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The Light Will Never Go Out

Posted in: A New Beginning Experiences, A New Beginning Fly With Me Productions by Pamela on October 10, 2008


I am now at home (February 4th) after being discharged from hospital.

On a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon, January 24th, 2010 ….

I fell from the edge of a loft in the car garage (approx:12 Feet), slipping off the top rung of the ladder straight onto the concrete floor below fracturing my skull, subcutaneous hematoma, head trauma with left epidural hematoma, cerebral contusions, hairline fracture of spine, fractured left wrist with 9 rib fractures and bruising all over my left side.

At some point after falling I somehow walked myself to the guesthouse I rented, with no memory of doing this either and can only assume I walked, and layed down on my bed. Maybe heaven bent and held my hand so I would not lose everything? I have come to find out I walked in a lucid state. The next awareness or remembering I have was opening my eyes slightly and in a blurry state of vision saw blood all over my white comforter. I went out completely after that. There was noone on the property or living in the main house at this time, so I was alone.

What happened truly was a miracle. The landlords were in town (Sedona) and were across the valley at one of their other properties when the Mrs told me that something intuitively and strongly was telling her to “go back to the property!”, “go back to the property!”, which, she relayed to her husband. So, she drove back to this property. The Mrs. walked to the guesthouse and heard some moaning and decided to enter and found me.
If she had not come I surely would not be writing this.

She told me she tried to get me in the car but would not go as I threw up then had to lay down. There was blood all over the place and now vomit. The Mrs. did not know what to do so she called her husband on the cell phone. The next thing I remember briefly is a voice shouting “She’s going to die! Call 911!” before losing consciousness again. I found out later that what I was hearing was Aaron over the cells speaker. He just happened to be a former ER Doctor and soon made his way over.

The Sedona Fire Department responded to the emergency call. The Mrs said I had five paramedics working on me. I was completely in a long gone state remembering none of this. Having no clue what happened one of the paramedics began sleuthing it out and walked to the garage to discover blood on the floor under the loft, next to the ladder and realized I must have fallen. I kept moaning and pulling my left wrist so they cut the long sleeves off exposing the break. Shortly thereafter I was carried by stretcher to the ambulance, which, took me to the Sedona Medical Center where the extent of my injuries were discovered as was the seriousness of the situation. I was immediately flown by helicopter North to Flagstaff Medical Center for emergency brain surgery.

They made the incision from almost the top of my head straight down to just below the top part of my left ear. A circle of my skull was cut out and removed around the fracture line so they could drain the blood from my brain. They then placed this circular piece of skull back in and secured it with four tiny titanium plates and screws. I had two neurosurgeons working on me first and once I was stable the orthopaedic surgeon performed his skills on my fractured wrist as a metal plate was inserted to hold the bone together for healing (to be removed soon).

I am relaying what was told to me much later because I remember nothing and am very grateful for the love and care I received from everyone who helped. I feel as if I died, yet didn’t? It was peaceful wherever I was though. My body was the one in pain. Broken ribs are no fun nor is a bruised brain. All moving to recovery though for I have too much to do before I really fly …. from here.

The healing is ongoing and an interesting ongoing journey this recovery has been. Many things unfolding and all is brilliantly good because there is nothing else but the good to have living within you, as hard and sometimes difficult as it has been too.

Thank you all for being so sharing and caring with me. Especially my father, Carl Richards.
It meant and means alot.
Thank you to my landlords, The paramedic/firemen, Mark, Joe, David, Josh and Millan from the Sedona Fire Department and the entire medical crew for being there! You are valuable beyond measure.

And a big thank you to Patty Marlowe for her support and amazing love in my aftercare at home.
She has become a truly great friend. http://www.HeartfeltofSedona.com

The Light Will Never Go Out - UPDATE


The incision along the fracture with m’hair growing nicely.

Getting m’hardware out! All is good because we make it good!

Sitting in calm. Healing, creating new patterns and re-wiring within m’brain for peace.


