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NICKY’S STORY
Paramedic Nicky Broszek, 52, lives near Sevenoaks in Kent with husband Steve, 54, and their daughters Ashley, 26, and Maisie, 21
When Maisie told me she was thinking of joining me at the London Ambulance Service three years ago, I wasn’t surprised. She’s always loved looking after people and making things better – and I knew driving on the wrong side of the road would appeal to her.
Ever since she was a child Maisie has had all the qualities you need for this job; she’s very mature, capable and caring in everything she does. Even so, I still had mixed feelings about her joining the service. I knew she would be brilliant – she has the right level-headedness that you need to keep calm in volatile situations – but I didn’t want her seeing some of the sad things that we deal with.
I also didn’t want her subjected to the physical and verbal abuse that comes on a very regular basis, or to be in a really dangerous situation. Your job as a mum is to protect them.
But she took to the role like a duck to water. At 18, she joined the London Ambulance Service as Emergency Ambulance Crew, who support paramedics like me, and she loved it.
We don’t get to choose who we work with but Maisie and I were paired together 15 to 20 times over a few years before she was sent to a different station base. She was a dream to work with – she looked after me and wouldn’t let me lift the heavy equipment.
We were together when we were sent to the Orpington bus crash in 2019. A car and two buses had collided, a bus driver