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Roadhouse post #2

6/14/2012

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#2 The old managers threw us a bunch of keys as they got on the bus to leave saying, 'One is for the ambulance.' Suddenly we were volunteer ambulance drivers! 23/24 years old and no first aid training what-so-ever. Our 'patch' was a 400 km stretch of the Eyre Highway. Norseman hospital was two and a half hours away...
 ...and yes, the ambulance still haunts me a bit. I remember the elderly couple who's caravan had jack-knifed. St Johns told us off for putting the husband's gurney in backwards so he could face his wife but we all felt the moment when she started to slip away from us. Terry cranked the oxygen up and I tried to decide whether to pull over or go even faster but I'm sure it was her husband willing her to live that kept her alive. But I'm getting ahead of myself. There's the supply truck to tell you about first, and the bore pump, and the night we got lost in the bush. (Keep reading and post a comment if there's anything you want to know more about.) 

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