How close have you been to death?

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

when i was four, i was jumping on my bed and i landed on my head, through a glass table onto the floor, cracked my head right open, and broke fingers, which left me unconsious all at once. Luckily, it was infront of my mom and grandma so they called 911
How close have you been to death?:chainsaw:

[slipknotpsycho]

right on the edge quite a few times....

slit my wirst (accidental)
attempted suicide (purposely)
car wreck at over 120 with no seat belt on and it flipped... car was totaled.

just to name a few.

[CanaDanKs Inc.]

Man, I have been very close to death, many times.

Rock climbing incidents, scuba diving incidents, car crashes, falling off buildings, playing with weapons and firearms, getting in vicious situations, etc, etc... etc.

I cherish my life a lot, but I'm the first one to say that death can happen at any time. I've seen it happen to very close relatives, and it changed the way I perceive it a lot. I also think my Guardian Angel is awesome and that he must be tired as fuck of saving my ass all the time! ;)

[VoidLivesOn]

i don't do enough crazy shit to say that i've almost died.

however i let my friend pass me out once, stupid teenager shit, and i felt like i died and came back to life. like i felt like thats what happens when you die. you zone out, everything is black and there is nothing anymore.

thats another reason i wont try heavier drugs, even shrooms. i like the shit i see in my life to be concrete and real, not all psychodelic, trippy and fake and shit.

[LIP]

Shot in the shin and the wrist, right next to the boney bit that sticks out. Wrong place at the wrong time.

As good as cut my thumb off, bled uncontrolably and refused to go to hospital, untill i started feeling light headed and realised it wasnt going to stop on it's own.

Broke my back [not close to death at all, but you CAN die from it, so it counts]


I actually try to keep out of trouble these days - i used to be a fighter, and got myself in alot of trouble - now i prefer not to get too involved. If i can avoid a fight, i will. I make sure i dont start them - because then whatever i do is completely fair.

[FUNKNUGGET]

I've been robbed at gunpoint for over $1500 in weed and cash.... BARELY got out of that one


other than that just a bunch of crazy close calls in car

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

i'd been so mad if i lost $1500 of pot:asskick:

[burnable]

I've FELT I was close to death, when in reality I wasn't at all. One time I was 18 and snowboarding and went out of bounds into a thick forest and ended up on a big clear expanse of untouched snow. I realized I was on a frozen lake and unbuckled myself and laboriously walked to the edge, when one foot quickly sunk through snow. I thought I was going into the lake, but it was just an air pocket under the snow caused by a rock that had a hollow area under it. I remember myself telling god that if he saved my life, I would consecrate the rest of my life to His service, whatever that may be. scary shit

then another time I was eating a supreme pizza from pizza hut and a piece of green pepper got stuck in my voice box. I could breathe, but every time I tried to talk it felt like I was suffocating. The gag reflex was triggered and I threw up, exacerbating the choking feeling. I had my friend call 911 and they came and were skeptical I was choking cuz I could breathe. I had the proverbial and phantasmagorical flashing of my life before my eyes on the way to the hospital, which was compounded by the fact that I ate *ahem*shrooms*ahem*. They finally called me the next day to say there was something in my voice box. Thanks doctor:rolleyes: I still enjoy the supreme from Pizza Hut:smokin:

to VoidLivesOn: Physical is the illusion. Thought is real

ps this is a cool thread:thumbsup:

[Mohksha]

When I was younger I used to collect swords and axes and stuff. Me and a friend snuck some of my kamas out of my room and stuffed them under our jackets. We took them out into the woods and cut stuff and just dicked around pretty much. Anyways, on the way home I had them both under my jacket and one of them moved so that the pointy point was against me and poking me. I went to fix it but lost my balance on my bike and crashed hardcore. I flew through the air for at least 5 seconds before hitting the ground. I remember how time slowed down and I was thinking about how playing with these things in the woods was a pretty stupid thing to get killed over. After I hit the ground, I felt all over myself thinking that surely I was impaled and dying. Luckily the kama moved and only cut a swathe through my jacket. It's weird though thinking about how slow time went. I was really sure I was dead.