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The Light Will Never Go Out - UPDATE

Posted in: A New Beginning Experiences, A New Beginning Fly With Me Productions by Pamela on

To all my friends and family who have been so supportive I would like to share this with you.
For those that might not know the story and wish to?
Please click here: The Light Will Never Go Out

I went to the Fire Department yesterday (Tuesday 4-13-10) to meet and thank the crew that helped save my life on the afternoon of January 24th. I found out, by way of my landlords, that they were asking how I was as they did not even know if I survived or not?

It really was a happy moment for all of us and I could not thank them enough, I could not hug them enough as they filled me in on everything I had no memory of.

These guys do not get enough appreciation or recognition for what they do and this visit helped them to know just how important they are to this community.

The gentleman 2nd from the right with the hat (David) deduced what happened that day by walking to the car garage where he found blood on the concrete floor beneath the loft and next to the ladder realizing I must have fallen there. They were so kind and stayed with me until I was whisked away by helicopter to Flagstaff Medical Center for emergency brain surgery.

The ambulance we are in front of is the one they took me in to the Sedona Medical Center.
Much love to you all and many, many thank you’s for caring.

From Left to Right:
Millan Zorita, Jayson Coil (Battalion Chief), Joe Kinzel, Pamela, Josh Wells, David Rodriguez, Mark Beneitone


Much appreciation
To everyone who is sending in thank-you’s to the Battalion Chief at the Sedona Fire Department.
They are receiving emails from around the world in gratitude for helping save the life of one girl.
You cannot put a price on this nor can I express what it was like to go through.
And incredibly happy to have come out the other side, to be alive, with new perspectives.
These men are invaluable and the love being sent their way now is invaluable,
for they don’t see this sort of attention very often. Thank You to All!

Free Your Mind and Remove Fear. The Shift is “Within”.

Responses from friends and family.
Thank you all for sharing a mystical, painful, yet magical time with me.
The importance of what is happening here is being felt within the hearts of many.
Please spread it (love) like a quiet wildfire as these kind words ignite plenty.
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Pamela,
Thank you for taking the time to stop by,
it means a lot to the crews when people take the time to thank them.
I just got a chance to read the cards. They were both very sweet, thanks again!

Jayson Coil
Battalion Chief
Sedona Fire District
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Thank you for saving Pamela’s life, this world would not be the same without her.
You guys are very special people!
The rest of society needs to hear much more about what you do on a regular basis,
which is probably taken for granted by most people.

Sincerely,
Jim Rodger
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Jim, thank you for your kind words, I will pass them on to the firefighters who helped Pamela. I hadn’t met her until yesterday but I can understand your feeling for her, she was so positive and thankful it was truly infectious!
Jayson Coil
Battalion Chief
Sedona Fire District
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You are all heroes, and the wonderful work you do is very much appreciated!
The world is a better place for Pamela’s presence in it - and for yours, too!
Warmest wishes,
Lisa (Bath, England) xx
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Dear firemen,
Thank you for saving Pamela. She is such a dear friend. You are my heroes!
Kendra
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I am emailing from the UK to thank you for everything you did on January 24th to save our dear friend Pamela Leigh-Richards. She is an amazing soul and it very obviously was not her time to go. The world would be just a little less loving and colourful without her here.
So thank you guys. When you go to work each day, you never really know who in the world you’re going to be saving or helping or how far-reaching your work is. So a big thank you from a film crew here in the UK who are very happy with what you do. Well done.

Love and blessings,
Nikki, Mandy and Ben xx
(Time of the Sixth Sun production crew)
http:www.timeofthesixthsun.com
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I just want to thank and congratulate you and your team for saving Pamela.
I will soon be moving from Illinois to Sedona and it is comforting to know
you have such a dedicated and capable group in place.
My son is an EMT in Maine so I have some understanding of what you face.
Thanks and congratulations for a job well done.
~ Bill
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To Jason and the entire crew who helped save the life of my daughter, Pamela Richards,
I want to take this opportunity to offer you my sincere thanks.
The timely and professional manner in which you responded to her injuries was, I’m sure,
the predominant factor that saved her life.
I have always regarded firemen as very special people, which you certainly are.
Risking your lives to save the lives of others puts you in the classification of
“The Bold and the Brave”. You are to be admired,
and my hat is off to all of you for a “Job Well Done”.
~ Carl Richards
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Mr. Richards,
Thank you for your kind words and taking the time to send this email.
I will pass your message on to the crews that helped your daughter.
I sincerely believe the paramedics and EMTs that we employ are some of the best.
I know your daughter’s visit to the station helped remind them of why they chose this profession.
Sincerely,
Jayson Coil
Battalion Chief
Sedona Fire District
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“If You Do Not Tell Your Story You Are Doing Humanity A Disservice”

