Have you ever saved anyone’s life?

yes my newphews life....he was choking on his own vomit (sorry if you are having your tea) while he was a sleep..he would be about 9 then, i just my fingers in his mouth, i wasn't too sure what to do but it worked i was only 15 then.

no, but im a 1st aider and dread having to do something like that.

i am also a first aider i have saved 2 lives one was an attempted suicide that was very scary,the other a glue sniffer,that was unconsious,witha bag stuck to there face!!!!

I donate blood - I've been told we save lives? :thumbsup:

Yes I suppose I have saved lives

hazel

I once stopped two guys about to kick the sh** out of 1 guy up nr The Belfrey.

Didn't like to see this weedy guy in a suit getting picked on by these guys who looked like rugby players.
Thought I'd even up the score.

I suppose that's not saving a life but it saved a kickin.

I found out afterwards tho the little suit guy had tried vandalising one the guys cars cos he had illegally parked it on a grass verge (think he was letting tires down).

But hey... whatta gonna do :P

No I can't say I have but I'd love to see the guy that helped me to his house and called the ambulance when I got done over 14 years ago..

If he hadn't been walking his dog that night.. Who knows :confused:

Once in a car accident on the motorway. Sadly I couldn't do the same another time when I pulled two dead teenagers out of crashed car. :(

Originally posted by madblast
no, but im a 1st aider and dread having to do something like that.

I'm also a First Aider (at work), also dreading an emergency. Dealt with the occassional faint and cut finger but nothing life threatening. Hope I never have to - and I mean that in a positive way, not because I'm scared (even though I'm sure I would be!)

Originally posted by Lestat
I donate blood - I've been told we save lives? :thumbsup:
good on ya, blood donors do save lives, it still needs more people to donate though:thumbsup:

I once found an old lady, a client of mine, lying in a pool of water in the lounge of her home - an isolated bungalow on the outskirts of a village. Heavy rains had caused minor flooding to her property, and she had fallen and been lying there, immobilised, for two days. Her legs were greatly swollen, and she was very weak.

She refused to go to hospital. I summoned the doctor, who felt that she should be compulsorily admitted to psychiatric hospital. I refused to sign the necessary forms, because she was not mentally ill, but physically ill, and this would have been a misuse of my powers. The doctor reiterated his medical opinion that she was dying, and needed urgent medical treatment in hospital in order to survive.

I organised an emergency visit by the environmental health doctor, who, through my guidance, used an obscure section of the National Assistance Act 1948, which compelled her admission to hospital (on the grounds of living in insanitary conditions).

The old lady was admitted to hospital by ambulance, where she was successfully treated for hypothermia. Through my chance visit, and responses to her situation, I had undoubtedly saved her life. Two months later, she was discharged home to her beautiful cottage in the country. She died 5 years later, peacefully in her sleep in bed at home, aged 92.

We were once driving down little Norton lane, It was a Dark November evening 2003. There was am old lady who was laid on the pavement, I called an ambulance and the emergency Services told me to relay the instructions to my Husband to give CPR/kiss of life,
which he did, The ambulance took ages to get there we kept hearing the sirens and then they would stop, It was rush hour traffic.
But my husband kept on and on, he was amazing.

when the ambulance finally arrived the took her into the back, then they closed the doors and were there for about 10 minutes, then they drove off with the sirens on.

We never did find out what had happened to her, so we don't actually know if it was a life saving story.

was going to call the hospital the next day but never did, wish I had have though.

Originally posted by Tony
Once in a car accident on the motorway. Sadly I couldn't do the same another time when I pulled two dead teenagers out of crashed car. :(
Oh man that must have been horrific.
Sorry to hear that Tony.

I once saw an old lady walking on the hard shoulder of the M1at the Worksop Junction. I stopped & she said she was trying to cross the road; she was very confused so I drove off at the next Junction called the Police & they came and picked her up.

They said it was not the first time she had 'escaped' from the nearby old people's home & that no doubt I had saved her life!

i was a first aider at work and have dealt with many emergencies....

the one that was bad was a heroin addict had used the customer toilets and overdosed. he had managed to walk to the front door and collapsed. i had to do cpr until ambulance came... i then had to help the paramedic treat the guy. they gave him that stuff that brings them round and he dit even care"! it scared the life outta me as i could see in his eyes he was "dead" not a nice look,

i will never help another overdose ever again as the risk is too high

I fished a 2 year old out of a swimming pool once after he fell in.

