Once I saw this homeless woman, she had an epileptic seizure, called an ambulance, then the seizure stopped, the ambulance drove off, and she was standing alone in the cold. I offered her a place to sleep for the night and a warm blanket and dinner.
She was very grateful, I wish I could’ve done more for her, she was so nice, although she didn’t talk much.
What was the best thing you ever done to another human being? Or animals, animals is fine too 
I would have to say it has been adopting shelter animals. I have two now and it makes me feel good to know that they have a nice home in which they are loved and cared for.
By the way, that was very kind of you to take a homeless women into your home for a night. I’m not sure if I would be able to do that. I guess I would be afraid that they might try to hurt me. You are much braver than me.
I saved my ex Mother in Laws life - she suffered cardiac arrest - Her heart stopped beating.
I administered CPR until the Ambulance arrived - she lived.
This was the biggest (best) thing I did for another Human being.
I really suprised myself.
I got my freind into Calpoly. I know a guy who works with the california department of education. He offered to put in a good woord for me in whatever california college i wanted. I turned him down (I’m not smart enough for that) but, i told him of my freind who was just sent a rejection letter from Calpoly. He was smart enough i knew that. He was just a bit late and they weren’t accepting any more computer science majors. A couple weeks later he got an acceptance letter like nothing even happend. I never told him. I dont want him to feel like he owes me.
I picked up a 4 week old kitten last year that someone had tossed out onto the road and left to die, either by the 18 wheeler trucks delivering to warehouses (it’s in the industrial part of town) or by another animal picking it up for dinner.
Either way, it was too tiny to survive on it’s own,
so I brought it home with the idea I would care for it until I could find it a permanent home, because I already have 5 indoor-only cats…all were from unwanted strays,
but,
Gosh I love that stinky little kitty too much to give her up…
I saved a young boy’s life when I was in my late twenties…
Kid: “Holy Cow!! I almost died there!!”
Me: “Don’t ever do that again. You almost gave me a heart attack!”
Never did meet his Mom. Bet she would’ve given me a big hug and a kiss if we ever did.
When I was 19 I went to a new years eve party and half way through the night a friend of mine passed out and we thought he may have had alcohol poisoning. We had to carry him to the car, and on the way to the hospital I checked his pulse and it was weak and slow, as was his breathing. I knew he needed to vomit up some of the alcohol so I gave him mouth to mouth to make him vomit and his heart rate and breathing returned to normal. The driver decided not to take him to the hospital after that, which I still don’t agree was the right decision even though he ended up being okay. Oh well.
Between Nov. 26, 2014 and Dec. 31, 2015 I gave $800.00 or $900.00 to Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International. I’ve given $100.00 to one of those organizations this year. I can’t remember which.
I saved a friend of mine who got to tired to fight the under current once. River was pulling him out and away. Swam out there and brought him back…
Eh… I don’t really know otherwise.
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done to another human being?
I don’t know, I drove a friend of a friend to the hospital who was unresponsive due to drugs and alcohol, when we couldn’t find a pulse we got pretty scared and of course the people she’d been using drugs with took off. I had been drinking but cell phones were still pretty scarce back then and we were a long walk from the nearest pay phone. One of the hospital staff started shoving one of our friends down the hall because he didn’t know what DMT was, which was only one of the drugs she’d taken. I got between him and the doctor and tried to mediate but they called the police. We all got taken in, one of us ran off with her hand cuffs on and got away. I was the only one charged for transportation of alcohol I had no idea someone had left in my van. I guess it could have been worse, I could have got a DUI.
I know driving under the influence is looked down on like five times worse than it was back then, but then I had no idea what she was on other than the beer and knew some of her crowd were into prescription opiates. It wasn’t just that the nearest phone was far away but the time it would’ve taken them to drive all the way down the access road to where the party was. I lost my license and all she had to say was why didn’t I just leave her there. Maybe I saved a life maybe I didn’t but I wasn’t about to take the chance.
It may not be the best thing I’ve ever done for someone, I knew a few I would have stepped in front of a train or a bullet for but I guess it never came down to having to.
In 1999 I had a job as a park ranger. One night I was working my shift in a park. This particular park had a narrow wooden walkway that jutted out into a surrounding marsh. It was about a hundred feet long and anybody could walk out on it to check out the view of San Francisco Bay.and check out native birds.
I had just about finished my shift and I was getting ready to go back to our office and drop off the truck when some lady runs up too me. I could see she was really upset about something. She told me she had been walking her dog on the walkway and the dog jumped through the railings and into the marsh but she had lost track of where he was.
So I told her I would look for him. We both walked down the walkway whistling and calling her dogs name. Finally, after just 5 minutes had gone by I heard a faint whimper from down below the platform. It was her dog. I looked down 5 feet below. I could hear him but I couldn’t see him so I jumped over the railing and into the marsh to look for him. It didn’t take me long to find him.
He had climbed upon a tiny muddy slope down below and he was laying on his side and not moving. He was an older dog and he had spent all his energy making it up out of the water onto this tiny slope. So he couldn’t get up.
He was a fairly large dog but I scooped him up and called to the lady to help me. Somehow with both of us helping each other, we got the dog back up on the platform.
The lady was so grateful that she was crying because no one else was around to help her but me and if I hadn’t been there her dog probably would have died. She fished in her purse and gave me a five dollar bill as a thank you (this was when $5.00 could buy a lot more than it could today). I knew I couldn’t keep it because it was my companies policy not to take tips or accept.money for anything else. So I turned it in to my boss.
There was a girl I found in my friend’s basement with two guys. She was crying and they were just standing there trying to talk to her. She was also scratching the hell out of her neck so I grabbed her wrists and she started to struggle. A few seconds after she seems to plateau in intensity to her scratching, I grabbed her arms again and she calmed down. Then I put my hand over her neck where she was scratching until she stopped crying and went to get a wash cloth that was run under cold water. I gave the cloth to one of the guys and left, not wanting her to know I did anything to help her, seeing as we had bad blood.
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