Sometimes you just meet people who make you think...

Today, it was Lt Colonel Zaheer Shah - who's a consultant surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital but who is ALSO a serving army doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He's just come back from Afghanistan, and says that the medical unit there is actually probably the best hospital in the world. The survival rate for soldiers, and local Afghan people who're caught up in the war, is fantastic - no matter how bad the wounds.

"If you come in with a pulse," Zaheer told me, "you have a 96 per cent chance of survival." He told the story of a little Afghan child, who'd been shot through - yes, THROUGH, the head when caught in crossfire. Almost unbelievably, they saved him and he went home to his family on day five.

Like I say, you just want to thank God sometimes. And as the mum of a son who's absolutely determined to go into the Army - it makes me feel a whole lot better that guys like Zaheer are running the best hospital in the world for our soldiers.

Talking about inspirational military men, I'm looking forward to talking to an old friend, Falklands veteran and hero Simon Weston tomorrow!