Have you ever saved a life!!
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Yep. I pulled a drunk guy off of train tracks as the train was about to hit him.0
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Everyday! I'm a vegan
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When my son was 10, I took him to Brisbane to see the cricket. We stayed in a hotel overnight and went for a swim in the pool. Well he was swimming. I was laying back on the sun lounger reading a book. There was a Japanese lady there with her little toddler. He was at the edge of the pool watching my son and splashing in the water. She was sitting at a table and chairs reading a newspaper. The baby fell in. I was fully dressed and dove in after him. It was the deep end of the pool and well over my head. I kept surfacing with him and thrusting him upwards for her to take him out of my arms but she was in a panic. Eventually I yelled at her 'TAKE HIM'! and she snapped out of it and finally took him and I went down under the water again. My son who has autism was in shock. When I finally got out of the water I went over to him to make sure he was ok and he was staring at me with this bizarre look on his face, like he somehow 'knew'. It felt like we connected some how.
The next morning as we were checking out, they were in front of us with men in business suits. The baby saw us and squirmed in his mother's arms to stare at me and I smiled and blew him a kiss.
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When I was young a boy was in the deep end of the pool and couldn't swim..his sis had towed him out but couldn't keep him up. All the adults were off partying...so I jumped in and towed him out...wouldn't get close to give him but a hand because I was scared he would jump on me. I got him to the side and made him get out of the pool until an adult could watch him.
I didn't save my neighbor's baby when he passed from SIDS but I was told that I was his best shot when I gave him CPR till the ambulance arrived. He was still warm but blue when I had gotten to him. Was in shock for hours afterwards. Nobody noticed.0 -
Everyday at work. I work for lifesavers candy...0
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My tiny preemie twins got their vaccinations and would not stop crying. We put them in their favorite baby swings, and still, they did not stop crying. I had a errand to run, so left them in their swings with their Daddy nearby. When I got home, they had stopped crying. I went to check on them, and the saw the littlest one was charcoal grey and not breathing. I picked her up and recall hearing myself screaming like a wounded animal. My husband just stared in shock. I realized that I had to do something. So I layed her on the floor and gave her mouth to mouth. On the third breath, which I did a little more forcefully, I thought I saw her soul slide back into her body, and then she started to breath again. She's 16 now and still loves to hear that story. "Tell me again about the day I died." LOL0
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Once i let a mosquito bite me and then let it go. :bigsmile:0
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As an ER vet tech, I save lives just about every day.0
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Everyday! I'm a vegan
Oh really? Me too then, I'm not a cannibal!0 -
you guys are awesome.
I haven't, but my dad did: many years ago, in 1960something, we were on vacation in a hotel in the Catskills (I think; don't remember much, i was a little girl at the time), and a kid was drowning in the pool - i don't remember much, but i remember seeing my father run and dive into the pool and pull the kid up from where he was lying on the floor of the pool, and i remember the kid lying on the side of the pool area coughing up water.0 -
Yes few times now0
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My best friend would say so. Like another person said, "intuition". It was the craziest, heart-dropping feeling. I was out at a store with another friend and I just had this instant feeling that something wasn't ok with my best friend. I said we had to get to her immediately because it wasn't right. When I walked in the door, I just knew instantly. We were suite-mates....shared a bathroom. I ran through to her room and saw her on her bed. She had attempted suicide....pills and slitting her wrists pretty bad. I didn't know what to do, but I guess whatever I did, ended up saving her. The docs said had it been much longer, she would have bled out. They pumped her stomach several times. She hated me for a while. I hated her for a while. I went through every emotion you could possibly think of for about a year. She moved away and I was scared every single day. I didn't know how to talk to her. After a year of no conversation, we talked. One of the very few times I can say two people let everything go and forgave each other and ourselves for the feelings we had felt. It's a crazy, relieving feeling.....very hard to describe to someone that hasn't felt it.
People say suicide is selfish and they automatically hate people that ever even consider it.....but until you've been there with someone you love.....it's just something I never want to feel again.
Anyways, she's super happy now! It has been about five or six years now....she has a husband that loves every single bit of her and a baby boy that is so amazing! Her life is wonderful and I'm so glad I still get to be a part of it!0 -
SAVING LIVES IS MY SUPER POWER..LOL
I am a 911 Dispatcher.0 -
Yep. I pulled a drunk guy off of train tracks as the train was about to hit him.
Wow! I always hope I would be this brave in a situation like this!0 -
Rescued a woman and child, plus and elderly man that were trapped under a collapsed apt building during the San Francisco Bay Area earthquake Oct 17, 1989, that 7.1 magnitude quake that interrupted the World Series. The trapped people were 15 feet underground and I was lowered by my ankles by a rope and they pulled me, with them attached to me out from under the large apt house.
