Have you ever saved a life?

Question

I learned how to do CPR around the age 10. I've always remembered. i knew about hot dogs being dangerous and ice and other stuff . One day I had bought some frozen mini pizza rolls ( looks like eggs rolls) Anyway after giving them to my 3 yr old son he went to eat. I was still in the kitchen washing the dishes. So usually he like makes sounds when he eats ya know what i'm talkingabout those hmmimg sounds like its good lol. So he was way too quiet for me. I started to leave the kitchen to check on him. He was walking toward me he looked like something was wrong. And it was. i asked him are you ok? He didn't answer he was just looking at me moving his hands. I said what is wrong? what is wrong? can u breathe? he shook his head no. He was choking. I'm like OH MY GOD what the hell am i gonna do. I thought about calling the ambulance but my phone line was being repaired.Ok no phone? then i'm like ok let me carry him with me to knock on a neighbors door. But he started turning blue that

is when i knew i'd have to handle it all alone cause no one was home with me.

So i tured his back to me and balled up my fist and did the hymlick manuver. The pizza roll came out and he was fine thank God. My baby.

Answer 1

yes, many times but ironic enough, not as many times while on duty as a firefighter/medic as off duty just being me. If I had it my way, there woundn't be a teenager out there that could get they're driver licence without having to take a certification course in CPR and the hyemlic manuver. These two very basic things have saved more lifes than anything else because your right there and at the very start of the window of oppertunity and the golden hour. The last time I had to do the hyemlic was on a 35 year old female at my sister's dinner table. we were sitting down to enjoy a nice london broil. It was cut real thin and on the bias for tenderness when this person jammed four or five pieces into her mouth. she was signailing to pat her back with hand jesters and pounding her chest. My sister looked at her..looked at me like are'nt you going to do anything??? while she was turnning blue, my sister was pacing back and forth in front of the dinner table, making deep sighing sounds, wondering why isnt he doing anything about this, shes dying!! after this woman quit making choking noises, jestering and just put her hands in her lap and staired streight ahead, blue as can be, vains poping out of her forhead, tears running down her face and waitting to die, that was my signal I was waiting for...I jumped up, kicked a chair and the 85 lbs labador from behind her and started the hyemlic manuver. On the second (very deep thrust) into her diafram, she hurled this wad of meat out on the table the size of an orange and instantly got her color back as she gasped for air. My sister is now ready for a four finger shot of jack danials, she's hyperventalating and asked me"why did you wait so long to help her? The answer is...as long as she was trying to help herself, I stood a very good chance of knocking down the wad of meat she was trying to choke up deeper down her throat. when she gave up, I knew there was no chance of her choking up the meat on her own and there for, I had all the perfect elements for a sucessfull rescue. My little sister will and hasn't been the same ever since! oh, not because of the choking incendent but because I told this woman while the blue was disapearing and her vains were subsiding...the only thing that eat's a pound of meat at one time is a fricken python, maybe "Boomer", that 85 lbs lab. that was there. hope you enjoyed :)

Answer 2

Guess what needs to be added to CPR training (or any life-saving training) is a how-to-keep-it-cool training.

Yes, I saved a life once. I've pulled a man out of a burning tent. His hair and his leg were on fire. While pulling him out, I yelled that someone had to call an ambulance (luckily some people reacted to that). He lost his leg (amputation at the hospital), but I did save his head.........and his life).

There are trainings available for panic controll, might be usefull.

Answer 3

certain, I carried out the Heimlich maneuver on a shopper in our kin's eating position at the same time as i became 16 or 17....he became very panicky and turning blue; he had gotten out of his chair and became strolling round flailing his fingers, and after I spoke of his blue face i realized right now what the count became. I easily have also had my life saved. My sister saved my life at the same time as i became about 5 or 6...we were swimming contained in the interior of sight "swimming hollow"...and that i became in a "trance-like" state, mendacity in water over my head, unable, for inspite of reason, to flow...i'm particular i'd have drowned had she no longer come and brought me from the water...it really is all a imprecise memory, yet i recognize she saved my life that summer day, and that i'd be forever grateful!

Answer 4

Yes I have saved a life. But I am a Certified First Responder. You did the right thing. I think anybody that has kids should know CPR and the basic First Aid

Answer 5

Good for you hon! I have never preformed CPR on anyone but I saved my brothers life...or so he said...one of our former employees came to our place of business with a gun and I heard a shot on the dock outside my office. I had no idea what was going on at the time so I opened the door and saw him with the gun facing me my brother in the way...I told him to put down the gun and I guess it brought him to his senses and he did. I know that he could have shot me as well but at the time I just let my instincts take over to save my brother.

Answer 6

I gave my friend the heimlich, but I had to give a stranger CPR once.

We were at the lake, and some guy had a heart attack while water skiing. I was the closest one there, so I gave mouth-to-mouth and my dad did chest compressions. He made it out alive too. We still have picnics with him each year.

Answer 7

Yes, I saved my own life, that is.

I was about 12 and I was laughing real hard when friends were telling me jokes. I had been sucking on this huge gum ball and suddenly, I started to choke.

No one realised that I was choking, so I administered the Heimlich Maneuver on myself.

Answer 8

Saved a 5-year-old from drowning.

Answer 9

As an active Volunteer EMT I saved many peoples lives.

Answer 10

Yes, I have. My older brother gave an M&M to my 1-year-old brother and he choked on it. I had to pound his back for 5 seconds.