After an unlucky 13 incidents in the first half of the year, the second half of 2009 did a brisk business for the ambulance chasers and medical emergencies/consulatations with 9 incidents for a year total of 22. July started off with sand tracks. Maria and Tony are on a day out at the beach, walking and enjoying the Great British Seaside but Maria goes into labour and Tony has to deliver the baby before the ambulance can arrive, racing up the beach. She's ferried to the hospital shortly after.
Two weeks later, Claire was rushed to hospital with a blood clot. She had an operation to save her life but it caused her to miscarry, a surprise pregnancy that she wasn't really keen on anyway. So did she really contemplate jumping off the roof of the hospital or was it just a quiet place to think?
August sees Joe consulting the doctor, finally, about his addiction to prescription pain killers, after he was so desperate that he broke into the clinic to try to steal drugs! We also see a bloody-faced David Platt once again. But who did the beating? Looks like he and Gary Windass are quits. At the end of August, at the Village Fete, Joshua has a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting and it was touch and go for a few days! Janice managed to use some of her first aid training and that just might have given the lad the advantage.
Things are quiet until October 30 when Tony has a heart attack from the stress of Carla's threats to expose him for the murdering scum that he is! Roy Cropper calls the nee-naws and stays with him in hospital which results in Tony making what he
thinks is a death bed confession of his guilt to the erstwhile cafe owner. On November 19 Roy is taken to hospital after nearly drowning in the canal at the hand of Tony Gordon. He was also pulled out of the canal and revived by the same hand and found later by Hayley and Becky.
About mid December, Graeme is up a ladder fixing a window that Norris is sure he's broken while cleaning the windows. Norris lets go of the ladder and Graeme comes crashing down to the cobbles, breaking an ankle and bruising his face! At Christmas, Sally is at the start of a medical crisis, having discovered she has breast cancer.
That's this year's count. What incidental er... incident should we count up for the next year? Drinks tossed in anger over people's heads in the pub? How many times Liz tells someone they're barred? Leave a comment and let us know what you would like to see for a running count in 2010. (No births, deaths or weddings, please)