Well that was traumatic!

[kay-jay]

Bloody unusual and distressing situation today.
Was standing on a street talking to my mate. I was giving him a fan for a worcestor I collected for him.

Anyway we was chatting and this woman came and said her son was trying to kill himself.

We rushed over and he had hung himself with shoelaces. He looked dead and was grey and limp.

I immediately cut him down and got the apprentice to ring for help.
Paramedics on scene in three minutes. Got my apprentice helping him and fetching stuff from his van.

Long story short, we saved his life. A few seconds later and he would have gone.

not what I envisaged when I got out of bed this morning I can tell you

 

[hammers4spanner]

Give yourself a bacon sarnie mate job well done , you never know what life brings we are just passing through however whatever is on the lads mind you have given him another chance good on ya

 

[voivod]

Not a good thing . Well done for saving him sir . That must have been traumatic

 

[Rickster123]

Jeeeesus mate! Well done you, you've saved a life today that's bloody amazing! But what a horrendous scene that must've been.

 

[Masood]

Bloody hell man! That's a great thing you did mate.

 

[Leo21]

Yes, but did the Worcestor get fixed?

 

[Leo21]

Well done you. Makes you think.

 

[Rickster123]

Yes, but did the Worcestor get fixed?

He's a hero not a miracle worker!

 

[lame plumber]

Mate of mine runs a BnB with his mrs, he missed the end of the rugby on saturday as his mrs walked into the bar to see a guest had collapsed in his chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was rather blue n dead, his family were all in the hall waiting for an ambulance 🙂 !!!!!!!!!!!

Only good thing is Rob is an anesthetic technician and his wife a retired cardiac nurse, so Rob did his thing all puff n compressions till the paramedic arrived and helped out and they got the bloke going again and he is in hospital still but living and breathing.

The family members thought he was taking the mick till he keeled over!!!

 

[jonnyswamp]

Well done mate, right place right time
I hope his mother took your details and in time, her and her son will both thank you
BTW a fan for a Worcester, that sounds like a fair swap

 

[kay-jay]

Yes it was very traumatic. Just glad we could save him. I have to say young Liam was great. He was using the paramedics sucky Hoover thing getting phlegm out of the guys throat.

I just the hope the guy gets the help he so desperately needs.
It was on a real bad council estate. I went in his flat to get something to keep him warm. There was nothing in there.
I mean absolutely nothing. No fridge no kettle, tv,sofa just a bed and no blankets. I found a jacket and someones sheet from a washing line. Was the best we could do.

Poor sod is only 25.

A deeply distressing affair.
Thanks for reading this guys. Its helping. Talking about it is quite cathartic.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Well done mate good on you!

 

[kay-jay]

And yes the worcestor was also resuscitated. Greenstar 28i fan. They don't like periods of inactivity for some reason. Had a few go when properties are between tenants.

 

[lame plumber]

well done, never nice having to find yourself with a limp body to work on.

 

[Rickster123]

Keep an eye on the apprentice mate. Awful thing to experience at any age but particularly at a young age.

 

[Leo21]

Yes it was very traumatic. Just glad we could save him. I have to say young Liam was great. He was using the paramedics sucky Hoover thing getting phlegm out of the guys throat.

I just the hope the guy gets the help he so desperately needs.
It was on a real bad council estate. I went in his flat to get something to keep him warm. There was nothing in there.
I mean absolutely nothing. No fridge no kettle, tv,sofa just a bed and no blankets. I found a jacket and someones sheet from a washing line. Was the best we could do.

Poor sod is only 25.

A deeply distressing affair.
Thanks for reading this guys. Its helping. Talking about it is quite cathartic.

Not everyone on benefits is a scrounger, the system stinks. Good people get f all, and some with loose morals get the lot.

 

[rpm]

Keep an eye on the apprentice mate. Awful thing to experience at any age but particularly at a young age.

Good call.

 

[Chalked]

Well done, you did the right thing. Don't expect any thanks from the guy tho, for now. But for relatives you have been an angel.
Suicide leaves 10 times more pain behind than it takes sway from the person who commits.

 

[Phil]

Massively well done kay jay, have the local paper been in touch?

 

[firemant]

Keep an eye on the apprentice mate. Awful thing to experience at any age but particularly at a young age.

And yourself KJ, you may be on a high right now, but shock may kick in. I had a customer drop dead a few years back. Tried M2M, compressions etc, all under guidance from 999 operator. Absolutely convinced I had him breathing, but was told later that he was dead before hitting the ground.
It was only a few weeks later that I realised that it had affected me and I was a bit weird for a couple of days.
But give yourself and the lad a pat on the back - some folk may have just panicked.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Well done Kev. And listen to the wise words of FiremanT above.

 

[Dotty]

Bloody unusual and distressing situation today.
Was standing on a street talking to my mate. I was giving him a fan for a worcestor I collected for him.

Anyway we was chatting and this woman came and said her son was trying to kill himself.

We rushed over and he had hung himself with shoelaces. He looked dead and was grey and limp.

I immediately cut him down and got the apprentice to ring for help.
Paramedics on scene in three minutes. Got my apprentice helping him and fetching stuff from his van.

Long story short, we saved his life. A few seconds later and he would have gone.

not what I envisaged when I got out of bed this morning I can tell you

Word of warning Kev. You will now find you'll get a bit more emotional than you used to.


My mate and I got hold of a 24 man life raft for kids to play on a lake with at a boating fun day.

Come the end of the day Paul was deflating the raft by unscrewing the penny bungs. One shot out and hit him in the face almost at the same time as the canopy came down over him. He was straight away breathing in a 40/60 mix of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. I was the other side of the lake and initially heard the kids laughing at Paul because they thought he was pillocking about. Then I heard him, and the only way I can describe this is, rattle.

To this day I'm not sure how I crossed the lake so fast, I genuinely think I walked on water. But I pulled Paul out, unconscious and blue. Then had to give him mouth to mouth to get him going again.

We still have a bond years later, there's a love there that transcends friendship.

But I have noticed that when I'm watching rescue programmes and the ilk where they bring people back from the edge, I tend to get a bit teary.

I can't help but think it might be a form of ptsd.

 

[Dotty]

And I'm leaking a wee bit reading this thread in its entirety.

Firemant is correct, it'll affect you when you least expect it to.

 

[JCplumb]

Bloody hell Kev, not good mate.
Well done, not many people can say they've saved someones life.
But if you're wearing a cape with a big red 'S' on it next time I see you I'll need to borrow those 24'' stillies again 😛

 

[REDSAW]

good guy kev.

that lad needs some real help!

 

[solutions]

A true test of character and humanity. Well done. As said give yourself the time to get over the inevitable aftermath, adrenaline can obscure a great deal but you have seen what you have seen and it will affect you when the brain inevitably starts to process it in more relaxed and less occupied times.

 

[kay-jay]

Word of warning Kev. You will now find you'll get a bit more emotional than you used to

I can't help but think it might be a form of ptsd.

I think you may be right john.
There's never a good time to encounter something like that but the timing was worse than it could have been....
It was my uncles funeral the day before so I wasn't exactly at full strength yesterday.

 

[turnpin]

Amazing post Kev can't add anymore really you and your apprentice should be proud of what you did....nothing short of amazing......Turnpin

 

[missplumb]

Very well done to both of you. It is something that will stay with you. I had a very similar thing happened years ago, I was only in my early twenties and a lady came out saying her sonr has hung himself from the loft hatch. After running to get the steps from the van to cut him down, there was nothing we could do to help him. Felt useless for weeks after that.