Yes- one time I saved my little brother's life cause he was drowning. I had nightmares after that though...

Yes. I did CPR and helped get a 15 year old's heart started again when I was at a teen party as a chaperon with my woman companion at the time, when I was about 35 years old or so.

My little sisters. One day my little sister was trying to follow me down the steps, when she tripped on her shoe lace and went into a cartwheel down the steps. I caught her three steps before she hit the bottom where there was hard ceramic tile. She was only three at the time, hopefully she doesn't remember.

My couisn was getting married and somebody that was holding her 6 month old baby put her back in the car seat without strapping her. The carseat was on a table and just as I was walking by I caught her as she was falling. The wedding was outside and the table she was on was on the driveway.

Both - we saved eachother. She loved me and that saved me I loved her and that saved her. Now, she doesn't love me, and she's killing her self again. This time, by driking, sniffing sharpies, and sleeping with an adult(She's a minor). But I don't know how I can do it this time...

Have talked a number of people out of choosing death as an option for them... but that goes with the territory when you work in welfare.

Yes. I was sea-Kayaking in New Zealand and we were out pretty deep when this Japanese guy with us capsized his kayak and started freaking out, flailing and splashing in the water. He started trying to clamour onto my kayak as I pulled up to him and was going to capsize me too, so I smacked him in the head a few times with my paddle LOL Then when he had calmed down a bit, I told my other friend to pull up parallel with me and we made a kind of catamaran with our paddles between the boats which he could grab onto. We just laughed and talked calmly like there was no big deal, so he also calmed down, and we made him kick his feet and push us to shore to give him something to do. It worked perfectly!! I didn't know what the correct procedure was to do a rescue, but when I asked the safety officer, he told me that was the exact thing to do! I was pretty proud of myself. LOL

Yes, my friend was talking one day as she was crossing a road and didnt look at the road and I pulled her back just as a bus went flying past!!

Yes , I have had my life saved twice , once in a diving accident my own fault. The second time was by a Surgeon A South African guy called Christian Nel, to whom I shall be forever grateful

I saved my girlfriend's life by giving her the hiemlich maneuver. It was just like on TV. She couldn't talk or breathe, and her eyes were bugging out. I did it, and a chewed-up peice of meat came flying out of her mouth. I keep telling her she owes me one.

I'm a nurse - unfortunatly, death goes with the territory of my career. I've done CPR a few times, as well as participated in cardiac arrest situations. Very sad, very difficult, very traumatic in real life. The first time I did CPR I broke ribs (it happens often!), and about threw up from the feeling - scary!

Does being talked out of suicide by someone count? If so, then yes, my life was saved before.

I stopped one of my friends from committing suicide. Which counts I guess.

Yes. When I was sixteen, I was home from school "sick". My mother babysat my neices Jessi, Niki, Jolene, and a friend of the family's baby Trent. Trent was about ten months old at the time. I was lying on the couch, the only one in the room with Trent who was playing on the floor while the girls ate their lunches in the kitchen. I looked down at Trent and noticed that he was making a really weird face and waving his arms in the air. Having recently taken first aide in school, it didn't take long for me to realize that he was choking. I screamed for my mother to call 911 while I began working on getting whatever it was out of his throat. It didn't take long for me to scoop out a silk leaf that my mother used for crafting that feel off one of the wreaths on the wall, and onto the floor. He found the leaf and tried to eat it, and it was a good think I stayed home from school that day, or he may have died.

A man was delivering Chinese food to me outside the building where I worked. After I paid him I was about to walk away and he grabbed me just as a car sped by.

As a Paramedic I have saved more than I can count after 15 years, but I just wanted to say the real heros on this topic are all of you who went the extra mile and saved or helped save someone, you are the kind of people that deserve recognition in your efforts and as a professional rescuer I really appreciate the help you give when you can, thanks.

yes, my sister's!

it was early in the morning and i had just climbed the subway stairs out in to the busy streets of downtown Toronto. I was going to cross a tight road with heavy construction as there is a new building being built there. my destination of was ryerson university. but before i crossed i look to my right and i saw a car coming going at least 30mph. i stopped in my tracks but a beautiful girl to my right did not. It was a cold day and my hands were locked in my pocket. so i gathered it would be faster to shout. she stopped immediately. i could tell she was frightened by the blitzing car especially when the car sounded its loud horn. she turned around and thanked me. i laughed and for some reason i got embraced and start walking fast away from her. now i regret it and i wish i talked to her about it.