[slipknotpsycho]

When I was younger I used to collect swords and axes and stuff. Me and a friend snuck some of my kamas out of my room and stuffed them under our jackets. We took them out into the woods and cut stuff and just dicked around pretty much. Anyways, on the way home I had them both under my jacket and one of them moved so that the pointy point was against me and poking me. I went to fix it but lost my balance on my bike and crashed hardcore. I flew through the air for at least 5 seconds before hitting the ground. I remember how time slowed down and I was thinking about how playing with these things in the woods was a pretty stupid thing to get killed over. After I hit the ground, I felt all over myself thinking that surely I was impaled and dying. Luckily the kama moved and only cut a swathe through my jacket. It's weird though thinking about how slow time went. I was really sure I was dead.

i had the time thing happen to me in the car wreck.... it's also the only time i've been looking straight ahead (as in i was in the back seat and i was looking forward, through the windsheiled) but i was looking at ground... if it hadn't been for the slow time and quick thinking i surely would have been really hurt... but i put one foot on each side of the floorboard (as in one foot behind the drivers seat, one behind the passanger seat) put my right hand on the ceiling and pushed, and leaned over and grabbed the seat on it's side (there as no back door or i'd of grabbed the handle you grab to close the door with) and used all my strength to hold on...

didn't get hurt at all.... but i've seen plenty of lesser wrecks where the people didn't even walk away, much less, virtually un hurt (i bruised my knees, that's it)

it's kinda cheesy, but it is exactly like you see in the matrix... except you don't move at normal speed whiel everything else slows to a crawl....

i'm still not sure how it works... but i for one do know it does happen... up to that point i never beleived anyone who said they experienced this... i thought it was just perhaps their perception of the event afterwards.. but that's not it, it happens as the event is happening...

[SantaClawz]

Misdiagnosed apendicitis. Docs told me I had a stomach virus, so stay home and relax and it will go away. So i bascially started to turn yellow and passed out and got rushed to the hospital. Where they realized that my appendix had ruptured(if you didnt know, it basically poisions you after it ruptures) a long time ago. 5 hour surgery, peices of small and large intestine removed, and 2 huge scars on my stomach. Oh and they couldnt use stiches, had to leave the wound open, so, staples...15 of them.
Thats the closest my contract has gotten to being canceled.

[blazed620]

spinal meningitus when i was two.....you know..like the ween song..lol.

[higher4hockey]

i broke C2 in seven different places. you don't get much closer than that.

[dean0000]

I got food poisoning on holiday from undercooked pork. I had severe stomach cramps, nausea, the shits, chills and halucinations for about 3 days and hardly slept because of the it. For some unknown reason my parents wouldnt pay for a doctor, which now im older I resent them for that.

Undercooked pork can be more or as deadly than chicken. Because of the conditions pigs live in the meat contains trichina worms which can cause Trichinella spiralis if not killed during cooking.

[smokerofweed420]

One time when i was three years old i was at a golf course with my dad and I really really wanted to drive the golf cart. So when he was putting I got in the drivers side of the cart and floored it and pretty soon i was going top speed on a golf cart towards a humungous cliff. Luckily my dad could run pretty fast and he grabbed me and stopped the cart before it went over the cliff.

There were a few more im sure but nothing that i can really remember too well.

[birdgirl73]

Very close. Appendicitis in my case, too, Santa Clawz. It was diagnosed correctly, but it had ruptured badly by the time they opened me up, and peritonitis set in afterwards even with appropriate surgery and antibiotic treatment. I had to have a subsequent huge surgical cleanout of my abdomen. With the peritonitis, I was put into a medically induced coma for five days, was in the ICU for nearly three weeks, had fever of 105, was septic, and had begun to show early signs of kidney and liver failure.

It was a miracle I survived. I had to. I had a husband and three-year-old child who needed me. Had I not been only 27 and fairly strong to begin with, I probably wouldn't have.

