QLD Ambos Take Man To Get Sundae As Last Wish Before Entering Palliative Care

Bloody hell, I hope you’re emotionally ready for a bit of a cry because I sure wasn’t.

In a post to Facebook, the Queensland Ambulance Service have said they received a series of grateful messages after paramedics taking a man to hospital to enter palliative care got him an ice cream sundae when they heard he hadn’t been eating:

Last week, Gold Coast resident Sharon called an ambulance for her husband Ron’s final journey to hospital and palliative care. Paramedics Kate and Hanna responded and during their initial observations of Ron, Sharon mentioned that he had barely eaten anything over two days. The officers asked Ron, if you could eat anything… what would it be? To which Ron replied, a caramel sundae.

Ron’s daughter, Danielle Smith, told the BBC that he passed away on Saturday following a 17-year battle with pancreatic cancer. In a Facebook post, Smith said that it was the last meal that he was able to eat by himself and that the family was grateful for what the QAS had done: “Mum and I cannot thank QAS enough for all the help and compassion you have all given towards us.

She also said that the paramedics had been helpful all throughout the process:

I remember a couple of months ago, the big tall Paramedic guy especially, we couldn’t get dad out of bed, and couldn’t get the gurney near their bed so you picked him up and carried him out the front onto bed. Each and every Paramedic we have encountered over the last few months, THANK YOU FROM MUM AND I.

What a pack of legends.

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