Thread: For Those Who Have Used Your PLB

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Then into the machine with my head at the pilots feet and looking straight up through the rotors

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Then an emergency team in the Coal and Coast Rescue Helicopter waiting for me in Franz

Wheel you into a heated emergency room.
2 doctors
2 nurses and St John's

They all start on a different corner and just cut everything off you except your underpants
From then on you are just a casual observer of your own life
Things just are said and happen as if you were not in the room.

They finally mostly stopped the bleeding from my scalp.
Which I was relieved about, but that turned out to be the least of my worries.

Soooo doesn't sound like the band aids and asprin were going to cut it

25 years ago I would have resisted pushing the button due to pride. Nowadays I would not have a single hesitation. 50 years of paying taxes: come pick me up