What was the most severe accident or tragedy you can recall having a significant role in handling - or, one in which you largely helped someone else to handle?

I don't think I have one...

Wow. How strange that this should be my very first survey to answer! I have many, but I really don't want to say right now. I will have to come back here, though. I just want to answer some more surveys.

Very strange! Mine too! (Just kidding - I created this one.)

Are you by chance an ER station nurse? LVN, RN?

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Wow! Look at all that info! I waa pushing buttons and came across this. Then I did what you said. I guess if I did it right, you get this message?
I have worked in the ER, but my forte is surgery. I am not an RN. I am an ST/FA - short for the fancy name of Surgical Technologist/First Assistant. Plah!
So I can 'make' surveys, too? That's interesting. Okay, thanks for the 'tips'.

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Are you the welcome wagon?! Heh. Thanks!

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scrub = surgery
Should have guessed, but I'm not foolin' anyone lately...the lights aren't even "burnin' bright" these days, and no one but NO ONE is home, ha! (Deep Purple reference, JIC.)

Uh, yea, you sound a kinda tired there! Heh he. Maybe it's time for some shut-eye! I know it's time for me to. Getting so late it's early! I have to come back tomorrow because it says I have like 534 surveys left to answer!!! Ha!

Well, I'm "sort of" taking the day off tomorrow - refinancing woes (aren't they always?). I'll be there, late, leaving early. My kinda day! So, as I'm corresponding all day to the lenders, I reward (kill) myself by hanging out here all day&night.
Shut eye sounds good there, so I think I'll take your ad--
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Handling - do you mean I helped cause the accident or helped the person who had the accident.

I caused my brother to be dropped on the floor.
I helped a man who had fallen over on the tube train get up and led him out and sat with him on the platform until a guard came.

When I was working in property management, I used to look after this office building. It wasn't that big, six stories, about two hundred people worked there, in maybe twenty different offices/companies.

One evening, after most people had gone home, someone left a sink running, and it overflowed, forming a good sized puddle in the corridor, and then running down the various corings and conduits in the utility closets including the bus bars for electrical distribution. It was a while ago, so I'm a little foggy on the details, but I think it shorted out the fire alarm system, so I got a call from the monitoring company.

I went down, checked it out, and called my carpet guys to to the flood restoration, which includes sucking up all the water, and setting up fans to dry everything out.

What escaped my attention at the time was that the water had entered one of the circuit breaker boxes. If it had been one of the newer ones (made out of plastic and aluminum), it probably would have melted in about two seconds. However this building was built back in the 1950s when they made that stuff out of copper and Bakelite. It sat there for a couple of days frying very slowly. One morning I came in, and got a call from one of my tenants that their lights were off. I checked out the situation and could tell that it was serious. I called my electrician, who said he would drop everything and head straight over, in the meantime, I should prepare my tenants for a major power outage. As I was running around the building, it hit. The whole building went down. BOOM! We discovered later that it was a dual fault, and that it had blasted right past the main breaker and took out one of our high voltage (32,000) transformers. So I had to get my high voltage guy down there, and later we had to bring in some guys that rent high voltage transformers so that we could yank out the toasted one and get everything back online.

I think I worked 20 hours that day. It was an election day, and the only one that I have ever failed to cast a vote in. At one point, a new tenant, completely unconcerned with the present crisis I was already up to my ass in, confronted me in the lobby with the news that when he had moved in, he left some of his valuable stuff in a wastebasket and that the janitors had thrown it out. (I had asked him previously when he wanted the janitors to start, and he had given us the go ahead). In spite of the situation I was already dealing with, I calmly and with great empathy listened to his problem and told him how it would be resolved. (This sort of thing always seems to happen. Someone can be standing in six inches of water telling me that the light is burnt out over his desk!)

I don't think I really have one that fits your description--and I'm not sure I "wish I had one to speak of," either! As for "the most intense devastation you submitted yourself to handle," that would be one of my past relationships.

I saw a car accident, where a van hit a small car on the driver's side. The driver wasn't getting out. I went to the small car from the passenger's side and he was trapped. The steering wheel crushed into his chest. There was blood everywhere and his ribs were showing. Someone else had called 911 and David and I stayed there with him and kept talking to him.

i dont think i ever had. i was once in a car accidenent ,but it wasnt anything too serious.

anyway, i didnt do any of the handling.

Three weeks ago I was sailing with some friends on the Pacific...half of them were quite drunk and when the contraption tipped over (as I predicted five minutes into the water, being as it was poorly rigged), I was the only sober and level-headed one in the group so I rescued one girl's life.

