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December 19, 2019
love this story about you and Brian .xxx
The Son in Law
December 22, 2012
by Vicki Wood
This is the Son in Laws mother Vicki. After living in America and overseas several years I came back home with a 4 year old and 2 year old. Found a home got some paint, walked up a huge hill with the two big tins of paint and the four year old. Put the paint in the kitchen. The 4 year old in the back garden. Looked around our new home. Went out side and the 4 year old had managed to get out wandered across the street over a 20 foot wall and was still alive.
With the help of all the mothers on the new street, they phoned for help, along came Brian??? I did not know this man??? On the way to he hospital is all told him " I cannot afford this hospital or you"" this kind good man told me and told me for 30 mins its OK I'm Free???
Story goes that 4 year old little boy turned out to be Brian's Son in Law, 26 years later!
Brian turned out to be not only the father my son never had but the most wonderful human being of a father in law any family could wish for.
I have witness pain suffering and sadness this week, extreme jet lag no sleep for days. I now I say to every one love your family members as you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. God Blessxxxx
Troublesome characters.
December 21, 2012
It's funny the things that come to mind; a couple of little incidents working with Brian that make me smile:
We were dealing with a drunken collapse in the street somewhere in the city centre and I remember as I crouched down checking the unconscious lad that some loudmouth was giving me a load of verbal very close to my ear, I looked up just at the instant that Brian had taken hold of the back of his collar and physically lifted him off his feet and "placed" him on his feet behind him; the lad spun round fists clenched ready to have a go and the look on his face when he saw the size of the person who had moved him was a picture! He just kind of melted into the crowd after that never to be seen again.
Another time a regular and undesirable drunk who never seemed to have any redeaming qualities at all accused Brian of being "grossly overweight". I can remember the physical outline of him in the dirt on the side of the ambulance as Brian pointed out to him that he knew he was overweight but didnt need telling by the likes of him!
These two little incidents which have nothing to do with "clinical excellence" or "being there taking care" remind me of how Brian was always there watching your back in awkward situations and how despite his caring and generous nature was never in the mood to suffer fools.
He was an excellent paramedic working in a tough environment and I learnt a lot from him in my early days, shall always remember him!
Birth
December 21, 2012
On one occasion when working with Brian we were called to a woman in labour,
on arrival somewhere in st anns we both entered a flat and we heard a woman screaming, when we entered the bedroom a young girl was giving birth, so as you do we did our bit and delivered a little baby boy as i presented the baby to the mother she shouted out i dont want it
after investigation we discovered that she was raped while on holiday in tenerife and she never told anybody about the baby,so eventually we persuaded the young women to accept the baby and within a few days the incident made the papers and guess what the mother named the baby Michael Brian xxxxxxxxx
just one of the many stories i have logged in my head over the years working with Brian
Mick Radage