This is from a dear friend, Bill Mortimer, who is moving to Sedona from Illinois
And was in town looking for homes when he shared this with me:

FYI - I was grabbing a bite at Jose’s Cafe a little while ago.
Two guys from Sedona Fire & Rescue came in.
I had the waitress give me their bill (anonymously)
and asked her to tell them after I left
that this was a small thanks for helping save your life.
The guy at the table next to me overheard and it made his day - random act of kindness.
None of this would have happened had you flown away.
~ Bill

See what happens when you open your heart and share the love within?
It is the simplest act of kindness that can spread with great affect.
Thank you Bill!
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Dear Jayson and all of your crew, [Amazingly powerful story from Annie in England]

I would like to thank you all sincerely for the help that you gave to my dear friend Pamela
on the 24th January when she sustained her serious head injury after falling from her loft -
the world wouldn’t be the same without her and she has so much more to give
that we all need her to be here with us.

I only met Pam because of the help that she freely gave to my daughter four years back -
she is the kind of person who spreads magic and truth
and I am grateful to you all for all the work that you do.
Nothing is more special than being someone who serves and ‘gives’ without any expectation
and that makes all of you guys very special too.

My daughter and I were also saved by a fire crew some 15 years ago here in the UK.
They said that the room that fire was in reached around 870 degrees
and with an old Victorian lathe and plaster ceiling they were amazed that it held
and that we survived. My daughter had her bedroom right above that inferno.

There but for the grace of God walk all of us and I pray that He walks with all of you.

From my own experience the only ‘things’ that survived our house fire
were a bible I received for passing my scripture exams,
a bible I received for being a bridesmaid,
a bible that was given my parents when they married
and a book of scriptures that is now 130 years old.
A pair of boots also survived as they were outside the back door.

Everything else in the house was consumed either by soot or fire
but those bibles didn’t even smell of anything and didn’t have a speck of dust on them.
I had about £15,000 worth of other books and they were all destroyed.
One of the bibles has a white leather cover and it still has the same with no cleaning whatsoever.
My ex-husband fell asleep whilst the fire consumed the house - he didn’t expect to
and it frightened him.
He expected to stay awake and that everything belonging to his ex-girlfriend
would be destroyed at the seat of the fire that he set
but his plan didn’t work because he fell asleep
and we all lost everything - excepting the bibles and one pair of boots…
and of course a great wife!

I have nothing material from the years of my life prior to that fire -
other than the boots and the bibles.
This never bothered me and has never bothered me since.
Life is about who we are and not what we have….

Just know that there are always people who do totally appreciate the work that you do.
It can easily seem as though no one cares anymore - there are people who do ….

Thank you to all of you again.

The Grace is yours

Annie x
UK
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Annie,

I have received numerous emails in the past few days from Pamela’s friends and family.
They were all incredibly kind and touching.
Yours however, is the most inspiring and reminds me of how inconsequential
the stuff we acquire is when it comes down to what really matters in life.
Thank you for sharing your love of Pamela, your appreciation for the work we do,
and most of all your incredible firsthand experience.
I can tell you I will not forget and I thank you for taking the time to share your story with me.
I will pass your email onto the men of Sedona Fire who took care of Pamela.

Sincerely,
Jayson Coil
Battalion Chief
Sedona Fire District
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The gratitude, appreciation and love written on this page has been delivered into the flowing vastness of forever. To remain as a gift for others to see, how the little things one can do in life, truly can have great meaning.
Here I am handing my Thank You cards to the heros who helped save my life.


The Butterfly Effect
Thank Someone Today

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Putting One Foot In Front of the Other

Posted in: A New Beginning Fly With Me Productions by Pamela on October 09, 2008

Walking on the beautiful sands of Egypt next to the Red Sea.

