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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
Sometimes saving a life requires providing direct assistance to prevent a disaster, while other times, it can be more delicate, such as being there for someone in need or asking a stranger how their day was. In both cases, saving someone's life is a heroic deed, and the best part is that our bodies are willing to assist those who desperately need our help without us consciously deciding to.
I have asked our community if they have ever saved someone's life, and the responses provided by our community members are priceless, brave, and chilling at times. We can learn a lot from these stories, yet the main lesson is allowing your body to act fast when stressful situations occur.
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#1
Yes. My own. I hated myself for a long time but I got over it and in the end I didn't want to kill myself anymore.
Final score:
184points
#2
I've given blood 85 times now. Going for 100!
Final score:
163points
HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago
Me, too! The blood bank here has started telling donors where their blood was used. I love that!
#3
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.
Final score:
163points
#4
I've spent 2 years wearing a mask to protect the people around me, so yes I've saved quite a few!
Final score:
148points
#5
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.
Final score:
146points
#6
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.
Final score:
142points
#7
I foster cats and kittens that our group pulls from hi-kill shelters and help them find homes. So yeah, furry little someones.
Final score:
127points
#8
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.
Final score:
114points
#9
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.
Final score:
100points
#10
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.
Final score:
97points
#11
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.
Final score:
93points
#12
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.
Final score:
91points
#13
I was a K9 handler for Search and Rescue for 10 years. So... Yes I have.
Final score:
82points
HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago
Thank you and all the amazing dogs that risk their lives for those who need it!
#14
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.
Final score:
81points
Mine Truly 2 years ago
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ if readers want to learn how to be a hero in exactly this situation.
#15
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.
Final score:
81points
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
#16
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.
Final score:
79points
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.
#17
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.
Final score:
78points
Willow Calvert 2 years ago
The adults deserved that, not noticing your niece on the bottom of the pool
#18
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.
Final score:
76points
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....
#19
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.
Final score:
70points
#20
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.
Final score:
67points
#21
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.
Final score:
67points
#22
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.
Final score:
67points
#23
I saved my mom's life. She was choking on food, and I successfully performed the Heimlich Maneuver on her.
Final score:
62points
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.
#24
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.
Final score:
60points
#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!
Final score:
58points
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.
#26
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.
Final score:
57points
#27
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.
Final score:
56points
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.
#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.
Final score:
52points
. 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.
#29
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.
Final score:
50points
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.
#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.
Final score:
46points
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.
#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.
Final score:
46points
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!
#32
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.
Final score:
45points
#33
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.
Final score:
45points
#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.
Final score:
43points
#35
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.
Final score:
42points
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.
#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.
Final score:
42points
#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.
Final score:
38points
#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.
Final score:
35points
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!
#39
I didn’t even know I did until late but I saved my gf from killing herself by starting to date her
Final score:
30points
#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.
What do you think ?
An Unpopular Opinion. 1 year ago
I've talked to lots of suicidal people, I used to be everyone's therapist. I don't talk to any of them much anymore, but they're still around, and while I have no idea whether it's because of me at all, I like to think I helped, even just a little bit
TheLovelyCrow 1 year ago
Your an awesome person for that. Know that you deserve everything for that, even if it was a small thing.
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Simon Beckers 1 year ago (edited)
I once saved a catholic priests life with a press release. I wasn't even in the same country as him. In the early 2000's there were thousands of Government sanctioned extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. This included indigenous peoples, journalists, human rights activists, unionists, and catholic priests. The then president of the Philippines Maria Arroyo came to my country, Aotearoa New Zealand, for a religious interfaith dialouge. A small group of filipino activists and their Kiwi supporters asked if I could help with some media support.I did a google search looking for priests who had dissapeared. I found one who had just dissapeared. The priest was out with his wife when men in military gear and van, but with military signs removed, grabbed him and took him away. This has happened before, with the priests never resurfacing, presumed executed. I wrote a press release pointing out the contradiction of the president coming for an interfaith dialouge while a priest had just been dissapeared. We made sure it got to our Prime Minister, who had a history of international human rights work. I got word the press release got to where it needed to be and shortly after we were told that the priest was "found" in a prison, alive. I later went to visit him in prison, and he now lives happily in Australia. That is the power of advocacy journalism.
