have you ever had to save someone's life?
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I bet some poster before the day is out will start a ‘have you ever had to take someone’s life?’ thread
I like holding people under water until the bubbles stop.......
Saved a friend's life from suicide. He texted me that he was ending it. He said good bye. Called the sheriff and they went to his apt. He wouldn't answer the door. They unlocked his door and found him setting up the stuff to hang himself in the bathroom. He's still alive today
I once caught stormy Daniels screwing president trump to death. It's a good thing I intervened. You're welcome MERICA'
I did CPR on a few people, but it wasn't much good. I'm pretty sure they were already dead. I was on a volunteer fire dept so we usually did something for the victim until the ambulance crew got there and let them call the death.
I drove the ambulance a few times so that both paramedics could be in the back to work on the victim. Don't know if they lived though.
Gave my daughter O2 when she was still an infant in the hospital. Long story, but she was premature, so no gag reflex & choked on her milk.
I drove the ambulance a few times so that both paramedics could be in the back to work on the victim. Don't know if they lived though.
Gave my daughter O2 when she was still an infant in the hospital. Long story, but she was premature, so no gag reflex & choked on her milk.
I performed the heimlich on someone at a restaurant....that's about it for me.
My wife was sitting out back of our house (I was not home) and heard what she thought was a gun shot, then a woman screaming. She looked up and the house above us had a back deck and the ladies son had just shot himself in the head to commit suicide and was draped over the back railing. My wife ran up and basically held this guys brains in (although she new he was dead) until EMS arrived. She's a nurse and has seen a lot of stuff, but that one rocked her big time because it was outside of the hospital setting.
My wife was sitting out back of our house (I was not home) and heard what she thought was a gun shot, then a woman screaming. She looked up and the house above us had a back deck and the ladies son had just shot himself in the head to commit suicide and was draped over the back railing. My wife ran up and basically held this guys brains in (although she new he was dead) until EMS arrived. She's a nurse and has seen a lot of stuff, but that one rocked her big time because it was outside of the hospital setting.
No, but I've had my life saved.
Muggy night, curtains drawn in a little room downstairs. Scoped out a prima donna princess perched in her electric chair. Had one more beer and couldn't hear anymore. Then everybody went crazy -- friends rolling 'round the basement floor. Psycho chick almost had her hooks in me, nearly had me roped and tied, in fact. Then...someone saved my life that night.
Muggy night, curtains drawn in a little room downstairs. Scoped out a prima donna princess perched in her electric chair. Had one more beer and couldn't hear anymore. Then everybody went crazy -- friends rolling 'round the basement floor. Psycho chick almost had her hooks in me, nearly had me roped and tied, in fact. Then...someone saved my life that night.
Came home late one Friday night when I was 18. Went to the bathroom a little later and my mom heard the toilet flush so she kicked on the floor as a signal for me to come see her. She said she was having chest pains and was going to the doctor in the morning. I said that no, we were going to the hospital right then. They said she probably had about another 20 minutes or she would have been dead. Kind of freaky to think that if I had not gotten up to go to the bathroom my mom would probably be dead.
Damn. That's the kind of thing that rock anyone regardless of setting or experience.
My wife is also a nurse. She was the first civilian on the scene of a car vs semi on black ice. She had to crawl into the car and hold a guys brains in and decide which patient got to ride on the air ambulance. She never found out what happened afterwards.
I saved your life yesterday. I killed a **** eating dog. My little league basketball coach use to tell that joke at least 3 times a week.
About 15 years ago a coworker of mine came back into the office from lunch sweating bullets and complaining of fatigue. So he sat down. I asked him if anything else was wrong and he said that his left arm was hurting. I said you're having a heart attack and we need to get you to the hospital.
My truck was getting serviced so I busted into the conference room and broke up a client meeting and quickly explained the situation. My boss threw me his keys from across the room and I bolted. He had a fairly new Jeep Cherokee that I drove like an Indy car to the hospital. But what my boss failed to tell me was that the knob on the stick shift was loose and would come off in your hand from time to time if you weren't careful.
So between me driving 90 miles an hour on city streets, weaving in and out of traffic, running red lights, and that stick shift nob coming off several times...my coworker said twice during the trip, "I don't think it's the heart attack that's gonna kill me."
But I got him there. And sure enough it was a heart attack. Wound up having bypass surgery and survived the ordeal...despite my driving.
My truck was getting serviced so I busted into the conference room and broke up a client meeting and quickly explained the situation. My boss threw me his keys from across the room and I bolted. He had a fairly new Jeep Cherokee that I drove like an Indy car to the hospital. But what my boss failed to tell me was that the knob on the stick shift was loose and would come off in your hand from time to time if you weren't careful.
