People online shared stories about how they saved someone’s life.
We start our days never fully knowing where they're going to take us. Yes, we have timetables and plans, but still meet someone or do something we didn't anticipate. For example, saving someone's life.
I spoke to Georgie’s mum and asked her to take her to the doctors. She insisted she was just an airhead daydreamer, and it was nothing. I pleaded with her and eventually got her to agree to take Georgie. A few weeks later the mum turns up at my classroom door in tears and with a bunch of flowers for me. Georgie had had tests and scans and been diagnosed with epilepsy.
If I hadn't been there, she would've fallen back and cracked her skull open on the edge of the granite step immediately behind me. Nearer the end of the day, after enjoying a completely empty hike with no-one else around, we got a bit lost up one of the hills so were along a ridge line still quite high up as the sun started to go down. On this ridge line there’s a bit of a boggy patch that you’re encouraged to avoid. As we redirected around it, we heard someone shouting.
But to save a life, a person doesn’t have to be a paramedic. And today’s list proves that. Sometimes all you need is common sense and compassion. For example, helping someone to avoidStopped some drunk 18 year old kid throwing himself in front of the trams in Nottingham. There were plenty of first aiders in the building so someone would have saved her. But I do feel proud that it was me.can also make you a hero in someone’s story. Like knowing CPR. It’s a life-saving technique for when a person's heart can no longer pump blood. So, someone does chest compressions and gives breaths of oxygen until the heartbeat returns. It's a fairly easy and important technique that nearly everyone can learn.
One guy, big lad - about 6'5 and probably 35+st, was a great worker at basic tasks. He knew what to do once you showed him and would just chunter away at them until it was complete. The funny thing was, when I was on the phone, I was calm, explained everything clearly and concisely, all of that. Don't panic, Capt. Mainwaring. But once we got to the hospital and the pressure was off, I called his sister to break the news and completely broke down. I could barely speak.I was at a train station, and station staff saved a little girl's life. They called for help and as a nurse I ran over.
I turned him on his side and as I did this is clenched his mouth shut. I couldn't clear the vomit anymore and he carried on choking. I tried all sorts to unclench his jaw, tried prying at his teeth with my hands and he bit me, I slapped him, kicked him, smacked his back, got behind and tried the Heimlich, nothing worked. He was going pale and lips were blue. Eventually I tried to pick him up and dropped him.
I made the last two steps towards him as quickly as I could and grabbed his wrists to stop him falling back. As I reached him, I saw that the wall he was sitting on was sort of adjacent to some steps down to a basement entrance, the drop behind the wall was about 15 feet on to solid concrete. I’m not sure if he definitely would’ve died if he fell but it certainly was on the cards.
I work in healthcare, so do stuff to keep people alive regularly - but I actually saved my partners’ life on holiday a few years ago. This was on a dark country road in dead of winter so if I hadn't got the guys out a very high change someone else coming along the road would have ploughed into them. We spotted some young lads, similar age to us, messing around near the breakpoints where the seafloor drops quite sharply and we noticed that their shouts were turning into panic. When it became apparent they were struggling to stay above water, we swam over with our boards and told them to hold on. We got them back to the beach and checked they were OK.
I took the phone, told the woman where we were, and then she told me to do chest compressions etc. so I did. She then started coughing and I rolled her over onto her side, and by that time the ambulance was there. I went into a panic because it was a bit much but I just did what I had to do and I was there to make sure she was alive.
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