fracture of my femur. it was touch and go whether i could keep that leg, if they could save it. aboard the hospital ship uganda, medics like nicci pugh have been working at full capacity since the galahad attack. we were trying to set up and now successfully run an efficient floating military hospital ashore, 8,000 miles from our working home. it was hands to man the casualty evacuation process and casualties started arriving in larger numbers. by now, because we had already received considerable number of burns and badly injured patients, this was a good routine that was working extremely well. that routine was to be tested as the british army continued to fight some of its hardest battles