Has anyone ever saved your life?

[casualmadness]

When I was a kid I jumped into a swimming pool (before I learned tos wim) and was sinking fast. Lifeguards didn't notice and the last thing I remember was panic due to the fact that I couldn't reach the surface or tread water. The last memory I had was seeing the sun above the surface and thinking that I would never see it again. The next thing I know; I'm laid out on the ground and cpr is being performed on me. My sister saw me struggling underneath the surface and dove in and pulled me to safety. I had already lost consciousness.
Has anyone ever saved your life? How?

[Flabby1]

the surgeon that removed my appendix, and my brother in law when he whacked me on the back when i was about 8 to unlodge some stuck steak.

[Matt_W]

Originally Posted by casualmadness

When I was a kid I jumped into a swimming pool (before I learned tos wim) and was sinking fast. Lifeguards didn't notice and the last thing I remember was panic due to the fact that I couldn't reach the surface or tread water. The last memory I had was seeing the sun above the surface and thinking that I would never see it again. The next thing I know; I'm laid out on the ground and cpr is being performed on me. My sister saw me struggling underneath the surface and dove in and pulled me to safety. I had already lost consciousness.
Has anyone ever saved your life? How?

Almost exactly the same as you. I was on the bottom of the school pool when I was about 5. Next thing I remember I am on the side with everyone around me. It was the lifeguard who saved me though.

More recently I was crossing the road not paying attention, when someone shouted "CAR" at me - I was literally inches off being hit.

[TallLankyBastyd]

MANY moons ago... a pitch black night... July 4th after bar close celebrations... lighting fireworks off this trestle...



I spun around after lighting my roman candle (we were shooting each other with the damn things) and stepped right off the edge of the trestle. One of my buddies grabbed me just as I was heading into the black void.

Still have the scar on my lip where my face hit the trestle!!

Hmmm... you'd think maybe I would have sobered up back then instead of waiting all those drunken years that followed!!

[hbarcat]

I witnessed someone else's life being saved a few months ago. I was driving on a major highway in the downtown area where the speed limit is 40 MPH and two teenagers were walking on the sidewalk about to cross the main highway from a side street. The girl with the headphones on just stepped right off the curb and onto the road about 30 feet in front of me and there was no way I could stop, but the boy with her grabbed her by the back of her jacket and yanked her back onto the sidewalk so fast that she was jerked right out of her headphones and they landed on the highway along with her MP3 player. By this time I had hit the brakes and skidded right over that spot which was where she would have been if her boyfriend hadn't saved her. As I went past, about 1 second after she was pulled to safety, I looked at her face and saw that she was really confused and didn't quite yet realize what was happening. I pulled into a parking lot about 2 blocks away and sat there for awhile to let my heart rate get back to normal.

[disenchant]

I was driving on a country road in Minnesota at night. The road takes a 90 degree turn to the left, and if you were to go straight you'd hit trees. There USED to be a sign that warned of the curve and drop in speed limit, but some teenagers stole it and it was never replaced because everyone else in the small town knows of the curve.

I was going about 50 down the road, the speed limit is 45. Suddenly my friend (from the town) yells "CURVE!!!!!" I slam on my brakes and barely miss the trees.

I guess she saved both of our lives!

[MakiSupaStar]

I've never been saved before. I've almost died a few times. I have however saved many other peoples lives though.

[Aaiieeee]

Jesus saved mine!

[flakeh]

My cousin pulled me out of a river after I fell in when I was 7. It wa s wet out and i slipped and fell in, hit my head of the dirt/rocks and loss concious, he pulled me out n stuff.

My brother pulled me out from underwater after i did a backflip and hit my head of the side of the pool, losing conciousness.

He also pulled me out form underwater after i got stuck in a pool raft and again, lost conciousness.

Me and water get along greeeeat

[TallLankyBastyd]

Originally Posted by Aaiieeee

Jesus saved mine!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaacck!!

"la la la la la la la..."

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by flakeh

My cousin pulled me out of a river after I fell in when I was 7. It wa s wet out and i slipped and fell in, hit my head of the dirt/rocks and loss concious, he pulled me out n stuff.

My brother pulled me out from underwater after i did a backflip and hit my head of the side of the pool, losing conciousness.

He also pulled me out form underwater after i got stuck in a pool raft and again, lost conciousness.

Me and water get along greeeeat

I'd say you at least owe your brother a beer for the rest of your life.

[HollowBassman]

Originally Posted by Aaiieeee

Jesus saved mine!

+1

I've also been saved by doctors a time or two.

[RWP]

I Heimliched my boy once, saved his life right in the middle of a 7-11. Hot dog.

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by Aaiieeee

Jesus saved mine!

+2



Don't laugh.

[casualmadness]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

I have however saved many other peoples lives though.

I pulled a guy from a burning truck once. He crashed right in front of me on the freeway. He was bad when I pulled him out. Lots of blood...serious wounds. The entire freeway had to be closed while the med flight landed to get him. He was a big guy too; maybe 300 lbs and around 6' 4" or so. (I'm 6' 3" and about 245 btw). ANyway, the paramedics couldn't move him so I had to put him on the gurney and move him to the helo. But before the paramedics arrived I sat holding him on the side of the freeway. I could see some of his internal organs. It was terrible. I have no idea if he survived but I like to think I saved him.

[MakiSupaStar]

Originally Posted by casualmadness

I pulled a guy from a burning truck once. He crashed right in front of me on the freeway. He was bad when I pulled him out. Lots of blood...serious wounds. The entire freeway had to be closed while the med flight landed to get him. He was a big guy too; maybe 300 lbs and around 6' 4" or so. (I'm 6' 3" and about 245 btw). ANyway, the paramedics couldn't move him so I had to put him on the gurney and move him to the helo. But before the paramedics arrived I sat holding him on the side of the freeway. I could see some of his internal organs. It was terrible. I have no idea if he survived but I like to think I saved him.

Whether you did or not you did more than 90 percent of the people driving by looking at you did. There should be consolation in that alone.

[middy]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Whether you did or not you did more than 90 percent of the people driving by looking at you did. There should be consolation in that alone.

Yeah. Good on you, cm.

[EddieN]

A friend, his brother & I were wandering around a steep hillside along a gorge in Georgia. The friend sorta freaks when a small swarm of bees gather around him & hurries me forward. I lose my footing and go sliding toward the edge. The brother managed to grab my wrist. Endut. Hoch hech!

[Baryonyx]

My dad took me to hospital after I accidentally drank a bottle of paracetamol when I was 3...not sure if it would have killed me though.

[cnltb]

Yes.
Once.