Under pressure
I was once in the back of a bus on a remote highway when people in the front of the bus stood up and started screaming. A woman driving a station wagon just in front of the bus had completely lost control and hurtled down a steep slope. The bus stopped and emergency services were called, but because of the remote location they weren't expected for an hour. Alone, I clambered down the slope to help.

The vehicle had rolled and come to rest on its roof. The roof had collapsed, pinning the woman driver's head hard against her left shoulder. She was alive, and mostly intact, but trapped. She couldn't move or say anything. All she could do was suffer in pain.

I tried to relieve the pressure on her head. I tried to roll the car a little bit so her head wouldn't grind into her shoulder quite so hard, but it was hard to gain any kind of leverage on that steep slope. I tried to use the fuel-filling inlet for purchase, but the timber I was using for leverage kept slipping. I could provide a few seconds of relief, but the timber would slip, and the car would roll back, with the roof just grinding away even harder on her head.

After a time, I was forced to realize that the good I was doing amounted to torture, to which even the long delay for the arrival of competent help was preferable.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Thu 31 Jul 2014, 23:51, 4 replies)

Holy fuck
I'm sure just being there was comforting to her though, good on you
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 1 Aug 2014, 7:43, closed)

so you just fucked her neck crease, yeah?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 1 Aug 2014, 8:11, closed)

This is why you didn't pass your probationary period as a Paramedic isn't it?

(Andrew Avetoom, Fri 1 Aug 2014, 9:09, closed)

Not ANOTHER fucking Star Wars story.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 1 Aug 2014, 12:45, closed)