Nobody was injured. It was incredibly stupid, but it did scare most of them crapless (called for).

My step mom hemorrhaged a few days after having my baby sister. I got her to the bathtub...there was a ton of blood so I thought that was a good spot to confine her and the blood until the ambulance arrived. She was pale and limp. I stayed with her until they took her to the hospital and I cleaned up all the blood afterwards. She was fine.

I've never been directly involved in anything like that, but my parents have. My mom and dad both used to be EMT's (Something like paramedics, but they can't do IV's. Paramedics have more training).
My dad had to work a car wreck where the family's vehicle caught fire and the whole family was burned to death. He never forgot that smell and couldn't eat meat for a long time.

Then there was the man who went on a rampage in my hometown and shot and killed 4 or 5 cops and almost killed another one. It shut down the town for over 24 hours (small town in middle America). It was very scary because all the action was right around where we lived, which happened to be 2 blocks from the police station. They finally found the man across the street from our house. He was executed earlier this year (after 10 years in prison with us paying to feed him).

Cool! I always wanted to be a Surgical Tech. I even went to LPN school, but only got through 6 months of it (clinicals started and I figured out that pt care was not for me).

Now I'm a medical records coder, but someday I still might go back to school to become a scrub tech.

My dad had a fatal heart attack in the back yard, and I had to call the paramedics, call my sister home from a party, and call other relatives, try to console my mom, and help make arrangements.

I don't think I have any. Gladly, who would want a tragedy? And if you wish for a tragedy, how can it be a tragedy?

Shortly after my husband and I were married his brother was working construction on the Mall of America and fell four stories to the ground. He was in a coma for about a week and finally died because of brain swelling. It was very sad because he was only 26 and was my husband's only sibling.

I helped my teenage daughter when a friend of her boyfriend's stopped at her apartment and passed out from an overdose. He almost didn't make it!

Although I don't consider my experiences "tragedies", because I believe in the cyclical nature of life, many people have thought of them as such....The first of these occurred when I was 21 and I found my mother dead from a heart attack...and I buried her on my 22nd birthday. Then, 7 years later, I found my Dad on my kitchen floor, in a coma, from a stroke. Although I administered CPR, he did not survive.
As I said, some might consider these experiences tragic, but I feel blessed to have assisted my two closest friends in their transitions from the "life" we shared together to another realm.

My son has always been a sick boy. Thankfully, though, he's growing out of it. Once he was in the hospital and went into respiratory arrest...I totally wigged out and almost killed one of the nurses after he was stabilized, for taking so long to answer our call light!

My ex husband died on christmas eve of 2001. I had to take our young children to the funeral with his family and his other ex wife in the same building. Not an easy task seeing they had a great part of why our marriage didn't work.

Just this Christmas eve, our neighbor a 19 year old boy died, a tragic death. I had to get my kids together (his good friends) and help them cope. Also went over to comfort his mom and help her get a bearing. It was awful. Still is.

In my case it was a tragedy.The day my dad stabbed my mom to death.I had to grow up REALLY quick.Which has helped me endure other obstacles in life that I've had to go through.It also taught me how to forgive.

I am glad you have opened your heart to travel through such pain.....your're an awesome human, I do imagine....

Why thank you.It happened a long,long time ago,when I was 12 years old. I wasn't home when it happened.However,I've always felt like,if I had been maybe,just maybe I could've somehow stopped him.

I think my mother kinda sensed something bad was going to befall her soon or something cause, months before it happened she would always tell me,to ALWAYS love my dad no matter what happens to her.I hated it when she'd talk like that!Made me scared.
I'm way older now.

It sounds like your Mom was tuned in to her psychic side......which probably means your energy in that realm runs higher than average.....is this so?

is confetti back?????

Yeah! Something like that.I'm not sure.How can I tell?

Hey! I never really did met you. Just wanted to take this time right now to say, Hi! Most of my SC buddys know me as Cleo.
I've been here for a little over 2 years now. How 'bout you? Also I live in Southern California. Where do you reside?

I think she pops in every once in a while.

Hi Cleo.....nice name...translated it means "glory of the father", and of course, Queen of Egypt from 47-30 BC, but you probably know all of that...it's nice to "meet" you......My name is Sheila, and it's true I "pop"in every now and again.....I live in Marin County, CA, just north of San Francisco.......Regarding psychic abilities, and your question of "How can I tell?", my answer is to ask yourself/Spirit self/Higher self/etc... to assist you in heightening your experiences relating to this thread of your being (but remember-you'll get what you ask for.....) LOL
Hey....Who/What is Confetti????LOL

Wow! Hi Neighbor!! ** Nice to know you!
You live even farther north than another California SC user I know. I live in Murrieta. That's in the county of Riverside.Half way between Los Angles & San Diego. As a matter of fact I live about 9 miles from the San Diego borderline. & I prefer to say I'm IN the San Diego county area instead of Riverside.
How long you been her at SC?

