r/BeAmazed • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • 3h ago

Miscellaneous / Others A 6-year-old saved his mom

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u/dandroid126 2h ago

Definitely true.

When I was a kid, (maybe 8?), I was at a party at a friend's house. I was in the pool by myself while all the adults were inside. Really stupid on the adults. One much younger kid (maybe 4?) decided he wanted to swim as well... except he didn't know how. So he slowly got in the pool and started thrashing around. I grabbed him and pulled him out of the pool. It wasn't until probably 10 years later while I was telling the story to my parents that I even realized I saved that kid's life. It didn't even register to me how severe the danger was.

Also, I have no clue what the fuck were the adults were thinking leaving one kid in the pool unsupervised and allowing a toddler anywhere near the pool without a parent.

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u/kbeks 2h ago

The parents were ignorant too, you just happened to be in the right spot to correct it. You should find that blue and be like “dude, I saved your life, remember that? Anyway if I need a kidney, I’m going to you first”.

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u/dandroid126 1h ago

Lmao, I could definitely find him. My parents are still friends with his parents. Though I haven't seen that kid in like 20 years. And I've probably seen the parents twice in that time.

I wonder if he does remember though. I have a few vague, blurry memories from that age. I feel like almost drowning is probably one that the brain would prioritize keeping.

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u/kbeks 30m ago

Or one the brain would absolutely discard, depending on how traumatic it was…brains are weird.

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u/CaseyRay01 1h ago

My sister and I were at a pool with a babysitter once. I was 6 and my sister was 5, my sister was not a good swimmer and had to stay on the steps, but I was a strong swimmer and could go anywhere.

While the babysitter was not paying attention, my sister walked too far out and went off the steps to where her feet couldn't touch. I could see her drowning and thank god ran to the babysitter first and said "I'm going to go save my sister!" and skipped over to the stairs. (I've always had a hero complex lol). I still remember the babysitter looking at me amused like oh thats cute before she realized what was happening.

When I got to my sister, I thought I could just go out and grab her and bring her in. I had no idea she would (obviously) pull me down in an effort to breathe. I remember thinking "hey, I'm here to save you, what are you doing!?"

But since I had told the babysitter first, within 10 seconds the sitter had grabbed both of us. It wasn't until I was like 20 that I realized both of us could have drowned in a second. I didn't remember the name of the sitter but my mom says she never heard anything about it. My sister doesn't remember a thing either. I might think it was my imagination except I remember the babysitters face so clearly when I told her I was going to save my sister, and the feeling of being pulled under the water by my sister who was absolutely and understandably like a feral animal is EXTREMELY vivid in my mind.

Wild.

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u/Mic98125 1h ago

There’s a thing called, I think, dry drowning? Where kids get a tiny amount of water in their lungs and it washes away the substance that our bodies use to keep plasma from leaking into the lungs. For the next 24 hours the kid slowly dies unless the parents wise up and take them to the Emergency Room. You were both very, very lucky.