How Close Have You Come to Death?

[TinyEvel]

Spinning off the car surfing teen thread...

What’s your story of the closest you’ve come to dieing?

Between all of us I’m sure there’s a decent mix from Darwin-award candidate behavior to emergency quadruple bypass patients.

Also: take a moment to be grateful to be alive. Every day is a gift.

[scho63]

2006 I would up in the hospital after a horrific event and the doctor said I was very lucky to be alive. Worst period of my life.

I prefer not to elaborate.....

[tooge]

Originally Posted by loochy

What you neglect to mention is that you instigated the whole thing by choking that guy out at a little league baseball game.

LOL. But no.

[ChiefsHawk]

Originally Posted by TinyEvel

Wow. Did you fully recover? While technically dead did you have any tunnel of light experience?

I'm a C5 quad but living. No noticeable brain damage lol. Nope not that a i can recall

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by ChiefsHawk

I'm a C5 quad but living. No noticeable brain damage lol. Nope not that a i can recall

All the best.

Yeah,I guess I’m the opposite. Caught up to me recently and while every joint has orthopedic shrapnel and cadaver or other non original components, I am now damaged neurologically. Similar to Tim Green (https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/67569...w-opponent-als )
I have devolved into a science experiment for neurologists.

As an old guy, I think about you and guys like you that got damaged young.

[saphojunkie]

I was surfing in Mexico, wiped out, broke rips, punctured lung. We were gonna try to make it over the border to San Diego, and I would have died waiting to cross. Had about 15 minutes to go when I got to the ER, according to the doctor. I'm only recently realizing that I have some trauma-related depression/fear from that.

[Pepe Silvia]

I almost drowned in 1990 and I almost died in a car wreck in 2002.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Coyote

Man, you were a magnet. Thanks for self identifying cause the frag pattern of you is likely dangerous.
I could relate to the kid and cottonmouth (as we called them) story.

There was a lot of collateral damage around me as a kid and young adult inflicted upon other people who were guilty of listening to my stupidly ****ing dangerous ideas. The kid I was playing with when we got chased by that snake actually dropped a log of shit in his jeans though. It rolled out of his pants cuff when we were walking home.

[stumppy]

Also, I used to weld rail for several railroads across the country. Had a few close calls. The worst was when a chain broke while lifting a 2000 lb piece of equipment. It dropped from about 15 foot up and landed about 5 foot from me.

[listopencil]

Have any of you ever used Google Earth to go look at the locations of these incidents? I have because a lot of them happened a long time ago. Hundreds, even thousands of miles from where I now live. I just looked up where I was chased by that snake and it doesn't look much different than it was back in the early 70's when it happened.

[Coyote]

Originally Posted by listopencil

Have any of you ever used Google Earth to go look at the locations of these incidents? I have because a lot of them happened a long time ago. Hundreds, even thousands of miles from where I now live. I just looked up where I was chased by that snake and it doesn't look much different than it was back in the early 70's when it happened.

Bet the snake’s telling his buddy the same now except bragging about the time he chased a kid and the kid’s buddy shit himself.

[Otter]

Went over a water fall in my kayak and wound up ass up and head down with the grab loop tucked underneath the skirt and woke up the color blue/grey skin while getting CPR according to bystanders.

Never again forgot to make sure the grab loop was front and center.

[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.

[jimidollar]

Just once in a traffic collision. March 18, 2005 I believe. I think it's the same date that KU lost to Bucknell. Almost did me in.

[ROYC75]

1st - I was in a wave pool in So. Indiana, I was in about 3/4 deep end where the water pick smaller people up. Well, it did this, it took a guy smaller than me and he rode the wave right towards me. I had just went under the previous wave after my knee locking up and then popping free and had no clue I was right in line for a head on collision. Just as I came up, there he was out of control, BOOM, head to head. I take the full force of him being hurled around by the wave. For a second, I saw stars, I let out a yell from the collision ( pain ) & then I took a big drink. I was gasping for air after chocking down water, all the while trying to breath, regain myself upright, getting knocked over again, taking in more water, and of course,1 more time, taking in water. That's it, I thought I was going to die, I'm done, I'm gone. Another guy saw the hit to my head and then going down by the waves, he grabbed me and got me back up where I could breath again. He helped me back to swallow waters where I could stand on my own. But I was still heaving, gasping for air from the water. I went straight to dry ground, screw this, I was in no shape to stay in that damn thing. Damn, it took me another 15 minutes to recover myself back to normal. A wave pool is great fun until 1/2 way in where some people get tossed around. You gotta watch out for that shit!

2nd - This damn infection I'm fighting now, just last year that 1st time dealing with it. When they sent me home and I lost site of the world for a week. The doc's gave me a 20% chance to live,scaring the hell out of the family in June of last year.

[Perineum Ripper]

2007 I was blown from the gunners hatch through a wall from an IED blast. ****ed my shoulder up, broke a few ribs, broke my ankle, some shrapnel wounds.

Couple years later, I caught six AK rounds to my chest plate that is designed to take 3 before not being worth a shit. Also had a few sniper shots pass close enough to my head to feel the heat and pressure from the rounds on my face.

Couple years later, survived a helicopter smashing into the ground like a lawn dart. Broken back from that.

Couple of years later, was blown off the side of a mountain from an RPG, during an ambush. Ended up with broken bones, blown out knee and few other things. That lead to my retirement.

I miss the **** out of my old job.