Have you ever saved a life?
When you see someone in trouble, especially life-threatening trouble, what is your first instinct? Is it to run and get help? Dive into the situation and manage it yourself? Depending on the particular situation, one might be better than the other.
For these 10 people, they thankfully made the right choice every time. They were all ordinary people like you or me, going about their days as civilians, when they saw a person in need of their help. Things could have taken a much darker turn.
Reading these stories really pulls at the heartstrings and makes you realize how lucky we all are to be walking on this earth. Things can go wrong in the blink of an eye.
Have you ever been on either side of a life or death scenario like the following 10 stories?
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When I was about 3 years old I was at my babysitter’s house. She was keeping me entertained by making homemade bubbles when all of a sudden she collapsed. I vividly remember her collapsing. I then walked over to her neighbor’s house and told them that she had collapsed. The last thing I remember were the ambulances coming, apparently she had had a stroke.
To this day, whenever I go visit that town I get referred to as the hero. – Professorwaffle
2.
My daughter, who was three at the time, choked on a piece of bacon – no breathing, turning blue, panic-type choking. I smacked her on the back, hard, two or three times and the piece popped out onto her plate. She gasped, a tear trickling out of her eye, regained her color and said, ‘Woah, Daddy, that was scary.’ – Journalisto
3.
I was at a Boy Scout event one year. We were fishing at a sportsman’s club. My friend thought it was a good idea to go swimming. He jumped in, and got stuck. His feet were stuck in the mud, and was underwater. My other two friends panicked, and ran down to get some adults (before adults were required to be with us at all times). I didn’t want to leave him alone. I am and was a decent swimmer, so I leaned over to grab him, knowing I very much could fall in, I pulled him up.
I didn’t pull him up the whole way, but enough for him to breathe. I held him there for a solid two minutes. Eventually his dad and the scoutmaster made it up. He was OK. Later at the closing ceremony, the two friends who ran to get help got special awards. I got nothing. At the end, the drowning friend came up to me and thanked me. It was better than any award I could get. – Penguinswin3
4.
This old woman comes out of the country road, looks left, looks right, ‘sees it’s clear,’ and begins pulling out very slowly to enter the road. I can see up the hill, and there is this small car going at LEAST 65 down the hill. He can’t see the woman, she think’s she’s clear… I’m watching all this unfold until I yell ‘LOOOOOOOOK!!!’ and slammed the horn.
I see this kid LOOK UP FROM TEXTING IN HIS LAP to slam the breaks juuuuust in time, inches from this old woman’s car. Had I not used the horn, he would have killed that woman, maybe himself. I was a bit shaken up just watching it happen. – cheesedanish93
5.
My mother had a grand mal seizure on a nearly empty highway, going 65. We flipped 360 in the air when we hit the guard rail on the side and rolled to a stop upside down.
Unfortunately nobody saw this. I remember seeing her strapped in to the car seat, unconscious. I was covered in my own blood. I fell to the roof after unbuckling, and wriggled out of the smashed windshield.
I dragged myself to the side of the highway and eventually flagged down a motorist. After leading them back to the car I lost consciousness. Woke up in the ER. My mom survived too. I was four. – BRUISE_WILLIS
6.
Was working out in my garage late at night in December, heard noises that I thought at first were coyotes (I live way out in the country), a few minutes later I decide something is off… somehow a Liam Neeson switch flips in my brain and I grab my coat and flashlight, and set off at jogging pace into the forest. Find a teenage girl in pjs and no shoes, crying and screaming for help in the middle of the woods. She had tried to take a shortcut to her friends house and gotten hopelessly lost, with no phone and she was freezing.
I put my coat around her, assessed her condition, and called 911. When EMT arrives, tells me I saved her life. – yofog
7.
Jumped in a pool fully clothed to save a 4 year old who couldn’t swim… it was awkward when everyone clapped. – NotReallyAnon
8.
In high school, I went on a camping trip with a group of friends. All of us were on the swim team and about half of us worked at the high school pool as life guards.
Near the camping spot was a river with a roped off area for swimming. We were there playing around in/near the water when we heard some screaming about 20 yards down river. A large group of parents were standing in the shallow water pointing out towards the rope where a group of kids in inflatable floats were gathered. Just past them were a couple more kids in the deeper part of the river, struggling and being carried downstream.
The Red Cross training just kicked in and most of us took off for the kids. I had a bit of a lead so I went for the one farthest downstream and others went for the two closer in. I grabbed the kid and began swimming him back to shore against the current. At the rope, a friend took the kid off of my hands and took him the rest of the way. I was in a daze as I got back to the shore then stumbled to the fire at our campsite. – freightboy
9.
I woke up at around 4 am because my grandma had left her room to go to the bathroom. About 15 minutes later, I turned over in my bed and thought, “Wow, she’s been in there a while.” So I got up and checked on her. If I hadn’t when I did, she would have died. She suffered a stroke, and couldn’t move at all. She could barely speak.
She’s okay now! The stroke struck her much weaker as of late, but she’s still kickin’. – ilestledisko
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When I was about 13 me and my friend were walking back from a park and we heard a faint hissing sound, and we figured it was coming from a house along the street. As we got closer the street began to stink of gas, so we called the police and hightailed it out of there.
A few hours later a policeman came to his house to let us know that we did the right thing, and that an old lady had fallen asleep while cooking and left the gas on, and was sitting in a room full of dangerous gas fumes. I like to think we saved her life, even if all we really accomplished was saving her bacon. – RustyTron
Even little gestures can save a life.
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