2006-09-14 15:20:16 · 18 answers · asked by hahey 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
ha sure, my sister was drowning in the hot tub and i pulled her pony tail up and yeah hahh that what a while back
2006-09-14 15:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by DuDe-Is-ThAt-MiCaH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a physician, many times... that is expected but it still "feels" good.
Twice away from the hospital. Once on a climbing trip when another climber went into grand mal seizures at altitude and we brought him down to where a helicopter could pick up after stabilizing him. This was a little tricky. Kind of aggravated me because I had to fly off the mountain with him so that I could brief the ER doc at arrival. At least we were on our way down.
The first time was in high school when an 8 year old on a bike had been hit by a car and was bleeding out through a gaping gash in his scalp. When the EMTs arrived they credited a "definite save" to controlling his bleeding (approximation and pressure).
Neither one of these was particularly heroic.
Aloha
2006-09-14 22:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. While on vacation several years ago, I was watching some young boys playing on the steps of the pool. One 5 or 6 year old started rapidly bobbing up and down. At first I thought he was playing, then he didn't come up and started sinking to the bottom, his arms and legs spread out. By the time I reached the pool, he lay motionless on the bottom, I jumped in, thinking, "it's too late," but it wasn't. I gave him safely to his adult friend and started to my room, my street clothes clinging, long hair dripping, and leaving a trail of water across the lobby. The father caught up with my friend and me. He looked at my dry, young, pretty, long haired blond friend and thanked her for saving his son's life. She told him I had saved him not her (should have been obvious from my soaked skirt). He just looked at me and said nothing. The father couldn't tell which one to thank, but one of the little boys could, he brought my shoe to me from the bottom of the pool. I've often wondered about the boy, hope he has a good life, and now when I happen to remember it, I get a good laugh about the father.
2006-09-14 23:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by Dan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a medic in the army, I treated a lot of life threatening injuries.
As a nurse, I saved a few and lost a few.
As a parent I save my childrens lives about once a week.
2006-09-14 22:32:17 · answer #4 · answered by medic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 12 years ago in Narberth, PA, my friend Adam and I were riding in his Toyota 4runner and we spotted a hot air balloon riding low in the sky. For fun we decided to follow it to see it land. Uh oh; it landed in the middle of a river! (And this is why you should never ride a hot air balloon) The balloon collapsed onto the basket and trapped the people as the basket sunk into the water. Adam and I jumped in and furiously started pushing up the fabric of the balloon to reach the people in the basket. Suddenly a pair of arms thrust an 8 year old girl into my arms! I brought her to the bank while Adam helped out the mother, and I deflected the hot metal pipe with my hand as it was coming down on me and the operator (got a nasty 3rd degree burn too, but c'est la vie) and the father. Anyway, that's my story.
2006-09-14 22:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by DMBthatsme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have saved many lives. I was a 9-1-1 dispatcher and radio operator...I used to have to do CPR over the phone...talk about an amazing job.
2006-09-14 22:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was a cop, there are too many to list.
I have also held people as they died, felt a pulse as it last quivered and heard the sigh of the last breath.
Now remember that the next time you call a cop a pig after you get a ticket. Maybe he just doesn't want you watch you die crushed and bleeding in a car accident or see the pain in the face of your next of kin.
2006-09-14 22:24:52 · answer #7 · answered by Eldude 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not hard to save someone's life. But for me it was hard. When I was a kid, my sister was drowning but no one was looking. I didn't know how to swim and I was afraid of water. So all I did was scream for help. And everyone said that I saved her just by calling for help. I know you might think "That's nothing" to me but it's really scary having to know that someone you love is on the edge of death.
2006-09-14 22:23:58 · answer #8 · answered by Lalalalala! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My gf and I rented a tandem bike and we stopped near the top of a hill to rest. We saw this guy crash into a car that was parked on the shoulder of the road down the hill from us. I don't think he was in danger of dying, but we stopped the bleeding and called the paramedics. He was delusional, probably from head injury, kept asking if we saw the car that him. Police thought it was a hit and run, but we told them there was no other car he crashed all by himself.
2006-09-14 22:49:30 · answer #9 · answered by Kainoa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My second oldest and my second youngest daughters. Same thing. They were both underwater - one in a swimming pool [she was only 2] and the other at a lake. I saw their hair floating on top of the water - jumped in and grabbed them. Their father was supposed to be watching them while I went swimming in deeper water. We divorced in 1980.
2006-09-14 22:29:53 · answer #10 · answered by theophilus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
>I gave a bumb $5 for a hamburger<
And feeling stronger, the "bumb" once again began to listen to the voices.
Urged on by the increasingly louder voices and with renewed strength, he went out an murdered a family of 5.
You are now four in the hole.
2006-09-14 22:26:18 · answer #11 · answered by newt_peabody 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