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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I've given blood 85 times now. Going for 100!

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HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago

Me, too! The blood bank here has started telling donors where their blood was used. I love that!

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Yes, my son's. I was driving down our highway in our local city. He started to make this terrible sound. Turned around and saw he was choking on something - I tried to pat his chest while driving! We were stopped at a red light, so I turned on my flashers and jumped out of the truck, got him out of his car seat and started to do the Heimlich on him. All the cars started to go and thankfully a lady behind me stopped traffic for me and called an ambulance. I thought I was going to hurt my son with how hard I was hitting his back. I started to do the scoop method and that got him to throw up, it was a quarter in his throat!!!! The longest and scariest few mins of my entire life. The paramedics got there, checked him out and he was fine! No scratches in his throat (I thought I had hurt him). Learning the Heimlich in CPR saved my son's life.

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Space whale 2 years ago

Wow. This is the type of parent I aspire to be one day.

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I've spent 2 years wearing a mask to protect the people around me, so yes I've saved quite a few!

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members In the UK most SCUBA instructors are unpaid volunteers and I’m one of them.
A few years ago I was assigned 2 students for a session doing the £10/$12 “Try Dive” thing (“Discover SCUBA” for the USA/PADI folk) in the local indoor pool. One of them wasn’t keen, the other was just a natural diver. The good diver wanted to come back the next week and do it again, 1:1, to have more time diving before committing to paying for club membership.
They didn’t turn up.
I asked to see their paperwork, got their phone number, and sent a message along the lines of “Hey, I missed you at the pool tonight! You did really well last week, best try-diver ever. Want to try again for next week?” and got a barrage of apologies and thanks back.
So I called them. We had a chat and a laugh about the antics of the other instructors, I told them about the other people they’d seen at the pool, places we dive, things we see, and agreed to try again the next week. Probably an hour on the phone before they said they were cold and needed to drive home.
A few weeks later they told me that they got my text message while walking across a bridge, and when I called, they were sat on the edge of the bridge ready to jump because nobody cared and they hated their life. Apparently I didn’t just save their life, I gave them a whole new one.
They ended up making a lot of good friends in the diving community, and they are doing ok now, back with family and a new career and still loving diving.

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Tam illo 2 years ago

Remembering the beauty of diving saved my mental health the last two weeks!

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Twice... Once pulled an old guy out of an overturned van that then set itself on fire, and did CPR on my infant son to restart his heart and breathing after a seizure.

... zero stars. Do not recommend.

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CandyCat 2 years ago

woah!

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I foster cats and kittens that our group pulls from hi-kill shelters and help them find homes. So yeah, furry little someones.

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CandyCat 2 years ago

THAT'S AMAZING thank you so much!!! I want to do that when i'm older.

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According to my wife, I have saved her life at least twice now. The first time was when she was stuck living out of a hallway in rural Texas, and I helped her move up to Oregon to live with me. The second was when she came out as transgender, and I was supportive and her best ally. She returned the favor and saved mine when she reciprocated my feelings and helped me remember that I am also transgender.

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Meta Veldkamp 2 years ago

wow...ultimate love storie

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Just the plain, ordinary being there for a friend when he's suicidal. But the great part about that is literally any of you can do the same to save a life.

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Sam rice 2 years ago

As an ex suicidal person, thank you for taking the time for your friend. It may be exhausting and annoying for you but it takes a true person who cares to take the time to save a life.

36points

#10

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members When I was eight, I impersonated an adult on a poodle forum and ended up giving someone a piece of advice that saved their poodle's life.

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EJBWritesBooks 1 year ago

...details?!

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#11

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Yes, my mum's, she had a bad mental breakdown and locked herself in the bathroom with a bunch of pills (I still wonder where I found the strength to do this considering I’m disabled) but I shoulder barged that door, broke the lock and got to her before she could take the pills. That helped her to realize she was wanted and she’s doing great now.

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ArmyDog07 2 years ago

Bless your heart!

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#12

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Yes. But let me explain something first. I am not a proud person, but a constantly logically thinking person as to why things happen, so losing my son to SIDS f****d me up hard core.
That being said... I saved a woman in a bathroom overdosed in Washington state, USA. She was passed out with a needle stuck in her arm. She was damn near cold. I administered her Narcan via nasal spray twice and started CPR. I stayed on her till help arrived and they used an AED to restart her heart. I worked on this woman for 50 minutes and was taken over at the hospital we went to by a trauma nurse. They brought her back. She is now one of my closest friends.