I've apparently prevented people from killing themselves...

i have both saved a life and had mine saved. i have been a member of st john ambulance in england since i was 12, and so i am trained in all aspects of first aid i have both given cpr and saved the life of a 48 year old man who had been electrocuted and have also saved some one after they had an epilectic fit and fell infront of a bus. both times i can barely remember doing it and both times i nearly fainted afterwards. how ever i really enjoy the fact that i know i am able to cope in an emergency, i beleive that first aid should be taught in schools to a basic level, think how many lives could be saved. when i was 6 i nearly drowned in a public pool and was saved by a big hairy man, not the life guard as she was busy flirting with some lads but just another swimmer. boy did my mum have a go at me. ' i told you not to go in the big pool, how many......blur blur blur'

Yes, when I was sixteen and in much better condition than I am now, I rescued a drowning boy from the middle of a lake. After it was over, I was very shaky for about ten minutes. Overall, it was a good feeling.

I was in the front yard once, and I recall this almighty feeling that something was wrong, I ran inside to check on our Daughter, and she was blue in the face choking on a piece of salami. I did a life saving technique that was taught to me at Ante Natal Classes, similar to the Heimlich (sic) maneuver , and alas it came out and she was breathing again. I still get anxiety just thinking about it.

yes. It was raining and we were about to cross the street, all of the vehicles were rushing, a car almost hit her,and I grabbed her quickly as I could. thank God, I was spiderman that time, haha. :) Now, she's my 3-yr girlfriend and currently in-love:)

when I was in my early 20's was at the first on site of a car wreak and did CPR on a young man, another time my brother-in law ran from next door with his young son who was about 1 yr old who was turn blue and I dislodge a piece of candy in his throat and got him breathing again. As for my self I died on the operating table by a freak thing of the tube in throat that kinked and a first time helper of sort figured it out as they were doing CPR on me. Like most on here feel everyone should learn CPR.

i rescued my brother and its only just hit me we were sailin on racing yacht and it was windy im part of a 6 man crew we broached wich is were the boat heads up hard into the wind and filled up im not talkin bout a dinghy im talkin a 55 ft yacht ben was in the cabin pumping out the boat the boat hit a wave as a gust of wind hit the hull and with in 10 seconds she rolled and sunk we were all on the side gasping for breath wen another man of the crew said weres ben, ben is 14yrs old and was in the cabin the boat was lying on its side 8 feet underwater with ben trapped in the cabin henry made 2 dives trying to reach ben but he couldn't i then made a dive after henry diving 2 times and me then diving 2 times ben managed to open a port hole wich is a small window smaller then a dinner plate wich he put his hand through henry grabbed his hand holdin on to him when ben opened the window he lost his air pocket wich he had been able to breath off for about 10 seconds at the beginning i dived down a 3rd time and still couldnt find him he had bye this time been down under water with no oxygen for 2 minutes that might not sound long but when ure brother has been trapped 8 feet under water surrounded by ropes sails floating floor boards and everything it takes for ever i then dived down a 4th time and he was at the far end of the cabin by the mast and i had 2 climb and swim trough the cabin in pitch black not able to see nythin till i found him wen i did he was still caught on some ropes but i pulled him as hard as i could till i could get him out and i did get him out after him being stuck down there for 2minutes he was out again and breathing still i dont how but he was but thats not important what im sayin is i would go straight down there anytime for nyone because i cudnt swim above knowing somone is drowning beneath me and he was im 16 thats how i saved my brothers life

one of my older daycare children came to my door choking on a balloon. I did the heimlich and it flew out of his mouth. it was scary!

When I was young and at a swimming pool I let go of the edge and I could not swim very well. I took a big mouthful of water and started to choke. I went up and down about 3 times and was really scared. A boy there pulled me to the side . He may very well have saved me. The pool was busy and I'm not sure if the life guard even saw the incident. In a sad and Ironic way that boy who pulled me to safety drowned in the ocean some years later.

I don't know. I was flagged down at the scene of an accident once. I was the third person on the scene and the first two were driving two seaters. There were three people badly hurt. Two kids were complaining of stomach pain and the adult, who was holding his face onto his skull with a blood-soaked t-shirt. We were far enough from a hospital that it would take some time for the ambulance to get there. All were ambulatory. They begged me to take them to the hospital. So we loaded them all into the bed of my pickup. The first two people on the scene went ahead of and behind me to stop traffic at every intersection and we raced to the hospital. We got them there alive. I never heard what happened after that.

