Have you ever saved someones life or had yours saved?
By the way I am NOT referring to 'spiritual saving',.. I am talking about being in physical danger and being spared your life by a passing stranger etc etc etc. You know what I mean. :)
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Yes, when I was 3 or 4 I had the cunning idea that if I put my arm bands (water wings) round my ankles I would be able to walk on the water of our local pool. Of cause I swung upside down and couldn't right myself. I actually drowned but was saved and given CPR by the local life guard. Never found out who he was and it was over 31 years ago now but who ever you where THANK YOU x
(Still think the arm band round ankle idea was a rational experiment at the time! lol!)
yes i did in a pool.
A doctor kind of saved my daughters life when she was a baby she had been ill all day and had a high temp so i called them and he was only a few doors away he came straight round and found a rash on her he rang for an ambulance to take us to hos where they found she had meningitis she was in hos a total of 3 months i think he saved her life if id had to make an app or wait for him to come she may have died I never got to say thankyou to him but i sure owe him one
yes the whole works mouth to mouth full cpr. X cindy
I have saved someones life and had mine saved about six times because I do mad, dangerous and extreme stuff.
Hope I am not a cat!
I gave a policeman a first aid lesson once in the art of CPR and we managed to save a heart attack victim between us. I didn't see him again but his family put out a veritable 'APB' trying to find me...radio, front page of newspapers, reward, the lot! I eventually got to speak to them and they were SO grateful. This man was a dad, a son, a brother and someone's lover and as far as I am concerned, it should be COMPULSORY to know basic first aid. The amount of people standing around unable to help was disgusting.
yes, i saved someone i work with 's life.
he was choking and turning purple and i performed the heimlich manouver, and he was fine then, but it makes me think what would have happened if i hadnt been there?
on our honeymoon in arube 15 yrs ago, we were jet skiing in about 15 foot waves. we tipped over and our life jackets were so old they didn't work. once i came up i saw my husband about 50 yards away, as soon as he came up he got hit with a wave again and went down. I'll never forget the look on his face. he never came up again, somehow i swam underwater and found him. i held him up and swam back to the jet ski to hold us up until someone came out and got us. it was very scary and yes we are still together.
yes a little girl came running over to my house and said her mum was choking, so i went over and she was so i did that manouver which you do to release what was stuck. she was going blue when i found her, everyone else around her was running around pannicking. she was fine- i did good.
well i have helped to save a few with the help of others but then i am a nurse.but 10 years ago i sat talking to a man on a bridge who was threatening to jump,don't know if i saved his life or not because I'm not sure he would have jumped or not but i like to think i did help him ...
I know you're not referring to 'spiritual saving' but this has just reminded me...
Years ago, I saved a friend who was planning to end it all. When she came back from hospital after her overdose, and was still in a bad way, I took the time to convince her that life was worth living. I am not the greatest optimist on earth, but I did manage to rescue her from the brink. At the time, I didn't make a fuss about it, but looking back, wow I saved my mate's life, that makes my day every day!
Yes - I saved a two year old girl from drowning when I was a college freshman. I was swimming at a lake with a group of friends, laughing and splashing around..
One of the girls screamed, about 4 feet away from us was what I thought was a toy doll, floating just under the surface of the water on its back. I did a double take and saw it was a toddler in just a diaper. I scooped her up (I was in waist deep water) and began yelling as I ran into shore with her. While running I turned her over and administered back blows between her shoulder blades until I got to shore. As I reached the shore, she coughed and threw up - I was glad becuase all I could think of was, "I can't remember the number of breathes to compressions for an infant in CPR."
She barffed once more and regained conciousness within a couple seconds of reaching the beach. All I remember after that was the park ranger / EMT showing up. The mother of the child was hysterical and YELLING at her 5-6 year old other daughter that SHE was supposed to be watching the baby, how did she let her get into the water, etc.
I had to be physically restrained after throwing a couple F-bombs at the mother for being SO irresponsible and blaming a 6 year old for her child's near drowning.
So suffice it to say - I didn't get a big thank-you for my efforts. The EMT's were checking out the toddler and the sherrif was talking with the mom, so I just sat down on a picknic table and kinda broke down. I had to have a couple beers and some smokes to calm down, so we got oout of there pretty quick so we could drink without the cops being around.
