Saved a Life...

I'm a lifeguard but I wouldn't say I've saved any lives. I've had to jump in like 10 times for idiots thinking they're born knowing how to swim. I guess if I hadn't jumped in they'd have drowned but fuck it's a public pool that ain't gonna happen haha. The closest thing to saving a life I'd say was this 7 year old girl who fell off a 3m diving board to the ground. She was climbing up it (she had been going off for like half n hour having a great time so she was confident) and when she was right at the last step her hand slipped off the railing and she fell backwards 3 feet to the pool deck and whiplashed her head on the ground. This was on my watch so I signaled it and ran over. She was unconscious and unresponsive with agonal breathing. Since she fell so hard with whiplash I treated it as though she had a spinal injury but we found out a week later there was no neck or spine damage. However when I felt the back of her head to assess the damage I felt a soft spot beside a flat spot on her skull so it was clearly fractured severely. There wasn't much we could do but ice her head and give her oxygen because we didn't want to move her. When she gained consciousness about 2 minutes later she started screaming and we had to calm her down but after a minute of that she completely calmed down. I then wanted to check her pupils because that's a sign of brain trauam. Anyways when she looked up at me (there was a light right above us so shadows were not a factor) her left eye didn't dialate and stayed huge while her right eye dialated normally. Pretty weird seeing someone look at you with 2 uneven eyes. Anyways the paramedics came and took her away. We got a card and a gift basket from the family a week later saying thank you and such and told us all the details. She suffered minor internal bleeding in her brain and two fractures in her skull. She was in rehab for 3 weeks after that because she lost a lot of her coordination, like she couldn't walk or write well. Probably the most rewarding experience of my life right there. Just being part of the rescue is such a proud feeling. All of my events lifeguarding have led me into paramedics, which I am going to this fall if I pass my fucking bus liscence!

my brother an I were out one some ice when we were little and we fell through but he went right under the ice and I was trying to stomp the ice to get him out and I managed to get a hole big enough and I pulled him out and then he tried running back to the house but he couldn't so I pretty muched dragged him and then my mum took over from there

I almost got smoked by a bus in whistler village crossing the street and not looking both ways. this high north digger mike (i dont know his last name  - but doug you'd remember this) yelled my name and i turned around and stopped, and if he hadn't of done that - the bus would have without a doubt, smoked me...flat.
thanks mike. i serioulsy think you saved my life that day.

everyone that lives in gotham city because I AM THE BATMAN.

That sucks dude.

fuck yea me too

i was in d-town and saved a dogs life up by the college as a hail storm was coming in. the dog had been hit by a car- it's leg was messed up really bad- and probably wouldn't have survived the hail storm, seeing how it couldn't move. i felt really good about myself after that...

lol same. i did save my cousins dogs life tho, it fell in the pool and it cant swim, so i grabbed it and put in on the side of the pool

i was in a sailboat with three young kids at camp on a super windy day and the thing flipped and the kids couldnt swim. they had life jackets on but they were floating away and shit so i grabbed and they held on to my back while i tred water in this freezing cold bay until 15 - 20 minutes later the crash boat finally shows up. then they swing their boat around and of the kids is sitting there and hes about to get hit by the boats motor. so i grab him by the back of the life jacket and pulled him out of the way. it was very intense and i was kinda young at the time like 12 or 13 or something.

thank you :)

me and my friend were swimming in a wave pool and we were in the deep end and he started to drowned and i pushed him so his head was above the water.  then the life guard came.  and one of my friends was choking on his food and i gave him the heimlik.  idk if he would have died but i got the food out of his throught

i donate to meltroter ministries, when i go to church, toys for tots, blood, and those cans at the grocery store checkout...

I'm a lifeguard in Sydney and have saved a fair few peoples lives over the course ive been at the beach. though sadly have seen a few go.

My dad saved my life when I was younger.  Went to the liquor store with him and the guy at the counter gave me a lollipop and then I was eating it in the car.  All of a sudden it came off the stick and got stuck in my throat.  I was maaad choking, couldnt even talk.  I can actually remember thinking "Daamn, I'm gonna die!"  But luckily my dad noticed something was up, slammed the car into a ditch and did the good ol' Heimlich maneuver. Seriously did save my life.

lifeguarding for eight years = 0 saves

mt baker backcountry = 1 save

i cant remember at iem that i have but i have a bad story about me helping in fucking up someones life.  last summer working for this logging company i was operating this hydraulic splitter and some new kid put his hand somewhere it shouldnt have been and it took of the about an inch of his thumb. i never wanted to find out if they sew it back on or not.

yeah my mom did the same thing, it was on the way to my first day of 5th grade. it was a creme saver though.

and it happened to me again with the same candy on a chairlift when i was young once also and no one was on it with me but somehow i swallowed it. i wouldve died if it was cought any worse.

and ive never really saved a life, but my dad came sooo close to dying once and a bunch of college kids tied their towels together and pulled him out of a bad whirlpool at this swimming hole, basically it rips you under the water and gets you stuck under these rocks. then he saved another guy from the same fate that day. then when we left one person died doing it and they blocked it off, but some dumb girl walked across the log blocking it and her dog fell in and she tried to save it, the dog died and she only broke her ankle somehow. one of my friends brothers also died in the same spot a few years later.

Well, I'm a paid firefighter, so that has given me a few saves. Mostly overdoses and heart attacks. I"ve done CPR more times than I remember.

Working at my local hill, I may have had a save. I had a guy get hurt in the park pretty bad, knocked out and all. When he woke up he kept fighting to go down the hill on his own power. Made him lay down untill ski patrol got there. Turned out he had a broken spine. I suppose that could have been a bad day for him if he would tried walking.

Hey StormTrooper, what about the time we had a buddy get way too drunk, and pass out in a hot tub. If we wouldn't have found him, who knows what could have happened.

at camp my buddy was super wasted and he stood up on the railing on the deck(7th floor) and he slipped but i caught his feet. don't know if he would have died but he would have been hurt really bad