Maeve

I broke my ribs, punctured my lung, and I had a traumatic brain injury.

And literally, as you can imagine, my daughter also had severe injuries.

If it was not for a quick response of the National Ambulance Service at the time, the advanced paramedics and the advanced clinical protocols that they implement on scene, I would not be here on this phone call with you.

My daughter actually filled me in on what happened.

I remember the lead up to it.

I remember knowing that I was going to be in a head-on collision.

I woke up a week later in ICU.

I was in critical care in Tullamore Hospital.

And even after I was briefed, my daughter told me that, you know, ma'am, you were dead.

You were lying across the steering wheel.

Your eyes were open.

You were bleeding very badly.

You weren't breathing.

Like even to go back over it, even down to the other night, she came in from work and she says, Mama, can't get the accident out of my head.

This is 10 years later.

I was very, very lucky that there was an advanced paramedic only minutes away who arrived on scene and he was able to start the protocol that he needed to do to keep me alive until another crew arrived.

They had to come from Tullamore and another advanced paramedic came from Tullamore as well and all of them joined in, as you can imagine.

And the decisions that they had to make for me on the night, I mean, as you know, any paramedic that goes out to, whether it's a home or a road, no matter where they're called to, they have to make critical decisions, whether it's cardiac, stroke.

It doesn't matter what the ailment is, but they have to make decisions based on their training.

And I think what's going on at the minute that...