"Broken ankle on Bennachie"

I went for a walk up Bennachie and managed to slip on some gravel while coming back down and badly broke my ankle, knowing that I could not move it at all we had to phone 999 to get help. Two ambulance technicians (I am gutted I can't remember their names to say a proper thank you) and Alison from the Bennachie centre walked up the hill to get to me with three police officers, it was decided that Aberdeen Mountain Rescue would be needed to help me get down. During the wait for help everyone was amazing they even managed to get me laughing and totally took my mind off the situation. When mountain rescue arrived everyone pitched in to help and got me into a stretcher and carried me down to the ambulance. They took me to A&E where I didn't have too long to wait before I was helped by an amazing nurse I think his name was Graham, he cleaned up the graze on my ankle to took me to x-ray where they found I had an unstable fracture to the left ankle. After a couple of attempts to get my leg into a cast with my ankle at the right angle I was able to go home with an operation booked for the following week to allow the swelling to go down. I had my operation at Woodend to fit a plate and some pins and everyone there was fab especially my surgeon Mr. Forest and nurses Emma and Heather who fitted me in for a check-up any time my cast was bothering me! Since my operation I have had numerous follow up appointments with my surgeon and have had a second surgery to allow more movement in the ankle. It is now 8 months since my fall and I am still attending physiotherapy appointments but well on the road to recovery. Thank you so much to everyone who helped me Ambulance, mountain rescue, nurses, radiographers, surgeon, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy it really shows how amazing the NHS is at coming together to help and I will be forever grateful.