Has anyone ever saved someone’s life?

Possibly Yes, the paramedic reckoned so, but not personally convinced, he may have just been kind. My lad stopped breathing when he was 7, lips went blue and breathing seemed to have stopped, so training kicked in but you never forget the panic. Ambulance arrived quickly thank goodness and they were stars.
 
On the Intercity 125 train to London in about '82 with my 8-year-old daughter. I went to queue at the buffet to buy a drink for her. I saw some young teenagers messing about near the door looking like they were hiding from the ticket inspector. Looked away and suddenly this guy (the hero) grabs my hand and asked for help. I saw the door was open but it was only as i got close to the door that I saw one of the young lads swinging at the end of it. The train was going full tilt. I grabbed some other bloke's hand and we formed a chain while the first guy hung out of the door trying to pull the young lad in. I was absolutely terrified half hanging out the door preying that we didn't hit a signal pole or other obstruction as we'd have been mince. The first guy eventually managed to grab the lad's jacket and pull him in. Can't have lasted more than 30 seconds but seemed like an age. No idea what happened to the lad or the other guy as I had to get back to my daughter, but somebody had eventually pulled the communication cord so the guards would have dealt with it.
 
Numerous occasions while serving in the Army. Since leaving had to give CPR to an old dear in Tesco car park who had slipped on ice, fell banging her head and had stopped breathing. Also CPR on a drug overdose random lad laying in the town centre.
 
About fifteen years ago I was standing at the kerb of a busy main road at rush hour, waiting for the lights to change. A woman pushing a buggy with a wee boy in stopped next to me. Suddenly this big red leaf blew by, sucked along by the traffic. It sort of swirled and danced about on the road right in front of the little boy. I don't know why but I just knew he was going to leap out of his buggy for it, and he did. I managed to grab his little shoulder just as a load of cars were flying past, with that leaf lost underneath.

The mum was in shock, didn't say a word and we just strapped the lad into his buggy. It was such a quick turn of events that it was all over in seconds and she left immediately.

I've thought about it now and again. It was such a minor thing, over in a moment, but it could have changed her life in such a fundamental way.

I had three little kids of my own a year or two later and I always insisted we used the buggy straps!
 
Artie Fufkin said:
I dont know if you're taking the P, or if I totally don't understand your description of events
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I didn’t really save her life, she wouldn’t have just sat there while the bouncy castle slowly suffocated her, she just got spooked, but she tells everyone I saved her life. Who am I to argue.
 
ticker_tape said:
Know a few fire bobs, Kev Harrison, Shaun Williams.
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Know them well . Kev was my gaffer on Boro red watch and reffed to a canny standard for years and is a mega Boro fan .
Remember Shaun who was Stockton blue watch breaking his leg at the brigade 5 a side at Tilery in Stockton and you probably could of heard it in Thornaby 😭
 
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A few years back, I had the in laws are around for Sunday dinner. During dinner, my brother in law (he was and still is, an annoying rude obnoxious pr!ck) began choking on a pea. After a few hard slaps on on his back (funnily enough, everybody around the table had a go!), it still didn't dislodge it, so I performed the Heimlich manoeuvre (abdominal thrusts) on him. It took a whilst to get under his blubber gut to get it right,, and crucially I had just been refreshed on a first aid course the week before, where we had gone over it in detail. Managed to clear the obstruction, and he sill lives to be just as annoying today. His wife has still not forgiven me : ). Moral of story....go on a first aid course if you get chance.
 
Had my life saved twice, once I properly unconscious from a seizure and swallowed my tongue, work colleague pulled my tongue out. The other was also a seizure after an original seizure and St Johns ambulance driver saved my life through quick thinking!
 
Pulled an old fella out of a stream (he was face down and not strong enough to push himself out). His head was in about 18 inches of water and his wife (they were both in their 80s) was not strong enough to pull him out.. This was a few weeks ago. I was just out running.
 
redcarbob said:
Fantastic achievement Norfolk. I’m stuck on 72 and have had to stop as I’m on blood thinners for the rest of my days. I’m O neg as well so an even bigger shame as they need more of it.
Sorry to hear that but at 72 pints you have certainly done your bit. So I did the 75th yesterday, in and out in 25 minutes, must have been a record. With the current climate they don't want you hanging about, so no Coffee and biscuits available just a polite thank you and there's the door. Your 75th award will be in the post.
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I was on guard duty over Christmas, got a phonecall to the guardroom from a mum saying she had a weird text from her son and could someone check on him, I went to his room myself as he was a mate of mine, his door was locked and he wouldnt answer so kicked his door in, found him with his wrists cut. If I had been a few minutes longer he'd have been dead.
 
Skirmish said:
I was on guard duty over Christmas, got a phonecall to the guardroom from a mum saying she had a weird text from her son and could someone check on him, I went to his room myself as he was a mate of mine, his door was locked and he wouldnt answer so kicked his door in, found him with his wrists cut. If I had been a few minutes longer he'd have been dead.
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That's how I started giving blood. Got a call in the Guard looking for blood for a heart transplant at Harefield Hospital, it was the 2nd January when I was at West Drayton.
 
Me and missus saved a guys life (albeit breifly, he died a few days later in hospital) h collapsed on the door way of Argos, we got him in a recovery position and cleared his airway. I had to force the automatic door to stop shutting on him as he was too heavy to move, the manager flapped about for a bit... Then i had to threaten an idiot who tried to climb over us because he wanted to come into the shop to return somthing... everyone else just stood and watched...

I was also pulled out of a waterfall at low force when i was a young lad, a gang of us went up in cars and were having a laugh, i went down one of the small waterfalls but got stuck in the plunge pool... luckily a mate seen me go under, my life (as short as it had been flashed before me then i felt a hand just pull me out... the rest of the lads never noticed until he got me on the side... 5 mins later we were all jumping in again...
 
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