The biggest compliment I've ever received in my life was when a paramedic burst through the door, took one look at me while I was doing compressions, nodded, and ran back outside to get his defib gear.

"We saw that you guys were electrical workers from the trucks outside, and probably trained in first aid, but one look at you guys doing CPR, we knew we were better off setting up our machines."

The guy was old and fat and ended up passing away, mainly because his wife was in the shower when he had a heart attack and it could have been half an hour before she realized, and came out the front to grab us. We were like a military unit. The guy was huge and took 4 of us to get him on the floor But it was a valuable experience, I think if it was a toddler or someone I knew, I might have panicked, but having done it once on an old guy without any hesitation or second guessing has made me prepared for the next time.

Get first aid training. Book it now or deal with 'what if's for the rest of your life.

Yes don't do CPR with chocking patients. But in the end who cares if he lives! You literally saved someone from dying that is an incredible accomplishment. Observing, recognizing and acting needs so much courage and you had it. CPR breaks rips all the time (even 100% with older people) and sometimes the sternum. I worked as paramedic and It's almost like if you do not break one you do it wrong. Also congratulations ... I haven't raged that hard in the last few days. I am not gonna start a big rant about your coworkers etc. many others already did.

I have a few questions: How did this incident change your work environment and your relationship towards your coworkers, how did Tim thank you and what happened right after the incident?

Important chocking advice: There are some incidents where you CAN give strong rescue breaths even with chocking patients, but it is a high risk. Imagine your kid swallowed a toy ball and you can't get it out. Not with Heimlich, not with slapping his back, not with taking his legs and shake him upside down. Another possibility to give the kid breathing room is pushing the ball further down into one bronchus so that the other one is free and it can breath at least a bit.

It's absolutely astounding how many people are too stupid and self absorbed to be conscious during a crisis.

I was in a situation like that once where a person passed out from dehydration. One was a fuckinh nurse, and the other two were a married couple. One of them wanted to literally, and I am not making this up, call his mom because he was scared. A grown fuckin man actually said that to me. Had I not been trying to help someone in dire need, I may have kicked him out of the house and told him to never speak to me again. When I told his wife to call an ambulance, she literally ran around the house looking for a got damn phone book. I am not making this up. I screamed DIAL FUCKING 911!

The nurse just took the persons pulse and said "yeah her heart rate is low." Uh no fucking shit you dumb waste.

Never been so disgusted in my life.

It is shocking how many people on earth bring almost nothing to the table for the rest of society. It's scary, and sad, and downright sickening at the same time. The folks with brains and drive have to literally carry everyone else so they don't fuck everything up by doing something stupid.

It should not be this hard for people to do what is expected in life. How in God's name did it get this way?

Up voted because awesome. Had the same thing happen with bystanders once in a subway car when a guy had a seizure and I was the only one bothered to help and trigger the alarm.

In fact, one woman even got mad because I delayed the train. People suck.

Good on you OP. You might not feel like you did anything besides what you felt was right what you did was act as a hero. There's a reason that word means something.

As for others blaming the othera for standing there. They were in shock and disbelief. It feels like a dream. You just stand there in shock.

Good on you. They're currently looking at transitioning to chest and back thrusts for choking now. Heimlich should still be fine.

I can't believe these idiots stood around and did nothing after you told them to call 911 twice. Morons.

Real CPR is likely to break ribs. It ain't like you see on TV.

Good on you man. You decided to man up and build good frame and composure, and you saved a life because of that.

You saved a life!

This is exactly why everyone (especially helpless women) is attracted to the alpha.

I was directly behind a lorry that tipped over at a roundabout. I stopped, donned a hi vis jacket and directed traffic around the incident because everyone stopped. Then called emergency services and by the time I got to the front of the lorry there were 12 people there arguing over who should call 999. People go to shit and usually nobody stands up to do the right thing.

Why the fuck are you giving cpr to someone with a blocked airway. You are an idiot, good job on saving him though. You can't blow air into a blocked airway and his heart was probably still beating, you should have stuck your hand down his throat and just pulled it out. You could have broken his rib for nothing.

Source: Was a lifeguard for 7 years

Great story, I had a similar experience with a girl who got hit n run'd. Her leg was all bloodied up and she was in serious pain.

I jumped into action really not knowing shit just that i needed to stop her from losing so much blood, I asked outloud for someone to give me theit t-shirt.

Everyone just stood around, i had to almost tear some dudes shirt off because he was in shock.

Wrapped it as best as I could and when the ambulance came the paramedic shook my hand tols me I probably saved her life.

