tales-of-Fogo-Island

Dealing with emergencies in those days was not always easy. Nurse Coleremembers one emergency that involved a trip off the island:One night, they brought two teenagers, a young woman and a youngman to the hospital. Both had serious injuries. The young fellow wasbleeding badly and we had to stitch him up right there in the emergency.We also had to give him blood. In those days, we did not have bloodfrom the Red Cross. We had our own donors that we called when therewas an emergency. We planned to move the patients to another hospital,but the weather was too bad. The following day a bush plane came andwe got them off the island. On the way to Gander, it began to snow andthe pilot could not see where he was going. He had to follow the roadthrough Gander Bay and we were just skimming the treetops!