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humdrum 2 years ago

Who tf has Narcan on them?

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#13

I was a K9 handler for Search and Rescue for 10 years. So... Yes I have.

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HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago

Thank you and all the amazing dogs that risk their lives for those who need it!

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#14

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I once saved a girl from drowning in a very crowded public wave pool. She thanked me a lot saying she just ran out of energy to keep her on the surface. Nobody noticed except me.

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81points

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Mine Truly 2 years ago

http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ if readers want to learn how to be a hero in exactly this situation.

16points

#15

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members My brother saved my life three times. He kept me from falling out of the landrover on the Pan American Highway over a thousand-foot drop when I was a baby. He called someone else to save me when I was drowning in a lake in Canada. I was around five years old. He pulled me from a fast-moving pond/creek in the wintertime when I was around 10 years old. He continues to give me support and love as we are in our fifth decade.

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Sleepy children love Moon 1 year ago

you were a very danger-attracting child. I'm glad you're brother was around to save you though lol

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#16

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I saved a baby who was unattended outside in a wheel walker at the top of a hill. I was walking the dog coming up the hill when this little baby was plummeting down the street! I ran out and caught her just as a car came around the bend. It would have been devastating. Then the dog started barking and the baby started crying as I was pushing her up the hill and keeping the dog at distance. Her dad was washing the car, saw me, came out and took her. I was like she was in the street picking up speed down the hill, you should watch her, she was almost in a accident. I guess he was in shock because he took her without any preamble. It was very surreal, I hope they kept a better eye on her.

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Hobby Hopper 1 year ago

I once was driving at night and found a baby in diapers, barely walking, in the street in front of a house. I stopped and was about to get out, but thankfully their dad came out and got them first.

9points

#17

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I was at a party with my family at a friend's house when I was a teenager. They had a pool and there were a bunch of people standing around talking and eating. I was sitting a good 20 feet from the pool and saw my 2-year-old niece standing by the deep end with a group of adults. A few seconds later I looked up and didn’t see her, but the people who were standing near her were still just standing around. I glanced around and still couldn’t find her, so I ran over to the pool, jumped in and pulled her up from the bottom. Luckily she was fine and boy did the adults get an earful from me.

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Willow Calvert 2 years ago

The adults deserved that, not noticing your niece on the bottom of the pool

25points

#18

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Probably not the dramatic way you're expecting...but I saved a nice guy's life by marrying him. He worked at warehouses, doing hard work of loading & unloading trucks, these stingy employers offered part time work and no health benefits, it was taking months for his state health insurance application to process. Meantime, he's Type 1 diabetic, diagnosed age 12, rationing his food and insulin (that his mom bought in Mexico twice a year, she's not Mexican, but travelled there specifically for his meds because it's affordable there), rare doctor visits, getting A1C labs was a special annual treat.

So I started dating him, then I married him. I work in healthcare with good health insurance.

Now, he has regular doctor visits, lab work, all the insulin he needs, a glucose monitor, and an insulin pump. It took several years to get him used to new habits, like not rationing food or insulin, or that he can schedule to see a nutritionist to help plan a Type 1 diet, or that if he goes so hypogylcemic he's unconscious (it happens) I have a glucagon emergency injection ready for him and a trip to the E.D. if he needs it.

American Health System. Killing people, one at a time. Why should your health system be connected to your job?? Private monthly insurance with reasonable copays is $1500/month. He's never ever even made that much a month. He's unskilled labor, and there are jobs he can not actually do because he gets hypoglycemic so quickly. His glucose monitor starts beeping for urgent low blood sugar drops when he does chores, goes for walks, does manual labor at work. He's a perfectly good guy though.

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Rens 2 years ago

It never fails to both shock and amaze me how disgusting useless American healthcare is! Type 1 diabetes isn't a "lifestyle" illness; no-one should have to pay for life-saving medication and medical care. It's a disgrace, especially because the USA is one of the richest countries in the world. My daughter has type 1 diabetes, and she has free medical care and medication for the rest of her life (born in the Netherlands, living in Republic of Ireland), she would have died if we'd lived in the USA....

