So I Just Saved A Life. Have You?

[FilipJPhry]

1. Helped my cousin kick drugs 2 years ago.
2. Caught a kid's hand as he almost fell to his death at Kluskep cave.
3. Punched a rather large dog in the face as it was chasing after kid on a bike.
4. I don't know if this one counts, but I helped improve a friend's life when he was suffering from depression. (there were rumors of a suicide attempt)

 

[Valredwulf]

I give blood too, that's what I thought this thread was going to be about anyway. They have drives on campus pretty frequently so its easy to do too.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

...Not that I I know of. I still like to people whenever I can, though.

 

[loa]

I've been pseudo-vegetarian for half a year once to try what you can do only with veggies.
Saved many chickens and cows that way.

 

[deathninja]

Nope, nearest would be getting help for someone in my lab who managed to get KCN all over herself without realising (and to this day still blames me for 'grassing her up' over it, but that nothing may have come of it anyway.

A lot of my friends and family work in LE/Med?Fire so do good stuff all the time, but I'm one of those destined for the trashheap of life.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Not directly no, but I have worked as part of teams ie: operating a BVM on a full arrest. I was actually next in line to continue CPR on a woman when she was revived. But I've never actually solely been the person to save a patients life, strictly speaking.

:Words:

Don't get me wrong because you tried to do the right thing to the best of your abilities. And so you did what was best at the time(and thus would have been fully protected if any legal concerns arose.) but a few things:

1) Cars don't really explode, as someone mentioned earlier, that's just hollywood bs. Unless you are near a tanker with lots of chemicals in it, the car is actively leaking fuel and there's a nearby fire, or if the car battery starts whistling a very high pitched noise. Then you should have gotten her and dragged her the fuck out.

2) Before entering any crashed car you want to check to ensure that all the airbags have fired off. If they have not, you need to disable the cars power by disconnecting the battery before you enter. You can get seriously hurt if an airbag fires off on you.

3) On a car which has flipped like that, there's a pretty fair chance of spinal damage. If she happened to have spinal damage, moving her without proper stabilization by a KED could have compromised her in several very bad ways. Including paralysis of lower or upper extremities. And if C3,4,5 had been compromised by the move, she would have suffocated.

 

[Spoonius]

Saved my sister when she was choking on a piece of lego.

 

[Rainboq]

I've prevented a few suicides by talking the person in question down from it.

 

[Queen Michael]

Yes. I give blood.
Do you?

 

[Quaxar]

I'm a paramedic so... yeah, I guess I did once or twice in my career.

Plus, I'm a registered organ donor, so I'm guaranteed to eventually save someone's life.

Unless of course you die of an infectious disease. Or poisoning. Or electrocution. Or serious polytrauma to the trunk and head. Or severe third-degree burns. Or freezing. Or any other way that'd destroy the precious, precious organs before they can be harvested.
But still good thing you are a donor!

 

[janjotat]

Sort-of. I helped stop someone from committing suicide. It was no biggy, I suppose.

my friend almost did the same thing I like to think I helped talk him out of it

 

[St.Augustine6]

If what the Red Cross says about a blood donation saving three lives has any kind of merit. Than in my life, I have saved...*counting*...27 lives. Of course, some of those donations were of the "pure red blood cell donation which is better for handling certain types of cancer" type. But, of course, since almost anybody can do this, it isn't exactly the most noble deed on the planet.

 

[dyre]

The money I've been able to spare to disaster relief funds might have contributed to saving lives, but I haven't had the opportunity to directly save someone's life.

But good job saving that kid; that's awesome.

 

[Toilet]

I'm a paramedic, I save people multiple people bi-daily.

Get on my level.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

I've been pseudo-vegetarian for half a year once to try what you can do only with veggies.
Saved many chickens and cows that way.

Someone else probably ate them instead.

Only thing I can think of currently is saving a young relative who had fallen into a pool and couldn't swim.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Yeah, according to my mom. Saved a kid in Africa's life by eating all the broccoli on my plate.

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

Well grats! Do you get an achievement or a title?

Boggles the Life Saver...

But seriously, that's a pretty cool thing.

Closest I've ever come to actually saving someone's life is supporting a kid in Cambodia through Child Fund International, 28 bucks a month to feed a kid and send him to school. Yes I'm proud. And I'll say this because I can, I specifically chose a kid in Cambodia because my country (USA) bombed Cambodia during the Vietnam War... when we REALLY weren't suppose to.

 

[game-lover]

I'd say it was probably the time my brother choked on some candy and I gave him the Heimlich maneuver. Quite a long time ago.

I felt good and then self-conscious because everyone gave me pats on the back and all.