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Hi - my name is Richard Maddox – married with two children (not so little now!) – have lived in rural East Devon for ten years – last November I was up a ladder changing light bulbs in our fifteen foot kitchen ceiling – next thing I recall was coming around in Neuro-Surgical ward at Derriford Hospital.
Apparently I was found unconscious hanging from midway up the ladder by my daughter - the ambulance got called who on inspecting me called Devon Air Ambulance – I was stretchered out to the field next door to our house and airlifted to Plymouth – wife and family followed in the car .
After a few days in hospital, then had weeks repairing/mending with great support from family and Honiton Hospital Community Rehabilitation Service – in time have now got back to work at group of residential care homes for those with learning disabilities.
In my spare time, have got back to swimming mornings at Honiton
pool – also member of Honiton Community Theatre Company (previously the Pantomime Society), we are about to start rehearsals for our February production of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs – do not miss it. Have also regained some freedom with the return of my
driving licence.
Thankfully life goes on – thanks for everyone’s patience and
good wishes – now trying to give something back, volunteering at Devon Air Ambulance Honiton shop and getting three years of hair cut off (thanks to Beth Hibbett from Pride Hair Studio in Newton Poppleford for doing the honours) sponsored for DAA …. watch this space – 3pm 30th September.
So combining my 25th wedding anniversary with the same landmark of Devon Air Ambulance Trust – grateful for a chance to meet and chat with the founder of DAAT in September – forever in their debt along with the local ambulance medics and all at Derriford Hospital– thank you.
Devon Air Ambulance Trust (DAAT) owns 2 helicopters and operates 7 days a week. Responding to approximately 1,400 incidents every year DAAT conveys patients to the specialist treatment centre most appropriate for their needs, giving them the best chance of survival. The service costs £5.5 million every year and DAAT is proud to be independent of Government and National Lottery funding, relying solely on the generous donations of the people, businesses and communities of Devon and further afield.