So between me driving 90 miles an hour on city streets, weaving in and out of traffic, running red lights, and that stick shift nob coming off several times...my coworker said twice during the trip, "I don't think it's the heart attack that's gonna kill me."
But I got him there. And sure enough it was a heart attack. Wound up having bypass surgery and survived the ordeal...despite my driving.
yes .. at work. Contractor band sawed a 1 inch pipe that exploded on him. hole in his side that exposed his guts...I held them in and did rescue breathing till EMS took over..He survived but lost his spleen and kidney..
also in my teens, saved a drowning victim at a public swimming pool..CPR
also in my teens, saved a drowning victim at a public swimming pool..CPR
I quit drinking about 15 years ago. Probably saved my own life. That count? No? Ok.
Gotta love the pre "everyone gets a trophy" era little league coaches. Had a drunk for a coach that would give the refs the finger and pull us off the floor after a couple bad calls. 4th grade I think.
I jumped in a pool to grab my nephew last summer. Me and dad were fully clothed having a beer and my kids and my 2 nephews were swimming. My 13 year old son had just gone in and the two 9 year olds and the 6 year old were still swimming. 6 year old started taking in water in the deep end. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and jumped in and set him on the side of the pool. Quick, efficient, and cost effective.
Can't say for sure we saved lives, but this happened over 40 years ago. I coached a teen baseball team. Driving back from a game with some of the kids with me, we noticed something off the road. A car had gone off the road about 100 yards into a field. It was upside down with the roof flattened enough the 4 teens couldn't get out. We couldn't get them out but one of our group went to a small town about 1 mile away and had someone call the cops, ambulances, etc.. When the cops got there, they made us get away as the car was leaking gas. It was about 11 pm, so if we hadn't seen them, they might have been there all night. Wasn't much traffic there at night. No one was seriously hurt, but very beat up and bruised.
I was walking down the street once and some woman walked out into traffic without looking. I yelled "HEY STOP!" and she jumped back right before a car hit her.
I haven’t saved a life but I’ve been a first responder several times. Car wrecks, accidents, etc. mild to moderate first aid....nothing more.
Hat off to the medical people. I'm one that can do most everything but sure would not want to have to deal with others pain and suffering, it bothers me to see others suffering. I was a lifeguard and pulled a few kids out of pool, no big deal, none need any other assistance.
I used to travel the Daniel Boone Pkwy lots and saw a few killed in wrecks there where no one could have helped. But, with help, I think I have saved 2-3. One got his lungs full of water in a creek, his wife and I CPR'd him back to breathing and I held him upside down to drain the rest of the water out of his lungs. Another fell from a height, quit breathing and I pushed while another blew... he came back with no problems, just sore from fall.
Another, I don't see how I really "helped", got trowed of cliff and fell more than 100 vertical ft and landed in mud. The paramedics tried to get his heart beating again but had no luck. They declared him dead. When I made it to the ambulance/ truck the paramedics were outside, sitting on ground smoking. I went in just to check things out, they had used the paddles 3 times I think. Them and all kinds of other things laying all around the floor, was still hooked up to the monitors and was all flat lined except one little wiggle on the very left gauge.... I was wondering what was going to happen to me. what poped out of my mouth was, your sister is sure going to be pissed at me... after 10 seconds or so his heart made a beat, and them some more.... then he started breathing. I saw him in hospital a couple weeks later and he was doing fine, expecting to get out in another couple weeks... but was still a dick head.
I used to travel the Daniel Boone Pkwy lots and saw a few killed in wrecks there where no one could have helped. But, with help, I think I have saved 2-3. One got his lungs full of water in a creek, his wife and I CPR'd him back to breathing and I held him upside down to drain the rest of the water out of his lungs. Another fell from a height, quit breathing and I pushed while another blew... he came back with no problems, just sore from fall.
Another, I don't see how I really "helped", got trowed of cliff and fell more than 100 vertical ft and landed in mud. The paramedics tried to get his heart beating again but had no luck. They declared him dead. When I made it to the ambulance/ truck the paramedics were outside, sitting on ground smoking. I went in just to check things out, they had used the paddles 3 times I think. Them and all kinds of other things laying all around the floor, was still hooked up to the monitors and was all flat lined except one little wiggle on the very left gauge.... I was wondering what was going to happen to me. what poped out of my mouth was, your sister is sure going to be pissed at me... after 10 seconds or so his heart made a beat, and them some more.... then he started breathing. I saw him in hospital a couple weeks later and he was doing fine, expecting to get out in another couple weeks... but was still a dick head.