can you look at Blood?

[Catt]

21 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Saw some gruesome scenes much of which I've had to work on to forget.

 

Some I'll never forget ?

 

Blood-n-guts doesn't bother me, watching life leave their eyes does. 

[Captain Phil]

It's not blood that bothers me, it's suffering.   I hate to see anyone in pain.  It's worse when it's someone you care about.  I consider myself lucky that I did not have to experience combat.  Those memories would haunt me forever.  

[BayouSlide]

3 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Blood-n-guts doesn't bother me, watching life leave their eyes does. 

 

Some may say it's ironic, but as a hunter and fisherman, watching the life leave the eyes of an animal/bird/fish always causes a twinge of regret...how can it be otherwise if you respect the value/sanctity of life.

 

As such I will only take a life with respect, if I will feed myself or family, or if it is a direct threat, like the coiled rattler I had to shoot recently that was threatening my dog.

 

Catt, you nailed it. It's not the gore, it's the passing of life that should rightfully give us pause.

[Jar11591]

I did glass work for 10 years and cuts were a routine thing. I’ve had a couple gushers and witnesses a couple gushers as well. In the moment Im just concerned with rendering aid to myself or whoever has the wound. The part that bothers me is seeing a photo of the fresh wound afterwards or something. If I think too hard or look too long at it i sometimes can get a little lightheaded. 

[Southernbasser]

Blood and gore don’t bother me at all.  But, hyperextensions make me quiver. 

[DogBone_384]

On 11/15/2022 at 9:09 AM, A-Jay said:

It was part of my job description

Ditto…. I’m a 20+ year Firefighter/EMT in a medium sized city in Massachusetts.

 

6 hours ago, Catt said:

watching life leave their eyes does. 

This too. The worst is seeing the pain the families experience with OD deaths & scuicides.

[Darth-Baiter]

kudos to you 1st responders.  

 

tell me.  your first time.  did it bother you and it got better?  or right from the get go, you were good with it.?

[DogBone_384]

10 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

tell me.  your first time.

My first time wasn’t bloody. I had a 3 month old infant die in my hands while doing CPR. 
 

The Father rolled over on it while sleeping.

 

Yes, it was tough.

[GaryH]

1 hour ago, Darth-Baiter said:

kudos to you 1st responders.  

 

tell me.  your first time.  did it bother you and it got better?  or right from the get go, you were good with it.?

I can’t speak for others in the beginning it bothered me and I believe it showed. With time and experience it still bothered me but I realized that my emotions had a major impact on a scene. By keeping calm and professional it would calm the victim and my team of EMT’s. After 14 years I moved on to a different career. To have someone look in your eyes and pleads with you to not let them die has emotional effects. God Bless and respect all of our first responders.

[cheezyridr]

On 11/15/2022 at 7:39 PM, Log Catcher said:

I am like @cheezyridr in that I used to work with a lot sheet metal when I was doing HVAC work. It sent me to the hospital a few times to get stitches. Blood doesn't bother me and needles don't either. I just accepted it as part of life when I was working in the construction trade.

 

i ran one of my fingers through a slitter once. the kevlar glove kept it from cutting my finger off, but it flattened it like a piece of paper.  it looked like a cartoon.  i had to sit in the waiting room for 7 hours waiting to see a surgeon, the only hand surgeon in 3 states was busy that day.  i left the waiting room and went to 2 other hospitals, and returned.  they never knew i was gone. hahaha

On 11/15/2022 at 8:00 PM, 12poundbass said:

I’ve only seen dead people at funerals and my father in-law at his house when he passed and I’ll say that creeps me out. I couldn’t imagine seeing a dead person in a situation other than those two scenarios. I’d be gone like Speedy Gonzales!

 

when i was about 13, i found one of the (older) neighborhood kids hanging from a freeway overpass.  drug dealers killed him. it was a sunday morning, i was going to the marsh to check muskrat traps.  at first, i thought it was a prank. then i realized i knew the coat, and guessed who it was.  looking back on it now,  i'm surprised it didn't freak me out.

[Kirtley Howe]

Seeing blood, broken and/or protruding bones, and other gore does not bother me....AT THE TIME. I will deal with it and do what I can. LATER, I may fall apart, but at the time I just deal with it.

[N Florida Mike]

Ive cleaned fish and game for a long time now , and grew up outside ,,which means plenty of injuries, some with some level of blood loss. None of those bothered me much. When I was in biology class though we had to draw our own blood. I tried but just couldn’t do it. So I picked a scab and got blood for the sample that time. The second time the scab was healed… so a girl at the table did it for me !