38points

#19

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Well, not anyone else, but someone saved me!
I don't remember much of it because I was really small, but I was in a swimming pool and my parents weren't paying attention to me. I wasn't a very good swimmer at the time and was having trouble keeping my head above water until I started to sink. I can't even describe the feeling of horror and fear that I felt when I realized I couldn't swim to the surface. When I started taking in water all of a sudden I had a feeling of peace come over me. A boy, about fourteen, maybe fifteen grabbed me and pulled me to shallow water. I got out of the water and looked around, but never found him. You can believe whatever you want, but I'm pretty sure he was my guardian angel. I can still feel him sometimes.

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70points

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Carol Matlock 2 years ago

I believe it!

16points

#20

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I was 14. My sister and I were in a public swimming pool. As we were playing I noticed a dark shadow at the bottom of the pool. It was a little boy. I dived, brought him back to the side and then the lifeguards took him and called an ambulance. They resuscitated him. He survived with no physical damage. Thank goodness.

I always wanted to write to the producer of Baywatch or to David Hasselhoff. I knew what to do because of this show.

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Phonax 2 years ago

Get this to David hasselhoff people

20points

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I read someone's blood tests and was pretty sure that the diagnosis they had was wrong.
Insisted that they see a certain specialist, they referred them to another doctor who confirmed my suspicion.
They are now on medication for something totally different than the original diagnosis but they would have soon died if I hadn't noticed.

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1 year ago

Good for you <3

9points

#22

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I saved a husband and wife. Their motorcycle went off the side of a ravine in the middle of nowhere, southern CO. He came out of it with minor injuries. But I still had to drag him back up the side of the ravine because he was knocked out. She on the other hand had the motorcycle pinning her against a tree at the bottom of the ravine. I got the bike off of her and stopped the bleeding from her head. She had to be air lifted out. They both made it.

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67points

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

Wow. Just.. wow. You are incredible.

9points

#23

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I saved my mom's life. She was choking on food, and I successfully performed the Heimlich Maneuver on her.

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smolspeedycats 1 year ago

My dad did the same thing to my grandfather a few years ago. He's not a very emotional guy but he gets pretty upset thinking that nobody but him helped my grandfather in such a crowded restaurant.

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members My husband (before I met him) came to the aid of a man who had been stabbed while travelling on a bus. Sitting a few seats ahead of my husband and the would-be victim was the attacker, who was being bothersome to other passengers. As the bus approached its scheduled stop, the attacker walked towards his target and stabbed him in the neck. My husband immediately grabbed the attacker's hand and forcibly removed the knife. He kept the struggling attacker in a headlock and walked him to the front of the bus while others helped care for the victim until the ambulance and police arrived. I’m so proud of him, he received a Medal of Bravery years later.

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Mich

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Mich (Submission author) 2 years ago

Sorry, it posted multiple times by mistake below.

18points

#25

My wife owns a gym and helped a man lose over 300lbs as his personal trainer. She also taught him how to cook instead of buying fast food. He was so heavy when he started that he had to be weighed on a grain elevator scale. Now, he regularly runs 10km races. That man was going to die. Amazing turnaround!

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago

So many don’t think of this as saving someone’s life. The cool thing is, she not only “saved” his life, she showed him “how” to live.

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#26

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I saved at least 2 of my friends' lives before by being there for them. I don't think they realise they are doing the same for me.

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Adelina 2 years ago

Hang in there tiger! You are worth so much more to so many more people than you may think!

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#27

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Yes - but I had help. I was with a bunch of friends in a (relatively shallow) pool, and noticed some motion out of the corner of my eye. My friend's 6-year-old was frantically trying to get another friend's 4-year-old above water. I shouted something incoherent and launched myself over to where the kids were and heaved the little girl out of the water on to the pool deck. All ended well - she's now a normal, healthy, annoying teenager.

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Mine Truly 2 years ago

Drowning isn't always this easy to recognize. If you want to be a hero like OP, go to http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ to learn what it really looks like IRL.