This is incredible!0 -
My best friend would say so. Like another person said, "intuition". It was the craziest, heart-dropping feeling. I was out at a store with another friend and I just had this instant feeling that something wasn't ok with my best friend. I said we had to get to her immediately because it wasn't right. When I walked in the door, I just knew instantly. We were suite-mates....shared a bathroom. I ran through to her room and saw her on her bed. She had attempted suicide....pills and slitting her wrists pretty bad. I didn't know what to do, but I guess whatever I did, ended up saving her. The docs said had it been much longer, she would have bled out. They pumped her stomach several times. She hated me for a while. I hated her for a while. I went through every emotion you could possibly think of for about a year. She moved away and I was scared every single day. I didn't know how to talk to her. After a year of no conversation, we talked. One of the very few times I can say two people let everything go and forgave each other and ourselves for the feelings we had felt. It's a crazy, relieving feeling.....very hard to describe to someone that hasn't felt it.
People say suicide is selfish and they automatically hate people that ever even consider it.....but until you've been there with someone you love.....it's just something I never want to feel again.
Anyways, she's super happy now! It has been about five or six years now....she has a husband that loves every single bit of her and a baby boy that is so amazing! Her life is wonderful and I'm so glad I still get to be a part of it!
Aww so happy for her! Thanks for sharing. :flowerforyou:0 -
Everyday! I'm a vegan
That doesn't count!0 -
I beg to differ.Everyday! I'm a vegan
That doesn't count!0 -
Yes when a patient went into cardiac arrest during care I gave CPR and revived her.0
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I am pretty sure that I save people from themselves here on MFP every day.
You're welcome.0 -
Tis true, he rocks.I am pretty sure that I save people from themselves here on MFP every day.
You're welcome.0 -
No way of know if the definitely would have died but there's a good chance.
Walking along the street in Bali, Indonesia....the sidewalks are in very poor condition and the kerbs are very high.
As we walked past a group of Japanese ladies. The eldest (who I suspect was around 80, was at the rear of their group) stumbled off the kerb and right into traffic (Bali has incredibly busy streets with zero ttaffic management)
I just reacted and dived out,wrapped myself around her and bundled her out of the way.
No-one in her group had seen what happened until after when I was still holding her....so they thought I was attacking her lol0 -
911 dispatcher here, so I *help* saves lives all the time I guess.
But this one time, I was visiting my friend in Chicago, and we went to the mall with the Maceys on Michigan Ave. As we were walking out, there was this man lying face down on the floor with his arms and legs spread out. I watched about a dozen people step over and around him. I almost continued on just because I thought maybe it was a joke BECAUSE people were walking over him... Then I walked back to him and asked him if he was okay. He didn't answer or move. So I yelled out, "has anyone called 911?" Some chick from a store yelled back, "I did."
Even though I didn't know WHY he was on the ground, it was clear he wasn't breathing, so I made the decision to support his neck and turn him over, preparing to start CPR. He was very large, so my friend helped me with this. As soon as we had him on his back, he took a loud, deep breath and opened his eyes halfway. I asked him if he knew his name, but all he could mumble was "stroke." So, I tilted his head back to improve his airway and kept him awake until rescue arrived. My friend had taken his cellphone and dialed his last called number. It was his brother who was at the mall. Our guy had told them to go on without him because he was feeling weak. He had assumed it was diabetes, so he bought some orange juice and started walking to the bench.
I honestly don't know if this guy ever made it. I wish I had taken down his phone number.0 -
bump because this thread gives me hope in humanity:flowerforyou:0
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I love this thread. And shout-out to all my fellow 911 dispatchers in the house! These feel-good stories are so refreshing!0
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My husband and I have been first on the scene at traffic accidents and a waterfront situation. Only one injured person out of the four situations survived. I think most people dont realize that CPR is a last ditch effort and only has something like a 5% survival rate.
Dependent on the cause of arrest its higher than 5%, though in trauma as you experienced survival is poor. Sudden cardiac arrest with good bystander CPR and early access defib can have a good chance of survival - estimated 75%
The lesson - everyone should learn CPR
my granddad had a heart attack while waiting for an appointment at the doctor's surgery, nurses on duty did CPR and saved his life (although he died a couple of years later from something else)0 -
I have spent years working as a lifeguard, so I have. The worst was an elderly man having an epileptic fit in the swimming pool. Thankfully he was fine, I never have been so glad for my training.0
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Boat fire - swam out, pulled a mother and her daughter OFF the boat and got them to safety - neither knew how to swim.
Military service - humanitarian support (languages) in Huichole area - we evac'ed people for various reasons (floods, shots, accidents). Actually had to force some dumb "social worker" onto a truck and restrain her in a mudslide area.
Friend cut himself on purpose in the woods - field sutures. Talked him out.
Heimlich twice but I think those would have self resolved.
I also worked triage support in a hospital and later designed hip implants but that's not very direct "life saving"..
Trekking: We had an Indian guy in another group that broke his leg in the Himalayas. He insisted we not call in a copter ($5000) - splinted and "racked" him so he could be carried out on a three/four day return. I helped, he made it but I'm sure it was the wrong decision.
I should update my CPR/First Response training.0 -
FYI meat is dealicious nom nom nom
Anyway back on topic, I can't remember if Ive directly saved someones life, but im a blood donor coming upto my 27th donations so I hope at least one of the donations saved someones life.0 -
I beg to differ.Everyday! I'm a vegan
That doesn't count!
Thankyou!:flowerforyou:0
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