Was a crazy experience and i sont recall really manually thinking about what i was doing, I just saw someone bleeding knew I needed to stop or at least slow the bleeding and my sub-concious figured out the rest.

Good advice, thanks for sharing.

Truly inspiring and beautiful story. Its a position of power that most people can never experience, saving someones life! Congrats from another trp bretherin!

Props, brother!! I'll have a beer or three in your honour tonight.

I'm proud of what you did there mate and I think most of RP community would agree. Who wouldn't agree? The bitches that would stand there and watch.

You're a good man for helping this guy out but in this litigation-heavy society, you have to be careful about helping others lest they come back around to sue you.

From childhood, I've always been the one person in groups to take action in emergencies while everyone else just stood there and stared impotently. Good for you, Sir.

Whats really a shame is, time spent running yourself to call 911 was time needed to work on clearing his airway. I'm hoping he didn't suffer any brain damage due to the inaction of your frozen colleagues.

Really good advice you gave, to study up on various emergency skills.

Thank god, good on you man. I hope you punched your co-worker squarely in the nose.

Have had to perform CPR twice, neither patient made it but the classes are very serious and are nothing to make light of. The first time I felt a rib pop it finally sunk in the gravity of the situation and CPR itself. Congratulations on doing what you were taught and leading a potentially deadly recovery.

What fucking morons. I would be tempted to fire/demote them if I was manager.

It would be interesting to remind them of what happened and see how they try and wriggle out of it

Make sure you get these fuckers fired for incompetence. Because if something more serious happens you're fucked.

It's always fun and games until someone chokes on a sandwich.

Good job, OP.

Good job man. The only bad thing with CPR "certifications" is that you can quickly forget that shit, obviously you didnt and good on you.

I would have to get that certification in the Navy and go through a whole simulation/pass a test and the like. I would very quickly forget all of it afterwards.

Don't perform rescue breathing on a choking victim that still has his airway obstructed. You're just blowing into a blocked windpipe and might lodge the food in more. You can continue the Heimlich on an unconscious victim by laying them on their back, straddling them, and pushing in and up (same spot just above navel) with the heels of your palms. If that doesn't work you sweep the throat by grabbing the tongue and lower jaw with one hand and pulling it forward, then sweeping with the fingers of the other hand.

It is better to tell a specific person to call the emergency services. Then they are compelled to act. Avoiding bystander effect.

After that, you ask a different person to also call emergency services (in case person 1 fucked it up).

Part of this situation involves leading the sheep, and that means being very specific rather than asking "everyone" to help. They've all turned to stone because they are waiting for someone (you in this case) to tell them what to do.

I think there is no such thing as the bystander effect. I think that there is only the pussy effect. We have neutered our men so they are like women.

I have been in a number of emergency situations where EVERY single MAN responded because he was a man.

I have a question for you OP, how was your relationship with Tim prior to this event? And how has it changed now?

Edit: and am I the only one who wanted to kill all those guys who just stood around doing nothing, especially the one who had the audacity to talk shit?

Obviously, the sensibly thing to do is not to kill them, but if any of you are wondering what sort of shit for brains pathetically weak pussies you shouldn't friends with, it's those people. Male or female by my reckoning, but especially males that are that weak.

I thought that you were going to write that you killed a shit-eating dog.

One time I had to give a dog the Heimlich.

A whole fucking White Castle came shooting out of its mouth.

A minute later it was trying to eat it again after almost dying.

Part of me wants to tell you to go ape shit on those morons. Part of me wants to tell you not to, as it may harm your relationship with them.

But still, what a bunch of incompetent fucks. It's one thing they just froze, it's another to berate you when you're the only one trying to save a life. Good CPR can break ribs. Often, actually. Effective CPR is not some pussy-ass bouncing like you can see in the movies. You go to town on that sternum. Like you're trying to push your ex wife's head under water after she's just told you she would be suing again for more alimony.

It's better to get a few broken bones than being dead.

Good story, although

TRP is not a jutsu that will turn you into Chad that bang the chics. It is a way of life that stresses on self improvement. Yes, you will turn into Chad that bangs the chics but that is and should never be the focal point of TRP.

Actually TRP is first and foremost a sexual strategy based on self improvement. You got the chicken and the egg the wrong way around. Straight from the sidebar:

The Red Pill: Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.

Well done. You handled the situation perfectly despite nobody else doing the right thing.

