posted on Mar, 17 2010 @ 03:05 AM
wow, yea this has definately happened to me. When I was in high school I was a Jr. Firefighter, and got my EMT certification when I was 16 (17 years
old when this happened) with our local volunteer fire dept, and there was a group of us (5 guys) all on the dept together so naturally we were very
close. One day after class ended and we were standing around talking (one of my friends had after school detention) and I got this really strong
feeling to say goodbye to him...I mean like I completely zoned out on the conversation and this thought...consumed me i guess would be the right
word.
About 3 hours after school 4 of us were sitting around talking (the feeling completely forgotten about, I was in high school, I just thought it was
kinda wierd and blew it off) and tones dropped for the ATV accident on our other friends road who was earlier in afterschool detention. He had
recently gotten a new go-kart, but dispatch specifically said ATV (4-wheeler) accident, with one patient lying in the road not moving.
We went and jumped on the engine, it was maybe 2 miles down the road and the closest ambulance was about 15-20 min out, so I was the closest EMT.
While we were en route dispatch came back and told us it was a Go-Kart accident, still focusing only on the call at hand it never clicked that it was
him. We got on scene and he was lying in the road behind his go-kart and in front of an F-350 obviously dead. Of course I worked him anyway, and not
until the helicopter lifted off did I remember the feeling I had earlier.
I always just kinda thought I was crazy and that it was a freak incidince that I had that feeling, for him specifically, it wasnt just to catch up and
make plans later, it was a sad, oppressing say goodbye feeling, plain and simple. Thanks for posting this, I guess I'll have to look more into these
feelings.