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

I helped an elderly lady that had fallen and hit her head on the parking lot pavement. I couldn't remember what the temperature (in Florida) was that day.. but it was very hot. She was bleeding profusely from her head and she could not get up. She wanted me to help her to the car. I didn't think it was a good idea to drive in that condition. I carried her into Books A Million, grabbed some towels for the bleeding, grabbed some cold water and called for help. EMT's came and got her. She thanked me and I carried on home.. with blood on my tank-top. We didn't catch others names.

It happened last year. I had forgotten about it. It must have been heat exhaustion or something. I was casually walking down the parking lot with the full intent to grab some nice clothes from Express until I saw her helpless on the ground. I was the only one that had attended to her too. Two or three people passed by and never bothered to ask or help.

I've given CPR to several people

Pulled three teenage girls out of a car back in '77 that had failed to stop at a railroad crossing on Loop Rd. in Monroe. By the time I got to the car there was fire and smoke coming from under the hood. Long story short, about 10 seconds after getting the last girl out and less than twenty feet from the car, there was an explosion under the hood that imploded the front windshield into the car. Shredded the seats with glass.

Did I actually save them, I don't really know but the fire chief, policeman and the parents of the three girls said I did. All I know is that I got pretty weak-kneed after things settled down knowing I came pretty close myself to being a statistic.

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talk someone out of harming or even possibly killing themselves

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I've done this. Not online.

Also, I picked up a dude and dudette about a mile South of Camille Cut (where Hurricane Camillle separated Ship Island into two distinct islands about a mile apart). They had attempted to swim from the West End of Ship to the East End. They were being washed out Southerly by the tide and were just about done for when I spotted them. They offered me some reefer for saving them, they had it in a waterproof bag.

We ain't Buddhist for a reason. You did good.

I pulled some kids out of the rear window of an SUV that had flipped over on the bridge going to gulf shores. Wouldn't have died but it was still exhilarating. Huge wreck happened directly in front of me. Was out of my car and running before I realized it.

Not myself but my dad and uncle definitely saved an older man's life just side of El Paso some years ago. We were heading west on I-10 travelling out of El Paso heading towards New Mexico when we passed over an overpass and seen this elderly gentleman off to the right where he had ran off the frontage road and his car was stuck in the sand. He had spun the tire so much that it was now flat. Anyway, we exit off the next exit and head towards him. Temps that day , early June were certainly in the mid 90s. We get to him and the man is shaking says he just got out of the hospital , says he had had a heart attack and had just been released and trying to get home. He reaches for his pocket and takes out his glycerine pills but is shaking so bad, I can remember him dropping the pills in the sand. My brothers and I pick up the pills , give him some water from our canteen and he takes his pill. Long story short, his spare was the wrong tire, so my Dad gets him in our Blazer and we head to the nearest service station (back in the ole days) and gets him a new tire and Dad and my uncle changes the flat for him and we get his car out of the sand and on his way. Not for sure, but if someone had not stopped, I believe the man would have definitely passed away right there.

I pulled a kid away from an oncoming truck during mardi Gras one year