Thanks to kind strangers in Findon who helped me out

Sunday 5th June 2016, a beautiful day both sunny and warm, started off really well. My granddaughters aged 11 and 7 were washed dressed and fed before 10 o'clock so with my dog off we went in the car for a walk over the fields at Findon.

I parked, as usual, in the car park at the top of Limetree Avenue/Coombe Rise and Shepherds Mead and we set off.

The dog off the lead and the girls running ahead into the first field, with me close behind ,when I tripped in (what I am calling) a rabbit hole! When it was obvious I couldn’t get up “No problem,” I said to the girls, I have my mobile I’ll ring our friends to come and help us.

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Of course that had to be the day I’d forgotten to charge my phone, though to be fair I could have forgotten the phone altogether, I often do!

We tried to get back to the car with me hopping and holding the girls’ shoulders but that didn’t work so back on the grass I waited while my granddaughters and the dog went back to the car to try to charge the phone.

Not wanting to just sit and wait I tried to crawl only to hear a voice calling “Are you alright?” as the call came a second time I think I did reply “No” and these people very kindly lent me their phone so that I could “phone a friend” who told me her husband was in the fields with their dog and she would get him to come and help us.

In the meantime these people, who I first must thank for the use of their phone, then co-opted another gentlemen to help carry me to my car.

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To these people I want to give a very big thank you because my younger granddaughter is only 7 and she was very frightened.

With the arrival of my friend and an immediate call for an ambulance, the staff of which I would also like to thank, the crisis was less of a drama or should that be the other way around!

I apologise to all those trying to get out of the car park that morning who were blocked by the ambulance but be assured it wasn’t for a twisted ankle, I managed to break 2 bones, one each side of my ankle and chip the bone at the back so as I write this I am still in hospital 8 days later following an operation to put in a plate and pins.

Am in plaster and waiting for the physios to teach me how to get about especially stairs!

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So thank you again to all who helped, dog walkers and ambulance staff, unfortunately it is going to be a long time before I will be able to walk over the fields again.

Mary Dumbleton

Hilmanton

Lower Earley

Berks

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