Have you ever saved someones life or had yours saved?

Question

If so, what were the circumstances of it? How did it all happen? What happened afterwards? Did you get a chance to thank your rescuer? Did you get a chance to see the person you saved again?
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. :)

Answer 1

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!)

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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 .

Answer 4

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!

Answer 5

In all the a number of "adventures" i've got had, while i replaced into on the area of suffering previous my ability somebody could unavoidably take place by ability of windfall and save me. there are a number of human beings i think of fondly of, who saved me from going hungry, or freezing, or passing out interior the path of a barren area trek or perhaps offering affected person co-suffering...I thank God for some human beings consistently, however i'm uncertain how i will each pay off them...i've got stopped reliving maximum of those situations, however the strategies nevertheless stay.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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!

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

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.

Answer 10

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.