Sunday, May 11 at 7.00pm

Kate & Angus Connors (part 2)

Last episode we met Kate & Angus Connors who are thrilled at the prospect of being parents for the first time. Kate was successful in conceiving after IVF treatment in Adelaide. Kate has been experiencing some bleeding throughout her pregnancy, but as the bleeding intensifies Kate drives herself to Adelaide because her pregnancy is at risk, she could lose her precious baby. Kate is diagnosed with placenta previa which is a low lying placenta causing her bleeds. So she doesn’t put her baby at any more risk she must stay in Adelaide near specialist treatment and rest. Against all the odds Kate & Angus have their baby.

Grey Nomads
Gail Leverett is tasked to go to a station called Bollards Lagoon near Cameron Corner where an elderly tourist has broken his hip. Because BHBH does not have an orthopaedic surgeon, he will be transferred directly to Adelaide. Inside a caravan is 80 year-old doctor Floyd Masters. Last night Floyd had fallen near the fire and broken his hip, Annette had to drag him onto the caravan. This morning they went to the Corner Store and Bill the publican had called the RFDS. Gail inserts a canula and gives Floyd some painkillers. The van is towed to the plane and everyone chips in to help move Floyd out of the caravan, onto the stretcher and into the plane. Annette tells us that she has no choice but to tow the caravan all the way to Adelaide on her own. She kisses her husband goodbye and the ER plane takes off for without her.

Jeremy Drummond (appendicitis)
It’s midnight at the RFDS base in Dubbo when Senior flight nurse Wendy Swann is getting ready to go home for the night. She receives a call from the Medical Retrieval Unit (MRU) about a priority 1 emergency, a 46 year old man Jeremy Drummond, in Bourke is having severe abdominal pain, suspected appendicitis. Despite doing all the pre-flight checks of her patient when they take off from Bourke airstrip Jeremy’s temperature starts to soar and his blood pressure drops suddenly. Wendy can’t get to her patient until after take off, she works furiously to stabilise her patient on the flight to Dubbo. Once in Dubbo Jeremy is rushed into hospital at 3am to have his appendices removed. Thankfully the RFDS were able to get him to hospital in time.