I've never done this before, I'm just a plain old fucking college senior, and now I'm fucking scared. This person was bleeding to death on the floor, and like, no one did anything. What if I didn't find her? This happens all the time, I bet. That's fucking scary. I just have like extreme anxiety right now or some shit but like I don't know where this is supposed to go.

My question is:

To those who save lives, firemen, cops, doctors, civilians, anyone that has saved a life. How do you feel about it? The first person you've ever saved, what went through your mind right after?

Saved a life today!

I saved a man today. I was at a local convenience store and a another customer came up and asked the manager to check the men's room because he had been waiting to use it for 15 minutes and he could hear water running and nobody would answer the door. The manager was a female and didn't feel comfortable opening the door on the men's room. I knew her and told her I would check, she gave me the key and when I went open the door it was blocked with a body. Inside was a 50-year-old male face down and purple.

I rolled him over checked is airway and immediately started doing chest compressions within minutes his color came back some. After about 5 minutes he started to breathe on his own and I stopped chest compressions. He had snoring respirations and I could see his heart beating by looking at his neck. At that point another customer from the store came in who happened to be an off-duty EMT, the store manager had already called 911, and he took over the call with 911 and let them know about the men's vital signs. He told me to look out because there was a needle by my right knee, this was an overdose.

Between the time from when I open the door till the time the paramedics and police and ambulance arrived was about 15 minutes total. After I gave the police my information and started to leave, I went back and told the EMTs that when I started doing chest compressions I felt some cracking in his chest. I was told basically if you didn't crack some ribs you weren't doing CPR correctly.

It took about 5 hours for the adrenaline to wear off.

This is the second time in 9 months where I've saved somebody's life. The first time was one of my employees who tried to commit suicide on her birthday. After leaving a strange message for one of her co-workers on Facebook and not showing up for work at her scheduled time, my wife and I went to her house to see if she was okay. She didn't answer the door and the dogs were anxious so we went in I found her bed with poor respiration and laying in some for our own vomit. We were able to call 911 get her help and she is doing much better to this day.

I felt I had to share this with somebody. Thanks for being here for me tonight, and also if you happen to be in this situation you may save somebody's family members life.

Edit: the store manager had called 911when I unlocked the men's room and found the man unresponsive...

I just saved someone's life and I don't know how to feel about it and am even kind of upset that I did. Is there something wrong with me? I feel kind of meaningless now, or insignificant in a way. Is that normal?

Who made you want to live without knowing