Ever almost lost your life?....

[peterv20]

now that i think about it..when i was 16 i was stung by a bee and almost died.i had to take a bunch of shots.now all i have to do is wait for the next bee.....

[literature]

I almost died in a car accident once. Stupid SUV. Well, after that I remember being in bed not being able to move for several months...gosh it was something...but I guess all happens for good...maybe...hmmm

[Blackmariah]

I had a really bad reaction to some medicine when I was young, almost had a delivery truck run into the bus I was riding, and almost drowned once, that's as close to dying as I've ever come. I don't remember the first incident, but the other 2 were scary enough.

[KeiOfTheWired]

A T.V. fell on me when I was three, I cut my head open by slipping on a wet floor and hitting my head against the wall's edge, and I'm close to ending up in a car crash every day because the people here don't know how to drive (-___-)**
Oh, and I threw myself down a flight of stairs wearing only a helmet when I was five or six... don't ask me why... (^/////^);;

[wilsontheterrible]

I almost got mulched doing some landscaping work. We were clearing out a forested area for land development and were using brush chippers so that we could sell the wood chips. Well, while guiding one of the trunks into the chipper the crane arm hiccuped and I was knocked into the chute. I managed to wedge myself inside of the opening to keep myself from falling all the way in but if it weren't for my boss, who had seen the event take place, the crane opperator would have dropped the tree on top of me. Had that happened the result would be something like throwing a slab of meat into a blender and hitting Purée.

My escape from the chipper was followed by a cussing rant that would make a sailor blush. There was much joking and laughter.

Oh and there was the time I had my skull fractured by a baseball bat but that wasn't really life threatening. Just messy.

[Nyororin]

Yes, yes I have.
About halfway through pregnancy, the placenta shut down and drained deteriorating material into my blood stream, causing my kidneys and liver to fail, and then my heart to go into panic mode and shoot my blood pressure through the roof. (I normally have low blood pressure, so it was very shocking.)

I ended up going to the hospital for something I thought would be minor, and being in surgery within a few hours. Had I not had the baby removed, and the placenta scraped out, I would have died within 24 hours. Great fun trying to write up a will as the doctors tell you the chances at the side of the bed...

I cannot have IV due to a circulation system disorder, which made things all that much harder as there was no way to give antibiotics except by mouth - and the doctors didn`t think they`d be effective enough.

The worst part of it was being awake and feeling relatively alright, but having my husband break down at the bedside... And then being taken by ambulance to a larger hospital with a better ICU, and then being wheeled directly into surgery before he even arrived - and thinking that I`d never be able to see him again.

Yeah, it sucked.

[TalnSG]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Yes, yes I have.
The worst part of it was being awake and feeling relatively alright, but having my husband break down at the bedside... And then being taken by ambulance to a larger hospital with a better ICU, and then being wheeled directly into surgery before he even arrived - and thinking that I`d never be able to see him again.

Yeah, it sucked.

At least with my ex-husband he provided a bit of comic relief for me at the worst of it. He arrived at the hospital room just as they were trying to do a blood test. He stepped in the doorway, and knowing what to expect, I shouted "grab him!". The doctors all turned around just in time have him crumple to the floor. He had no pain tolerance and passed out almost at the mention of blood.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by TalnSG

At least with my ex-husband he provided a bit of comic relief for me at the worst of it. He arrived at the hospital room just as they were trying to do a blood test. He stepped in the doorway, and knowing what to expect, I shouted "grab him!". The doctors all turned around just in time have him crumple to the floor. He had no pain tolerance and passed out almost at the mention of blood.

I have panic attacks when I think of IVs, even to this day, as they decided that past experience wasn`t enough to rule them out... And spent an hour trying to put one in. I don`t think I`ve ever experienced anything so painful in all my life. Being cut open and not having any pain meds afterward? That sucked, but can`t hold a candle to being held down while the doctors searched under my skin for somewhere that would hold an IV.

After all the drama though - I woke up in a private room and my first thoughts were "Oh my god - how much is this going to cost...?"

[loversandhaters]

Wow, all you people have the most scary stories ever! : O
I did almost lose my life once and be warned, it's an incredible stupid story! xD

I was at my parents place, where I was on the point of taking a bath. (I don't have a bath at home so I do that often when I'm at my parents.)
I had just filled the tub and undressed and stood with my foot lifted to enter the tub, when the window above the tub came falling down. The whole freakin' window came falling down.
It's a window about as large as the tub itself and weights about 600 kilograms. (No kidding.) It fell on the tub and closed it off completely, if it would have fallen down half a minute later I would either have broken my neck and drowned then, or just have drowned. My parents didn't hear a single thing.

Later turned out that the cleaning woman had cleaned the window, but not attached it to the window frame again. Probably the change of air because I had filled the tub, had made the window fall down. It costed a fair amount of money to fix the window again, it was completely broke.

I was shaken the whole day, it felt so stupid to almost get killed by a tub. xD I was like, wow, it really can be over at a minute.

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by loversandhaters

Wow, all you people have the most scary stories ever! : O
I did almost lose my life once and be warned, it's an incredible stupid story! xD

I was at my parents place, where I was on the point of taking a bath. (I don't have a bath at home so I do that often when I'm at my parents.)
I had just filled the tub and undressed and stood with my foot lifted to enter the tub, when the window above the tub came falling down. The whole freakin' window came falling down.
It's a window about as large as the tub itself and weights about 600 kilograms. (No kidding.) It fell on the tub and closed it off completely, if it would have fallen down half a minute later I would either have broken my neck and drowned then, or just have drowned. My parents didn't hear a single thing.

Later turned out that the cleaning woman had cleaned the window, but not attached it to the window frame again. Probably the change of air because I had filled the tub, had made the window fall down. It costed a fair amount of money to fix the window again, it was completely broke.

I was shaken the whole day, it felt so stupid to almost get killed by a tub. xD I was like, wow, it really can be over at a minute.

Heh incredible.

Glad you're fine.