[extramadchicken]

[quote=smokerofweed420]One time when i was three years old i was at a golf course with my dad and I really really wanted to drive the golf cart. So when he was putting I got in the drivers side of the cart and floored it and pretty soon i was going top speed on a golf cart towards a humungous cliff. Luckily my dad could run pretty fast and he grabbed me and stopped the cart before it went over the cliff.

happend to me but i was eight and my dad wasnt in the cart. i floored it and hit a tree and i almost broke my neck from flying out of the seat.

[VoidLivesOn]

I remember myself telling god that if he saved my life, I would consecrate the rest of my life to His service, whatever that may be. scary shit

[/QUOTE]

did it ever occur to you that maybe you just got off the lake and didn't fall in? like maybe in some weird, crazy way walking off a frozen lake did not involve some supernatural power of a divine spirit. like god...or whatever.

[birdgirl73]

Moderating

Please keep in mind here that you need to limit your discussions of near-death adventures simply to the adventures themselves without tales of recreational substances other than cannabis when your stories involve other recreational chemicals or drugs. Had to delete a couple of posts containing stories about other substances above.

[4twentE]

My buddy flipped his car 7 or 8 times. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt so my face smashed into the dash and i broke my back

I also cashed my bike at 70 MPH the other day. Got pretty badly hurt but not really close to dying, but I could have easily been killed.

[rebgirl420]

Well, I had cancer. And it was stage 3, so I think thats a good one.

[fasterspider]

I have been dead a few times. Heroin over doses and a car crash that they said I was dead until they pulled my body from the car and I woke up and said; "I will get out of this wreck myself copper" But I could not move because my skull was fractured, my pelvis was broken in two places from the seat belt, my rib cage was caved in from the steering wheel and I had a massive concussion. I remember none of it until I woke up in agony in the hospitol.

[Chong Version 2.0]

I got in a fight with a bouncer and broke his leg. He pulled a gun out and my friend stood on his hand, preventing him from using it. I was also mugged once and the guy stabbed me above my kidney.

[maryjaNe_]

Well closest i've been is smoking way 2 much, and having a panic attack/bad trip to the point i "thought" i was gonna die hehe.

Apart from that moment, i tried teaching my sister how to swim when i was only 9 took her in the middle and just sunk trying to hold her. Lucky parents saw and pulled my out after i screamed for air.

[SantaClawz]

Very close. Appendicitis in my case, too, Santa Clawz. It was diagnosed correctly, but it had ruptured badly by the time they opened me up, and peritonitis set in afterwards even with appropriate surgery and antibiotic treatment. I had to have a subsequent huge surgical cleanout of my abdomen. With the peritonitis, I was put into a medically induced coma for five days, was in the ICU for nearly three weeks, had fever of 105, was septic, and had begun to show early signs of kidney and liver failure.

It was a miracle I survived. I had to. I had a husband and three-year-old child who needed me. Had I not been only 27 and fairly strong to begin with, I probably wouldn't have.

I was younger then that, and I recovered very quickly. They took me out of ICU quickly, mainly because I was feeling no pain. Which is probally because the pain I had before was so intense and crippling. I remember I had to literally throw myself off my couch and crawl to the bathroom. I was in the hospital for around a month and a half. Now I have horribly bad acid reflux, oh well, least im still here.

[Kai as a kite]

Wow, what a bunch of gnarly experiences. One time when I was younger, I ran my bike into someone's RV, and immediately returned home, where I thought my dad would beat my ass to death. So that was a pretty close call.

[psychocat]

Too close ,too often
Being an adrenaline junkie can easily get you killed, I've had so many close shaves.
Closest was probably when a piece of sheet steel almost severed my right hand, I was squirting blood allover the place, (it looked sort of pretty) lost so much it was touch and go for a while.
My gf gives me grief if I ride "crazy" but she isn't always on the back so who knows where the next near miss with a truck or bus will happen but I can't help myself. I have a very heavy right wrist :D:D (thats the side with the throttle) :thumbsup:

I know that most of my mates think I have a deathwish but that isn't the case , I just love feeling ALIVE !!! :cool:

[psychocat]

spinal meningitus when i was two.....you know..like the ween song..lol.


