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Who has saved your life?

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Nevermay · 09/08/2023 18:25

Apart from all the usual vaccinations, water companies, sanitation, NHS, etc that give us a safe, risk free life, when most of us would die before 50 without this... can anyone point to someone or something and say "they saved my life"?

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Fredflinstoneswife · 09/08/2023 23:59

Yes, God.

And I'm aware that every second of life I have is because of Him.

Fredflinstoneswife · 10/08/2023 00:05

They also murdered a relative of mine, and neighbours, and threatened to kill other family members if we did not move out of the area we were living in.

caramacyears · 10/08/2023 00:15

Fredflinstoneswife · 10/08/2023 00:05

They also murdered a relative of mine, and neighbours, and threatened to kill other family members if we did not move out of the area we were living in.

Sorry for your losses and for whatever context brought them about

SinnerBoy · 10/08/2023 00:16

My dad pulled me out of a river when I was 18 months old, my eldest sister pushed me in. I have a vague, dreamy memory of my mother shouting and hitting her and my dad saying, "Where are his bloody wellies?"

Again, when I was 7, a lifeguard rescued me. I'd finally learned to swim done a few lengths and told mam that I was going off the diving board.

I went deep and couldn't swim, I was splashing and waving at the lifeguard, who just gawped. A couple of teenagers managed to get him to act, just as I went calm and thought "I'm going to die.

He ambled to the poolside, kicked his trainers off and got me out, then said, "What did you do that for, you stupid little twat!"

HoggyDunlop · 10/08/2023 00:19

The stranger who pulled over his car, and calmly walked over to me and looped his arm through mine to stop me jumping from a bridge in the middle of the night. He saved my life and I don't even know who he was.

IHateLegDay · 10/08/2023 00:29

My dad has saved me from drowning on 3 separate occasions 😂 I wasn't great in water as a kid!

SinnerBoy · 10/08/2023 00:31

Well done, your dad!

pippapipps · 10/08/2023 00:32

My ds in October 2020 who heard me calling very quietly for help in the middle of the night....luckily he'd just gone to bed after playing Xbox all night and was still awake
I was in a bad way uncontrollably shaking violently trying to vomit yet nothing came out, sleepy, extremely bad pain in my left side and apparently I was drifting In and out of consciousness and saying ' it's ok I'm ok you can go now' ... I sort of remember saying that
and then I was out of it but my DS kept calling me and decided to call for help he was told it sounded like I was confused and needed an ambulance but to get me to hospital in a car ASAP as the ambulance would take too long
Ds saved my life that night I had severe peritonitis and got sepsis....from a uti it seems that didn't respond to a three day antibiotics
I ended up in hospital for nearly three weeks and was told I had got to hospital just in time
Every birthday and Christmas since I've thanked him for saving me and to be here to have a birthday and Christmas I'll always be grateful to him

Lightsbonaza · 10/08/2023 00:39

@Messyhair321

i cannot begin to comprehend what that must have been like. It would be bad enough if it were an isolated incident but by what you said it was part of a much bigger story. I’m so sorry

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 10/08/2023 00:53

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CatChase · 10/08/2023 01:27

Stepmum who started CPR when I had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest. Several ambulance crews arrived very quick but I know it wasn't easy for her.

Marinettethebug · 10/08/2023 05:17

My Aunty. She jumped into a pool to save me when I was drowning as a 5 year old. I'm nearly 40 now.

floribunda18 · 10/08/2023 05:20

TakeMe2Insanity · 09/08/2023 18:27

The person that donated blood. I needed 2.5 litres of blood and I got a perfect match. I can never thank them so I thank any person that donates/ed blood.

Probably more than one person if it was 2.5 litres. About 4.5 donations.

floribunda18 · 10/08/2023 05:26

Doctors and antibiotics (eventually, after waiting for hours in A&E) when I had a severe infection from chickenpox as a kid.

StopStartStop · 10/08/2023 05:35

Can I put his name? His initials were CL, he was Irish working in Lancashire. The doctor who attended my mother's home birth, when I was the baby... I was stuck and he freed me.

