Stroke Awareness Saturday 17-Apr-10
Stroke awareness day T
he day started well enough with some ea- ger little beavers helping their leader to
set up tables, banners chairs and all the other paraphernalia required for the day. We were blessed with a beautiful sunny, windless day and all went so smoothly that doctors, recorders, ushers and „street herders‟ were in place very early and the first customers were being seen to well before the official opening time of 10.30.
H
aving taken my first batch of photographs
I left the team to have a cup of coffee before re- turning at 11.30 for my official stint.
W
hen I returned the operation was still
going smoothly and I was looking forward to a pleasant hour in the sun as an „enforcer‟, sorry -„encourager‟.. (Strong arm tactics are not usu- ally required and the gentile Upminster folk are only too willing to go in to meet our doctors and nurses, especially as they have to pass the tea and coffee bar.)
I
had not been in place for more than about 30 seconds when Sylvia came hurrying out
of the building to ask if any Rotarian could take an elderly lady to A& E as her blood pressure was dangerously high. I told Bert and Tony to dress down a bit, those two are enough to raise anybody‟s blood pressure.
A
fter a bit of a soft shoe shuffle by all of those present I found
myself volunteering to take said lady and her friend to the Queens Hospi- tal. It was quite a pleasant journey and my two passengers chatted away as we sped through Hornchurch. I did explain that I would be unable to stay with them but they were quite happy with the situation and assured me that they would be alright and even if she had to be admitted that we be OK too. They were delighted that the „lovely doctor‟, Mutel, had picked up on the problem.
I
dropped them off outside the A&E department and after
being hugged as kissed and thanked for taking them on this adventure I was on my way. By the time I got back to Upminster my stint was up so I sailed past the brightly coloured bunch of
Rotarians collected outside the church, slowing down just enough to inform them that I was going home.
S
tory supplied by George Larkey
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