Air Ambulance (please read)

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Hi all,
On Sunday I took my pony to Great Westwood xc course for a play, he's only five and has been once before. He had a lead over one fence then we jumped loads on are own, had a play in the water etc. He was fantastic both of us having a great time.

We finished jumping and bringing him back to a walk he spooked and of I came ( my fault I was still forward in my seat and giving him a pat). As falls go this wasn't a bad one, the sort of fall you could do a million times over and get straight up but I couldn't move! Thank God my pony stayed with me and OH came round the corner and found us. My friend who was with us was fab, stayed calm and asked all the right questions (she's an equine vet nurse). So they called an ambulance, and kept me talking or should I say swearing!!!

First a paramedic in a car turned up who was great and he didn't mind my use of the word begining with F. Then an ambulance with two more paramedics followed by the owner of the land and a police car then a while later the air ambulance with three people!

I was put in the ambulance where they cut all my clothes of including my Pikeur breeches!!!!!!! and gave me morphine for the pain. They thought I had broken my pelvis and decided at this point that I needed the helicopter que a few choice word from me about not getting in it I hate flying!!

To cut a long story short I was air lifted to hospital and i'm really quite lucky, my pelvis is ok but i've taken a lump of the front of the 12th thoracic vertebra (the one with the bottom rib attached). So 6-8 weeks of not doing a lot!

I am going to send a card and donation to Essex Air Ambulance as a thank you. I read on their website that it costs at least £2000 every time they are called out. They started in Essex and came to me in Hertfordshire then took me to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire.

All of the paramedics/doctors/nurses where amazing, so friendly and normal. Laughing at me when I remembered my legs are hairer that my ponies and that I had my massive purple comfy knickers on!!!

So please if you have a few pennies to spare give them to you local Air Ambulance service as they are charity based and you might need them one day!

Thanks for reading
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WOW all sounds pretty traumatic! But Wat a good pony staying with his mum, mine would have cleared off and laughed the whole way home lol

Thats a really nice Idea, Im sure they dont get that often and would really appreciate the acknowledgement...x

P.s hope you recover quickly!
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My worry was him running of as we probably wouldn't of caught him, no ones ever fallen of him so I think he was in shock as well.
 
My OH is a trustee of Herts and Essex Air Amb trust and is responsible for getting the whole Herts Air Amb charity rolling.

Herts does have it's own air amb but ATM as it's such a new charity it only has the funding to fly Mon-Fri 9-5 and is covered by Essex in it's off periods.

We are lucky in that our Air Amb has an A&E specialist doctor on board so treatment starts right away.

As jpq says please support your local Air Amb trust.

The first couple of months of Herts Air Amb operation had a 25% callout for equine related accidents (mostly kicks and falls)
 
Having been a passenger in the Essex air ambulance, I did donate afterwards and whilst I still lived there - they are a great bunch of people! They came and rescued me after a riding accident...made the local press too.

My OH and I now contribute to North West Air ambulance (where I now live) - he rallies cars and they have been vital here, i fall off alot so contribute still.....
 
I always donate to our local Air Ambulance. There but for the grace of God and all that...

Hope that you are fully recovered soon.
 
i always give to the air ambulance when i see them fund raising, they literally are life saving and esp important for us riders who tend to have accidents in hard to reach places. fantastic service.

good luck with your rehab.
 
most Air Ambulances have a weekly lottery to raise funds. I give subscriptions to people for Xmas and birthdays. Doing the lottery the charity can apply for the tax back too, and you get a chance of winning!
 
Having had my life saved by the gloucestershire air ambulance after a equine fall when I was 15 - cue 3 months in hospital strapped to a board and not allowed out of bed - I have always and always will donate to the air ambulances in the county in which I reside!!

(You have 8 pints of blood in your body and I lost 5 - if it had not been for the air ambulance I would not be here!)
I too, had a very expensive pair of breeches cut off so can sympathise on the Pikeur front!

Glad you're ok and wishing you a speedy recovery!!
 
My OH is a Paramedic with East Midlands Ambulance Service and like a lot of other of Air Ambulances they rely on charity for most of their funds. It's so good to have nice things said about ambulance crews as it's often only the bad things that get reported
 
Out here where we are, any serious medical situation requires the RFDS -Royal Flying Doctor Service.
One of the roles my unit of the SASES has to undertake is preparation and lighting of emergency airstrips for them in major situations.
We are too far from major centre for helicopter retrieval so fixed wing off a length of road or an available paddock is our only option...where possible patients are transported to the closest local hospital (which means a place with 1 doc and a couple of nurses) and stablised and flown out from there, but some areas thats just not viable when even that level of care is over hundreds of miles away!

We donate to the RFDS when ever possible, and I'm planning a ride across the Nullarbour next year to raise some $ for them and the SASES...both groups that make life here in the outback much safer!
 
I try to donate to them when I can. I came off in August and although I didnt get a ride in the air ambulance, they were hovering above me as I was being loaded into the normal ambulance-just in case i started screaming in agony.

I too lost a pair of amazing jodhs and my favourite jumper. they had to cut them both off as I dislocated my knee and bruised my lower back(unknown at the time-but had to be strapped to a sodding spinal board
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Most uncomfortable experience EVER)

Hope you get better soon!
 
I donate to ours where possible...

Apparently they have landed in the paddocks of the yard I recently moved to, on more than one occassion!!! Good job the nags are used to airplanes landing in their fields already...

Very good cause though, I'm guessing a lot of the horsey community support such an excellent cause.

Though IMO, another good cause that shouldn't have to be a charity, but thats a whole other argument!
 
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