Our patients are at the centre of what we do. There is nothing more heart-warming for our team than when a former patient gets in touch and wants to visit us. If you, or a family member, has been a patient of ours and would like to get in touch, we would love to hear from you. Some patients share their story to help raise awareness of our work.
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Wayne Trinder
23rd Jul 2020
I am a keen mountain biker and I regularly cycle in the South Downs National Park. I live in Eastbourne close to the foot of the Downs. On Saturday 6th June 2020 I set off early on my electric bike and headed for Friston Forest via the Long Man of Wilmington. This was my first ride on the electric bike and I decided to extend my ride over the Seven Sisters as I would not ordinarily do so on my manual bike. I was eager to get home soon as the weather was about to change.
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Lauren and Charlie
15th Jul 2020
My name is Lauren, and this is the story of how Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex saved my son Charlie’s life.
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Olivia Brockman
30th Jun 2020
Our two-year-old son was saved by KSS in 2018. It was coincidentally just a month after we signed up to take part in their lottery scheme. We were at our local petrol station and my fiancé Michael joked as he got back in the car after registering, saying ‘I’ll probably never use the Air Ambulance but it’s a good cause so I thought I’d sign up anyway’.
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Nichola Beales
12th Jun 2020
I was heading down the Pevensey bypass and suddenly, I saw a black car coming straight towards me on my side of the road. It was overtaking, which a lot of cars do in that area because it’s a wide road. There was plenty of space, but suddenly the car clipped the one it was overtaking and came straight at me, hitting me head on. I heard the bang before I became unconscious.
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Warren Porritt
04th Jun 2020
It was Father’s Day, 2016. I was due to hop on a train up to London with my wife and two kids, to see the premier of ‘The Secret Life of Pets’. Our train wasn’t due for another hour, so thought I’d go out for a quick ride on my bike, whilst the family finished getting ready. But, I ended up not returning home for another nine weeks – not quite the Father’s Day I’d planned.
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Josh Senior
10th Feb 2020
My name is Josh and as spring approaches, I remember how lucky I am to be alive and who I have to thank for making that possible. In 2010, when I fell 35ft to the ground during a simulated parachute landing, my world changed and I had no idea my life would soon be in the hands of Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex.
Michelle Draper
15th Oct 2019
Time stood still. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I often wonder what he’s getting up to during the day and imagine him having fun, running around with his friends on the playground as children should. But to hear that he had fallen and didn’t just get up and brush it off made no sense. How could this be happening?
Joe Pelham
25th Oct 2018
At around 8:30pm on a dark October evening, 14-year-old Joe Pelham was cycling at the junction of the A31 and the Coxbridge Roundabout in Farnham when he was hit by a car. Paramedics from SECAMB were the first to treat Joe, who had been pulled to the safety of the verge by his friend but had sustained very serious injuries.
Sam Jenner
28th Sep 2018
I was getting ready for work one September morning when I suddenly collapsed from cardiac arrest. At the time, I was 23 weeks and five days pregnant with my son, Jack.