re: Anyone here ever saved someone's life? Tell me your story.

The first semester I was at LSU, I helped stop a kid from killing himself during finals week.

I was in Laville Hall going to get water out of one of the water fountains, and as I round the corner I hear this guy just absolutely lose his shite on the phone. Was bizarre, I shrugged it off, but he comes out of his room and keeps going off at... somebody, I dunno who. Pretty sure it involved some cheating but I don't know any specifics. Figured it wasn't really my business to ask.

So he comes out of his room, he's intermittently yelling really angrily at whoever's on the other line and then going unsettlingly silent. I knew something was wrong, but again, not really my place to get involved. He walks at a really brisk pace toward the exit to the 459 Commons, and I figured I'd tag along behind him since I was hungry anyway.

So I follow him, he goes right by the 459, and at this point he's just going absolutely apeshit on the phone. RIP the hearing of whoever's on the other side. He walks through the parking lot right by the 459, surrounded by Blake and Acadian Halls, on that little sidewalk that goes out to the side-street leading to McVoy and Miller from East Campus Drive. There's a small scene, briefly, because a bunch of people were at/around the 459. Might've been around the time they do that pancake dinner thing? Not sure if that was the right day or not. Dunno exactly why so many people were there, but there were quite a few and they were ALL looking at this guy, just storming off toward that side street to East Campus.

I follow him onto that side street and that's when he runs out in front of a car and gets hit. Busted up his leg, but it wasn't enough to hurt him badly. The driver bails; to this day I'm not sure if that's a shitty move of him or not. (Knowing that the guy intentionally ran out to get hit, I think it's okay, but the guy drove off before he had time to figure it out, which makes me think he was gonna do it anyway.) Angry dude is now swearing to high heaven and it's obvious he was trying to get hit, so I call 911 and start following the guy closer. He runs out in front of another car, which stops in time; then he gets mad and beats on the hood and the car drives off. At this point he's off the side street and on East Campus, and he starts off running -- how I don't know, with his leg bummed up from the first hit, but he RUNS toward Highland Road, and I KNOW at that point if he gets there, the next car that comes by isn't just gonna leave him with a hurting leg.

But he gets stopped outside of Laville by some guy, I dunno who. Talks to him for a few minutes, I keep my distance enough not to hear it because I figure an aggravated, suicidal guy who's running on a leg that got smacked by a car wouldn't take kindly to finding out that somebody's been following him. He takes off toward Highland Road again, and I run after him trying to catch up, but then LSUPD shows up and stops him before he can actually seriously hurt himself. Officer asks me if I want to speak to him or give testimony, I ask not to but give contact info if they need to talk to me further, never hear from the officers or the guy again. My roommate at the time apparently found out that there was some fight over some girl that pushed this dude over the edge, but I never bothered to get any more details. Dunno the kid's name or what happened to him, hope he's doing well.

Then I woke up 2 hours late for my Latin exam the next morning.

In retrospect that week was fricking nuts, the pizza girl thing happened that week too.

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You a medic? We all play a critical role and serve a purpose, but there's a reason I run the codes, sign off on new EMT's/paramedics, approve new protocols, and am the medical director. Not really directed to you, but to redbone and I may have taken that post wrong. I have been drinking and in the pool.

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I'm assuming you're a good medical director, i've only had one who was a complete twat, but the others were the coolest guys ever. Weird you say you run the codes, etc.. thats not how it is here... but you know its different in every state..

I agree 100%, its totally different between the two. We are trained in the field, they are trained in the hospital. I could never work in the ER, especially after my clinicals there.. and i hear nurses/docs say they could never work in the field.. its just two different worlds with the same goal..

Aren't nurses mandated to stop at accidents?

That was the law several years ago when I worked in the medical field

We don't have to....but if we do we have to stay there until someone else arrives on the scene (ex:paramedics) or we can lose our license for abandonment of patient

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I have been drinking and in the pool.

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Go back to the pool you drunk. Come back when .... BWAHAHAHAAAAA, I'm kidding. It's a system where we each play our part. While I was always interested in each case I'm well aware I'm the one that would get in the way once they are delivered to you.

I had one that had an arm and a leg pulled off. I knew my duct tape and super glue wasn't going to work so I took him to OLOL.

I've talked someone out of committing suicide before, does that count?

That's why you never advertise you are an RN or DR on your car.

My nurse friend at the place I used to work said they had to. And she got really fricked up from seeing some horrible shite at a really bad wreck. People said she was never the same

Yes. One from drowning one from being hit by a truck.