Emergency! Medic, it’s your daughter... she’s unresponsive
Nat, left, and colleague in ambulance BBC1 documentary series Ambulance returns with one of the paramedics racing to be with a stricken teenage patient – her own daughter.
Viewers will see Nat Greaves in tears after discovering her disabled girl Jessica needs an ambulance. The youngster’s carer at school dialled 999 because she had become unresponsive.
Nat said later: “At that time I wanted to be her mum. Being the paramedic wasn’t an option.” Jessica, who has cerebral palsy, had the emergency treatment on her 16th birthday.
Her mum said: “We were told she would never reach 16 – I was so
Nat & her girl Jessica happy it was her birthday. But within hours my world had crumbled.
“It was very unexpected. Jessica has got complex needs and she can be poorly but that morning she was fine. I just wasn’t expecting this in the middle of filming.”
Jessica, who had not needed an ambulance for several years, was stable by the next day so Nat returned to work with the West Midlands Ambulance Service.
The mum-of-three trained five years ago when she was 34 after being inspired by the paramedics who helped Jessica.
Nat said: “I was in awe of what they did. She developed epilepsy and I had to use the ambulance service a lot. I thought I’d love to... give back to people what the ambulance service has given me.”
The Bafta-nominated series is back on BBC1 on Thursday at 9pm.