Anna Ferguson

organ that can't repair itself so my heart rate had skyrocketed to about 240 beats per minute which is just kind of that end of the spectrum where you want your heart to be beating but also I was essentially being crushed by this seat belt.

No.

So there was obviously a protection mechanism in place so that when things go wrong, the seatbelts don't automatically come off and people fall off the ride.

So they essentially had to cut us out of the ride.

And to do that, they needed to build scaffolding up to where we were because we were up quite high.

And this took hours and hours.

And I was kind of slipping in and out of this kind of dreamlike state over this period of time.

I remember a

looking up and seeing a helicopter going past and being like, I wonder what they're looking at.

And they were looking at us.

And so it was just, even now it's very fuzzy to me, right?

The memory, there's certain things that are very clear and I can feel them.

They're very tangible.

There's other things that like the timeline of things feels very fuzzy still and foggy for me to kind of dip back into.

But I do remember them passing me like the green whistle for pain relief.

And I very quickly found out that I'm allergic to morphine in the hospital.

I ended up having to have my stomach pumped because I was allergic to the pain medication.

So there was like a lot of firsts for me at 10 years old that I had no idea what was in store for me.

Not particularly.

I do remember going down on like a slide stretcher and seeing my mum for the first time as we got into the ambulance and her...