Have you ever saved someone's life?

Yes, took my friend to hospital, he was dying

Yes. I performed CPR on my stepfather when he had a major heart attack at home when I was 16. I had fortunately just learned how to do it that semester in my health class at high school. The medics and the doctors told me I had saved his life by doing it--the heart attack was so severe he was in a coma for 3 days.

I went to visit my brother and found his drunken 19 yr old daughter passed out in the bathtub - I only noticed because no one was answering and I saw water dripping down the stairs. I slapped/snapped her out of it and pulled the bathtub drain. She had caused so much harm to my brother and his family, that part of me wanted to just leave and let her go.

Wait, "could have, but didn't?" Yikes. Sinister.

Not really, but the last time I was at LAX, I got onto an escalator (I forget the terminal -- I was flying Delta) and the woman in front of me fell backwards as soon as we started going up. She tumbled down past me, and I grabbed her for dear life so she wouldn't fall the rest of the way down. I was also trying to secure my rollaboard so it wouldn't fall too, hitting her. It seemed to last forever. But we made it to the top, unscathed.

r5 Did she pass out? How'd you get her out of the elevator?

I stopped someone from eating Taco Bell.

r7 Well, that was mean!

r6 no, I think she lost her footing. It all happened so quicky I don't even remember the moment before she tumbled. I was scared the whole way up that I wouldn't be able to keep my balance to keep holding onto her and that I might fall too. I feel like it was a particularly tall escalator.

When I was an apartment assistant manager, I got a call that there was a naked man running around the seventh floor hallway. It was our zombie-like Vietnam vet, who was vomiting all over the place. I got him to sit down, and asked him if he had ODed (he had). I did my best to get the remaining pills out of his mouth, but he starting having convulsions. I ended up performing CPR, and got the guard to call 911. He was taken to the hospital, and survived. I Googled him not long ago, and he's still alive. I had to clean out his hellish apartment, including a maggot-infested refrigerator.

r10 Wow - that's quite freaky.

No. I once saw a woman get hit by a car in Germany. I was the first person to reach her. But I didn’t speak German and I asked her in English “are you OK? Of course you’re not OK. And why am I asking this in English because you don’t understand that.”

She answered in German-accented English “I hurt like hell”.

She was hit in the area where a lot of embassies are, and emergency vehicles were there in under a minute.

I was walking home one day and saw a lady in sitting on the ground in her front yard as I passed. she yelled out to me that she couldn't get up. So I went onto her property and lifted her up and took her inside the house. Who knows how long she might have stayed out there if no one else passed by. I remember commenting that she should have a front gate that locks but then if she did, I would not have been able to get in. A few days later I passed her house again and she was standing in her yard and I asked how she was now.

Called my first boyfriend’s mom and told her to check his freshly-sewn wrists. He had left the emergency room with me by his side, promising to cut his wrists again once morning came. My call led to a psychiatrist hold. The emergency staff had believed his cockamamie story of an accidental injury. Assholes. That former boyfriend thanked me profusely months later, but ended up killing himself fifteen years after that. He was the first guy I ever slept with. I had been saving myself for “the one”. Oh, and he dumped me after I told his mother and we never got back together. Sad story for me to tell.

Every day - just being so insightful and inspiring. People always tell me I've saved their lives - and I believe them.

I saved my soul! I was on a place on fire. I was hypnotized.

When I was 16 (this was mid 80s), my stepdad accidentally swallowed a small bone in a pork chop at dinner and began choking. I knew about the Heimlich maneuver and grabbed him from behind and pulled my fists into his abdomen and up.

It worked and he's still alive today.

Maybe . This is a long one so buckle up . When I was very young I stole a car in Fl and drove to Chicago to 'surprise' a guy who I met when he was on vacation. That was quite a scene I assure you ! Anyhoo I almost made it back to Fl when I finally got caught . I ended up getting a 5 year prison sentence and was sent to a youthful offenders camp .The oldest inmate was 23 . Most were 16-18. It was half and half race wise . One saturday I walked into the library and I saw this black dude named Lucky and some of his homies standing around this skinny kid who looked absolutely terrified . I could tell from the body english this kid was in a hell of a jam . I,being the bold ass bitch I was, walked right up to them,grabbed the kids hand and said "Come on honey" and led him out . I could tell Lucky wanted to kill me but he didnt dare as my "husband" worked in the majors office and could have his ass shipped to a different camp instantly. In other words he had big pull . I told my husband about the incident and he told the major ,who then put out the word if anyone touched said kid they'd have to answer to him . I like to think I saved his life .

