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