Its been a good 17-18 years since that happened. I can still remeber it very vividly. I have no idea what the girl's name was and I sometimes wonder what became of her or if her mother ever got a damn clue about being a parent.
Everytime I go to my hometown and drive past that lake area - I think of that - I probaly always will.
Yes my mate Pat, if I hadn't given him an alibi
he's old lady would have killed him
Yes once a long timeago when I was about 12 or 13 we were at the seaside and the sea was very rough and I noticed a young boy having dificulties I went in the water and got him out. I didnt realise at the time tho that I had probably saved him from being swept away. I never saw him again .
I pulled an infant off the bottom of the pool. It scared me to death. I was more angry with the child's mother for putting her child into that postion by not watching her closely enough. Arm "booties" that float can slide off. The situation just kind of came and went. The mother grabbed the child and left the area
yes, i was a member of a volunteer rescue/fire dept. back in 1999, i was in my truck going to my sister's house when i noticed black skid-marks going down a ravine and i stopped. A car had flipped and was laying on its side. 1 passenger bleeding badly. i called for help on cell. person was alive but very weak and he whispered his legs might be broken. i used knife and cut seatbelt. pulled him out and away from car, just then the car exploded. the ordeal lasted20min ,but it felt like 20hrs to me . the guy survived and we are friends today.
I was driving a friend home at 4am - he was in the back seat, my hubby riding shotgun - they had been drinking - went around a curve and saw that there was a car on the right shoulder of the two lane with it's hazard and reverse lights on. I got over into the left lane to give them room, figured they missed a driveway or something. It's a curved road with no streetlights, and then I see it - there is a car flipped up on it's side in my lane - the undercarriage is facing me, flat back, hard to make out, but definatly a half a ton of steel 35 feet in front of me...and I'm going 50mph. I swerved to miss it and did - by less than a foot. I parked on the shoulder and yelled to the car that has its hazard lights on asking if anyone was hurt, he yelled back that he didn't know but was calling 911. I went over to the car and saw a girl, about 18 or 19, sitting in the fetal position on the drivers side window, looking out the windsheild. I moved my truck between her overturned car and oncoming traffic so no one would smack into her (like I'd almost done). Our friend got the passenger door open, she hoisted herself up onto the b-pillar, and my husband lifted her out of the car. She was coming from the opposite direction, had fallen asleep at the wheel and started to run off the right shoulder, woke up and jerked it hard to the left, hit the median just right and went airborne.
It's not like we did CPR on her to get her heart started again or anything, but we did prevent her from being crushed if another car had hit hers.
This happen four months ago - we didn't stick around to give our names to the cops, so we never found out what her last name is, just that she's a local college student. Honestly, I probably wouldn't recognize her if I bumped into her at the grocery. It's just a cool story to tell.
Yes. It involved a near drowning. At least two decades ago, a young female was a member of a group of agronomy graduate students from the U of Illinois. Their countries of origin were: Egypt, Jordon, Turkey, France, and Palestine. We joined a group of members of Rural Youth from Southern IL. We were headed to Lake Carlisle for a picnic and swimming. I was and am a pretty good swimmer. One female foreign students chose to swim to the raft approximately 350 ft. from the shore. She lacked the endurance, and as I was swimming back to shore, I saw her struggle, and helped her to safety. OK, that's it.
No but I did single handedly and in a moment of calm collectedness I swiftly pinched a wasp sting from the tip of a small child's tongue before the sting broke through and hurt him. It was amazing, like in slow motion and just brilliant because I really took the sting out the situation and he was so happy!
Twice; one was a young lad gone over a weir, I was able to remove him from the clutches of the torrent.
T'other was my own brother, was using an electric drill. Old type with a metal case. Well the thing shorted through the case and he clutched it to his chest in spasm. 240 volts going through him and he had the presence of mind to think to run far to break the connection, but he forgot he was using an extension lead. He went full speed through two closed doors but it was not enough. When I reached him he was spasming and screaming on the ground - I just grabbed the lead and pulled the thing off him. I got a belt too, but he was burned in the chest and hands and quite weak for a while.
