How Many of You Have Had Your Life Saved by a Doctor?

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Supervisor42

Supervisor42

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...Meaning, without what he/she did, you would have 100% certainly have died?
Long stories and short stories are welcome.:)

I'll go first; when I lived in an apartment with my brother, I had a nightmare and sleep walked.
I broke the window out of my room.
My arm hurt so I went into the bathroom and turned on the light...
As my arm had slid down the broken part of the window it cut my brachial artery completely in two.
Squirting blood on the mirror, I grabbed it with my hand to apply 'direct-pressure'.
It did nothing but turn the stream into 3 fan-shaped streams. :oops:
Brother rushed me to the hospital and I arrived at the ER, 2-quarts (4 units) low of blood.
Still barely conscious, the nurse was trying to measure my BP on the other arm and the Dr asked her what it was...
She whispered back to him: "I can't get a pulse!"
I overheard and said: "I promise you, I got one!!".
Shortly after that, I discovered that it is possible for them to 'shotgun' a unit (pint) of whole blood into you in less than a minute...
They hang the bag from a pole, wrap a blood-pressure cuff around it and the pole, and pump the bulb like crazy.
They shot 3 units into me and wheeled me into surgery to splice the artery back together and reroute my funny-bone nerve on top of my elbow to splice it back together. And staple everything back together with 77 metal staples, (yes when it was time for them to come out, I asked for them so I could count them).
The day after the surgery the Dr told me that my body could make up the 4th unit of blood. :rolleyes:
Without his quick thinking and fast work, I would have died in that ER.

Is there a doctor out there that you owe your life to?
 
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I had a doctor sow on half of my foot , not sure I would have died without it, but probably would have without any medical care? It would have probably been a slow death from infection otherwise, don't want to think about that....
The doctor's name was Caroline , so thanks to her I am still walking around
 
My son was sideways in the birth canal with the cord around his neck. Code red by the time they got me to surgery. My first words when I woke up were, “how’s the baby?” Because his heart rate was dropping every time I had a contraction. One or both of us would have died- wasn’t that uncommon not that long ago.

As a side note, do folks know that sx is the abbreviation for surgery like rx is for rexall (meds).
 
Closest I came was August 9th when I had a heart attack. Not sure how close to death I was. But I know I felt horrible. Found out later One of the arteries that was blocked was the one that causes the Widow Maker heart attacks.

Wife was in a head on car wreck in 1991. Had a broken neck. Dr that did her surgery told us he had never worked on anyone with that injury that lived that wasn't a quad.
 
I did that too SuperV, the glass broke out of an old door! My arm looked like a garden hose spraying blood! I was trying to get in my backdoor with groceries. So I couldn't get in my place so I ran next door (we were young renting in town) and grabbed laundry from their dryer and made a tourniquet, and freaked out the neighbors!! The heart doctor who did my surgery wanted to amputate my arm! I told to find someone who can fix it if he couldn't! He ended up doing a great job! The elbow joint was also pretty messed up and just recently I started having problems with arthritis in it!! I lost a lot of blood and I have a rare blood type, but I guess it all worked out ok!!
 
Pearl said:
I did that too SuperV, the glass broke out of an old door! My arm looked like a garden hose spraying blood! I was trying to get in my backdoor with groceries. So I couldn't get in my place so I ran next door (we were young renting in town) and grabbed laundry from their dryer and made a tourniquet, and freaked out the neighbors!! The heart doctor who did my surgery wanted to amputate my arm! I told to find someone who can fix it if he couldn't! He ended up doing a great job! The elbow joint was also pretty messed up and just recently I started having problems with arthritis in it!! I lost a lot of blood and I have a rare blood type, but I guess it all worked out ok!!
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A rare blood type- do we have a nomination for understatement of the year? Anyone? Anyone?
 
I almost bled out but from an unusual cause. I got rear ended by a gas truck at a traffic light, multi-car incident. (I wasn't bleeding when I got to the er.) I was on a gurney in a hallway when I went unconscious. Several gurneys were jostled, somehow my iv line got pulled apart. The last sound I heard was a crashing tray... when someone came around a corner and slipped in the giant pool of my blood of the floor. I almost bled out through my iv line. I only heard what happened later.... It was at a navy hospital so I'm sure someone got chewed out but never heard anymore about it.
 
Supervisor42 said:
They hang the bag from a pole, wrap a blood-pressure cuff around it and the pole, and pump the bulb like crazy.
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Standard practice for bad trauma in an ambulance. Not with blood, but with IV fluids. Those don't carry the oxygen you need, but "filling up the tank", even by diluting your still existing blood, works in a short term emergency situation. For a little while...

I have been pretty lucky throughout my life. I just had my first surgery ever last week. Never had stitches. Never had a cavity. I guess I did crack a bone in the back of my hand once. It was so pitiful that they said they normally don't even touch something like that. But they did put me in a cast because I play piano and they wanted to give me the pain-free ability to roll my hand while playing. Now that I've said all this, I expect to be toast by Monday. See 'ya!
 
Me. My heart. Two doctors, the one who said it is her heart not pneumonia (I was actively dying, organs shutting down), and the one who did the actual surgery and is one of the top three in the U.S. with that kind of specialty up his sleeve.
Whoever saved my life during a miscarriage at a hospital (I got there just in time). Blood pressure was bottoming out and I went unconscious. Would I have died? Seemed like it.
 
Let me see:
Mom took three days to deliver me. I guess I was lucky to have doctors..
Scarlett Fever as a kid, I guess that was a close call.
Open heart surgery. They took me off the operating table because I was too weak.
Five stents over two surgeries in two States.
Dentist found an infection that was missed by an oral surgeon and two other dentists. I just kept searching for the right dentist.
Those are just a few of the close calls. Most close calls didn’t involve a doctor.
 
Nope, not me, but I've witnessed husband pull through at least three times when I thought he might not. Not breathing. Sepsis. Everything shutting down.
And at those times realizing that sticking oxygen in his nose is not going to do it. Because his body would not utilize it. So have learned to hook up his bi pap and at least try pressured oxygen. Docs put him on the big pressure machines, those are pretty amazing.

My sisters do tell a story where I went down a flight of stairs in a walker at a very young age, turned blue, wasn't breathing, mom put me in the front seat and drove me to the hospital. So I lived thru that. Just didn't know it.
 
Caribou said:
Let me see:
Mom took three days to deliver me. I guess I was lucky to have doctors..
Scarlett Fever as a kid, I guess that was a close call.
Open heart surgery. They took me off the operating table because I was too weak.
Five stents over two surgeries in two States.
Dentist found an infection that was missed by an oral surgeon and two other dentists. I just kept searching for the right dentist.
Those are just a few of the close calls. Most close calls didn’t involve a doctor.
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Thank you for living 😊
 
Caribou said:
O+ universal receiver. the wife is
O- universal donor, that sill pisses her off.
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You may want to check that.
Since this thread has quickly devolved into blood types, here's the chart:
blood-type-compatibility-chart.jpg
 
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