it is difficult to get away from it all when you work on a holiday park. i’ve been saying to steve for a while that it would be good to get away on my own for a couple of days but i didn’t mean like this.

i was checking the luxury caravans on friday at around 1.30pm when i suddenly found myself on the floor at the bottom of the steps of caravan 2. i don’t know how i fell but all i can remember is landing on my left foot really heavily and then ending up with all my weight on my right foot. with both i remember thinking ‘this is really going to hurt’. i pulled up my right trouser leg and half thought the bone might be sticking through the skin of my ankle. thankfully it wasnt but my inner ankle wasnt in the right place at all.

before shock could set in i pushed the ankle back into place because it felt so wrong. then i used my mobile to calmly phone my manager bev in the office. i didnt know if i was going to faint or not but having put the call in it was fairly certain i wouldnt remain undiscovered for days. actually bev was there in about 30 seconds and the decision was made to call an ambulance. it seemed like a long wait but i was thankful for the comforting comments from bev and tarn and from community support officrs martin and rob. they did all the right things in not moving me and not letting me have any water to drink.

the paramedics, steve and steph (also pronounced steve) ,were a couple of cards as you would expect. they recommended i took plenty of gas and air before they even tried to move my foot. i was dubious at first as, strangely, i didnt have any real pain. steve assured me i soon would when they tried to lift me onto the stretcher. they made me take about 20 breaths on it before they would even touch me. suddenly you are at the best party going. i was keen to find out more about the guys and i suddenly realised (or so i was convinced) that i had seen the pair on a recent tv documentary all about paramedics called steve.

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