Don't think about it much, you just brought it all back to me.
4 times that i can think off i said ta very much
a man i used to work with almost fell into pit in our work area i caught him just in time if he had fell and he did not die he would have been hurt very bad
I was caught in the Kansas City Plaza flood in '77, and swept under the front of a small car. I clung onto the bumper, but was slowly slipping under. I could feel the little rocks and debris hitting my back and I was "shipping water". I soon "forgot" all about earthly things--including my DEAREST DARLING LITTLE GIRL!! My mind was clear of all emotion and I had a very clear understanding of the situation and results if I couldn't hold on. I think from later searching, was "hypoxia" and felt an incredible loving FEELING!! But luckily, there was a voice just one foot from my face and that said, "You CAN'T do that to KAREN! YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO KAREN!!" My little girl!! I remember it all; screamed at the top of my lungs and fought to brace myself against the current dragging me under. I did call for Jesus--reverted to my childhood training! Finally a man came and pulled my head up out of the water, but couldn't pull me out alone. Another man came to help--both risking their own lives to come to help me!! They pulled me to safety. I did my best to thank them! I was still coughing and they took me to the emergency just next door. They gave me shots, etc. and I thanked the men over and over again and they disappeared before I ever got their names!! This was 30 yrs ago! I can't remember how I got to my little daughter who had been WATCHING from a window from my work where friends were taking care of her while I had been at a Teacher-Parent meeting--but I'll never forget the episode!! I've had a great life and my daughter is now 39. I found out that she had known that was me due to my red rain poncho! 33 people drowned that night!
I was 11 years old crossing over three lanes ( I swear I didnt see any vehicle coming before I crossed the third lane). A 4x4 truck came out of nowhere it seems, but looking back the street speed was 50 miles per hour- so thats a bit fast and the street was curved.
Anyhow the truck's passenger put his arms out the window and pushed me away as we were to collide (was a miracle, that he was able to push me), then I hit the back of the truck and passed out.
I totally was knocked out, I remember my dream. I was underwater and I was looking up at the sun through the water. There was a mermaid there with me and she was so nice, I wanted to stay in the water with her but I somehow felt the need to go back to the surface of the water to look at the sun. Right when I got to the surface I woke up and the ambulance came and everything. I only had road burn on my arm and leg and felt quite bruised. I have respected the streets ever since!
Oh yeah and then another time when I was 6 or 7. I was living in Portugal in the Azores Islands. I swam in the ocean all the time. Well it happened to be a warm day but really windy and I decided I wanted to swim in the ocean. I hadnt realized how rough the water was from the wind, I was getting pulled back farther and farther into the ocean and waves of salt water kept choking me, but I fought as hard as I could. I got to the side of the rock to climb up since it wasnt a beach. I couldnt grab on, but a teenage guy saw me and grabbed my hand. I was so grateful to him, but he made fun of me for trying to be invinsible in front of a couple of girls- so I ran away humiliated and frightened to the maximum!
yes i saved a life i was at the riight place at the right time . yes i am where i need to be when its time ,
no but you want an anser my father did a child was drowning in a big flood we had many living beside a river he jumped in and saved the child from drowning
When I was 5 yrs old I was rescued from drowning by a woman who noticed me in the lagoon. I was paddling and the sand just dropped away from under me and I couldn't swim.
My mother was there and she couldn't swim either.
The woman who saved me was a local woman who went for an afternoon swim every day and thankfully she was there when I needed her.
I don't remmber anything more than that.
I still fear deep water and drowning.
I saved kind of a lot of lives when I was twelve; my mum's... sufficiently evil... boyfriend decided to cement a bus to the M25 off a fast corner, so that when people went around it they would smush into it and die. I still don't know if it would have worked or not, but he told my mum who was too scared of him to tell the police, but told me, and I told the police and he was arrested. He came out though after only about a month, and my mum stayed going out with him for two months even after that. It took him getting really drunk and threatening to kill her, and I had to drag her into her bedroom and lock us in until the next morning when he had drunk everything in the house and he was finally sober. I'll always hate him because he was horrific and he hit her and I was only twelve, I'm now only fourteen and have depression, because my dad and a lot of her boyfriends have been like that.
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