A thanks to the ROYAL FLYING DOCTORS SERVICE

[Bradley Ward]

May not be the place or the time! But i would just like to thank Pilot Michael and crew for there service and skill! Flying me to Hospital today!!as Rural resident and a long way from anywhere the job our Royal flying doctor's do is amazing and tuff! Thanks for the lives you guy's have saved and thanks from me!! A truely stella job! Picture is from a Palatis PC12 turbo prop in the clouds over South Australia! The on board nurse was kind enough to let me take the photo after retrieving my phone from secured luggage

 

[Andy Greene]

what happened ?

 

[Bradley Ward]

Heart attack at 40! Then blood clots on the lung! they left a groin angiogram tube in to long!And then after pulling that after 10 hours the clot inside the tube was left floating in my arteries that then shifted up my vain causing a minor stroke! Got airlifted from rural South Australia by the flying Drs in a 48min dash via PC12 Palatis turboprop to Adelaide Airport then rushed via Ambulance to Flinders Medical centres specialist Cardio unit! When i had the initial heart attack i instinctively(no basis for it?)took 3 100mg tablets of asprin! Both the cardiologist and Dr's have said those 3 tablets most definitely saved my life! But i should be ok? During the angiogram they almost snapped off the stint end of the wire passed through my wrist! So they had to use my groin! But thats enough about me thanks for asking! I sit typing in the cardio ward here and im not a shade as bad as some in here i feel like the lucky one!

 

[Andy Greene]

Dang it man- glad your okay, get better and do what they tell ya.

 

[Bradley Ward]

Thanks Andy! Your a good man! got some good news today had last of testing done x-rays and ultrasound plus echocardiogram of heart looks not bad! Put a top professor in cardiology on the job! When he seen my age and file he wanted in on my case! So now have an appointment with him in 3 weeks! Have to quit the Roll your own smokes and the loose women and fast boats they say! So may have to Tug from now on boats that is!