That just reminded me that I was 2 my first time, of all things it couldv'e been caused by it was a cat scratch that nearly killed me. I have no recolection of this but I remember my mother telling me years ago that I developed "Cat Scratch Fever ".

Cat-Scratch Disease -- familydoctor.org (http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy/firstaid/bites/024.html)

:D Psychocat was nearly done in by one ,,, :cool:;):D

[40oz]

I was never supposed to live longer than a week or so when i was born. The doctors would later call me a miracle baby.

[the image reaper]

near death ? ... which time ? ... :D

[xcrispi]

I've been read my Last Rites close , only 1 in 10,000 survive close .
Peace
Crispi :jointsmile:

[QUADRO]

Your right about that I'm a c3 and the doc wanted to pull the plug I got a second opinion

[thcbongman]

I almost died of cancer.

I spun out at 85MPH on a middle of a busy interstate. How I left unscathed I have no idea.

I was running across the street, and some car was a split second close to hitting me.

Well, that's my close encounters with death.

[TPot]

Me and my other cousin were playing monopoly.

I was three, and he was four. And I DOMINATE at monopoly.

Needless to say, I won. But I wouldn't be the winner for long, he decided. So he grabbed a phone (keep in mind this was 15 years ago, so not a cordless one, a BIG ASS METAL FUCKING PHONE) and proceeded to try and smash my head with it. My dad speared him and beat his ass (not really, I mean, he was only four, but when your about to smash your sons head with a big ass phone, it's what you do). Anyway, nothing more exciting that.

I guess the moral of the story would be DONT FUCK WITH ME AT MONOPOLY, OR YOU WILL GET YOUR ASS BEAT.

[Dutch Pimp]

I was scared to death once...does that count?

[the image reaper]

I was scared to death once...does that count?

it counts a lot with me, you have my thanks ... :thumbsup:

[higher4hockey]

this thread makes me wonder about all the possible times i could have been close to deaht and not even known it. for instance what if i had left five minutes earlier and had a head on collision with a mack truck...kinda makes ya wonder.....

[The Dude Of Life]

Ive had 2 close calls... one was an anaphylactic reaction to some almonds, my throat was closing up and the epinephrine wasnt working too great, i lost consciousness for a minute but i woke up and they had managed to make an airway.
Another time was in a friends car, when a stray bullet from some dispute outside a store busted a big hole in the back window, this kid got grazed by it, i guess if i had called shotgun on it im taller than the kid so i woulda been dead, maybe not but its crazy to think about.
weirdest thing was i didnt even hear the shot all i heard was a pop from the glass breaking...

[birdgirl73]

this thread makes me wonder about all the possible times i could have been close to deaht and not even known it. for instance what if i had left five minutes earlier and had a head on collision with a mack truck...kinda makes ya wonder.....
It made me wonder the same thing, too, H4H!

I also had to ponder the various times I was nearly scared to death. Those have usually been when my husband was driving . . . .

[psychocat]

I never expected to live to be as old as I am.
I realise how crazy I used to be when it came to risks, in my mind it was all great fun , I never really thought about risk. I had a few bad bike accidents but it was like I had a charmed life.
I WAS FUCKIN' INDESTRUCTIBLE !! :thumbsup:
The long term price of this is a list of broken bones that pretty much runs from my head to my toes (Fractured skull , broke my big toe playing football lol)
I guess even though I still have the urge to do crazy shit and I find it difficult to fight that urge , but these days are different because I realised how much I was upsetting the ones who love or loved me. My mother must have had thousands of nightmares about me ending up dead, girlfriends were often told to like it or lump it if they dared suggest I was selfish and crazy (I was :icon506: ).

