How Close Have You Come to Death?

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by burt

Congratulations???

Yes it is a good thing.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

Nice.

[ROYC75]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I was at a bar with a couple of friends. A guy jumps me from behind. I flipped him off on to the floor. I landed 1 good shot before I felt this pain in my leg ass area. I got one more in and I felt that pain in my ribs and I couldn't breathe. Dude stabbed me on the inside of my thigh and in my left rib cage which punctured my lung. I had to have surgery to repair my saphenous vein which included a transfusion. They put a chest tube in to hold the sack around my lung open where my lung could still operate properly. After 2 days they went in my back and scraped my chest cavity with a laser. It created scar tissue to hold the sack around that lung open so it could not collapse because of the size of the hole.
A little over 4 months later I am over at my girl friends house we are being intimate. All the sudden I hear click click. It scared me and as I turned dude shot me. A graze if you will. It sure bled like It did some real damage. Dude stood there and told me "The knife didn't work but this will!" She whacked him from behind with a flashlight and took the gun from him.
She was trying to get divorced from this dude. I had no idea she was married. Well he went to prison and she got divorced.
We met up again a little over a year later, dated for a year, got married and now are in the home stretch of getting a divorce.

Is your 1st name Lucky?

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by ROYC75

Is your 1st name Lucky?

I'd wager on it being a compound name like Carl Ray or Bad Judgement.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I'd wager on it being a compound name like Carl Ray or Bad Judgement.

No compound just a standard English first and middle names with a standard Scottish surname.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

No compound just a standard English first and middle names with a standard Scottish surname.

Abdul Muhammad MacTavish?

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by ROYC75

Is your 1st name Lucky?

No but I definitely had someone looking out for me.

[Buehler445]

Jesus. Some of you guys are ****ing nuts.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Jesus. Some of you guys are ****ing nuts.

It looks like 50% of us on here were lucky to make it past 25.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Jesus. Some of you guys are ****ing nuts.

Right?

I have motorcycle wrecks and falling asleep at the wheel and dodging lunatics on the road kind of stories and Imma just keep those in my pocket.

Because some of y'all have seen some shit.

Damn.

[stumppy]

Another time I was 19 and in Vermont, on a rail welding contract. Just finished a major portion of the contract and went to a local bar with my boss and coworker. Got pretty loaded on beer and shots of ouzo. At closing time I got into it with a local out in the parking lot. At some point he got ahold of a broken beer bottle. I swung on him pretty hard and he swung that bottle to block it. I felt something then when I stepped back something squirted me in the face, then it happened again. Thats when I noticed the stream of blood squirting out of my wrist. Lucky for me my coworker used to be an EMT. He ran up to me, pulled his shirt off and tied it around my wrist and held it there..
We hopped into my boss's truck and headed to the only hospital we knew about, flashers on and hauling ass. On the way there was this car with a couple guys and their dates in front of us.. They thought it would be funny to go real slow and not let us by. When we came up to a stop light my boss and coworker hopped out, ran up to the car, one on each side and leaned in and punched the shit out of them. They then let us pass.
We didn't know the hospital we were headed to didn't have an emergency room. By the time we figured that out and got directions to the other hospital I had been bleeding quite a bit. I passed out before we got there. The next thing I knew I was in a hell of a lot of pain and came to. I was in surgery and there were a few hemostats/clamps sticking in my wrist and a surgeon sewing something up. I was yelling for some anestesia then I passed out again. Turns out my BAC was so high they wouldn't give me any.
It turns out I'd cut an artery and two veins and lucky to be alive.

[rydogg58]

Back in 1994 or so, I was a student at SMSU. Some of the guys on my floor were doing these medical studies and making good cash. Since I was a broke ass college student, I decided to try it. Basically, you went to the facility on Friday night, woke up at 6 am to take the drug, and you had your blood drawn every hour or so until Monday morning when they released you.

First study I did was a new antihistamine pill. The study lasted about 5 weekends. Went in Friday night, played SNES, did homework and watched tv. It was boring but I got about 2 grand for basically doing jack shit.

Fast forward a couple weeks later, I get a call from the place asking if I wanted to participate in the same antihistamine study again. Hell yes I do! So, the next Friday night my roommate and I both show up expecting everything to be the same. Which it was. Saturday morning at 6, we all get up, take the pill, get out blood drawn, grab some breakast, and go sit in the common room to watch some TV.

30 minutes after I had taken the pill I was sitting in a recliner watching the TV and I noticed I was having a hard time focusing on the screen. I then notice it wasnt just the tv I was having trouble focusing on, it was everything in the room. My breathing wass off, I could feel tingling all over my body, and my chest felt like it was beng crushed. I stood up and the last thing I remember was, "why am I staring at the ceiling lights??"

I woke up a short time later from the most excrutiating, searing, terrible pain in my chest. I was on a bed, stripped down to my boxers with shit sticking out of the veins in my arms, and chest. I look around and there was some guy screaming at me from above, holding the shock paddles in both of his hands. Everybody was asking me how I felt, and all I could think of was, "what the **** just happened to me?"

Ambulance arrived and took me over to Cox South where I spent the day in ICU. Turns out I had several "cardiac arrest" situations and they had to bring me back with the shock paddles, which was the horrible pain I had experienced. The next morning I see some more doctors and went over some of the tests. It was then that I found out I am really, really, horribly allergic to antihistamine.

