Have you ever saved someones life ?

Question

or has anyone ever saved yours ? .. what happened ?

Answer 1

When I was a teen-ager, my friend and I were walking home from school. We chose to do that sometimes just for fun. Maybe we would stop and smoke a joint along the way. We decided to jump the fence around his apartment complex instead of walking all the way around. I got over the fence first. He climbed over it, but a wire caught the artery from his inside elbow and cut him. He was spurting blood and stood, in shock, watching his own blood coming out. I took off my t-shirt and wrapped it around his cut. Then we, mostly me, began banging on the doors of the nearby apartments, hollering for someone to call an ambulance. Paramedics came and took him to the hospital.

Answer 2

YES I work ems an we received a call of a 2 car head on collision, we were on scene within 4 min an found a male pt trapped in the vehicle when rescue arrived we extricated him an called for a helicoptor. We got him in the back of the truck with full spinal immoblization, he had a serious head injury blood was coming out of his sinuses an he had a laceration all the way across his face just below his eyes, an numerous other injurys, we then obtained IV life lines an intubated (placed a tube in his throat to breath for him) the pt, Emory Flight soon arrived an began preparing him for the chopper, He then began to "crash" his heart rate and blood pressure dropped we then deceided to rush him to the nearest ER because he was too critical to fly. We then decompressed his chest bilaterally (sticking 14g needles between the lining of the lungs) multiple times, enroute to the local hospital the pts heart stopped beating we then gave him a amp of EPI an Atropine to start it back, we arrived at the ER stabilized the pt an he was flown to Greenville SC He made almost a full recovery an only lost one eye

Answer 3

Yes, when I was younger, I pulled this little boy away from a car that was coming towards him, and almost hit him, but someone saved my life when I was swimming at camp in 5th grade, and almost drowned, and my best friend was trying to hold me up, so I wouldn't go under water, and 2 life guards had to save both of us.

Answer 4

While running several years ago, I literally stumbled upon a bicyclist who had fallen off his bike while going down a sharp hill on the all-purpose trail in the Metro Parks. He had tumbled into an area that was basically hidden and only faintly heards his groans.

He had suffered what appeared to be a very severe back injury. Luckily, while running off the trail and on the road I spotted a park ranger and explained to him where the ijured person was.

While running back through that area, the ranger had flagged me down, thanked me, said he was placed on a board due to the possible severity of the back injury & emphasized how difficult it was to get back in that area.

I was very lucky to be in that spot, as I typically didn't run through there in the summer.

Answer 5

I was parked at a bank on my lunch hour, waiting for a friend to come out, and I saw a man laying on the ground in a construction site down a hill and next to the parking lot where I was waiting. It looked like he was shaking, then he stopped moving.

I grabbed my phone, got out of the car and ran to the caution tape/fence and yelled to him but he wasn't moving. I started yelling and waving to the other construction workers on the other side of the lot, and was pointing to the guy laying down, but they couldn't hear me or tell what I was doing, so I went over the barrier and started running to the man on the ground.

He was unconscious and had been for at least a minute or two, and I was really worried that he had had a seizure of some kind. My friend came out just when I headed over the fence and she ran after me. The other construction guys ran toward us too, and I yelled at my friend to get the blanket out of the back of my car.

I checked to be sure he was breathing, and when the workers got to me, I asked one of the guys for his jacket and rolled it up to put it under the man's head, and asked them to block the sunlight so it wouldn't be in his face. The guys who knew him said that he had had brain surgery in the last few months, and that he was married and had a small child.

I was really afraid that he had had a seizure and hit his head because there was a scrape on his head where he must have landed on a rock. I put the blanket on him in case he was in shock, and got hold of 911 for an ambulance. He had begun to wake up, but wasn't very responsive to questions, so I told the dispatcher what had happened and what the other men had told me, then I sat with him on the ground and held his hand for the next few minutes until the ambulance came and the EMTs took over.

When I was telling the EMT what had happened, he said that I probably had saved this man's life, because if he had fallen and nobody had seen him when I had, he could have been there for awhile, and had another seizure that could have been fatal.

After everything was over and I was back in my car, I started shaking so hard, I couldn't stop when I had realized what had just happened. My first-aid training (for babysitting when I was 12!) had automatically just kicked-in and I knew what to do. I realized also that I had been barking out orders to people, and they had been doing exactly what I said because nobody knew what else to do. (I am usually pretty timid, especially around a group of construction workers, LOL!) My friend was amazed and spent the rest of the workday telling everyone what had happened.

I can't help but think there must have been some divine intervention at work because I wasn't even going to go out for lunch, until my friend came and asked me to drive her to the bank. Maybe for that moment, I got to be someone's angel. :)

To this day, I am very, very thankful I was there at just the right time and was able to help!

Answer 6

in grade 2 i was spinning on a bar with another bar just below when ever i got to the lower bar i would duck my head, well someone called my name i got distracted and smashed out 5 teeth and when i smashed my mouth on the bar i blacked out and i woke up in the hospital and i dnt even know who called or took me to the hospital but i thank-you if i ever see you again

Answer 7

Yes my brother got stabbed in the chest and had a sucking chest wound that i fixed until we got him to the ER.