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#28

Years ago, my friend called me at work. She wasn't making much sense, kept saying things like, I want you to have a good life, etc. I knew she kept a 2-liter bottle of rum at all times, and I heard sounds like liquid being poured, and drinking and swallowing sounds. I was afraid she was taking pills of some kind and washing them down with rum.
I kept her on the phone until I was sure I was hearing right, then hung up and called a friend of ours who was a psychologist. Thank God he picked up the phone. He raced to her home and called 911. At the ED they pumped her stomach, and she was fine.
I talked to her and she wouldn't promise not to try it again. The doc wanted to release her to me, but I knew I couldn't handle her. I said no, she told me she would try it again. So they kept her for a few days and got her on the proper meds.
She was so mad at me, but so what? She was alive.

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. 2 years ago

"She was so mad at me, but so what? She was alive." If you know that someone is in danger, save them. Please. They need *you* to do it because who knows if anyone else will get them the help they need. Tell someone that can help (teacher, police, parent, spouse etc.) Your relationship can always be fixed, them getting hurt (or possibly dying) can't always be.

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"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I saved my sons’ life by using the Heimlich maneuver when he was 6 months old & starting on solid foods. I learned infant child cpr exactly 1 week before this happened, I was home alone with him. He was turning blue already. Maybe paramedics would have gotten there in time but I immediately tried what I just learned, and it worked. He is 14 years old now. I’m not even sure that he knows this come to think of it.

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago

They wouldn’t have got there in time. Your actions were the only way he could have been saved. You gave him life…..twice.

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#30

When I was a junior in college I was a bartender at a Mexican restaurant in the "downtown" of the small college town. It was the most popular spot for Monday night football, thirsty Thursdays and trashy hangover brunches. Bartending and serving can give you a sixth sense for sketchy behavior, and that place attracted it all. During everyone's favorite post-church lunch shift (tithing isn't tipping folks...), this wirey dude with manic eyes sat at the bar. He was probably my same age, or possibly younger, but age'd from hard living. He ordered off-menu, one of the best things we made, huevos rancheros and then proceeded to slide the food around his plate for an hour while watching the door. Everytime someone came in from outside he'd slide off his stool like he was going to bolt, but then he'd just sit back down and look at his food. After dropping some drinks off at a table I walk behind the bar and the dude was gone. His food was still there, and I figured he stiffed me for the food and a couple drinks, but I decided to leave his plate in case he came back. From the bar you could see the hallway with the bathroom, and I watched a little girl in a Sunday dress go back there twice, and both times the door was locked, but I hadn't seen anyone come or go in between, so I did my bartender duty and grabbed the bathroom key. I knocked and no one answered, so I unlocked the door and peaked inside.

The dude with manic eyes was laying face down on the floor, as though he'd fallen off the toilet, but his pants were up. I rolled him on his side and his face was the most terrible purple color I'd ever seen, his eyes fully open and completely bloodshot, tongue swollen and hanging out of his mouth. If it wasn't obvious, there was also a needle in his arm. I called out for help, grabbed some rubber gloves from under the sink, and swept my fingers in the dudes mouth and out popped the syringe cap. I checked for a pulse, but my untrained fingers couldn't find one, so I started CPR. Do you know what no one ever taught me in CPR class? How long it takes for an ambulance to arrive while doing CPR, and that you can't stop until they get there... People don't wake up after 10 pumps, spit out some water and thank you for saving their life. I have no idea how long it actually took, probably 10 minutes, but my arms were on fire and I was a sweaty mess (props to all you first responders who do it every day!) when they showed up.

EMS arrived, took over, loaded him up and zipped him over to the hospital. The manager tried to make a big deal about it and get me interviewed, but when no news outlets cared, he quickly forgot, and people their need margaritas, so I did too.

A few months later, it was mother's day weekend and graduation week. I was bartending and covering the indoor patio, "the greenhouse" and I sat a big family, all dressed up to celebrate their twins graduating from undergrad. I took the female twin's order and then turned to her brother, who ordered huevos rancheros, and I recognized the dude from the bathroom floor, though much healthier than the last time I saw him. He didn't recognize me at all, and as I walked back to the bar I realized that I'd just assumed he'd died. The thought of his sister sitting there alone, trying to celebrate her graduation a few months after her brother died made me tear up while I was putting their order in. I know that the actual healthcare workers had to do a lot more to save him after they took him away (this was pre-narcan), but I've always been grateful that I was able to be there for a stranger like that. I still think about him and wonder what he did with his life. I hope he and his sister are still close.

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Mine Truly 2 years ago (edited)

If he looked that healthy, then you didn't just save him by checking on him and doing CPR that day. By getting him to the hospital, it sounds like you also get him hooked up with rehab and other support services.