Photo © pamela leigh richards

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FLY WITH ME PRODUCTIONS
Another View of Life

Posted in: A New Beginning Fly With Me Productions, Movie Gallery by Pamela on October 02, 2008

Fly With Me Productions

Change begins when one looks through the mirror to the other side.

”

“Life” talks to us in many ways.
Through books, people, film, music, art and all expressions of form of ‘matter’.

When I watched the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean - At Worlds End”

I nearly fell off my seat at what I was seeing because it was a visual
Of what I had been feeling/thinking/saying for a few years now, that …

“We must turn ourselves inside out and do everything that we thought was impossible”

It might get a bit rough but know that together we will see it through.

The messages are right in front of us but humanity is so ‘entertained’ it passes by most.

[ENTER-TAIN-MENT]
Enter = To Bury or The Doorway.
Tain = to Hold or Seize or Capture.
Ment = Mind

Think about it?

Entertainment = The door you enter that captures your mind.

The “system” keeps humanity in constant confusion.

Jack (Johnny Depp) says: “Why are these things not clear?”

What I have personally been saying is …

Please give it to me straight because

I am tired of it being given in riddles.

It is time to rock the ship!
Remember, you are the Captains of your water/body/vessel/ships.
Rocking the ship, symbolically in my view, means to wipe the slate clean.
The photographic plate/slate in your brain holding the interference patterns of belief.
Take out the trash and Free Your Mind.
“UP IS DOWN”.

How far down the rabbit hole do you wish to go?
Stop following the Pied Piper.

The control that is upon this plane(t) and all its inhabitants
Is only alive when one pays attention to it.
Let go of everything … remove fear and free your mind.
All hates, judgements, arguments, fighting, grudges etc ..

When you let go you free yourself and help free the world.

Right here and right now is all that matters.

All that remains is where you make your final stand.

No matter what colour your skin,
No matter what you believe,
The common thread that connects us all is simply LOVE.
Time to come together, Never shall we die.

Cosmic law dictates that the Knock of the Spirit cannot be sounded
Until man is convinced that he has his back to the wall
And that the sword is dangling overhead,
For human nature is such that unless man is desperate,
He will not risk everything on an impulsive decision taken in the moment.
The decision to follow the Spirit, the Eagle
Must be completely spontaneous and unconditional
For this is the way in which power has set it up.
When the moment comes, there can be no arguing or hesitation.

”

We as a people on this planet must come together
And Stand for what we believe in. And if you are like me,
Then you Stand for Co-Existence in Peace, Truth and Harmony.

You Stand for a world without war.

I have no enemy. Enemies are created to divide and rule.

Raise your colours with hearts open wide having no fear.

It is time to Hoist The Colours Within!

Peacefully.

”

Thank you for venturing over to this site. My wish is it inspire you.

To do something about the world we all share

And that it makes a difference in yours.

Much Love, Pamela
Forever Dancing

The “World” is my Family
“Life” is my partner.
“Peace” is my focus.

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TIME TO FLY

Posted in: A New Beginning Fly With Me Productions by Pamela on September 25, 2008


This is the beginning of a website that has taken a long time to launch.
There are reasons for this.
I had to experience more before I brought this to fruition.

All I wish for is PEACE. Simple as that.

The road has been really rough along the way,
yet every time I picked myself up off the floor,
when I thought I could not go on anymore,
I realized how beautiful life really is.

Through the pain I rose once again
and will see my life through to the end.

Everything I ever do must move me forward and onward.
Time is collapsing. Life is propelling rapidly. What a ride!
I could never put into words the things I have always felt inside.
Deep within me, inately.
The only thing that came to me as I struggled to find words
to describe this ‘knowing’, like a splinter in my mind,
was my “Quantum Leaping”.

This is the blog I decided to go “live” with.
I hope you enjoy this site and it helps lift you up in some way.
I hope it inspires you, and offers something purposeful in your life.
Noone has ever outlived ‘life’.
My life has been a long time coming and now it is time … to fly.

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A NEW BEGINNING

Posted in: A New Beginning Fly With Me Productions by Pamela on September 24, 2008

“If you do not tell your story you are doing humanity a disservice”

Life is not a private affair
A story or what I would rather call ‘an experience’
and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
We will be better off if we all got along.
In Peace, so shall it be.

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