Have you ever literally had to save someone's life?
When my oldest daughter was 3, she drowned and was “gone”. Her eyes were rolled back, she wasn’t breathing. She and I were all alone, so I had no help and I almost panicked, but I tried to stay calm as I did what I had to do. It worked, thank God, and I almost collapsed afterward, just from the sheer stress and mental exhaustion of having to revive my own child. But because of that, because of almost losing her, I love her so much more that I ever thought possible.
Have you literally ever brought someone back from the brink of death? How did you feel during your efforts? How did you feel afterward? Did saving their life make you feel a tighter bond with them?
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Yes my daughter chocked on a roll on Thanksgiving and went limp purple and was not breathing. I stayed calm and worked with her until she was breathing again. Then I went upstairs and basically collapsed from the pressure. I too am so glad that she was allowed to remain here with us. She has given me a wonderful grand child that I adore.
A time or two. Don’t really want to go into details, but I didn’t really feel any different afterward. It’s just what I had to do.
Yes; a suicide in progress using pills, over the phone, when I was a Crisis Center Counselor. Too sick to relate the details right now but I drove by her house to check and yes, the ambulance was there.
Several times, but they were all work related. It didn’t really change anything for me or affect the relationship I had with them since I was doing my job.
My son was overwhelmed by a wave when he was 20 months old and pulled out into the ocean. I ran barefoot down a rocky beach 9 months pregnant to find and scoop him out. He was upside down. It is amazing what adrenaline does for you! After coughing up water and then throwing up he was fine. Then I notice I had gashed my feet and my knee.
Not sure I saved her life but I stepped in when a woman was getting a good kicking off her fella…& I mean a good kicking.. After I laid him out I went to check that she was ok, she was ok alright, dam near took out my eye with the heel of her shoe, now there’s gratitude for ya! :-/
We all lived :-/
I had similar situation in college when I worked as a life guard and saved a man who was DOA when we got him off the bottom of the deep end. It was the single most cathartic event of my life. I was in shock from it for a long long time. There is no describing how it feels to have someones life in your hands and can’t imagine what that was like for you to have your own child’s life in your own hands!
Oh man. My stomach is just all in knots reading that. What a terrible experience for you.
Yes, many times. It comes with the territory, though, since I work in the medical field. I have had to do it outside of a work environment, though, as well.
By the way I just posted my grand daughter’s picture as my avatar. She is the grand daughter I have from the daughter who chocked.
Sorry about the spelling. It is choked instead of chocked.
I have had to call 911 a few times,but I don’t look at it as some heroic thing.Anyone would have done the same.My dad has saved lives as a Marine in Korea.He never talked about it and I only found out about it through my mother.A few of the people whose lives he saved tried to contact him for years after, but he downplayed that bigtime as that was his job and he says anyone would have done what he did.I think not,he was something else:)
That’s such a cool story about your dad!
This summer we were driving down a winding mountain road that leads to the desert. My brother was driving and he slammed on his brakes when he saw that a motorcyle had just crashed on the side of the road. We pulled over and my brother got on the phone and dialed 911 while standing in the middle of the road to make people stop so they wouldn’t hit the man. I went over to the man and made sure he was conscious and not bleeding. His friends who had been motorcyle caravaning with him had stopped down the hill and came running back up. They got together and pulled the motorcycle off of him while I ran to get an umbrella and a bottle of water. It was close to 100 degrees and the man was on the pavement, wearing black leather clothing. I was afraid that he might succumb to heat stroke before the paramedics arrived. Luckily, they came right away, but I continued to hold the umbrella over the paramedics and the patient so none of them would get heat stroke. Turns out that he had a badly broken leg and was starting to go into shock. The paramedics had to give him intravenous morphine right out there in the middle of the street so that they could move him. He was in a lot of pain, but after the medication took effect, they were able to splint his leg and move him onto a gurney and into the ambulance.
You did say someone, not necessarily a person. Approx. 20 years ago, I had a dog named Putter. She was a minature dachshund. It was Christmas and my wife and I were at my mother’s house. Putter usually slept with us, but at mom’s house, we would make her a bed beside our bed as mom did not allow dogs in her beds. In the middle of the night, I was awaken by something and reached down and Putter was stiff and cold. I jump up and turned the lights on and she appeared dead. I quickly started giving her mouth to snout CPR. Mother, my brother and his wife, my wife, and everyone was crying like a baby….they thought she was dead. What seemed like a longtime, I kept blowing air into her nose and mouth. Mother said, “give up son, she is gone!” AND, a few seconds later, one her eyes popped open. In about 15 mintues, she was running around the house. We carried her to the vet that night….2am and one mad vet! He could not find anything wrong with her. Have no idea what caused that…
I have never saved a human, but..I saved my HORSE!
I was about 19 and wanted to tie my horse out lakeside while I went for a swim but did not have a halter with me.
I slipped her bridle over her neck and tied a rein to a big log.
A few minutes later when I came out of the lake she was on her knees with the bridle tightly wrapped around her upper neck and was clearly suffocating!
She had somehow tangled the rein around the log untill it was so tight and short she was forced to her knees by both circumstances.
My cabin was about a half mile uphill and I ran to the house and grabbed a small pair of scissors, all I could find in the moment because a knife would have been too dangerous to attempt.
When I returned she was in bad shape, really struggling and panicked, I had a hard time getting close enough to saw away at the rein with the scissors as she was panicked and lunging and thrashing.
FINALLY I cut through the leather and she fell over.
Her throat was swollen and she had an abrasion. ( she was a gray, almost white horse.)
After resting for a few minutes she got to her feet and I walked her home. She recovered just fine but, wow….crazy! lol
As a nurse I did CPR a few times, part of the job but what an adrenalin rush!! We all felt slightly sick and trembly after.
Yes.
I felt good about it.
One is still a friend.
One I never saw again.
I was a volunteer firefighter for a while, so… yeah.
Yes. About seven at last count.
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