How many people have you saved from death?

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
:thumbsup: to the paramedics and ER folks...you do great work...(even when the ER is full of people too dumb to go to a regular doctor for a cold)

IMO, there's no one finer than the Corpsmen who patch up our soldiers in the field. They do their paramedic/doctor work usually under enemy fire, and should be credited for saving (collectively) thousands and thousands of lives.:thumbsup: to them all

Damn right. Very few people deserve more respect than the likes of paramedics and military medics.

 

[jjones]

I saved the cheerleader.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I've saved millions of lives by using condoms. Think of all those sperm becoming children then eventually dying.

 

[LeiZaK]

I have saved -1 person from certain death.

 

[Severian]

>29 for me as well; I'm an acute dialysis nurse, often get called in at all hours of the night for drug overdoses, heart failure, fluid overload, hyperkalemia, massive trauma, etc. Just a cog in the big machine, I'm the actual cog that runs my machine

Obviously if I wasn't there they'd find another AD nurse, but there's only a handful of us for the entire middle third of the state. If one of us gets called in, it means the patient would die without the dialysis, usually. Not all of them make it.

But the dialysis machine does the actual work, I'm just the monkey that twiddles the knobs

 

[scott916]

I once stopped a German man that I met on the Half Dome trail in Yosemite and convinced to continue from falling off the face. He was jogging down towards the edge and didn't realize how close he was; I grabbed him about 5 feet from it as he was sliding in the scree along the top. I would have felt terrible if he went over, he never would have gone all the way to the top if it wasn't for my prodding.

 

[Trey22]

1.

Cousin.

He was choking on Ramen noodles.

 

[ColdFusion718]

There was a fat guy who sat next to me on this ride at Great America (Drop zone). His seat buckle wasn't in completely and the people who checked didn't do a thorough job. I noticed this out on the corner of my eye and got this really uneasy feeling. Right before they hit the button, I freaked out and yelled "That guy's not buckled in! That guy's not buckled in!"

They came over and yanked on his harness and sure enough, it came undone. They took him off the ride and taped an "out of order" sign to that seat then they continued the ride. Somehow, I knew that if I hadn't spoken up and this guy died, I would have felt partly responsible.

 

[lokiju]

I might have once.

My friend started having a seizure in my car and I rushed him to the nearest hospital.

He had bitten his tongue and his mouth was filling with blood, had I not gotten him help soon enough, I suppose it would have been possible that he could have choked to death on his own blood.

No telling.

Besides that though, I can't really think of anything.

 

[Kev]

Well there were 2 kids that were about to get sucked into the ocean by the undertow, I brought them in so I guess that counts.

 

[SlowSpyder]

My 9 month old is crawling now. Yesterday he got about 3' away from the stairs and I grabbed him. Woohoo! I'm a hero. When's the parade?

 

[ViviTheMage]

there should be two polls, one if you are in a doctor field, and another for 'regular' people not in the doc field.

but personally, one or two, once my little brother, 6months at the time fell in a pool and another was a car accident.

 

[m1ldslide1]

I voted 1-10, as I've talked an awful lot of wasted friends out of driving over the years. I know that's not directly saving somebody, but you just never know. Maybe given the statistics of drunk driving vs. fatalities incurred I would stack up between 1-10.

 

[dguy6789]

One weekend, I was out jogging along the sidewalk in my neighborhood. Some punk teenager was driving his go kart around all over the place. He was tail gating cars and such as they were driving around and just doing what punks do in general. Anyway, as I continued on, a big truck with maybe a 25 foot boat behind it was driving around the corner. Sure enough, the go kart kid was driving right behind the boat only a few feet away. The truck stops suddenly. The go kart kid slams into the back of the boat trailer. Then I see the white lights on the trailer come on. Without thinking, I sprinted over to the go kart and lifted up the back of it and pulled it out of there as fast as I could. Don't know if the kid would have died or have been seriously injured from being crushed by that trailer. Never did get a thank you either.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
My 9 month old is crawling now. Yesterday he got about 3' away from the stairs and I grabbed him. Woohoo! I'm a hero. When's the parade?

I hope you put up a gate...

WTF...

 

[RandomFool]

I once saved my cousin from falling off a balcony where he undoubtedly would have met his demise on the desk below. Of course I was partialy responsible because I gave him a (gentle) shove and for some reason he didn't stop himself from falling. As a reward he gave me a bunch of Pogs.

 

[Dacalo]

I think one in my lifetime. Back in high school, we went on a field trip at a waterpark.

I was swimming in one of those fake wave pool, and a girl clung on to me, repeating "Help me! Oh please help me." I took her to the side of the pool while getting buffeted by floating tubes and waves.

She was hysterical, despite I was the one who did all the drinking (she climbed on top of me). Not that I expected one, but she didn't thank me either. It didn't help that she wasn't hot.

 

[invidia]

Poll needs more options. In the past 4 years, about 130+ and I've seen 50+ die. I'm an EMT in a city with an extremely high murder rate/drug + gang war problem.


My friend was killed in-between a drive-by trying to save these two guys last year

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: invidia
Poll needs more options. In the past 4 years, about 130+ and I've seen 50+ die. I'm an EMT in a city with an extremely high murder rate/drug + gang war problem.


My friend was killed in-between a drive-by trying to save these two guys last year

what city?

 

[thepd7]

11-29, not a big story just that I was a lifeguard for 8 years (still teach swimming lessons).

 

[deadlyapp]

probably 5ish, lots of little kids in a waterpark where i was a lifeguard.

 

[Rogodin2]

I respect all of you that have chosen to help people. The Hippocratic oath is important?

Rogo

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: jjones
I saved the cheerleader.

Well, I guess the world is saved now

 

[WildHorse]

A lot. Probably a couple hundred souls.

I was a beach lifeguard for several years through college, at crowded California beaches that catch the big south swells and break BIG in summer. And here come the vacationers from Arkansas, Montana, Michigan etc, that never saw the ocean before & don't appreciate the danger....their white legs reveal them! Triple-overhead barrels crash!! Brookhurst St. super-rip current's tremendous suck!

That's opposite of were I live now. Here surfing is a cold winter sport, Thanksgiving to Easter, summers go flat.

One memorable time I rescued a whole group of 5 little kids on a huge surf day (when crashing big waves sound like dynamite blasting) and they were fine. But the darn little petite mother was freaking, running back & forth on the shore. Just as I swam the kids in & we almost reached shore, she ran out & ended up nearly dying. She hadn't even been swimming but she was my hardest resuscitation case ever...ambulance, intensive care, whole 9 yards, but lived in the end. Her powerful mother instincts drove her I guess. Some other times other folks didn't live, and there were some suicides on the beaches too. Ugggh.

Another time I rescued a group off a sunken boat, and had to swim back out for their growling dog. Grrrrr Grrrrr all the way in to shore. Nice doggy?

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[imported_Baloo]

Oh, that would be thousnads I have spared from death, every time I encounter someone and don't kill them, I have spared them.