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#31

Without patting myself on my back too much, yes! I have spoken about this on BP before, but I have a Google Hangouts group for teens with mental health issues. And if not their lives, I've definitely saved a few people's sanity. And, I suppose, I've saved my own. Depression is NOT fun XD.

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46points

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Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago

I'm so glad you do this, Raven. I believe mental health issues in teens tend to be overlooked or brushed aside a little too often. Good job, you!

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Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

#32

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I was at a pool and saw a little girl walking along the steps, about chest deep in water for her. She accidentally stepped off the step and went under. I was a few steps away and moved as I saw it happen. Pulled her up and set her on the top step. There were other adults around, including a parent, I was just closest.

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45points

KMill

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#33

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members Yes, when I was ten years old, me and my father were once kayaking the Eagle River, and my dad lost his paddle and boat turned over, so I pulled him out onto a sand bar and we waited about a hour until a lovely young couple (and their dog Sprocket) came and we got onto their raft and boated to the next camping site. The ultimate Alaska adventure.

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45points

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El Dee 1 year ago

Your father must have been so proud of you, well done!!

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#34

My father died of colon cancer so when my job asked me to promote free screening tests for colon cancer I took it seriously. One customer told me he didn’t need the test and I talked him into it. He came back later to thank me as he did have colon cancer and caught it early.

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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago

Thank you!

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#35

"I've Spent 2 Years Wearing A Mask To Protect The People Around Me": And 40 Other Life-Saving Stories By Bored Panda Community Members I saved my husband from drowning before we were married. He’s not the best swimmer to begin with so when he got caught in a rip tide, he started flailing and freaking out. Fortunately, I’m a good swimmer and was able to get him out before he drowned.

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42points

T.Milly

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Mine Truly 2 years ago

A heroic act, but people reading this need to be aware of some things about saving a drowning victim. Once the drowning reflex kicks in, the victim can pull you under water with them-- throw them a flotation device if it's available, and of course don't be a hero if a trained lifeguard is present. Drowning doesn't look like in the movies-- practice spotting it on spotthedrowningchild.com . If you do what OP did, and there's no lifeguard, no flotation device, know that you are risking your life to save the one you love. Worth it? Perhaps. But know the risk.

18points

#36

I limit my carbon footprint by walking instead of driving, recycle and use cloth bags instead of plastic, wear a mask or two, educate my grandchildren, donate to local charities, help neighbors in need, landscape with drought-tolerant native plants, avoid pesticides and fungicides, love my wife and protect her, and generally stay out of harms way. So... yes. But I will never know their names, if that's what you wanted.

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42points

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Crookshanks 2 years ago

Well done you 👏!

7points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#37

For my job I do CPR courses twice yearly. Neighbour was choking on pizza and blue, ran over and started to do what I’d been trained for, and the woman on 000 told me I was doing it all wrong. Firemen showed up 2 minutes later, made sure the guy was safe, and told me I was right, the operator was wrong.

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38points

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#38

Neighbour's 2 yr old was playing in their car parked in the drive, and shifted it out of park. It started rolling down the drive so he scrambled to get out, but tripped and was dragged while holding on to the door sill with one hand. I was washing our car next door, heard him cry and ran to grab him as he lost his grip. The front wheel was about to roll over him when I tossed him across the lawn.

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35points

Dave Breau

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Pizzagirl 91 1 year ago

Who let's their child play in their car unobserved?! I know, people even leave their children in locked cars, but where were the parents?! My twins are 2, and you can't even trust them to not run in front of a car if their grandpa is standing across the road!

3points

#39

I didn’t even know I did until late but I saved my gf from killing herself by starting to date her

Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

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30points

GaeFrog

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CandyCat 2 years ago

that's amazing💞

6points

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#40

Maybe. Was a CIT (Counselor in Training) at a day camp for several weeks with a group of 4-5 year olds. Was in the outdoor swimming pool. At one point two of the small girls were in water that was deeper than they were--but easily shallow for me. I realized this and grabbed both back to shallow water. Keep in mind, I am not a great swimmer myself, was not a lifeguard, and not the strongest person. I think one of them got too far out and grabbed onto the second one for dear life, dragging her out with her. Both were fine, but one was clearly very scared afterwards.