15 yrs in nursing I fear I might have had a hand in a few :thumbsup:

Once stopped a woman being mugged in Worksop town ctr too.

Have given blood too.

Once talked a mate out of killing himself cos he was depressed & skint when I was about 14.



Was saved myself too at age 15 (Christmas) when I was out cold on Vodka in the snow under Kiveton Railway Bridge... Never did find out who the party girls were who carried me to the nearest pub & phoned an ambulance. :( Thankyou

Never saved anyone elses life but had mine saved a few times by others
1st: someone donated me blood
2nd: rescued from a cable car that fell off the rails and was dangling on 1 wheel
3rd: was dragged from underneath a pick up truck after it ran me over and knocked me unconscious.
suppose you could say iv had it saved a few times
:thumbsup:

Yes, I saved a boy from drowning when I was about 14.

I saved my daughter from choking on a plum stone, when she was 5, she had turned a ugly sade of blue, and it scared me silly, to say the least i sh** my pants...:suspect: the thought of how easy things could change scares me, one minute everythings ok then....:gag:

I am told that I saved the life of a now ex-partner of mine. He had been behaving a bit wierd for a while and I came home one day to find him very drunk. He'd supped 10 cans of special brew! He'd also ripped out huge chunks of his hair right to the scalp and burnt his arms with a lighter almost down to the bone. He's also swallowed 100 co-proxamol tabs and was in a real state. I called the ambulance and they got him to hospital just in time. His heart stopped for 3 mins but they managed to revive him. He was sectioned and diagnosed with scitzophrenia and a breakdown.

After he left hospital he just dissapeared. He called me about 2 years later to say thanks for saving his life and that he definately wouldn't be here of it wasn't for me.

pulling people out of the way of speeding cars many a time. whether they would acctually have been killed or not is another topic.

Many lives but the ones that haunt me are the ones where I couldn't do anything.

I had only been trained in first aid for a few weeks when my skills were called upon.

this was back in about 1989

My mate's 15 month-old toddler suddenly turned blue-grey, and stopped breathing, as we were on our way to go shopping.

He had something similar to pneumonia, which had come on quite quickly, and was flooding his lungs.

She was also a first aider, but, as you can imagine, cos it was her babby, she just freaked out, and lost the plot. I dragged him up out of the pram, without even unfastening the clips, of the safety belt, whanged him over my arm, and slapped his back, firmly, and got the crap off his chest.

I did the breathing for him, and got someone to call an ambulance.

He is now 17. He was left with asthma because of the pneumonia thing... but he's alive, and well.

PT

Nothing quite as dramatic as some of the above stories but probably saved my own child's life once. Had started to push his pram across a zebra crossing (car on far side had already stopped and there was nothing in sight my side of the road) when some instinct told me to pull the pram back on to the pavement quick. Just as I did so a little old lady in a huge Mercedes came chugging along peering straight ahead through the steering wheel and continued straight over the crossing where the pram had just been with n'er a glance to right nor left!

Also called the police once when we found a drunk collapsed outside a pub. Think he was just in a drunken stupor but it was a bitterly cold night and it wouldn't have done him much good to stay there.

Oh and my sister once spent an evening on the phone to a friend whose husband had just left her. She eventually got to bed and to sleep but in the middle of the night my sister's husband suddenly woke up and said he couldn't explain it but he knew they simply had to go to the friend's house straight away. They did so and found the friend had taken a huge overdose. They got her to the hospital just in time to save her.

Only once.

I was travelling down to King's Cross by train from Newcastle one Sunday in 1970. In those days, they still ran trains when they were working on the line. We had got to Wood Green and had been stopped for a while. I was just coming back from the buffet so was in the lobby by the doors. Along came this middle-aged lady with her luggage. She pushed past me and started opening the door on the right hand side of the train, saying she lived not far away and had had enough of this. What made me grab her and pull her back from the door (she was already backing out the door ready to start climbing down onto the track) I don't know, but just as I pulled the door closed, an express roared past doing about 80. Five seconds later and she would have been blasted into mncemeat.

