“I touched my legs and I couldn’t feel them, and thought something serious has gone wrong”
It was three weeks before Christmas in 2010 when dad Mark Morcom suffered a spinal cord injury which would completely change his life
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Nurse Kate Gardner was living on the Isles of Scilly when she suddenly went into labour in the middle of the night at just 28 weeks pregnant...
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A granddad has celebrated what he’s calling his ‘third birthday’, three years after suffering a cardiac arrest and being airlifted by Cornwall Air Ambulance
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“If they didn’t come, we would have drowned without a doubt”
On the 21st October 2021, 22-year-old Angharad Elliott was on a family holiday when she suddenly suffered a seizure on the Cornish coast path, and fell 40ft from the cliff into a ravine below.
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“To know the air ambulance was coming to get me was really reassuring”
Airlifted patient Adam Cawthray Stern has thanked Cornwall Air Ambulance after he suffered an anaphylactic shock on the Isles of Scilly
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“The first I knew of the helicopter was when I woke up a week later”
When cyclist Jamie Denton set off on a Land’s End to John O’Groats adventure, he didn’t expect to need Cornwall Air Ambulance on the very first day.
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“I think it probably saved my life”
It was a wet and windy autumnal day 25 years ago when golfer Steve Burrows, from Falmouth, found himself in need of the Cornwall Air Ambulance helicopter
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