Violet Jensen 1 year ago
I love this one!! Journalism changes things so quickly and so well
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Shannon Mallory 1 year ago
Drove past a secluded house on fire at 3:30 am, called the fire department and sat outside honking SOS until the people inside woke up and got out. They and their dog got out 5 minutes before the fire trucks arrived.
Bill cipher 2 years ago
My friend was texting in a group chat that they were cutting their thighs and so me and another friend were very concerned we both reached out and tried to help but friend who was cutting kept changing the subject. I think i knew at that time that my friend wasn’t going to accept so i had my mom reach out to other concerned friends mom and she found out that this has been a recurring problem. Cutting friend said they were going on a grippy sock vacation, i dont know what that means but i hope they are getting the help they need.
ThatBiBookLover 1 year ago
I saved my friend from killing herself. I was 12, she 13. Whats worse, no one believed me. I was texting her frantically, trying to keep her alive, and my dad yelled at me bc I had to do chores. I told him about the situation, he didn’t believe me, told me to keep down the phone and see if she was alive the next day. I snuck texts to her to keep her alive. Now she’s alive, thank god, and much better, though not recovered yet and still occasionally suicidal. But I’m always there. It’s so damn exhausting though, I also have suicidal issues so if I’m having a very bad day and she’s complaining to me about something not serious, I occasionally pretend I haven’t seen the message. I can’t help it, I’m too down and sometimes suicidal myself.
Violet Jensen 1 year ago
My friend was rejected by her parents coming out as trans. I called our teacher when she sent me a suicide note. She refused to speak to me afterwards, then succeeded a few months later. By god i tried but I couldn’t
TheLovelyCrow 1 year ago
A 14 year old on Roblox. She wanted to hang herself and I talked her out of it, note that I am a minor. I knew how she felt, it's not a good feeling. We played some obbies for a few hours and she told me that I changed her life. I was happy I talked someone out of it. Bored Panda is the first internet browser I've told about this.
Kristin Gullard 1 year ago
Went spelunking in West Virginia with a large group including a child with a broken arm. We are climbing up a steep slope to get to a hidden cave. I was far behind because I was terrified of heights. The child lost his grip and started sliding down the mountain heading straight towards a huge drop into the road below. I immediately started scaling the mountain sideways toward him and managed to wrap one arm around a thin tree and caught him with the other arm. Got him turned back around and he started climbing back up. I thought I wasn't going to make it in time and was scared to death.
pocwaddler 1 year ago
I was a guide on a Grand Canyon river trip. All of the passengers had set off to hike to a waterfall; I waited until they were all gone and then started up myself. Here comes this young woman on the trip, walking fast, right at a 20 foot cliff. If I hadn't stopped her she would have walked right off the cliff. As it turned out she was having a bad asthma attack and was trying to get back to the boat to her inhaler. I half-carried her back to the boats where we found her inhaler.
Patti Vance 1 year ago
no, i didn't save the life of a man who died in front of me but the experience was what made me get basic training in order to do it properly. back in 1982 the cabbage patch craze was going on during the holidays. i was working at a store in a mall. outside of the store a stage was set up & they were auctioning off those dolls for charity. at one point a bid was over 1500. the auctioneer started to look very flushed & sweating then he went down hard. someone grabbed the mic & called out for 911 and/or dr in the mall. the crowd didn't move so i assume no one knew cpr. from the second floor a woman yelled out that she was a nurse & flew down the escalator & started to perform cpr. the next day i read in the paper that he didn't make it. it took so long for that nurse to come forward & i always wonder if someone had started cpr sooner he would have lived.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Army medic, a draftee (my number was 17, if you're old you'll know what that means), and a pretty terrible soldier. But I loved my job, in the ER and at the Institute of Surgical Research at Brooke Army Medical Center, which is still the world's best burn unit. Back then circa 1971-72, most of the most severe victims didn't make it but the lessons learned have saved countless lives since. I saw more than a few pass on. But as a civilian I have used the skills I learned in the Army to save lives several times.