Indirectly , last summer we were swimming at a beach we have been to often, but there were extremely dangerous rips this day, never before have we experienced them. I was very uneasy, my husband and my two sons, and a few other kids were being pulled quickly out to sea, I wasnt strong enough to get to them , the waves were huge, and crashing, my husband managed to bring in my two boys, but the other boy staying with us, was going further out to sea, rapidly. I felt total fear grip me, finally my husband headed back out to grab the other child, ( 13 years old) they took a huge beating with the giant waves crashing, and eventually got themselves back round a shore line, via sharp jagged rocks, that they had to scramble up onto, it was the closest thing to seeing a life just dissapear out to sea Ive ever been involved in, thank god my husband was a strong swimmer !!:)

I can't realy say I've ever saved anyones life but others have kinda saved mine. This probably doesn't count as saving someone but the closest I got was when my niece was a baby just learning to crawl. My sister, other family and I were talking around the stairs and my niece decided to go somewhere. She ended up going backwards down the stairs but never made it to the bottom because I caught her before she could get there. Another of my nieces was playing around the spindles, mind you there were two other young children this time to to watch so once when neither me nor my sister were looking, she decided to go on the outside of the spindles to play. had she fell she would have fallen straight down 10 feet. Then there were always the times where they got extremely close to the road, or one time my family washaving an easter party and this day it was extremely cold so no one was outside. Me being the considerate one, always had a mental note to make sure I new where my nieces were every once in a while especially the one year old since eveyone ele was either talking or in the kitchen. She ended up somehow sneaking outside with no winter clothes on, just her thin pants and shirt and diaper. I was upstairs at the time and manages to see her go outside so I quickly brought her in. sad part was grandpa and some of her 2nd uncles were there and somehow did not notice her going outside at all, guess that's why you don't drink. This niece of mine later grew up and saved herself at the age of 6. She was in Dubai with her parents on vacation. The kids were all playing in one area, but was out of sight from the parents because they considered it to be a safe place. My niece ended up getting grabbed by a man but was eventually let go when she put her new karate lessons into play. (advice, have your kid take karate lessons, you won't think things like that would ever happen to your kid but surprise!) For me,when I was younger, me and my younger brother were with my sister and her husband playing a ball me in the water. I wasn't the best of a swimmer and went a little to far in the deep end. My brother-in-law ended up saving me. Two: this doesn't realy count but could have turned bad. I was with my friend this past summer camping with her grandparents. My friend and I decided to go kayaking. The first day of kayaking went perfectly and was fun. The second day it was kind of windy but my friend andI didn't think we would have any problem with it. We started out kayaking and three minutes into it I realized we both forgot to put on life jackets, so we went back to get them and startd out again. I ended up going to this grassy type area where there was sign in the water; I read it and decided to take a small break, looking up at the sky too. When I got back to reality a couple minutes later I looked to my right and noticed that I was no longer by the grassy area but have drifted a significant amount out. when I tried to paddle I got no where, my stokes match the strokes of the waves. So my friend, being quite strongerand noticing my distress, helps me paddle to a spot in the lake where I would then walk the rest of the way to shore. (note too: I was drifting dangerously close to a dam too)Bad news though, the weed stuff in the lakes was the most disgusting thing bare feet could ever touch. Three, this may not be the same, but during christmas vacation me and two of my brothers always visit my sister. whn we were out there my brother-in-law decided to take us out to try some pakistani food. We were going to eat at this one place, everyone was willing to go there, bu at the last minute my brother-in-law remembered that this other restaurant a block away would be better because it had this one dish that the first store did not. (Note this first store too, we we already inside when he changed our minds, ultimately saving out lives. When we just got out food at the 2nd restaurant, their was a shooting at the first restaurant. Everyone in the restaurant was shot to death. Then a couple years on vacation with the same family again, we were out for a walk and I almost got very very close to being hit by a car but some freak of nature event saved me.

I have just qualified today as an Appointed First Aider. An hour after I qualified I helped to save a woman's life because I was in the right place at the right time. I wasn't even suppose to do the course as I had money troubles but then I won money in a raffle so I paid for the course. My tutor fitted me in and I completed only today. Nobody else knew what to do which is surprising as it was on a bus and the driver didn't even know but I came along until the paramedics arrived. It was fate that I won the money and did the course. I was meant to save that lady. It was all leading upto today. The lady is fine and doing well. Thank God.

I can remember saving two peoples lives, one of whom could not have been but a few years old he basically just got good at walking; I was like ten, my mother's friend's son wondered off, everyone flipped out "FIND HIM!" I was a kid, I didn't want to search for him. I went wondering off to the lake, and upon looking down I saw the water splashing, I took a closer look I saw it was the kid, the lake was three feet below land and, the bank was so slanted that when I tried to run to grab him I slid down, I couldn't even get back up on my own - I required help. So basically I saved a young child from drowning. To this day I think nothing of it - really it was be being in the right place at the right time, past that I only saved him because I would save anyone, its not a big deal. The other I saved my sister's life - which if I were a lesser person if ever she back talked me I could say "you would not be alive if not for me." I never would though. I was about 9 at the time. And the other time I don't remember, I was really young. However, my mother tells me I saved another person from drowning.

Yesterday! One of my students was choking on a piece of hard candy (I did not give him this!) and I gave him the heimlich maneuver. The candy came out and he was okay....thank God!!! It's was a crazy, scary thing to happen, but an amazing feeling knowing I saved him! Anne Teacher San Jose, CA.