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Old 13th Sep 2010, 02:04
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Motion Lotion
 
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Many years ago I flew an air ambulance. Part of our work was hospital transfers and the middle of the night jobs were nearly always maternity related.

We used a Squirrel and I was never keen to have a maternity patient facing forward in flight for obvious reasons, so, I modified a stretcher so that it fitted in the other way.

Early one morning the call came to take a maternity patient. The crew and patient arrived and she was a 'screamer..' So bad that I isolated them all while we got under way. Just after take off the flight nurse was tapping me on the shoulder, but I was busy so just smiled and kept on going. It wasn't until we were in the cruise that I got to talk to her. I asked her how it was going and she said "Good, look!" I turned around to see her holding a brand new baby... and that was what she was trying to tell me.. You gotta laugh..

So all ended up well for everyone. That would have been around 1995 - 1996
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