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Sam Tennant
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00:00Don't submit to your leg, Mary. What happened?
00:05The car wheel's come over here.
00:07Whose car?
00:08Mine!
00:09Your own car?
00:10Yeah.
00:11Oh, bloody hell, even my legs are hurting now.
00:15Mary seriously injured her leg when she was run over by her own car.
00:21She's waiting for a specialist doctor to arrive from the plastics unit.
00:26She may need surgery to close up the wound.
00:30Hello.
00:31Hello.
00:32My name's Oliver. I'm one of the plastic surgery doctors.
00:34Oh, yeah.
00:35So, you've got quite a nasty wound. I've seen pictures of it already.
00:38Yes.
00:39You've luckily not broken any bones underneath.
00:41I know, yes.
00:42Which is very good.
00:43Yeah.
00:44There's a lot of areas where it's just the superficial skin that looks like it's come off.
00:47Yes.
00:48On the back, it's gone a bit deeper.
00:50Yes.
00:51You can see through right down to the muscle at one point,
00:53and you're going to need this wound washed out in theatre.
00:56Yeah.
00:57Okay.
00:58And close bits where we can close bits.
01:01Okay.
01:02Sometimes you can't always put it back on.
01:04So, you might still have big wounds.
01:06If there is an infection on board, wounds don't heal very well.
01:11So, we need to get that wound thoroughly washed out,
01:15and we need to get antibiotics on pretty fast
01:18to reduce the risk of deep-seated infections from setting in.
01:21Because you're not going to get your operation until tomorrow.
01:25Yeah.
01:26What I want to do is give it a bit of a clean now.
01:28Yeah.
01:29When I left Cambridge, I wanted to be a priest, but there was opposition.
01:42Over the years, I've been in some very acrimonious debates
01:48about the ordination of women.
01:52I've reacted quite strongly to some of the attitudes
01:58of some of the male, particularly.
02:03When I first came into the church,
02:07there were certain men who wouldn't receive communion from me.
02:11I felt sad for them, really.
02:13They hadn't got more sense, you know.
02:16They were so narrow.
02:18They weren't used to women having any say or power.
02:25You doing OK?
02:27OK.
02:28Yeah.
02:29Over time, there was more melting of some people's hearts
02:34towards women being ordained.
02:37So, this will keep it nice and moist?
02:39Seven years later, when I heard the news
02:42that women could become priests,
02:45I thought, thank God, at last, it actually happened.
02:50It wasn't easy, but I don't take straight roads.
02:56Great.
02:57Right.
02:58I was in that first batch to be ordained in 1994.
03:04It was quite a moment.
03:06It made me feel great that I was fulfilled
03:08and I was doing my job.
03:10Hello Sharon, it looks good for leaving you then.
03:14Yeah.
03:16I don't know if I will be united in the afterlife
03:20with my family one day.
03:22I'm much more interested in the present life.
03:27That's a big thing about your faith.
03:29You don't have to know all the answers.
03:32And it's a big thing to acknowledge
03:34that you don't know the answers.
03:36You're a private ambulance service.
03:39V.A.P. for you.
03:40Oh yeah.
03:41Yeah.
04:04This is the table, not at the church, but at the Lord.
04:08The secret to life is living it,
04:10and be interested and curious.
04:15I hope I live to be 100,
04:17but I want to live it, not just exist.
04:22Eat and breathe, and be thankful.
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