R18, you definitely did! awesome dude!

I did the Heimlich on a 15 yo kid choking on a hot dog.

I walked around the corner & he was laying on the ground twitching uncontrollably.

I was scared shitless & did the only thing i could think of, which was to pick him up like a sack of potatoes and shake like hell.

Out popped the hotdog!

Maybe. I called 911 and gave first aid to a guy who fell down a steep flight of stairs at the Astor Place subway station and gashed his forehead open. I've never seen so much blood.

He was absolutely wasted so I'm hoping he doesn't remember that grisly experience.

I can't even save myself.

Wow, some of you have had some intense adventures!

Inadvertently. In an intensive summer seminar I was running for teachers, one of the students mentioned something about her job that I thought would be valuable for the others to hear more about, so I asked her to work up a ten-minute presentation for the next day. She did so, and I never thought about it again until about ten years later that same student (whom I had forgotten) approached me at a conference and thanked me for saving her life. She had been planning to commit suicide that night, but because she had said she would do a presentation the next day, she did not. She told me I had made her feel valued.

You sometimes don’t know when you’re helping someone.

He was choking TO DEATH.

So I pulled my dick out of his throat.

Some heroes don’t wear capes.

Twice, both times in a Chinese restaurant. They were choking on unusually large pieces of meat, and I Heimlich-ed them quickly and successfully. One of my "save-ees" thanked me profusely and covered my check, but I barely got a "Thanks, pal" out of the other one. 😒

I once talked somebody out of seeing the movie version of Mamma Mia.

[quote]My friend told me she found a guy in a wheelchair in the back of a store - he had fallen to the side somehow and no one noticed. She screamed for help, called 911, and got him turned back up.

Sure. Sounds legit.

R6 does not know that elevator is not escalator.

Your friend imagines that the guy in the wheelchair would have remained lying on the floor, unnoticed, until he starved to death?

A guy was stuck in a rented Ryder van stopped on the commuter rail tracks that separate my city from the adjoining town. There's a ghost bike there, allegedly memorializing a suicide. I saw the stuck truck, got out, and helped him and another driver like me who also stopped push it off the tracks as the lights started flashing and the bells started ringing and the arms blocking the street came down. A train roared through about 20 seconds later.

OP, why was your friend in the backmof a store? Why was the wheelchair guy back their? Did she work there? Did he? Did anyone else work in this store? Your friend is just poking around the back room of a store and finds a random guy in a wheelchair, and SHE calls 911? Where is this store with completely open back rooms accessible to the public and apparently no staff on hand?

And how the fuck did wheelchair guy tip over, by himself with no one around? Was he doing wheelies in this mysterious "back room?"

-20,000/10

One hot morning in mid-May, 1985, my Brooklyn roommate dressed in his new blue seersucker suit, bright green suspenders, and a rep tie in summery colours, to head to work at J.P. Morgan. Well, I made damn sure he did not leave the house dressed like that!

I once stopped someone from attempting suicide. He was having a PTSD blackout and attempted to throw himself into oncoming traffic. I managed to wrestle him back into the house and called an ambulance. He fortunately doesn’t remember much from that night but I do. Fucking scary.

R32 seek help

r29 Calm your fat tits, sweetheart - I hope your day gets better - I just misread what r5 typed.

These two 30-year-old guys, who'd been together since they were 15 , were addicted to Quaaludes when Quaaludes were a thing, and lived in our apartment complex. One of them tripped and fell into the pool one night and drowned. A couple of weeks later we went ahead with a pool party we'd planned and the surviving boyfriend came down and got into the pool along with us. The next time I saw him, he was down at the bottom and not moving. I dove down, fished him out, pumped some water out of him and returned him to his usual Quaalude consciousness. I went to see him the next day and he was furious with me. "I wanted to DIE!" and I was like well, bitch, maybe you shoulda gone swimming alone at night like your boyfriend instead in a pool filled with people in the middle of a party. (I didn't say that).