Gary Sansom 2 years ago
30 years in the NHS and private health care. Orthopaedic wards for ten. Theatres, including trauma and cardiac for 20 years. It's our job to save lives, we live for it sometime. I once put out a fire on a patient who had caught alight with normal saline. Want a list?
Andy Acceber 2 years ago
A bunch of families were camping. I was the oldest kid at roughly age 12. Our parents let the group of kids wander up the river playing. At the top of the river was a lake. A 10 year jumped in and swam just fine. His 4 year old sister copied him. She got caught in some mud and fishing line on the water's edge and couldn't get her head out of the water. I jumped in and fumbled under water until I untangled her foot and shoved her to the shore. Back at the campsite, my parents scolded me for being wet and jumping in the lake with my backpack on. I never told them what really happened.
Leara Bridges Brown 2 years ago
After Hurricane Erma we went back to my parents place to start cleanup. It was weeks later before we were able to get back in. But anyways we were outback and my nephew fell into the 12 foot end of the pool. (The pool was completely black and full of half the things from my parents yard and neighbors. My nephew was only 4ish I jumped right in after him. He was fine . We ended up going to er to make sure none of the nastiness from the pool was gonna hurt him.
bonnyatlast 2 years ago
I was coming to work at the school where I taught. It was raining. Kids were crossing the cross walk coming to get to class on time. Right then a car comes at mine head on in my lane. I could not avoid it. Right behind me right before the wreck a kinder student and his 4th grade sister crossed the street coming out between two parked cars and not at the crosswalk where they should have been. The crash stopped the car dead. It would have hit both of them seconds later. 12 feet further down was the cross walk full of kids. It would have hit them too. I remember seeing his windshield covered with rain and no wipers going. He could not see where he was or what lane he had gotten into. My car was totaled. He jumped out of the car cussing wildly. He was about 18 and mentally challenged. His parents let him drive. I went to multiple court hearings where he was a no show. He finally showed up and got a $250. fine. Kept his license. My car was cleaned up ready to trade it in that day.
Rachel Reynolds 1 year ago
I play an online MMO and this guy mentioned he was going to kill himself in chat. Being a mostly garbage community, the rest of chat piled on and roasted him. I private messaged him and got him talking. I convinced him to call a hotline and made him promise to check in with me the next night. He's a cool guy, we still raid together.
madeline tansey bryson 1 year ago
Long story short. Living at my sister in law she had 5 kids age 6 months to 8 years. The adults went for a drink. Leaving me and kids. Later mum came in to tell me the house was on fire BUT Shah don't wake kids!!!!! I, by my self got the kids out of house. The living room was blazing
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago (edited)
I'm staying away from people in general. Thus saving lots of lives.
MeMosabe 1 year ago
Anyone who has children has probably saved their child's life at least once. I don't recall each and every instance, but we've stopped our kids from running into the street in front of an oncoming car, falling into a swimming pool or bath tub, etc. Parenting is not for the faith of heart.
Rebecca Wredberg 1 year ago
Not me but my daughter. My daughter was 2 years old and we were carving pumpkins on the porch. My husband was nearby doing welding work under his car. I was very intent on my pumpkin and my daughter very calmly says, "mommy." I tell her to give me a minute, but she says "mommy" louder. I told her again to give me a minute. I would be right there. She then gets louder and says, "mommy fire!" I jerk my head up and the "fire retardant" Car blanket under the car is on fire. There is a two foot flame under the gas tank and my husband is completely under the car unaware. I started screaming. He got out and we got the fire out before the car caught. I was very proud of my little girl and happy she knew the word for "fire."
Pizzagirl 91 1 year ago
Not as dramatic as most of these, but I got my husband to go see a doctor because he'd stop breathing at night between snoring. Turns out he had severe sleep apnoea. When they tested him, he stopped breathing 40(!) times a night for up to 30s(!). He was so tired during those days, his doctor compared it to driving under the influence. We didn't realise sooner because it coincided with the tail end of my pregnancy, and we were both really exhausted. If I hadn't been awake that night, who knows what would have happened! But now, he's got a breathing machine for the nights, and I can hope he'll wake up next to me for quite a few more years. - Anyway, please go see a doctor if ANYTHING seems out of the ordinary to you.
