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My ‘daughter’ and her son were out in the semi desert of western Queensland, looking for amethysts. Katie tripped over a stone and broke 4 bones in  an ankle. They drove to the Cloncurry hospital and the senior Dr. did what he could, but katie needed An op and the nearest major hospital is in Townsville, some 1000 km away, so it was decided to fly her there. But...she needed an escort, so her other son, who lives inT’ville, flew over and the ambulance took her to the Cloncurry airport. The airline would not allow her on board because the Cloncurry hospital forgot to buy a ticket. It transpires that the earliest Katie can fly, is next Monday...

What makes it worse is that every time she has been to Cloncurry, something bad has happened. First was a breakdown in her 4wd and a 3 week wait for spares, 2nd was a roll over In the desert and the police had to rescue them, then she broke her ankle and now, the hospital forgot to buy a plane ticket.

I was to meet them on Friday, a 2 day drive away...Still, I can meet her son and we can look for amethysts together.

PS, As she never had a father, he left the home before she was born, she looks to me as her dear old Dad.

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Cheers, Bobj.

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Oh dear,  I hope she's ok. It makes you glad sometimes that you're in the boring old UK with a hospital within an hours drive and an ambulance not more than 20 mins away.

What a farce forgetting to buy a ticket, still mistakes are made but you would think they'd have a standing arrangement for cases like this.

Make sure you get her good treatment,  I've had many broken bones over the years and now in later years am suffering not looking after them. She needs to take lots of rest and let it heal in it's own time. 

Good luck

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40 minutes ago, Bobj said:

My ‘daughter’ and her son were out in the semi desert of western Queensland, looking for amethysts. Katie tripped over a stone and broke 4 bones in  an ankle. They drove to the Cloncurry hospital and the senior Dr. did what he could, but katie needed An op and the nearest major hospital is in Townsville, some 1000 km away, so it was decided to fly her there. But...she needed an escort, so her other son, who lives inT’ville, flew over and the ambulance took her to the Cloncurry airport. The airline would not allow her on board because the Cloncurry hospital forgot to buy a ticket. It transpires that the earliest Katie can fly, is next Monday...

What makes it worse is that every time she has been to Cloncurry, something bad has happened. First was a breakdown in her 4wd and a 3 week wait for spares, 2nd was a roll over In the desert and the police had to rescue them, then she broke her ankle and now, the hospital forgot to buy a plane ticket.

I was to meet them on Friday, a 2 day drive away...Still, I can meet her son and we can look for amethysts together.

PS, As she never had a father, he left the home before she was born, she looks to me as her dear old Dad.

Bad luck! My sister tripped forgetting she had another step to go down and broke hers ,it never healed so it was wired back together now she has a permanent limp!

The moral of the story is look for gold or opal lol

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That's a crappy place to have an accident.

I hope she makes a full recovery and puts Cloncurry on a blacklist.

I think Longreach was about as far bush as I ever got. It's beautiful country but it's unforgiving.

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1 hour ago, *Ant* said:

Best wishes to the poor lass, and if I were her i'd stay away in future.

Not her...She's a Lancastrian, from Oldham!

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Just now, Phone said:

Damn Bob,

YOU FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. how much amethyst she find?

Phone

Only one piece. Her son wants to take me to find more. Hopefully, that will be on Saturday, or Sunday.

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My best wishes to her, even if she is from the wrong side of the Pennines ;)

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2 hours ago, John S said:

My best wishes to her, even if she is from the wrong side of the Pennines ;)

Surely, to be historically correct you should say “The losing side of the Pennines” ?

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