Did she thank me? What do you think?:mad: :shakes:

quite a few times.....:nod:

on the day of the hilsbrough disaster a car full of scousers pulled into the petrol station just under the wicker archers..they asked me the way to the football ground.....i gave them directions to bramall lane....this was about 2.15pm..so when they'd have realised theres no way they could of got to hilsbrough for 3 o'clock.so you never know, its possible i saved there lives:)

Have you ever saved anyone’s life?

I saved an old womans purse when she got mugged in town just before xmas lol
And gave the person who did it a couple of bruises for there troubles at the same time so a double result lol.:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

I have given the kiss of life twice, but unfortuatley they both died.

I've not saved anyone's life either, but those nice kind people at the Northern General Hospital saved mine some years ago after a massive heart attack.

I've been a nurse for almost 29 years........ OMG ! - so I expect I have saved a few along the way ! I'd love to save lives by donating blood but I don't weigh enough !

I've been a nurse for almost 29 years........ OMG ! - so I expect I have saved a few along the way ! I'd love to save lives by donating blood but I don't weigh enough !

Yes, also a nurse, and saved old peoples lives ,with other people, to revive them ,when they were nearly dead.

I haven't saved any, but my dad saved me from choking on a pickled onion one christmas. Just held me up in the air by me leg and slapped me hard!
Thank you Dad! :D

I gave my friend the Heimlich Maneuver when he was choking on his own vomit when we slept at Luton train station overnight after an Oasis gig.

Yes, also a nurse, and saved old peoples lives ,with other people, to revive them ,when they were nearly dead.

Sorry Pattricia, not sure what you mean......

Sorry Pattricia, not sure what you mean......
I'm guessing Pattricia is also a nurse, and she has saved some old peoples lives.

Have you ever saved anyone’s life?

It's all in a day's work for me.

Sorry Pattricia, not sure what you mean......

Was a geriatric nurse and a lot of old people were nearly dying when they came in. Putting them on a drip, and giving them good meals when they did come round, probably saved their lives.

Was a geriatric nurse and a lot of old people were nearly dying when they came in. Putting them on a drip, and giving them good meals when they did come round, probably saved their lives.

Sorry , I misinterpreted your reply ..... sorry... sorry... ! Where did you work ?

Sorry , I misinterpreted your reply ..... sorry... sorry... ! Where did you work ?

Firvale Hospital now part of The Northern General Hospital.

Firvale Hospital now part of The Northern General Hospital.

I still work there - worked on the Clocktower wards first in 1977 - I may know you.....!

I still work there - worked on the Clocktower wards first in 1977 - I may know you.....!

No I had left Betty, by then.:)

No, but I'm adamant my daughter has saved mine by alerting me to what turned out to be a melanoma on my upper back. No idea it was there and fortunately, have reasons to believe it hadn't been there long before it was excised.

Brought a baby boy downstairs and outside from the house next door when she started a fire by not putting a cigarette out properly, house full of smoke but her husband and my ex-husband managed to put the fire out, I don't know if that counts, as a fire engine wasn't needed

Sorry Pattricia, not sure what you mean......

i think she means saving a persons life like the question asked.

i once stopped a young boys arm from bleeding ,he said he cut it on some glass .didn't look very nice:o :o :o ,then phoned a ambulance

I've been a nurse for almost 29 years........ OMG ! - so I expect I have saved a few along the way ! I'd love to save lives by donating blood but I don't weigh enough !

Oh I had forgotten about blood, I have donated quite a bit so it is possible that someone may have been saved with the help of my blood.

Yeah am a nurse too but once found a man lying on the floor unconscious in the street. There was a huge crowd of people standing around watching him turn bluer by the minute. Luckily someone had already called an ambulance and all I had to do was put him in the recovery position. He started to come round and then the ambulance appeared. It's a good idea for the public to go on first aid courses as things like the recovery position and heimlich manouvre are fairly simple to learn and could easily save someone's life.
I also give blood... can't imagine them ever turning me away cos I don't weigh enough....it must be dem pies!

i think she means saving a persons life like the question asked.

How kind of you to point that out to me in your usual charming and polite manner.

How kind of you to point that out to me in your usual charming and polite manner.

Well, I mean just look at the last four digits of his 'name'...;)

Well, I mean just look at the last four digits of his 'name'...;)

Point taken - we should take pity on him - poor soul.

Every time I brake hard to avoid the numpty who pulls out in front of me, or slow down to avoid the pillock who waltzes into the road drunk, I know that I have probably just saved a life.