How close have you been to death?

[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.