Needles don’t bother me as long as someone experienced is jabbing me.

The only other time blood really bothered me was being the first responder to a head on crash between a vw beetle and school bus. The vw’s drivers face was a bloody pulp. I ran and got help but It was to get away from it as much as anything. 

I saw another bad crash and one of the drivers had a head injury and put a white towel up to stop the bleeding. I saw that people had stopped already to help, so I turned into mcdonalds and had something to eat… It bothered me someone was hurt, but that time the blood didn’t.

I said a prayer and ordered my quarter pounder…

[Catt]

On 11/16/2022 at 5:39 AM, Catt said:

 

Some I'll never forget ?

 

Blood-n-guts doesn't bother me, watching life leave their eyes does. 

 

Since I posted this I have twice dreamed in perfect detail of the particular accident.

 

1976 La Porte Texas while working for Brown & Root. A welder, fitter, & myself were working 4 stories up on a landing platform of a staircase. The welder & fitter were hooking up a come along to lift one side of the platform. I had just walked down to get a Acetylene tank.

 

I heard a loud noise & the whole structure shook. I looked to see the welder hit back first on a cross beam bending backwards like you if you bent forward. He flipped over fell down another story hitting a cross beam chest first. He flipped over again landing head first on a train track at my feet. 

 

There was no blood or guts but the guy looked at me trying to gasp for air. He couldn't breathe in or exhale. He just starred at me like he wanted me to help but there was nothing I could do. What seemed like minutes was actually seconds before he died with me holding his hand.

 

The sad part was it was avoidable, while hooking up the come along he never hooked his safety belt.

 

It'll be ok, I'll only be a minute!

[Bankbeater]

I can look at my blood without problem.  I have to ready myself for other people's blood.

[galyonj]

I think it's interesting that, of all the substances that have bothered me, blood's never made the list.

 

Just one of those things, I guess. I got a story to illustrate that'd just bring everybody down, so I'll just keep that one to myself.

 

Got some cat food a few weeks ago, though. Fancy Feast Creamy Delights. It's a wet cat food that is advertised as having a "touch of milk in every bite."

 

My girls loved it. Soon as I opened the drawer we keep their food in, they'd set up squalling for it. The problem is that it looks exactly like sausage gravy, only the sausage bits were replaced with little chunks of salmon or whitefish or whatever.

 

Retched every time I opened a can of that stuff. I still can't think about eating sausage gravy.

[Dirtyeggroll]

I’m my line of work I see blood and brains in places they are not supposed to be pretty much every day.

 

Working in the neck there are some rather large blood vessels that jump out in front of you sometimes. Fortunately it tends to be the veins and usually are controlled with a little finger pressure until something more definitive can be placed.

 

The only time it ever bothered me, and it wasn’t the blood per se that was bothering, was when I watched an early teenager lose about 70% blood volume via a nosebleed in a matter of minutes. Fortunately, I was able to get it slowed enough to get to the operating room. I still lose sleep over this one because there a couple places way back in the nose and at the base of the skull where if there’s a small fracture and bad bleed (carotid) there’s nothing you can do but watch.
 

The most blood I’ve ever seen was after someone came in secondary to a trauma. During the surgery to getting bleeding under control, we transfused 32 units of blood. That’s all of the blood in the body three times.

 

Seeing blood though, doesn’t really bother me itself.

[clayton86]

Blood and needles don’t bother me. I remember in basic and when to my unit in the CLS class I was giving myself IVs and letting others try on me since I had “good” veins. 
 

Other people’s blood and what not doesn’t bother me to much. If it’s some one close to me I can handle it at the time it’s happening but it haunts me later I guess. My father for example when I brought him home from the hospital a few days before he passed puked up blood and chunks of something some how when on a liquid diet shortly after getting to his apartment. I asked him if he wanted me to take him back to hospital or call ambulance he chuckled and said no he’ll go the next day when he wakes up which he did. 
 

my boys are like me I suppose getting hurt doing young boy stuff and football just shake off the injuries and press on. My daughter on the other hand freaks out haha. She stepped on a tack the other day and it just “hurt” to walk on so she was favoring that foot and we looked at it and she saw it was bleeding a little and you’d swear she was just told she was gonna die had a complete melt down over 1 drop of blood on her foot.