As for the "glory to the father" I was not aware of that definition. But,somehow I find it so befitting me. I really like that one! Thanks!My birth name is AVALON,tho. But,everyone here calls me Cleo.....except for justjulie,she prefers to call me by my birth name instead.I answer to both.

As for having a higher plains energy,I may have to look into that a bit further.I may not be as finely tuned in the psychic energy level,as another SC user here. Her name is Kristal Rose. She is VERY inept to psychic energies.You two may have quit a bit in common.

As for Confetti she's a regular SC user that recently signed off SC,then came back again. *shrugs** You'll have to go to "Forum" to find the string where it's mentioned.**puts her two palms up**

I know this sounds so cliche but,I'm gonna take a stab at it never-the-less. But.......what sign are you? & what year were you born?

Just curious.

Hi Cleo, thanks for the reply and Happy New Year. I actually don't know how long I have been at SC-maybe since August 2002 or so. How 'bout you?
Yes-I have read a bit of Kristal Rose's writing on SC, and I find I often resonate with what she speaks of...she seems rich in experience and wonderfully willing to share it...pretty cool qualities, I feel...which you, too, seem to possess.
I love the cliche! I am a Libra, born 10/11/65...
How 'bout you?

Going on almost 3 years now.

Yeah! Kristal is way cool! I've actually met her in person.We attended two annual Hawaiian Festivals in L.A. This coming July will be the 3rd Hawaiian festival.
This past H.festival Kristal & I where fortunate enough to meet another SC user.(sadly he's signed off SC for good due to a survey posted recently)
We were supposed to hook up with Actress & freebird but something unforeseen happen with that.**shrugs**

Your a Libra/Horse! (that's your Chinese calendar animal. BTW this is your year! Right on! but sadly it ends soon.Real soon.January 20th to be exact.

Hi Cleo! How's it going? I really like your birthname.....you are the first Avalon I have "met".
Regarding San Diego, I absolutely love the Wild Animal Park and the Zoo, although I wish we didn't require such things as zoos , in order to keep alive some species.....you probably know that these two places have some of the only living embodiment of some species on the planet....I have an immense affinity for animals....
I want to say "thanks" for letting me know it is my year, BUT....how great...it ends soon.....I hang my chin to my chest with a big 'ol pouty boo-boo lip....seriously, though, I am not sure what you mean. Strangely enough, January 20 is the day my Dad died, in 1995......a day of endings ( or beginnings, depending on how we think of it...are they not one in the same??? And so goes the Cosmic Wheel.........)
How cool that you and Kristal got to share time together at the festival. It seems like SC is a tight-knit community, somewhat.
Sorry to hear of the departure of the SC user over a recent survey.....I can't personally imagine a survey could drive me away, but it takes all kinds of folk to make a world.....thank god...
So, what is your sign/Chinese animal/birth year, if I might ask? C'mon, your turn...LOL....
Oh, and one more question, if you don't mind: How do you get the icons into your messages? (or perhaps this is your secret......lol). Thanks!

I took a friend to hospital when she broke her finger - her mum was a nurse and didn't think it was more than bruised. It looked smushed up to me and was at a funny angle. It also felt wrong. I made her go - she ended up having to have surgery with a wire inserted to fix it and then plastic surgery and physiotherapy.

I also rang a friend back who threatened suicide. That's the most intense and frightening situation I've ever been involved in.

I'll answer your last question first. If you look at the top of the page you'll see the Survey Central bar where it has:
Replies/Search/Chat/Forum/Feedback/Stats/Coustomize/HELP

Click HELP & it has all the emo's in there & how to apply them to your replies.

Now for your first question: I'm a Virgo/Dragon

As for your lol you can do it like this * lol *

& it'll come out looking like this

dont have the time to tell it .. had blood n guts and dude got shot in the eye hunting accident

Like, my friend muffy broke her nail! ohmigod I was with her and it was like soooooo embarrassing! Luckily, I had temporary nail glue, and it held together until we got to the manicurist. But it was so horrible at the time, we almost thought she would lose it! Poor Muffy, like no one should have to go thru what she did that day. I'll never forget it, ya know? When it was all over, we like hugged and cried.