Anyone else watched "Could You Survive"?

[shootingstar]

If I may add a story about saving a child from great injury due to fast reflexes from an adult.

Many years ago, I was in the basement with some family members. A brother-in-law was there beside me, chatting up amongst us. Suddenly his 4 yr. old son....fell headlong from near the top of the basement steps and ...he caught his son, fast enough to prevent the child from falling, headfirst onto the bare cement basement floor.

There were 10 steps on that flight of steps.

The nephew screamed and cried in his father's arms...he probably sensed something bad might have happened to him if daddy hadn't caught him. And the father....was so shocked (he actually looked shaken) and relieved he caught his son mid-air in time.

[SouthernBelle]

If I may add a story about saving a child from great injury due to fast reflexes from an adult.

Many years ago, I was in the basement with some family members. A brother-in-law was there beside me, chatting up amongst us. Suddenly his 4 yr. old son....fell headlong from near the top of the basement steps and ...he caught his son, fast enough to prevent the child from falling, headfirst onto the bare cement basement floor.

There were 10 steps on that flight of steps.

The nephew screamed and cried in his father's arms...he probably sensed something bad might have happened to him if daddy hadn't caught him. And the father....was so shocked (he actually looked shaken) and relieved he caught his son mid-air in time.

I had this happen to me when I was a child, but nobody was there to catch me. I hadn't thought about it in years! I was very small and only have vague memories of it. But I apparently wasn't badly hurt, certainly no broken bones. I do remember it was a big fall. There is nobody left around to ask about it though.