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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-03-06 10:13 PM
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7. It takes a lot of energy to deal with a suicidal person
Edited on Tue Jan-03-06 10:13 PM by Whoa_Nelly
You were brave to keep to see it through. 'Course, can't see how it would be a choice to turn one's back on someone threatening suicide.
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  -Have you ever saved someone's life? Whoa_Nelly  Jan-03-06 10:03 PM   #0 
  - Well, past tense is more appropriate, but professional is close. n/t  qnr   Jan-03-06 10:07 PM   #1 
  - saved my brother from drowning  lionesspriyanka   Jan-03-06 10:08 PM   #2 
  - What happened?  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:09 PM   #3 
     - he was too young to remember  lionesspriyanka   Jan-03-06 10:15 PM   #12 
        - Good sister!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:50 PM   #22 
           - 5-6... i was irritated and did not understand the full consequence  lionesspriyanka   Jan-04-06 10:53 AM   #44 
  - Have saved several lives and may have had mine saved (I probably would  ForrestGump   Jan-03-06 10:10 PM   #4 
  - It takes a lot of energy to deal with a suicidal person  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:13 PM   #7 
  - Yeah, no choice at all, really  ForrestGump   Jan-03-06 10:19 PM   #14 
  - I've had to take the suicide calls before.  xmas74   Jan-03-06 10:14 PM   #9 
     - Mine was a call -- I would have been feeling less impotent if I was there  ForrestGump   Jan-03-06 10:20 PM   #15 
        - You feel so useless and worthless just sitting in a room  xmas74   Jan-03-06 10:30 PM   #16 
           - I can't imagine that. What an emotional rollercoaster.  ForrestGump   Jan-03-06 11:11 PM   #25 
  - Yay for the Heimleich Maneuver!  tofunut   Jan-03-06 10:11 PM   #5 
  - Nephew was joking  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:17 PM   #13 
  - Former dispatcher.  xmas74   Jan-03-06 10:12 PM   #6 
  - well, maybe  Skittles   Jan-03-06 10:13 PM   #8 
  - Am sure you did!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:15 PM   #10 
  - I'm sure you have.  xmas74   Jan-03-06 10:15 PM   #11 
  - Other.  hickman1937   Jan-03-06 10:37 PM   #17 
  - Interesting  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:45 PM   #20 
  - It wasn't me. Bad typing and editing left off the the n't.  hickman1937   Jan-03-06 11:06 PM   #24 
     - Yup  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 11:15 PM   #28 
        - Sometimes when you least expect it you're given a gift.  hickman1937   Jan-04-06 01:04 AM   #42 
  - I nudged Robert's head to the side with my shoe  swag   Jan-03-06 10:38 PM   #18 
  - Too many cases of maybe, maybe not.  Ladyhawk   Jan-03-06 10:41 PM   #19 
  - Added a poll category  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 10:46 PM   #21 
     - Thanks. :) n/t  Ladyhawk   Jan-03-06 11:52 PM   #33 
  - I'm retired from nursing now.......  CaliforniaPeggy   Jan-03-06 10:56 PM   #23 
  - You are brave to have been a nurse!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 11:14 PM   #26 
  - Saved my youngest son at 8 months  SoCalDem   Jan-03-06 11:15 PM   #27 
  - Being a mom  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 11:18 PM   #29 
     - Just turned 27  SoCalDem   Jan-03-06 11:21 PM   #30 
        - WooHoo!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-03-06 11:23 PM   #31 
  - does it count  threehensandacow   Jan-03-06 11:25 PM   #32 
  - A life saved is never cheesy  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-04-06 12:16 AM   #35 
  - AA counts. Most definitely.  sfexpat2000   Jan-04-06 12:18 AM   #36 
  - I firmly believe that I saved my life one evening........  Bullwinkle925   Jan-04-06 12:14 AM   #34 
  - WOw...am glad you were able to move so fast!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-04-06 12:20 AM   #37 
  - Hmm. Of all the stories, maybe once I saved my mom's life.  sfexpat2000   Jan-04-06 12:23 AM   #38 
  - You did save her life!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-04-06 12:52 AM   #41 
     - My niece say, "Life is life! Life is not perfect!"  sfexpat2000   Jan-04-06 01:14 AM   #43 
  - When my older boy was an infant  GoddessOfGuinness   Jan-04-06 12:45 AM   #39 
  - Omigosh!  Whoa_Nelly   Jan-04-06 12:50 AM   #40 
  - When I was a toddler, I was getting my stomach pumped  Shell Beau   Jan-04-06 10:59 AM   #45 
  - When I was five or six,  lakemonster11   Jan-04-06 11:06 AM   #46 
  - Yes, several times...  Prag   Jan-04-06 11:11 AM   #47 
  - My daughter.  evlbstrd   Jan-04-06 11:19 AM   #48 
  - I was saved from drowning, and saved someone else from drowning  kwassa   Jan-04-06 02:33 PM   #49 
 

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