Has anyone ever saved your life?

[TickTockMan]

I have been saved twice.

1) First time was coming back from my great grandfather's funeral. We had a car that the back seat belts got stuck. Only my brother could get them to unbuckle. We stopped at a rest area with car trouble. My mothers knew the car was going to blow up, but I was stuck. After my brother got me unbelted as we ran away like in an action movie the car blew up.

2) In my early teens I spent summer with my grandparents. I spent a lot of time with their neighbor. One day the neighbor and I wanted to go for a bike ride, but I forgot my helmet at home. My grandma would only let me go if I wore the only helmet they had, an old motorcycle helmet. Long story short we got in a bad wreak. My head hit the bicycle so hard I bent the frame. We were really messed up, but my grandmother made the right call on the helmet. I have always wore one since when riding.

 

[LeicsDom]

I had a really bad car accident back in 1999. My ex, who was in the car with me, pulled me from the car wreck. I had a broken collar bone and couldn't get out by myself. It happened up in the Scottish mountains and it was only when we got out that we realised that if the car had skidded the other way we would have plunged 100ft down the mountain.

 

[unloadonme]

The surgeon who performed a C-section when I declined to be born conventionally.

 

[rareboy]

The chief of cardiology and chief of haematology at Toront Hospital.

And then a few years ago, the team that saved me when I choked on some meat.

 

[Vannie]

And someone saved my life tonight.....

Sugar bear...sugar bear....

 

[peeonme]

When I was about 3 yrs. old I had a severe asthma attach, my dad's quick action and lead foot got me to a hospital in time. This was back in 1955, I still recall being in an oxygen tent.
When I was 15 my cousin pushed me off of a small bridge (as a joke), his brother dove in and got me to shore, I wasn't good at swimming.

 

[rareboy]

I am just going to note that I have earmarked 33% of my estate for the two medical institutions that saved my life.

If you have had this happen to you, please do the same.

Unless you are pissed off that they saved your life

 

[LeicsDom]

when I choked on some meat.

Sniggers childishly

 

[TickTockMan]

I am just going to note that I have earmarked 33% of my estate for the two medical institutions that saved my life.

If you have had this happen to you, please do the same.

Unless you are pissed off that they saved your life

All I'm leaving is debt!

 

[Petallways]

I have been saved twice.

1) First time was coming back from my great grandfather's funeral. We had a car that the back seat belts got stuck. Only my brother could get them to unbuckle. We stopped at a rest area with car trouble. My mothers knew the car was going to blow up, but I was stuck. After my brother got me unbelted as we ran away like in an action movie the car blew up.

2) In my early teens I spent summer with my grandparents. I spent a lot of time with their neighbor. One day the neighbor and I wanted to go for a bike ride, but I forgot my helmet at home. My grandma would only let me go if I wore the only helmet they had, an old motorcycle helmet. Long story short we got in a bad wreak. My head hit the bicycle so hard I bent the frame. We were really messed up, but my grandmother made the right call on the helmet. I have always wore one since when riding.

Abilify

 

[NotHardUp1]

I have been saved twice.

1) First time was coming back from my great grandfather's funeral. We had a car that the back seat belts got stuck. Only my brother could get them to unbuckle. We stopped at a rest area with car trouble. My mothers knew the car was going to blow up, but I was stuck. After my brother got me unbelted as we ran away like in an action movie the car blew up.

I guess it's waaaay too late to ask what kind of gas she was using.

Or was it a Pinto?

 

[NotHardUp1]

The chief of cardiology and chief of haematology at Toront Hospital.

Did they remove your "o"?

 

[NotHardUp1]

And to answer the question, no. I've never been at death's door, that I am aware of.

Although, I would certainly credit the many friends and family who have been supportive of me, especially in my teens, as I was depressed and don't believe I would have made it without them.

 

[Kulindahr]

Twice.

When I was 11, my side hurt like mad and I refused to go to school. The mom was skeptical. When my dad came home for lunch he saw me under a blanket on the couch and asked what was up. I told him my side hurt. He tapped it with a finger and I screamed. He scooped me up, saying to my mom, "Drop that and get the car." At the hospital he barged right by the intake stuff and yelled for our doctor. The doc said another five minutes I'd have had a burst appendix and the rural hospital might not have been able to save me. The scar from the emergency appendectomy is still there and reminds me.

When I was in university, I was assistant Scoutmaster for a Boy Scout troop that caught caught in a near-freezing rain (two hundred feet up the mountain from the camp it was an ice storm) and I wore myself out making sure all the guys had dry tents and a hot dinner, then collapsed into my sleeping bag. I woke up in the dark feeling strange, tried to sit up but couldn't. I fell on the Scout sleeping next to me as I tried to crawl out of the tent to go pee. He woke up and asked me something, and all I could do was make baby-like sounds. He woke his twin brother, they zipped their matching sleeping bags together, got me out to pee, forced me to eat something, stuck me in the middle of the combined sleeping bags and climbed in on both sides. I was so far gone I hadn't even been aware of anything past getting horizontal again until I woke up hours later shivering -- enough body heat restored to be able to shiver again! Thanks to that "Scout sandwich", I skipped death by hypothermia.
I still get shudders from the memory of not even being able to form words, and immense gratitude at waking up feeling wring out a dishrag between two kids smart enough to pack me in and serve as 98.6° F body heaters.

 

[rareboy]

All I'm leaving is debt!

Do you know that you could also leave behind a letter of thanks even if you don't have an estate.

Sometimes it is just the morale booster that people in healthcare need.

 

[rareboy]

Twice.

When I was 11, my side hurt like mad and I refused to go to school. The mom was skeptical. When my dad came home for lunch he saw me under a blanket on the couch and asked what was up. I told him my side hurt. He tapped it with a finger and I screamed. He scooped me up, saying to my mom, "Drop that and get the car." At the hospital he barged right by the intake stuff and yelled for our doctor. The doc said another five minutes I'd have had a burst appendix and the rural hospital might not have been able to save me. The scar from the emergency appendectomy is still there and reminds me.

When I was in university, I was assistant Scoutmaster for a Boy Scout troop that caught caught in a near-freezing rain (two hundred feet up the mountain from the camp it was an ice storm) and I wore myself out making sure all the guys had dry tents and a hot dinner, then collapsed into my sleeping bag. I woke up in the dark feeling strange, tried to sit up but couldn't. I fell on the Scout sleeping next to me as I tried to crawl out of the tent to go pee. He woke up and asked me something, and all I could do was make baby-like sounds. He woke his twin brother, they zipped their matching sleeping bags together, got me out to pee, forced me to eat something, stuck me in the middle of the combined sleeping bags and climbed in on both sides. I was so far gone I hadn't even been aware of anything past getting horizontal again until I woke up hours later shivering -- enough body heat restored to be able to shiver again! Thanks to that "Scout sandwich", I skipped death by hypothermia.
I still get shudders from the memory of not even being able to form words, and immense gratitude at waking up feeling wring out a dishrag between two kids smart enough to pack me in and serve as 98.6° F body heaters.

Wow. good for the bros. IT is an immediate go to. Strip and cuddle the person with hypothermia.