Team Work and Community Help
Featured image shows Sally with a paramedic on arrival at Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock.
This week I had a trip-over fall, so John took me promptly to the hospital here on Arran. Hurt head, nose, lost a tooth and sore arm. A mess. Wonderful care, careful observation, discussions on next steps with us included. Then the organisation with Scottish helicopter service, ambulance staff here on Arran and coastguard volunteers re. Whiting Bay landing late in the evening on a cold miserable night. All reassuring. Everyone seemed seamless as a team, patient – focused and supportive and I was safely, carefully taken across a clear sky to Crosshouse Hospital. To you all, my grateful thanks. Sometimes islanders knock our services and volunteers. Individually and collectively, I witnessed a superb effort to enable me to get what was needed from the facilities at our mainland hospital.
Learning to work as a team is such an important part of any community, be it village, committee, island, NAC or government; consulting and talking to those who use these services is a vital component and that was an important contributing factor to my sense of well-being.
Back home, recovering.
Thank you all,
Sally Campbell
February 2025