I always said if it's going to happen it's just my life on the line, not so sure wether I believe that anymore.

[GraziLovesMary]

Too close... too many times...

[birdgirl73]

I was younger then that, and I recovered very quickly. They took me out of ICU quickly, mainly because I was feeling no pain. Which is probally because the pain I had before was so intense and crippling. I remember I had to literally throw myself off my couch and crawl to the bathroom. I was in the hospital for around a month and a half. Now I have horribly bad acid reflux, oh well, least im still here.
Yeah, if I hadn't had such a bad infection and needed the big second surgical cleanout, I'd have recovered a lot more quickly. You're right. Once you've been through that, it makes every other type of pain pale in comparison.

That's one good thing about mine. Part of what they took out with the second surgery along with sections of my gut was some of the bottom part of my stomach, so I no longer have any trouble with acid reflux at all. But I do have to watch out for food poisoning, and you probably might, too, if you ever got it. Scarred up intestines will stop moving things through and just come to a screeching halt sometimes when they encounter food-borne bacteria. I've had one subsequent trip to the hospital with a paralytic ileus (the paralyzed gut condition), and that's a near-death experience in itself. Glad you survived it, SantaClawz! Glad we both did. I had a colleague whose 22-year-old sister died of a ruptured appendix four years ago. She simply didn't go to the hospital soon enough.

[crudemood]

well once.. attempted suicide.
its weird. everything blacks out and that is the end.. but i woke up again a couple minutes later. i was so sure i had died.

[happiestmferoutthere]

As far as I know never. I've been very lucky. :jointsmile:
I'm also a huge chicken-shit and don't take too many risks.

[Delta]

One time when I was five years old I went riding big wheels with my buddy down the street. I went to the top of someones driveway that was steep so I could get some good speed. I remember going down it but then blackout. Come to find out a guy in a pick up truck didn't see me and ran over me. Not only did he run over me but my leg got caught in the fender well and he dragged me down the street and he could not hear me screaming because he had his radio cranked up real loud. Someone eventually came running out of their house and stopped the guy. I had to have reconstructive surgery on my leg and I lost alot of blood and almost died.

Another time ... ahhh damn nevermind that story is too long lol .

[tootsie roll]

Well, I had cancer. And it was stage 3, so I think thats a good one.


Stage 3 is rough. I'm so glad you are still here, beautiful and healthy!:thumbsup:

I've had one near experience when I was around 8 and dove in a pool that was shallow compared to what I was used to at our house. Fractured my neck.

The one time I did actually die was during a very rough patch in my life when many of the people I loved passed away. A parent then a boyfriend, a cousin , a 4 year old little buddy, lots of school friends and I finally just broke. When I finally came to, the heart paddles were right next to my bed. They had been used 2x.

I made it though! I am what they said I am, a survivor.:jointsmile:

[tootsie roll]

I almost died of cancer.

I spun out at 85MPH on a middle of a busy interstate. How I left unscathed I have no idea.

I was running across the street, and some car was a split second close to hitting me.

Well, that's my close encounters with death.


Wow. I almost forgot about almost being road kill once when I was little and not too bright.
I am so glad you are healthy now. I remember how bad you were feeling not so long ago.
:wave1:

[rantingsweed]

one time we were all riding bikes and everybody went across the street (intersection in a neighborhood) that had a bus route on it and i was behind them on my shitty bike and i just mobbed out past these bushes and across the street. As soon as i was starting to go out then i wasnt quite to the middle of the street but just enough to be on the other side of the bus. I barely made it across without getting hit(within a foot).

Another time i was at my moms friends house and she was babysitting us. She had 2 older sons, one being 3 or so years older so he was probably 16 at the time(her oldest son). We were playing football in the backyard and one of his friends was driving their lawn mower around and someone threw the ball crappily and i ran to grab it. After i picked it up and started standing upright i think another one of the kids pushed me or something(or it may have just been the mower) in front of the mower, but the next thing i knew i was getting ran over by the lawn mower. I only ended up with a little cut on my forehead and a couple other little cuts and bruises. Her son ran over and grabbed the back of it and lifted it up and moved it off of me. I was just completely confused and i literally saw little purplish/blueish stars floating around my head.