Norman Ross 1 year ago
Was working the evening shift for the local transit company when a stabbing victim gets on my bus he was actually pissing blood from his wound proceed to throw everyone off the bus and drove like hell. Got him there in a nick of time and almost got fired by the company "for turning my bus into an ambulance"
Lisa Van Allen 1 year ago
Years ago I worked for an insurance company that offered mental health and substance abuse services. I answered the phone late one night to a man preparing to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. He was very depressed over losing his family and his job during the holidays. I got him talking about his kids while a co-worker alerted the police. We talked for nearly half an hour and then he told me he was ready to get down off the bridge. He said no one had taken time to listen. I'm thankful I was able to be there for him.
Vicki Cunningham 1 year ago
Two years ago last month, I gave my sister my stem cells because she had bone marrow cancer. I am the only sibling and doctors were amazed I was a 100% match (we're not twins). Just this week Dr confirmed that her bone marrow is 100% mine and she is 100% cancer free.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
As a paramedic, that is just our task. We often take action even when you not notice a fatal problem is imminent.
Will Cable 1 year ago
If deciding to have a take out instead of me cooking...then yes, probably
Lee Banks 1 year ago
Buried comment, but thankfully not underground.... my roommate and I were hitchhiking up and down the east coast of the U.S. in 2007. We had trouble getting a ride at this one spot in North GA. A man at the truck a stop said he'd give us a ride in the morning.He was a long haul trucker, and could get us to Maine (destination). She agreed, but I had a bad feeling. We slept on the decision, as he'd be leaving in the morning. I talked her out of it, when we woke up. Trucker came by practically begging us to come with. I said No. About an hour later, another man came up to inform us that the man we talked to was the original ride's ride along cousin, and was not the driver. Said we had made a good decision, and took us to the next spot. The cousin was arrested six month later for killing hitchhikers.
Leo Domitrix 1 year ago
As an MD, it's what I do, whether in practice or in research. And I wish I'd saved more. Unfortunately, getting the data, then turning it into useful application, is not as simple as it sounds. :-(
Paul Cross 2 years ago
Gave mom Heimlich maneuver at a restaurant. From the side, because she was crammed in the booth pretty good. Now we take tables instead of booths and I make sure I don't make her laugh when she eats.
Keanne Smith 2 years ago
No and yes. A few years ago I was at work when a young man was stabbed in the throat. I tried to save him but he died from his wounds the following morning. Fast forward 6 weeks, after many sleepless nights feeling terrible about not being able to save him, I heard a strange loud crackling noise outside my bedroom window. I opened the curtains to see a neighbours house on fire. The neighbour and her kids were all still inside the house, so I broke open her glass front door and got the kids out while she stayed behind grabbing as much pointless rubbish as she could carry. She made two trips after that back inside the house to grab clothes, bags, a laptop, and her camera. This was just after midnight and turns out, her house was petrol bombed for not paying her drug dealer!
Christine Pendergast 2 years ago
I was working at a crisis respite house where people with mental health issues could stay for a few days to "re-group" I heard two bangs, like things falling, in the room
talliloo 1 year ago
i was saved by a kind man while i was in my wheelchair crossing a parking lot. i always watch for cars because i know i sit lower & they may not see me. this day i looked, didn't see anything & started across. next thing i see is this huge pickup charging across & i had no where to go. it stopped, the guy got out & went to the car behind him, screaming. he came over & apologized if he scared me. he said the guy in the other car was coming towards me but he was on his phone so he wanted to put his truck in between so he would get hit instead of me. i thanked him and he waited until i got into the store before he waved and left. thank you very much, stranger.
shawn mckinney 1 year ago (edited)
A couple of days after completing a first aid course my mom choked on her dinner. I immediately performed the Heimlich Maneuver (although in class they called it the J Stroke) Anyway...it worked :-)
Imaginary Friend 1 year ago
3 times. I stopped a suicide attempt, saved a friend's life (drug overdose) and pulled my ex-gf out the way of an oncoming truck (she stepped into the road without looking).
Patty Haynes 1 year ago
I've saved 3 separate boys from my pool. One of them when I was 8 months pregnant. 2 of them I saved from the pool twice. I've never had to save a girl. Boys walk forward and look sideways.