The medical experiment place was more than happy to cut me a check for double the amount I would have received for the whole study as long as I signed a waiver saying I would not sue. When I asked them why this shit didn't happen the first time I went through the study they said it was because the first time I was in the placebo group, this time I just got unlucky enough to get the real thing.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by rydogg58

Back in 1994 or so, I was a student at SMSU. Some of the guys on my floor were doing these medical studies and making good cash. Since I was a broke ass college student, I decided to try it. Basically, you went to the facility on Friday night, woke up at 6 am to take the drug, and you had your blood drawn every hour or so until Monday morning when they released you.

First study I did was a new antihistamine pill. The study lasted about 5 weekends. Went in Friday night, played SNES, did homework and watched tv. It was boring but I got about 2 grand for basically doing jack shit.

Fast forward a couple weeks later, I get a call from the place asking if I wanted to participate in the same antihistamine study again. Hell yes I do! So, the next Friday night my roommate and I both show up expecting everything to be the same. Which it was. Saturday morning at 6, we all get up, take the pill, get out blood drawn, grab some breakast, and go sit in the common room to watch some TV.

30 minutes after I had taken the pill I was sitting in a recliner watching the TV and I noticed I was having a hard time focusing on the screen. I then notice it wasnt just the tv I was having trouble focusing on, it was everything in the room. My breathing wass off, I could feel tingling all over my body, and my chest felt like it was beng crushed. I stood up and the last thing I remember was, "why am I staring at the ceiling lights??"

I woke up a short time later from the most excrutiating, searing, terrible pain in my chest. I was on a bed, stripped down to my boxers with shit sticking out of the veins in my arms, and chest. I look around and there was some guy screaming at me from above, holding the shock paddles in both of his hands. Everybody was asking me how I felt, and all I could think of was, "what the **** just happened to me?"

Ambulance arrived and took me over to Cox South where I spent the day in ICU. Turns out I had several "cardiac arrest" situations and they had to bring me back with the shock paddles, which was the horrible pain I had experienced. The next morning I see some more doctors and went over some of the tests. It was then that I found out I am really, really, horribly allergic to antihistamine.

The medical experiment place was more than happy to cut me a check for double the amount I would have received for the whole study as long as I signed a waiver saying I would not sue. When I asked them why this shit didn't happen the first time I went through the study they said it was because the first time I was in the placebo group, this time I just got unlucky enough to get the real thing.

Sounds like terfenadine.

[BWillie]

Twice.

Once when I was a little kid, I was dumb and thought it would be a rush to climb a tree that overhanged over a 150 foot - 200 foot gulley into sharp rocks. I was almost to the top of the tree when the branch broke and I came tumbling down the tree, through branches. I got almost to the last branch and I managed to grab it without falling to my death.

Second time I was going to a girlfriends house who lived in the country. Pitch black. No lights. One lane in each direction road and some dumb mother ****er was driving on the wrong side of the road, without lights, in the dark. I have no clue how I managed to avoid him but I swerved onto the shoulder, my car was 80% off the road at an angle, fish tailing back and forth and I ended up unscathed.

[Shaid]

hmm, there's a few. I'll give one.

TLDR version - almost got ejected from my car and thrown over a cliff to my death.

Full version

It was a car accident when I was about a week out of basic/AIT. Got home and was driving from Beach, ND to Medora, small town in the Badlands. If you know the badlands, it's basically just buttes, ravines, etc. for miles and miles. I was on Old Highway 10(yep, that's the name) because I had picked up my buddy who lives on that road. I hadn't been on that road for a good year at least. I knew a turn was coming up so I was keeping my eyes open for the sign showing a bend in the road. It essentially is a 90 degree turn, should really have one of those 35 mph signs or something. It was a rainy morning. Just as I came over a hill, there was the turn, the sign showing a bend in the road was actually halfway through the bend rather than beforehand. I tried to slow down for the turn but hydro-planed and went right over the edge into the wet grass. There was about 50 feet between me and a ravine and there were 2 trees. I hit one tree with the side of the car and ricocheted off it to hit the other tree dead in the center of my grill, right at the edge of the cliff.

My brother was in the front seat with me, my buddy in the back. He had reached forward to try and grab my brother since none of us were wearing seatbelts. When it was all said and done, there were 2 big bulges in the windshield where my brother and my heads hit it, thankfully we didn't get ejected. My brother had a concussion and a bunch of cuts. I had bent the steering wheel forward with my chest and had broken my arm in multiple spots. I also had a bad concussion. My buddy told me I had gotten out of the car and was holding my wrist saying I thought I broke my ankle. My buddy had fractured a vertebrae in his back. A truck driver picked us up and dropped us off at the Medora exit(don't think he wanted to get involved in the crap of dealing with an accident). My buddy's dad was actually going to work and saw us walking towards Medora and picked us up. I don't remember any of it except once we got to town and were waiting on the ambulance. My brother was going into shock and I calmed him down and told him he was ok and only had a couple cuts and we were all going to be fine. I then walked around the corner so he couldn't see me collapse and pass out. We all lived, car was totaled.