accidentally saving your own life/ others lives

Robsweezie

have you ever saved your own life accidentally? or known of any stories?

as an example, I was just thinking of those who never turned up to work/ were late to the twin towers in 9/11, and how they effectively secured their safety by doing so.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I didn't step out in front of a passing truck, bus, or car many times.

Miss Demeanour

It just so happens I turned up to work late on the morning of 9/11......God only knows what would have happened if I hadn't pressed snooze!!!!















I didn't work in the twin towers but still.....ya never know!

Widdershins

After being medically misdiagnosed twice with a minor condition, the third attempt to get help, i.e medical investigations, might have saved my life (I don't really understand it myself). Go with your gut instinct..you know when something is very wrong.

Outlaw Pete

Yup, few years back on a quiet Sunday afternoon I was walking towards Quinn's pub in Drumcondra on the right hand side of the road (with my earphones in.. oblivious to the world around me) and just as I was briskly walking along and about to cross one of the roads that run down steeply to meet the Drumcondra Rd there (think it's the Dargle Rd or Carlingford Rd maybe) in my peripheral vision I spot something to my right coming at me fast... down the Dargle or Carlingford Rd footpath.

As I have an awful fear of dogs I immediately think 'It's a dog!' (that's how my mind works) and so I put my foot up at it and it slammed into my ankle, hard, so much so that it cut through my jeans and drew blood. Only it wasn't a dog, it was a toddler on some cart and what hit me was the metal part on the front. Hall & Oates (I believe) were still blasting away in my ears and so I couldn't hear anything but it was damn clear that this toddler was screaming her head off.

Then all of sudden (again in my peripheral vision) I see some figures running towards at me (or us) and one grabs the toddler and the other grabbed me.. I pull my earphones out to find out what madness is happening to me and discover an Asian couple (one crying and the other seemingly overjoyed) are saying a whole load of Chinese stuff, most of it directed at me and there was even some bowing... so I said 'Yeah, eh, no bother sure' and walked on. Didn't even know my ankle (or my jeans) were cut till I got up the road, but yeah, that toddler had a good chance of being squished by a truck only for I have an irrational fear of dogs.

biko

A guy cut me off in traffic this morning and I saved his life...










...by not pulling him out of his car and mashing his face into the tarmac.

pickarooney

Just yesterday evening as it happens. I was going through town when I suffered a cardiac rupture and only for the quick thinking of a passing musician with a battery powered turntable I was a gonner.

HalloweenJack

My best friend saved my life.

I've had a lot of problems with depression over the years and I've had some pretty bad spells. At one point in particular, I was so down in the dumps that I didn't want to live anymore. It's not that I wanted to kill myself per se, but I was sick of living. I was just constantly in pain and didn't seem to be moving forward.

Anyone, one night in particular around Christmas a few years ago when it was particularly blizzardy, I went out with some friends from school for a 12 pubs do but I was so depressed that I didn't talk to anyone, just hung around the edge of the group drinking. They were going on to a club but I was such a wet blanket and painfully aware of it that I decided to head home.

I remember as I was walking home some lads threw snowballs at me. They were actually lads I know and it was just a bit of messing but I was so down that it wrecked my head and made me feel worse. I didn't want to go home so I went to a different pub. Got in just before last orders and spent all the money I had on "getting a round". Think it was enough for three or four pints. Went into a corner and sat there drinking. Once the drinks were gone, I just kept thinking and thinking and got worse.

I thought about what I could do and how much I always loved Bray Head. So then it came into my head that I should go up there. Late at night, pitch dark, with snow all over the place, freezing cold. Any of yez who know Bray Head will know its not exactly easy to walk around. I can't quite put into words what I wanted to do, just something like I would walk around and if I slipped, well I guess it would look like an accident. Like I said, I wasn't thinking of killing myself but I didn't want to live anymore.

I was so depressed that it sounded like a good idea. Literally as I was walking out the door, my best mate rang me up to see if I was still out. He had been out at something else so missed the 12 pubs. He said we should go up to mine to play Playstation, which was something we did a lot over the years. We did and I calmed down. Slowly but surely I got better. I definitely feel that was my nadir. In the weeks after, I improved greatly. At the time, I had been in therapy but it just felt like I hadn't been going anywhere.

I had been telling him all along about my problems but even then he was surprised when later I told him about what that night meant to me and I've mentioned it to him several times since. I do feel like him ringing me up when he did saved my life. I don't know how that night would have ended if I had been left to my own devices.