Viper Dogfish 1 year ago
I dunno if it counts - but my now partner's. We didn't know each other back then - it was just a random online convo between two strangers, and I'm gonna omit many details, but long story short, it turned out she had decided to end it all later that night and she wanted to talk with... well, anyone really. It just so happened that I was the one. She had no idea, tho, that my reason to be online that same night was the same as hers. I was overwhelmed, far away from family and friends, unsure where to do next - and for me the answer was to end it all too. And like in a f****n' Hallmark movie I just happened to be talking with someone with the same suicidal thoughts that haunted my own brain. So I dunno who saved who that night really, but we talked and talked and now we are here, together and we are still kickin' a*s and trying our best. All of it - just because of a random chance encounter online. Most f****n' melodramatic s**t ever, really.
Lisa Mack 1 year ago
Dispatcher for police. I've had to talk someone who is high out of a vehicle so they weren't shot... Also one more than one occasion told officers where to go to find a suicidal person without talking to the suicidal person directly. I knew where to find them because of my familiarity of the city and because I had a friend that was obsessed with finding the past filming locations off a popular TV show.
Bored hamster 1 year ago
As a first responder I don’t really know how many lives I’ve changed/saved/lost ..
Mathilde Snijders 1 year ago
When I was 6 me and my best friend saved her little brother felrom drowning
An Unpopular Opinion. 1 year ago
I've talked to lots of suicidal people, I used to be everyone's therapist. I don't talk to any of them much anymore, but they're still around, and while I have no idea whether it's because of me at all, I like to think I helped, even just a little bit
TheLovelyCrow 1 year ago
Your an awesome person for that. Know that you deserve everything for that, even if it was a small thing.
Load More Replies... Simon Beckers 1 year ago (edited)
I once saved a catholic priests life with a press release. I wasn't even in the same country as him. In the early 2000's there were thousands of Government sanctioned extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. This included indigenous peoples, journalists, human rights activists, unionists, and catholic priests. The then president of the Philippines Maria Arroyo came to my country, Aotearoa New Zealand, for a religious interfaith dialouge. A small group of filipino activists and their Kiwi supporters asked if I could help with some media support.I did a google search looking for priests who had dissapeared. I found one who had just dissapeared. The priest was out with his wife when men in military gear and van, but with military signs removed, grabbed him and took him away. This has happened before, with the priests never resurfacing, presumed executed. I wrote a press release pointing out the contradiction of the president coming for an interfaith dialouge while a priest had just been dissapeared. We made sure it got to our Prime Minister, who had a history of international human rights work. I got word the press release got to where it needed to be and shortly after we were told that the priest was "found" in a prison, alive. I later went to visit him in prison, and he now lives happily in Australia. That is the power of advocacy journalism.
Violet Jensen 1 year ago
I love this one!! Journalism changes things so quickly and so well
Load More Replies... Shannon Mallory 1 year ago
Drove past a secluded house on fire at 3:30 am, called the fire department and sat outside honking SOS until the people inside woke up and got out. They and their dog got out 5 minutes before the fire trucks arrived.
Bill cipher 2 years ago
My friend was texting in a group chat that they were cutting their thighs and so me and another friend were very concerned we both reached out and tried to help but friend who was cutting kept changing the subject. I think i knew at that time that my friend wasn’t going to accept so i had my mom reach out to other concerned friends mom and she found out that this has been a recurring problem. Cutting friend said they were going on a grippy sock vacation, i dont know what that means but i hope they are getting the help they need.
ThatBiBookLover 1 year ago
I saved my friend from killing herself. I was 12, she 13. Whats worse, no one believed me. I was texting her frantically, trying to keep her alive, and my dad yelled at me bc I had to do chores. I told him about the situation, he didn’t believe me, told me to keep down the phone and see if she was alive the next day. I snuck texts to her to keep her alive. Now she’s alive, thank god, and much better, though not recovered yet and still occasionally suicidal. But I’m always there. It’s so damn exhausting though, I also have suicidal issues so if I’m having a very bad day and she’s complaining to me about something not serious, I occasionally pretend I haven’t seen the message. I can’t help it, I’m too down and sometimes suicidal myself.
