Well that was traumatic!

[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.