How Close Have You Come to Death?

[mdchiefsfan]

I think the truly frightening thing is most of us probably don’t even know the true answer to this question.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by mdchiefsfan

I think the truly frightening thing is most of us probably don’t even know the true answer to this question.

Absolutely agree with this.

Also to all the military responding to this thread....

THANK YOU.

[Naptown Chief]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

Absolutely agree with this.

Also to all the military responding to this thread....

THANK YOU.

Truth. Thanks gents and ladies

[Naptown Chief]

Originally Posted by mdchiefsfan

I think the truly frightening thing is most of us probably don’t even know the true answer to this question.

No kidding.

[lewdog]

Bored to death reading most DeBerg threads.

[Fire Me Boy!]

In 1995, flipped my car end over end, with a roll at the end. Came away with a few scratches.

In 2014, double pneumonia and renal failure. Blood O2 in the 50s. Eight days in ICU.

[Kman34]

I was pretty close in 93, 97, and 14.. but Mahomes give me something to live for..

[Buehler445]

The summer before I took off for college I had my wisdom teeth out. I had taken my moms suburban to town to get some groceries for her. I was turning off the highway towards my house. I had stopped to wait for a car to pass and there was a pickup behind me. A truck decided to pass. I didn’t see it, but the kid in the pickup behind me said the car had to take the ditch. As I started the turn, right before the impact I started to hear the tires screeching from the semi jackknifing then boom. The truck hit the suburban right above the back wheel. I’m guessing he was going 50ish when he hit me. All that happened to me was I hit my head on the corner post (looking back I had a pretty solid concussion).

If he’s have hit any farther forward on the car I get to eat the semi and the car doesn’t spin around. I was probably less than a foot from dead.

Still sucked less than the Wisdom teeth.

[stumppy]

I can think of a few times at least. One from some mother****er dropping a rock from and overpass and hitting the roof of my car right above my head. Was going about 60 mph. Another, came inches away from being smashed under a big CAT bulldozer. And one from a bad drowning situation involving a couple little girls and their dad(RIP).

[MahiMike]

Almost died river rafting when I got stuck in a hydraulic. My son had just been born and I had recently gotten life insurance. I remember looking up to the surface thinking, "cash the check honey". Was down for a long time before I went down and swam out.

[InChiefsHeaven]

Originally Posted by MahiMike

Almost died river rafting when I got stuck in a hydraulic. My son had just been born and I had recently gotten life insurance. I remember looking up to the surface thinking, "cash the check honey". Was down for a long time before I went down and swam out.

Wow. I almost drowned when I was like 15 years old. My dad, me and my brother went canoeing on the Niobrara river in north central Nebraska. I had decided on the last day to try tubing on the rapids at the end of the two day run. It looked like a water slide to me, in fact I saw some kid go before me and he wiped out and popped up laughing on the other side...so I figured why not?

I was sitting on the edge of the tube trying to navigate a bit before hitting the rapids, and I pushed off a boulder...and the tube shot out behind me and I was standing belly deep in the river, which was just starting to pick up speed. I remember feeling the unrelenting and un-conquerable strength of the current...I was going over and there was nothing I could do about it...it sucked me under feet first, I think I hit my head on a boulder, then I got launched over the short falls at the end of the rapids and when I went under, I was in the "washing machine". I remember the stones on the river bottom were really smooth, and I remember thinking briefly "it's quiet...this ain't so bad..." then by some miracle the river spit me out and all this water came out of my lungs and they were burning...and my next thought was "No no, I want to live..."

I remember my dad running along the river yelling at me to try to stand up, but I had lost feeling in my legs and thought "Oh shit, now I'm paralyzed"...but then they started to work and I slogged my way to the shore. My dad was beside himself and yelling at me (which I understand, that's what he did when he was scared shitless). We rested for a minute, got in the car and drove home.

Crazy 30 seconds in my life that I'll never forget.

[MahiMike]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

Wow. I almost drowned when I was like 15 years old. My dad, me and my brother went canoeing on the Niobrara river in north central Nebraska. I had decided on the last day to try tubing on the rapids at the end of the two day run. It looked like a water slide to me, in fact I saw some kid go before me and he wiped out and popped up laughing on the other side...so I figured why not?

I was sitting on the edge of the tube trying to navigate a bit before hitting the rapids, and I pushed off a boulder...and the tube shot out behind me and I was standing belly deep in the river, which was just starting to pick up speed. I remember feeling the unrelenting and un-conquerable strength of the current...I was going over and there was nothing I could do about it...it sucked me under feet first, I think I hit my head on a boulder, then I got launched over the short falls at the end of the rapids and when I went under, I was in the "washing machine". I remember the stones on the river bottom were really smooth, and I remember thinking briefly "it's quiet...this ain't so bad..." then by some miracle the river spit me out and all this water came out of my lungs and they were burning...and my next thought was "No no, I want to live..."

I remember my dad running along the river yelling at me to try to stand up, but I had lost feeling in my legs and thought "Oh shit, now I'm paralyzed"...but then they started to work and I slogged my way to the shore. My dad was beside himself and yelling at me (which I understand, that's what he did when he was scared shitless). We rested for a minute, got in the car and drove home.

Crazy 30 seconds in my life that I'll never forget.

Wow yeah the power of the water is incredible. Funny thing in my story was there was a rescue raft waiting for me when I finally came up and they paddled too fast to me and sent me back down again. By this time though I had figured out how to get out. They say you are better off without the life jacket cause it pushes you up straight into the hydraulic. Better to swim along the bottom till it's not so strong.

[loochy]

I had hyperkalemia once that I caught purely by accident since it was time for annual bloodwork.

Other than that...I dunno . I got tren cough once and I wasn't prepared for it. I thought I was going to die for about 5 minutes until I figured out what it was.

[luv]

Double pneumonia when I was 2.

[Naptown Chief]

Originally Posted by luv

Double pneumonia when I was 2.

I've had pneumonia a few times, as well as bronchitis, pluerisy, and God knows how many respiratory infections. That stuff sucks man..