I pulled it out by grabbing her wrist and and forcing her back while simultaneously taking her by the neck and throwing her from wall to wall in the hallway. When we got to the bathroom door I tossed her in there and she still had the knife in her hand. :eek: I still cannot believe that I had the strength to do that, as she is about 5’7" and 135 lbs of muscular woman. She used to be a gymnast when she was younger and could still at age 42 do cartwheels and walk on her hands.
Yoiks.
Has the ex ever expressed any remorse to you? or any recognition that she has a problem with alcohol?
Have any of her friends / relatives bad-mouthed you (to your face or to others) for pressing charges?
Si Amigo,
What are your PTSD symptoms?
Do you have recurring thoughts or perceptions (smells, sounds, visuals)?
Are there now elements which create anxiety or anger? When you see someone get stabbed in a movie, does it have an effect it didn’t use to have?
How well do you take jokes about the incident? Not that anyone would blame you if you responded to jokesters with trenchant rebukes.
Si Amigo, I’ve always heard that you shouldn’t pull the knife out, because the blade itself might be all that’s preventing an artery from spewing.
Something to keep in mind for next time. 
She cried when I testified at the arrangement hearing where she was formally.charged two weeks after the incident. That was the last I heard anything about her until sentencing last week. She did not speak either time.
I have not spoken to her friends or either of her daughters since before tbe incident. They all tried to call while I was in the hospital but I did not return their messages. Her ex boyfriend tried to contact me more than anyone else but I knew he was only wanting atte tion for himself. Police told me they spoke with him and that he was full of himself.
I’d say I am more claustrophobic and do not like being confined. I think this is due more to the hospital experience more than the actual stabbing. I have no problem going to bed and walking down the hallway where I was stabbed and still like watching a good slasher movie. Can’t handle watching the new season of “The Voice” since that is what we were watching the night it happened (three DVRed episodes).
I can’t swim a lap anymore due to the feeling of not being able to breath correctly and feeling “trapped”. Sometimes I wake up at night and cannot just lay down and go back to sleep or just lay there. I actually had to go for a drive the other night at 4:30 to calm down and ended up at Denny’s; now that is scary. 
Jokes I can handle; it kills me that you even asked.
So now I have this mental image of Si Amigo with a knife jutting out of him, saying “Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up smoking.” Trying not to laugh is not helping.
PTSD is funny. I was attacked in New Orleans in 2010, and to this day I cringe when I hear someone running behind me (as my assailant did) or when I see the same black-and-white checker pattern that was on the hoodie he wore. But I’ve been to the scene where my attack took place, showed my friends and family exactly where everything went down, without being afraid at all.
I am so sorry that this happened to you, and hopefully prison will be the wakeup call she needs to get herself straightened out.
When she is out, are you going to get back together?
How long were you together before this happened? (sorry if I missed that elsewhere) Were you, you know, in love and emotionally attached? I ask because it seems like I would have a hard time with not having spoken to this person since the attack, if I were you. Like I had no closure. I would probably think about them a lot and dream about them a lot. Not like I would want to be back with them, not at ALL, but just because that was it, with no goodbyes or ending like most relationship-endings have. Does that bother you?
We were seeing each other for two years and living together for 6 months. And yes the lack of closure bothers me. I suspect we will talk sometime now since the court thing is done.
I tell pmy smoker buddies that she must have been an acupuncturist and that I quit after just one punch.
The decision was to have only one hemorrhageing wound and not several. I never did get the knife away from her.
That is true; it’s very dangerous to remove a knife from a stab wound. He’s very lucky, except for the part where he got stabbed in the first place.
Do you ever have any dreams/nightmares about the incident?
Do you ever experience any phantom and/or unexplained pain in the area?
How old are her daughters? A 42 year old could have adult daughters or toddlers or any age in between, so I am curious about their ages.
Her one daughter is 22 and just graduated from college and moved to San Diego. We had just spent a week with her in Vegas the month before. Her other daughter is 21 and was preparing to go into the army in a couple of weeks.
This whole thing is no doubt very distressing for her daughters, but I am glad to hear that they are both adults.
Yup, as, nice as it would have been to keep the knife in the wound, it would have been somewhat difficult to keep your attacker in that exact position until the EMT’s arrived. I’d say removing the knife (which allowed you to distance yourself from your attacker) was the less risky proposition.
This one is not pointless either, in fact the knife has a sharp point. :dubious:
Si,
What did you do with all of her stuff? Leave it where it was, boxed up in a corner, or out of the house?