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

i got hit by a car today:yippee::rambo:

[happiestmferoutthere]

i got hit by a car today
:eek:
How close to death did you come??!!

[GraziLovesMary]

Me and my other cousin were playing monopoly.

I was three, and he was four. And I DOMINATE at monopoly.

Needless to say, I won. But I wouldn't be the winner for long, he decided. So he grabbed a phone (keep in mind this was 15 years ago, so not a cordless one, a BIG ASS METAL FUCKING PHONE) and proceeded to try and smash my head with it. My dad speared him and beat his ass (not really, I mean, he was only four, but when your about to smash your sons head with a big ass phone, it's what you do). Anyway, nothing more exciting that.

I guess the moral of the story would be DONT FUCK WITH ME AT MONOPOLY, OR YOU WILL GET YOUR ASS BEAT.

lol only if your dad is there to spear the next guy attempting to bash your skull in!


When I worked for Comcast, I would drive about an hour to work, early in the morning, and since I dont sleep, I would catch up on a bit of sleep while I drove to work. I cant remember if I told this story or not, but.. I woke up going uphill in the left lane. And there was a semi barrelling down towards me at about 45mph, about a second and a half away from smashing into me. So I calmly checked my blind spot and scooted back into my lane. I didnt even blink. Thats whats sad... Ive come close to death so many times and escaped, that it doesnt even phaze me. I shit you not, my heartrate didnt even raise, I checked.

Another time I was driving my little 5-speed down a twisty backroad with my friend Marky. We were coming up on a nice little left, right, S turn. As I entered the first turn, a guardrail was on my right side, and I looked ahead and noticed a F-350 barrelling around the first turn from the opposite direction. I could already tell the fucker was gonna cut the corner and end up in my lane. It took about a twentieth of a second for me to do the calculations: if I slammed on the brakes there would absolutely be a head-on collision, and there was a guardrail to the right, so I dropped down two gears and sped up so that I could make it past the guardrail and swerve off the right side of the road with about 6 inches to spare between my rear bumper and the guardrail, and another 6 inches away from colliding with that F-350. I only skirted off the road enough to not get struck, then was right back on, driving as if nothing happened. Marky and I looked at each other, shook our heads, and that was it. Didnt even say anything, didnt blink, we didnt react in any sort of manner other than for me to speed up and swerve off and on the road.

In another thread I mentioned changing lanes at 120mph... same little 5-speed Escort, I was real late for work, so I was pushin the car as much as I could, and as much as traffic would let me. Well MD Rt. 4 is a hellaciously annoying fucking road to maneuver on during rush hour, theres only two lanes, and it goes from the bottom of Maryland, straight to the White House. So... yeah. Its a well traveled road.. anyway Im always getting pissed off at the fuckers who stay in the left lane and hold up like 3000 cars behind them. In fact, we wont even get into the magnitude of hatred I have for those people. Anyway there was an asshole going 55 (which was the official speed limit, but pretty much any speed limit in Maryland, add 8-10 and thats the real observed speed limit. Ive passed cops going 65 in a 55), with like 10 cars behind him, but he was coming up to the car in the right lane going about the same speed. I wasnt waiting... I drafted the car ahead of me for a second, dropped it into 3rd, and popped into the right lane, getting up to 115-120 in a couple seconds. I was coming up to the car ahead of me pretty quickly, and the car in the left lane was closing the gap. I went all the way to the right side of the right lane, and jerked the wheel left then right as precisely as I could, skidding right between the two cars, with much less than a foot to spare on either side. My car skidded in the left lane at about a 15 degree angle for about 2 seconds, then the wheels caught and I was gone.

Too many instances... and what bothers me, is I dont even get that little rush anymore. The one you get when you know you almost died, but you survived... that surge of adrenaline that makes it worth it. Im so jaded, I am robbed of that one minor pleasure.