Violet Jensen 1 year ago
My friend was rejected by her parents coming out as trans. I called our teacher when she sent me a suicide note. She refused to speak to me afterwards, then succeeded a few months later. By god i tried but I couldn’t
TheLovelyCrow 1 year ago
A 14 year old on Roblox. She wanted to hang herself and I talked her out of it, note that I am a minor. I knew how she felt, it's not a good feeling. We played some obbies for a few hours and she told me that I changed her life. I was happy I talked someone out of it. Bored Panda is the first internet browser I've told about this.
Kristin Gullard 1 year ago
Went spelunking in West Virginia with a large group including a child with a broken arm. We are climbing up a steep slope to get to a hidden cave. I was far behind because I was terrified of heights. The child lost his grip and started sliding down the mountain heading straight towards a huge drop into the road below. I immediately started scaling the mountain sideways toward him and managed to wrap one arm around a thin tree and caught him with the other arm. Got him turned back around and he started climbing back up. I thought I wasn't going to make it in time and was scared to death.
pocwaddler 1 year ago
I was a guide on a Grand Canyon river trip. All of the passengers had set off to hike to a waterfall; I waited until they were all gone and then started up myself. Here comes this young woman on the trip, walking fast, right at a 20 foot cliff. If I hadn't stopped her she would have walked right off the cliff. As it turned out she was having a bad asthma attack and was trying to get back to the boat to her inhaler. I half-carried her back to the boats where we found her inhaler.
Patti Vance 1 year ago
no, i didn't save the life of a man who died in front of me but the experience was what made me get basic training in order to do it properly. back in 1982 the cabbage patch craze was going on during the holidays. i was working at a store in a mall. outside of the store a stage was set up & they were auctioning off those dolls for charity. at one point a bid was over 1500. the auctioneer started to look very flushed & sweating then he went down hard. someone grabbed the mic & called out for 911 and/or dr in the mall. the crowd didn't move so i assume no one knew cpr. from the second floor a woman yelled out that she was a nurse & flew down the escalator & started to perform cpr. the next day i read in the paper that he didn't make it. it took so long for that nurse to come forward & i always wonder if someone had started cpr sooner he would have lived.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Army medic, a draftee (my number was 17, if you're old you'll know what that means), and a pretty terrible soldier. But I loved my job, in the ER and at the Institute of Surgical Research at Brooke Army Medical Center, which is still the world's best burn unit. Back then circa 1971-72, most of the most severe victims didn't make it but the lessons learned have saved countless lives since. I saw more than a few pass on. But as a civilian I have used the skills I learned in the Army to save lives several times.
Gary Sansom 2 years ago
30 years in the NHS and private health care. Orthopaedic wards for ten. Theatres, including trauma and cardiac for 20 years. It's our job to save lives, we live for it sometime. I once put out a fire on a patient who had caught alight with normal saline. Want a list?
Andy Acceber 2 years ago
A bunch of families were camping. I was the oldest kid at roughly age 12. Our parents let the group of kids wander up the river playing. At the top of the river was a lake. A 10 year jumped in and swam just fine. His 4 year old sister copied him. She got caught in some mud and fishing line on the water's edge and couldn't get her head out of the water. I jumped in and fumbled under water until I untangled her foot and shoved her to the shore. Back at the campsite, my parents scolded me for being wet and jumping in the lake with my backpack on. I never told them what really happened.
Leara Bridges Brown 2 years ago
After Hurricane Erma we went back to my parents place to start cleanup. It was weeks later before we were able to get back in. But anyways we were outback and my nephew fell into the 12 foot end of the pool. (The pool was completely black and full of half the things from my parents yard and neighbors. My nephew was only 4ish I jumped right in after him. He was fine . We ended up going to er to make sure none of the nastiness from the pool was gonna hurt him.
bonnyatlast 2 years ago
I was coming to work at the school where I taught. It was raining. Kids were crossing the cross walk coming to get to class on time. Right then a car comes at mine head on in my lane. I could not avoid it. Right behind me right before the wreck a kinder student and his 4th grade sister crossed the street coming out between two parked cars and not at the crosswalk where they should have been. The crash stopped the car dead. It would have hit both of them seconds later. 12 feet further down was the cross walk full of kids. It would have hit them too. I remember seeing his windshield covered with rain and no wipers going. He could not see where he was or what lane he had gotten into. My car was totaled. He jumped out of the car cussing wildly. He was about 18 and mentally challenged. His parents let him drive. I went to multiple court hearings where he was a no show. He finally showed up and got a $250. fine. Kept his license. My car was cleaned up ready to trade it in that day.