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 10/08/2023 05:38

Quite a few people, actually...

  • the first responders when I got hit by a bus age 7.
  • the medical team when I took a massive overdose at 15.
  • my mum by never drinking again after her alcoholism drove me to do that.
  • and lastly, my DD, who just by being born made sure that I'd always have something to live for.

I realise that all sounds a bit depressing, I'm actually very happy with my life these days though.

StopStartStop · 10/08/2023 05:46

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal 💐

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 10/08/2023 06:01

Thank you @StopStartStop.

There are some very heart-warming stories on this thread, although I'm very sorry for those of you who've lost children and other loved ones.

As a regular blood donor it's very gratifying to hear about people who've been helped by donations!

NeverDropYourMooncup · 10/08/2023 07:29

BlossomCloud · 09/08/2023 23:01

Chilling @NeverDropYourMooncup I hope he is your ex partner now?

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Yep. I was already thinking 'How can somebody whose job it is to sign off construction equipment as safe manage to screw up every single switch, including the one I thumped every evening straight from getting the kids out the bath?', so I made a 'lighthearted' comment about how the poor man must have thought he was trying to kill me. He made a sort of laugh sound and turned his face away, rather than take offence at my insulting his electrical capability, much less apologise in horror at what he'd done.

His reaction didn't sit right with me and I began questioning how he behaved and the relationship as a whole. Everything went tits up in terms of violence starting, he left once he'd found someone else to go to (I couldn't risk the police, what with his best mate being one, I felt I had to wait until he chose to leave), but I'd made sure that I wasn't tied to him financially and had made a couple of friends that he naturally hated, so once he'd gone, I went through the motions of appearing heartbroken but did a little dance of joy once I was sure he was properly gone.

I wonder sometimes whether that bloke who thought he was just coming to change an immersion switch realised quite what he did in changing all those fittings and showing me exactly what was wrong with them.

Saralyn · 10/08/2023 07:31

I think you will all enjoy the podcast My Unsong Hero. (On Spotify for example)

It is five minute episodes where people share a story of how a stranger helped them or saved their life.

LadyOfTheCanyon · 10/08/2023 07:34

Bamber Gascoigne grabbed me when I was about to step out into traffic in Richmond once, in about 2002. I was in a complete daydream and if he hadn't yanked me back on the pavement I wouldn't be here.

MrsXx4 · 10/08/2023 08:03

My baby daughter saved me even though she passed away in 2021.

I fell pregnant with her baby brother and gave birth in May, a planned induction because of my daughter dying. However the induction went terribly wrong within just 20 minutes and I was rushed for emergency c section under GA. They found that there was a major problem with my placenta (has been sent off for investigation) and not only would my baby boy have died in a vaginal delivery, I may have as well. They aren’t sure how my placenta kept my baby alive for as long as it did but I truly believe my guardian angel daughter made sure that induction failed so that her brother and mum would be safe.

I would have left behind my 4 year old should anything have happened to me and he’d saved my life when my daughter died. I couldn’t have kept putting one foot in front of the other for any other person but him.

caramacyears · 10/08/2023 08:52

Great thread thanks

x2boys · 10/08/2023 09:21

Needhelp101 · 09/08/2023 21:51

The manager of my local pub. He performed a textbook Heimlich maneuver when I was choking to death on a mouthful of steak.

Apparently, this is pretty common. People, cut your steaks very finely!

Same thing happened to my dad in a pub ,he wss choking on a,steam sandwich and wss stupidly embarrassed so went into the toilets fortunately a,friend came in a coup!e of moments later and did the Heimlich, which saved him
I.also.saved him.when he wss choking on a sprout a,few xmas,s ago and did the Heimlich.

3luckystars · 10/08/2023 10:10

My dad, I was choking as a young child and he saved me.

As a teenager I was drowning after being pushed backwards into a deep river, I cant swim and was flailing all over the place, and one of the lads pulled me up and told me to stay calm, get on his back and he swam carrying me to safety. I still dream about him sometimes.

My sister also.