We had none. Someone took it out and figured our position. This information was quickly relayed to the person on the other line of the phone, and the helicopter was able to fly directly to the site of my accident. Even with these blessings, it took nearly four hours for me to be airlifted and taken to the hospital. I was very cold but alert and calm.
Time is a key factor in the aftermath of an accident.
Minutes determine a vast influence upon the survival of the victim. My survival may well be owed to the luck we had with the cellular phone and the GPS, for had we not been able to use these essential tools, the time would have been doubled. My bleeding would have continued, and I would have again lapsed into the unconscious, the next step would have been death. I was, then, air lifted and taken to Bangor, Maine, site of the Eastern Maine Medical Center. I had lost a quart of blood, nearly half of what my circulatory system normally held.