Rachel Reynolds 1 year ago
I play an online MMO and this guy mentioned he was going to kill himself in chat. Being a mostly garbage community, the rest of chat piled on and roasted him. I private messaged him and got him talking. I convinced him to call a hotline and made him promise to check in with me the next night. He's a cool guy, we still raid together.
madeline tansey bryson 1 year ago
Long story short. Living at my sister in law she had 5 kids age 6 months to 8 years. The adults went for a drink. Leaving me and kids. Later mum came in to tell me the house was on fire BUT Shah don't wake kids!!!!! I, by my self got the kids out of house. The living room was blazing
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago (edited)
I'm staying away from people in general. Thus saving lots of lives.
MeMosabe 1 year ago
Anyone who has children has probably saved their child's life at least once. I don't recall each and every instance, but we've stopped our kids from running into the street in front of an oncoming car, falling into a swimming pool or bath tub, etc. Parenting is not for the faith of heart.
Rebecca Wredberg 1 year ago
Not me but my daughter. My daughter was 2 years old and we were carving pumpkins on the porch. My husband was nearby doing welding work under his car. I was very intent on my pumpkin and my daughter very calmly says, "mommy." I tell her to give me a minute, but she says "mommy" louder. I told her again to give me a minute. I would be right there. She then gets louder and says, "mommy fire!" I jerk my head up and the "fire retardant" Car blanket under the car is on fire. There is a two foot flame under the gas tank and my husband is completely under the car unaware. I started screaming. He got out and we got the fire out before the car caught. I was very proud of my little girl and happy she knew the word for "fire."
Pizzagirl 91 1 year ago
Not as dramatic as most of these, but I got my husband to go see a doctor because he'd stop breathing at night between snoring. Turns out he had severe sleep apnoea. When they tested him, he stopped breathing 40(!) times a night for up to 30s(!). He was so tired during those days, his doctor compared it to driving under the influence. We didn't realise sooner because it coincided with the tail end of my pregnancy, and we were both really exhausted. If I hadn't been awake that night, who knows what would have happened! But now, he's got a breathing machine for the nights, and I can hope he'll wake up next to me for quite a few more years. - Anyway, please go see a doctor if ANYTHING seems out of the ordinary to you.
Norman Ross 1 year ago
Was working the evening shift for the local transit company when a stabbing victim gets on my bus he was actually pissing blood from his wound proceed to throw everyone off the bus and drove like hell. Got him there in a nick of time and almost got fired by the company "for turning my bus into an ambulance"
Lisa Van Allen 1 year ago
Years ago I worked for an insurance company that offered mental health and substance abuse services. I answered the phone late one night to a man preparing to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. He was very depressed over losing his family and his job during the holidays. I got him talking about his kids while a co-worker alerted the police. We talked for nearly half an hour and then he told me he was ready to get down off the bridge. He said no one had taken time to listen. I'm thankful I was able to be there for him.
Vicki Cunningham 1 year ago
Two years ago last month, I gave my sister my stem cells because she had bone marrow cancer. I am the only sibling and doctors were amazed I was a 100% match (we're not twins). Just this week Dr confirmed that her bone marrow is 100% mine and she is 100% cancer free.
The Cute Cat 1 year ago
As a paramedic, that is just our task. We often take action even when you not notice a fatal problem is imminent.
