RED Cliffs resident Karen Parsons, 54, remembers paramedics gathering around her, asking her questions she couldn't answer.

"I remember everything that was being said to me," Ms Parsons said.

"I had all the answers in my head but I couldn't function, I couldn't talk."

Ms Parsons had been helping her partner, Andrew German, water trees on her 10-acre Red Cliffs property when she started to feel ...