We had a referee go down in training with an epiletic fit. I was at the far side of the room and had to push past about 15 guys to get to the ring. Myself and a 16 year old girl protected his head, kept his airways clear of vomit, eventually got him in the recovery position. It took us 10 minutes of yelling before somebody called an ambulance.

How fucking retarded must you be to be unable to call an ambulance in an emergency, even after somebody has told you to?

They always told me in my cpr training to a specific name and tell a specific person to call 911. As you mentioned, the bystander effect bypasses logic and the brain tells them that "someone else is calling, I gotta see this".

Also, they are now saying that breaths into the persons mouth are not needed as the elasticity of the chest cavity will draw enough to do what needs to be done: keep the brain alive until a defibrillator can arrive. Something like 19% of people who pass out actually wake up on their own.

Many people crack ribs while performing CPR.

Personally, I'd rather break every rib in my chest and live to recover than go out because of a piece of fucking food.

Good work.

Tim owes you a fucking beer.

I swear no one had done anything.

I believe it.

It is an obnoxious neologism, but "sheeple" applies very well to the overwhelming majority of the populace today. Generations of subservient, docile, simpering weaklings have degraded the bloodlines of their dynamic, aggressive, rapacious ancestors to this point.

OP just letting you know that people standing around has less to do with them being betas or something, and more to do with human panic in a stressful situation. Add on the potentially litigious situation and people not helping becomes more foreseeable. Profoundly wrong, but foreseeable.

Nice job brother!

I've been in a similar situation with a severe woodworking accident and it's amazing how shock makes people freeze.. they just stand there wide eyed as a guy is losing blood by the second.

As I'm wrapping the injury with the shirt off my back, yelling at my assistants to get the med kit and call 911 they just stood there. I'm covered in blood and these guys had no fucking clue what to do. What felt like minutes passed before the call was made and by the time the ambulance showed up my guy was going into and out of consciousness from blood loss.

I'll never forget that day as had I not leaped into action, he would have died on the floor.

I had my CPR cert back in the boy scouts and it's something you never forget.

eidt Don't forget to carry a CPR shield in your wallet, glove box, first aid kit or whatnot as you being the first responder, must take care to protect yourself first before helping. In my case, I had to do a battery of tests after to ensure I didn't contract anything from blood exposure.

Take note here that OP did the exact right thing by designating one single, specific person to call 911. In an emergency, you never shout out to everyone standing "Somebody call 911!" because most times, nobody will. If you single somebody out and say "Hey, you. Call 911. That is your job." Most times you will get a better response. OP can't help that every other person in the room was too beta to move.

They had the fucking balls to tell you not to do it too hard AFTER THEY DID NOTHING? I'm not even surprised. What a bunch of fucking women freezing up in danger. Pussies.

I want to add an event I feel is relevant.

There was a tremendous fucking flood going on in my city, a levee broke and water was rising rapidly. I'm with my father trying to evacuate with our belongings.

We are trapped in a massive line of cars at a four way intersection for a few minutes. Vehicles all over the fucking place completely jammed up; honking, people screaming, physical altercations ready to erupt - complete chaos.

My old man hops out and runs at least fifty yards up to the intersection and starts commanding every person and directing traffic. He turned into a human fucking traffic light in the middle of this intersection, waving people through, traffic starts flowing like the juices of Slut Bag Sally's pussy before Chad slides up inside. We made our way, and I'm sure it once again returned to a bumble fuck afterwards.

I learned that day a lesson. Take control of your life, no one else is going to.

Reminds me of the time lightning hit the house across from my house and started it on fire. I told my mom to call 911 and she was like "it'll be fine"

"THEIR HOUSE IS ON FUCKING FIRE"

I ended up calling immediately after she said that....

like to hear stories that dont involve dumb shit like pandering to western women aka human toilet bowls

I once watched someone fall over on an escalator in a busy railway station. I was by no means the closest and while a couple of people ran up the still moving stairs to help her, several others milled about looking confused. No-one else had the wherewithal, so I stepped smartly up to the emergency stop and pushed it. Seeing that there were enough knights in shining armor, I continued on my way. I still wonder at the failure of several people to do the obvious. Shrug.

Man I hope Tim thanked you for saving your life, and I hope you tell those fucking morons who couldn't even bother to dial 3 digits that they should be ashamed of themselves.

This just increased your reputation in the workplace 400%. Fucking insane, nice job. Use this experience to your advantage, when people talk to you about it, act like it wasnt a big deal. Like it just happened naturally for you. Don't even say "oh yeah i only knew how to save his life because of the cpr course i took".

Again, nice job man