeth” curse and now he needs some work done to some of his molar teeth. The problem is this work can’t be done in the chair and