Have you ever saved someone's life?

I remember my mother making tuna salad in the kitchen and she tossed a piece of chopped celery into her mouth and it got stuck in her throat.......She looked at me in a panic and I could tell she was chocking......I tried the Heimlich but either I was frightened or inept because I couldn't get a good grip.....so I woke up my brother and told him to do it (he was on the sofa---mid-day) and he popped it right out...........Scared me to pieces, so I guess I didn't save her, my brother did.....I just directed.

Seems to me you both deserve credit.

Yes. A couple of days ago. I am a nurse and I live in Ukraine. A bomb exploded near a house in my town and I had to put a tourniquet on a man's leg to stop the bleeding. It was the first patient I ever saved.

Well I know I can't top that! And thank goodness you were there to help - I hope you are safe and take there.

When I was little we had a pool in the yard - it was an above ground pool that at the time seemed big to me - I think it might have 3 or 4 feet high and a good overall size. Anyway my friend who could swim better than me was next to me in the pool. She went under water - I figured to just dunk as is normal -- many minutes went by and she did not get up. I reached down and grabbed her and pulled her up. It wasn't over head and all she would need to do is stand up. After a bit of getting herself together she said - thanks for some reason I just could not get up - I was under there and listening and seeing legs and could not just get up.

Weird.

Does saving yourself qualify?

Once after having lunch with a friend I grabbed one of those candy mints that are wrapped. I popped it in my mouth and voila it was caught in my throat ...I was truly choking where you can't cough or say anything. My friend looked at me did absolutely nothing. I had a little air in my lungs and I just pushed the air out as hard as I could and pop! That little bugger went flying out.

My friend looked at me and asked were you just choking?! I said yes, and a lot of help you were.

i might've?

was waiting to cross a busy manhattan street one day, when the young woman standing next to me started crossing...
but she apparently did not see the cab hurtling right at her... so i grabbed her arm and pulled her back onto the sidewalk...

Ah!!! I would have said thank you..it was you, but that exact same thing happened to me I was the one starting to cross because the light changed and a cab came rushing around the corner against the light..but it was in Boston and my savior was a woman . but I will say thanks for her!

When I was working in a pub a long time ago I served a woman a drink.

Ten minutes later she was dead.

At first an ambulance was called and when the paramedic said she was dead the police were called.

I was the person who gave her her last drink so they had to interview me.

What a day that was.

she probably did thank me... can't remember, it's been a while...

I have a tremendous admiration for the ones in medicine who devote themselves to saving lives for a career. Thank you for that.

Saved a fellow waiter from choking.