[Reefer Rogue]

2 times where i could have died. Praise

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

:eek:
How close to death did you come??!!
i was in a coma for like 3 hours

[rideronthestorm]

well i tend to get a little crazy with cars and i have a little bit of disposible income so having a car smashed up is still a big deal but not that big where i worry about it all the time. so i was driving my little mazda6 going like a bill 25-30 on a two lane highway and some dumb kids decide to cut across the semi ahead of me and keep in mind this only took like less then 2 seconds to happen but i was passing a car in my right lane to cut in front of it then pass the semi but they cut the semi off and it braked and i braked as fast as i could but i guess it wasn't fast enough and i slammed into the back of the semi...the only thing saving me from getting decapitated was this little guard underneath the semi. i walked away with not a whole lot of injures just some back problems. thank god for 5 point seatbelts and airbags.

i got robbed at gunpoint for a ounce. who the hell does that?

i flipped a snowmobile going 80 and somehow managed to jump off midair and just layed there for a few minutes wondering if i was hurt then when my dad walked over by me i just got up and looked around and was like wow im ok he said it looked like i planned it by the way i jumped off.


umm my friend crashed a car when i was in the passenger seat when were all drunk and otherwise messed up and running from the police into a telephone pole and hit it so hard it knocked over. again thank god for airbags and seatbelts.

oh and don't play with guns. ima leave it at that.

last one i can remember- i was goin stupid again in a audi A6 on a country road and i was going like 80 or 90 and some old lady decided when i was like a few yards away from her drive way that it was a good time to pull out in front of me while a truck was coming the other way, so i dropped down a gear and barely made it passed her while missing the truck by under a foot.

theres more...almost all of them involve cars but i can't think of em right now.

[ghosty]

When I was really little and learning how to swim I thought I could swim just fine on my own and swam away from the group when the instructors were busy. I swam out way over my head and couldn't make it back. I sunk to the bottom of the pool and was down there for a while trying to hold my breath. I was starting to black out when an instructor saw me an pulled me up.

Another time I was climbing a huge uprooted maple. and one of the branches gave out and I crashed through many branches falling. When I landed I was ok but noticed my head landed less then a foot away from a sharp broken larger branch that could have easily impaled my skull.

Another time I was driving with my freind and we were rounding the corner of an intersection and a F350 comes speeding through the intersection going about 75mph... my friend by chance...managed to stop at just the right second and we luckily only impacted against the tire of the truck as it passed... it blew out the windsheild and ripped off the bumper... a split second later it would have been my door taken out and my life.

I had an alergic reaction to an anesthetic they gave me during a procedure once.. I was told they had trouble getting me to wake up and remain conciouss and while I was awake I got violently sick and wasnt aware of what was going on, like a horrible trip.

[home.grower]

I don't know if I've almost died.. I could now be closer to death right now than I ever was and I'm just sitting here.. I've had some of the above conditions, but I cannot surely say in hind sight that I almost died; although at the time I probly felt different.

[andruejaysin]

I was in a car wreck last year. My arm went through the little vent window and car rolled over on it. It was cut off about halfway between the wrist and elbow except for the skin on one side. I was trying to keep pressure on it because when I didn't about a half a coffee cup of blood came out every time my heart beat. And we're out in the country like 15 miles from the nearest hospital and if I pass out I was gonna bleed to death for sure. I only remember parts of it, but I still have a phobia about riding with anyone.

[beedro]

When I was about 5 I went unconscious after being held underwater for too long during a stupid game we played in the pool. I was revived after about an hour or so..woke up in a chair with like 20 ppl staring at me. chlorine can give u some massive headaches

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

:Tomcat::Tomcat::Tomcat::Tomcat::Tomcat:

[thcbongman]

Wow. I almost forgot about almost being road kill once when I was little and not too bright.
I am so glad you are healthy now. I remember how bad you were feeling not so long ago.
:wave1:

Aw thanks! How ya doing? :)

I'm feeling great now! To think a year ago, I was undergoing chemotherapy *shivers* I'm glad that's all behind me!

