How Simon saved a dog’s life: We’d just finished a training exercise when our pagers went off. A family cut off by the tide. It was only when we got close that we saw Olive the dog. She was limp, cold and lifeless. Her eyes were waxy and she wasn’t breathing.
Tibby, I’ve been crew at Wells for 7 years and have lots of stories to tell. But never one like this. I’m a nurse and a crew member so I’ve resuscitated people, but never a dog before. I treated her like I would a child.
I’d been doing chest compressions for about 90 seconds when OIive started to respond. To begin with she was breathing very slowly, but we were so relieved there were signs of life. It was an anxious 5-minute journey back to the boathouse.
It was only afterwards when Olive and her young family were able to walk out of the lifeboat station, that the crew had a cup of tea and realised what we had just done. It wasn’t what we expected to do that morning. It was a fantastic team effort from everyone at the lifeboat station.
It would have been a terrible end to the family's holiday if they had lost Olive. That’s why your support is so important. The lifeboats, equipment and training you fund keeps families together. Tibby, I hope you’re proud to be a part of that.
You bet Simon, anyone who saves a dogs life will always have my support. XXX
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