adrenaline?

gandrfab

Can you cognitively function when the rush comes?
Can you even recognize the rush when it comes?

Everything goes in slow motion for me about 80% of the time. The other 20% I was on auto pilot and got lucky I guess.

Binder

How many beers?

gandrfab

Binder wrote: »

How many beers?

today?

Binder

Derpe

gandrfab

This is a spinoff of your winging your wenuss around thread.

Binder

I figured :rotflmao

Hickory Dog

Slo mo for me most of time and then when it is all over I get the shakes coming down.

Hickory Dog

Coming up over a hill on a two lane country highway to a dead deer and a vehicle in the road with a bunch of people standing around with the girlfriends head in my lap so to speak comes to mind ...

GA Fin

gandrfab wrote: »

Can you cognitively function when the rush comes?

Yep. I love a good adrenaline dump. I've been in flashovers, roof collapses, fell through a floor in a 2 story apartment fire, been shot at(they missed) had a knife pulled on me(he missed) been in a couple melees(10+/- on 10+/- fights) car wrecks and the best ever was when I was in a horse stall and the horse freaked out and went crazy spinning and kicking and he was between me and the door.

gandrfab

This is a question about how you handle your fight or flight mechanism.

gandrfab

GA I posted before I read your post.

GA Fin

I have also pulled 3 people(not counting dead folks) out of structure fires, one snake, one bird, several cats and several dogs. I was fortunate enough to be the nozzle man at the station that fought the most fire in the City Of Atlanta. When you pull up at a working fire and people are jumping up and down yelling that their baby is inside the structure you get a shot of adrenaline like you wouldn't believe.

GA Fin

gandrfab wrote: »

This is a question about how you handle your fight or flight mechanism.

I have used the flight mechanism to my advantage a couple of times and looked back amazed how well things worked. When the horse went crazy(in the entire line of stalls all the horses went crazy and I though "uh oh" right before the horse in my stall went crazy too) It seemed like everything slowed down as I weighed all my options. The best option I saw was jumping up on the corner mounted feed bucket, scaling the welded wire stall screen and sliding between the 12" gap between the top of the wall and the roof, landing on concrete below. It worked. I was standing outside the stall thinking "holy sheet!".

gandrfab

I didn't ask difficult questions.

Baits Out

It never happened because the only time I very loudly yelled
at my guys was when I saw them doing something stupid and
dangerous.

The recurring nightmare in those days was someone at the
table saw in shock, blood starting to show, and his thumb
on the floor.

Early on the anxiety was so great, I called and made arrangements
with the best orthopedic hand surgeon in the area to have his
number on speed call . . . just in case.

T Top

I have always tended toward the fight reflex. It has worked, for the most part, up until now.

Binder

T Top wrote: »

I have always tended toward the fight reflex. It has worked, for the most part, up until now.

You wanna talk about it?

T Top

Binder wrote: »

You wanna talk about it?

I will kick your **** like tuna on a newrectum stopper!

Binder

:rotflmao

team getterdun

I function well if I don't have time to let the adrenaline build up and give me time to think about what's about to go down.

AC Man

team getterdun wrote: »

I function well if I don't have time to let the adrenaline build up and give me time to think about what's about to go down.

My wife is allergic to adrenaline. Every exciting thing I like makes her want to puke.

gandrfab

That has to be worse then being narcoleptic.

Baits Out

team getterdun wrote: »

I function well if I don't have time to let the adrenaline build up and give me time to think about what's about to go down.

I call that super stress.

Like one time when my wife left in the morning to be at a business conference in Atlanta, I was cooking dinner, my son was about 7 years old when he came running into the house screaming. His left arm was at an odd angle below the elbow since he had just fallen out of the mango tree in back.

I calmly told him he had broken his arm and everything will be fine, remembered to turn-off all the cooking stuff, put him in the truck and went to the hospital ER.

After it was over and he was in a room, the attending nurse said, "You looked pale. Can I get you anything?"

I said, "Yes . . . a triple scotch."

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I look back and am sure a lot of these grey hairs are from that occurrence.

duckmanJR

If you did not handle your adrenaline response well...you would not survive a career in emergency services.
Training is key....you revert to your training before you have time to think and freak out.

It is always after the fact you realize what you did....and think " Holy crap...that could have gone bad..real bad"

SonOfAGunnin

I'm kinda jealous. Can't tell ya the last time I've had a "rush".

Sorry, Gandy.

Polar

I have armor, I am invincible. Just dont shoot me, or expect me to hit my target and we will all be fine.

fishknut

GA Fin wrote: »

I have also pulled 3 people(not counting dead folks) out of structure fires, one snake, one bird, several cats and several dogs. I was fortunate enough to be the nozzle man at the station that fought the most fire in the City Of Atlanta. When you pull up at a working fire and people are jumping up and down yelling that their baby is inside the structure you get a shot of adrenaline like you wouldn't believe.

I chuckled....

Fish Haid

Years of smoking crack and meth has dulled my senses.