Why I'm walking

Last year, in the weeks before Christmas when we were beginning to look forward to, and start preparing for our son’s first Christmas, we instead found ourselves in the middle of an unpredictable medical emergency involving our then eight-month-old son. It was very scary, and our son ended up having to have 20cm of his bowel removed at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide, four hours from home. Ironically, it’s also the hospital he was born in 8 months before and where he had spent three days in the NICU.

Without the excellent WCH surgeons, the wonderful nurses on the Newland Ward, and the absolutely brilliant Medevac team consisting of Ryan and Anne-Marie, who arrived in Naracoorte on a Saturday afternoon on an RFDS flight, along with RFDS nurse, Kim, and the RFDS pilot, my son would not be here today.


The work RFDS does provides an absolutely vital link between emergency medical care for rural and regional communities.