Will Cable 1 year ago
If deciding to have a take out instead of me cooking...then yes, probably
Lee Banks 1 year ago
Buried comment, but thankfully not underground.... my roommate and I were hitchhiking up and down the east coast of the U.S. in 2007. We had trouble getting a ride at this one spot in North GA. A man at the truck a stop said he'd give us a ride in the morning.He was a long haul trucker, and could get us to Maine (destination). She agreed, but I had a bad feeling. We slept on the decision, as he'd be leaving in the morning. I talked her out of it, when we woke up. Trucker came by practically begging us to come with. I said No. About an hour later, another man came up to inform us that the man we talked to was the original ride's ride along cousin, and was not the driver. Said we had made a good decision, and took us to the next spot. The cousin was arrested six month later for killing hitchhikers.
Leo Domitrix 1 year ago
As an MD, it's what I do, whether in practice or in research. And I wish I'd saved more. Unfortunately, getting the data, then turning it into useful application, is not as simple as it sounds. :-(
Paul Cross 2 years ago
Gave mom Heimlich maneuver at a restaurant. From the side, because she was crammed in the booth pretty good. Now we take tables instead of booths and I make sure I don't make her laugh when she eats.
Keanne Smith 2 years ago
No and yes. A few years ago I was at work when a young man was stabbed in the throat. I tried to save him but he died from his wounds the following morning. Fast forward 6 weeks, after many sleepless nights feeling terrible about not being able to save him, I heard a strange loud crackling noise outside my bedroom window. I opened the curtains to see a neighbours house on fire. The neighbour and her kids were all still inside the house, so I broke open her glass front door and got the kids out while she stayed behind grabbing as much pointless rubbish as she could carry. She made two trips after that back inside the house to grab clothes, bags, a laptop, and her camera. This was just after midnight and turns out, her house was petrol bombed for not paying her drug dealer!
Christine Pendergast 2 years ago
I was working at a crisis respite house where people with mental health issues could stay for a few days to "re-group" I heard two bangs, like things falling, in the room
talliloo 1 year ago
i was saved by a kind man while i was in my wheelchair crossing a parking lot. i always watch for cars because i know i sit lower & they may not see me. this day i looked, didn't see anything & started across. next thing i see is this huge pickup charging across & i had no where to go. it stopped, the guy got out & went to the car behind him, screaming. he came over & apologized if he scared me. he said the guy in the other car was coming towards me but he was on his phone so he wanted to put his truck in between so he would get hit instead of me. i thanked him and he waited until i got into the store before he waved and left. thank you very much, stranger.
shawn mckinney 1 year ago (edited)
A couple of days after completing a first aid course my mom choked on her dinner. I immediately performed the Heimlich Maneuver (although in class they called it the J Stroke) Anyway...it worked :-)
Imaginary Friend 1 year ago
3 times. I stopped a suicide attempt, saved a friend's life (drug overdose) and pulled my ex-gf out the way of an oncoming truck (she stepped into the road without looking).
Patty Haynes 1 year ago
I've saved 3 separate boys from my pool. One of them when I was 8 months pregnant. 2 of them I saved from the pool twice. I've never had to save a girl. Boys walk forward and look sideways.
Viper Dogfish 1 year ago
I dunno if it counts - but my now partner's. We didn't know each other back then - it was just a random online convo between two strangers, and I'm gonna omit many details, but long story short, it turned out she had decided to end it all later that night and she wanted to talk with... well, anyone really. It just so happened that I was the one. She had no idea, tho, that my reason to be online that same night was the same as hers. I was overwhelmed, far away from family and friends, unsure where to do next - and for me the answer was to end it all too. And like in a f****n' Hallmark movie I just happened to be talking with someone with the same suicidal thoughts that haunted my own brain. So I dunno who saved who that night really, but we talked and talked and now we are here, together and we are still kickin' a*s and trying our best. All of it - just because of a random chance encounter online. Most f****n' melodramatic s**t ever, really.
Lisa Mack 1 year ago
Dispatcher for police. I've had to talk someone who is high out of a vehicle so they weren't shot... Also one more than one occasion told officers where to go to find a suicidal person without talking to the suicidal person directly. I knew where to find them because of my familiarity of the city and because I had a friend that was obsessed with finding the past filming locations off a popular TV show.
Bored hamster 1 year ago
As a first responder I don’t really know how many lives I’ve changed/saved/lost ..
Mathilde Snijders 1 year ago
When I was 6 me and my best friend saved her little brother felrom drowning
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