[yoda]

1 - was sick as a baby
2 - overdose on a drug
3 - weird night that i just thought i was gonna get shot by either this crackwhore or her bf

[deadfan420]

When I was born my umbilicle cord was wrapped around my neck, choking me! Yeah, I wanted out of this world even before I came in.

Then, when I was really young I ran into a busy street for some stupid reason, and it just so happened that the car that was coming towards me was my neighbor, who happens to drive fairly slowly, so she avoided hitting me. But if I woulda gotten hit by any other car going fast, I probably woulda died.

I also smoked way too much weed for what I was used to and started having a severe panic attack that lasted several hours. I know I wasn't going to die, but I sure felt like it. I think I was laying on the bathroom floor for several hours before dragging myself downstairs. I kept throwing up and shit. Bad experience.

[psteve]

I've been shot twice, and shot at many more.
I was stabbed in the chest.
I was hit by a freight train.
I had encephalitis as a kid, and was clinically dead for almost a minute.
I rode my first bicycle into busy traffic, causing a major pile up.
I was in a near plane crash (the planes engines shut down due to a fire and we dropped 4000 feet before recovering, and making an emergency landing).
I've been in several car crashes, including a high speed rollover.
I once woke up to find a rattlesnake under my tent.
I drove a Ford Pinto in the late '70's.

[DAY-DREAMER-MAN]

holy shit man bad luck or what:chainsaw:

[sd6515]

3 months ago I went over the handlebars on my Ninja at like 110 or so when everything went wrong in an opposite banked turn in the Adirondacks. I broke my left arm in 3 places and chip a bone on my wrist dislocated my shoulder split my right knee down to the bone only needed 12 stitches and was out for like a minute or so. Not too bad though compared to other stuff on here. But after I wreck in front of 3 cars my buddies picked up my bike and pushed it down another road and waited like 45 min for our trailer to take it home. The last thing we wanted to deal with is a bunch of troopers questions and shit. And luckily no one called. I was back riding with cast and stitches about three weeks later. Good riding gear can save you the rash, I only had it on my hand and knuckles becuase as long as you live the is usually the worst part.

Glad everyone made it through everything on here though. And lets remember all those friends and family we know that didn't make it through theres. RIP

[psteve]

holy shit man bad luck or what:chainsaw:
Not really.
I'm still here right?
It just means I live an interesting life.
Things happen to me only when I'm out there doing stuff.
I know people who climb mountains, and jump out of airplanes. That's a lot more dangerous than driving across some railroad tracks, or flying on British Midlands airlines.
You only go around once, so you've got to 'go for the gusto' (I heard that in a beer commercial).

[aries ormazd]

When I was born my umbilicle cord was wrapped around my neck, choking me! Yeah, I wanted out of this world even before I came in.

Then, when I was really young I ran into a busy street for some stupid reason, and it just so happened that the car that was coming towards me was my neighbor, who happens to drive fairly slowly, so she avoided hitting me. But if I woulda gotten hit by any other car going fast, I probably woulda died.

I also smoked way too much weed for what I was used to and started having a severe panic attack that lasted several hours. I know I wasn't going to die, but I sure felt like it. I think I was laying on the bathroom floor for several hours before dragging myself downstairs. I kept throwing up and shit. Bad experience.

WHAT THE FUCK??

[aries ormazd]

Yo sorry didnt really understand what this blog was sopose to be about.. but yeah I bought this blunt that was already rolled up from this kid that didnt really like me back in the highschool days and I ended up smoking the whole blunt by myself and back then it was alot of weed just for me cause it was when I first started smoking. I guess it was laced with somting according to his friend.. Really bad trip lol...

[Chong Version 2.0]

Oh yeah, I also had a massive asthma attack when I was about 10. I used to live in Canada and my dad is a GP. He took me outside in the -25C air and my lungs opened up. He saved my life.