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Initech

(100,028 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 05:06 PM Mar 2013

Cue Seth MacFarlane: Medic treating wounded British soldier gets asked to "show her boobs"

Last edited Tue Mar 26, 2013, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)

War hero in boobs flash plea

A WOUNDED squaddie who had just lost both legs in a Taliban bomb blast begged a medic to show him her boobs — to help relieve his agony.

Private Emily Tomkins refused, but saved his life earning a bravery award for her heroics in Helmand, Afghanistan.

Emily, 21, initially gave the man a shot of morphine, but explained she could not risk giving any more despite his agony.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/4855669/War-hero-in-boobs-flash-plea-to-brave-medic-trying-to-save-him.html#ixzz2OgMPirNv


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Cue Seth MacFarlane: Medic treating wounded British soldier gets asked to "show her boobs" (Original Post) Initech Mar 2013 OP
Guy just had his legs blown off, do you think he might have been in a state of shock? Old and In the Way Mar 2013 #1
That is a good point. Initech Mar 2013 #2
Wrong headline. He was a British squaddie or soldier. AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 #3
Fixed. Initech Mar 2013 #4

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
1. Guy just had his legs blown off, do you think he might have been in a state of shock?
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 05:44 PM
Mar 2013

I can imagine he might have been thinking that he was probably going to bleed out and perhaps he wanted to have one last pleasurable memory before he winked out.

Initech

(100,028 posts)
2. That is a good point.
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 05:47 PM
Mar 2013

I can't imagine what it would be like to be in that situation but I'd at least want a decent ending if that were the case!

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