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[–] MaliciousCarrot 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I nearly choked to death when I somehow got a light cord tied around my neck. It was pretty funny, thinking about it now.

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[–] 2494906? ago 

My heart stopped for about 5 seconds while getting a colonoscopy....

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[–] UncontrollableSphere 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Mine was an everyday sort of thing.

Was out shopping. Jaywalked through stopped traffic on one side of the road, and only looked in the oncoming direction on the other side. Turns out a guy was going 80kph in the wrong lane and missed me by an inch or two. The only reason he didn't hit me is because another car saw him coming and slammed on the horn, and that stopped me in my tracks.

Now I look both ways, all the time.

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[–] 100011 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I was 17 at the time driving a 1984 Honda civic with no airbags and got hit head on. On a slick road by a Pickup Truck it broke my collar bone mess up my shoulder and my knees and i got 20 stitches in my face by my left eye . You know what they say what doesn't kill you makes you weaker .

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[–] Fairle 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wow, I have a lot of these. Haha. I guess I tell the scariest one.

I don't remember my exact age, but I was small. Probably around 8 or 9. My family used to be big into tubing and we went to a river where a wall had been built with a small opening on the side that tubers could ride down like a small water ride. It spat you out pretty roughly onto the other side (which was pretty deep, maybe 10 feet or so). Nothing about it was particularly dangerous...unless your were tiny and got caught underneath the undertow (that's probably not the correct term, the current coming from the opening was extremely strong and went all the way to the other side of the river).

I had never tubed alone before, always in someone's lap, so I begged my mother to allow me to go by myself. I was given a tube that in hindsight had been to big and too thin to really hold me in, so right as I hit the bottom of the slide I flipped and was pushed to the bottom of the river. I remember hitting my head on rocks and blacking out. When I came to, the undertow had me pinned down and I felt like I was doing somersaults. I tried swimming but that only made me lose my bearing of what was up or down and I kept crashing into rocks on to bottom of the river. I remember my only thoughts being "I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die" like a page of script on a screen. I relaxed and eventually could tell I was floating up. I bumped my head against something soft, then a hand grabbed the back of my suit and hoisted me up. I had come up underneath some random guy and I could hear my mother on the other side screaming and screaming. The guy held onto me until a cousin who had dove in swam up to us, grabbed me and took me to shore.

It must have not phased me all that much since I never tubed in anyone's lap again after that.

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[–] Reow [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I tried swimming but that only made me lose my bearing of what was up or down and I kept crashing into rocks on to bottom of the river.

This was one of the things I really remember / relate to, from when I almost drowned in the ocean after being caught in a rip. As I was swimming back to shore, I had waves crash on me and push me under, and I felt like I was in one of those front-load washing machines (being somersaulted repeatedly). When it first happened, I tried to swim to the surface and found I was swimming to the seabed instead. After that when it happened again, I just held my breath, relaxed, and went with it. That also sucked somewhat, because there was an undercurrent and I got dragged out more. I was eventually lucky enough to get a series of clean breaks and learn when to exert effort and when not to.

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[–] Fairle 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The ocean terrifies me. There's some small sense of control for me in a river...but not any in an ocean. Reading that was scary.

How far out did it end up taking you?

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[–] G4 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I tried to hang myself when I was 12, so probably that

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[–] Lobotomy ago 

Brandon Crisp?

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[–] piratse 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I was about 17 and got a major infection. I didn't know it at the time, obviously. I was at my best friends house in the summer (Texas) just chilling and playing video game but I was extremely cold. I thought his mom had the A/C on full blast. So I throw a blanket on and I'm SHAKING. I felt like I was in the snow with just shorts on. I suddenly got tired and laid in his bed while shivering my ass off and sweating. It was about 20 minutes and I decided I was getting worse (it happened so fast), I decided to drive to the local clinic. We lived in a town with about 2k people and we had a clinic and a small hospital. Two of my friends parents were the doctors for these places so I went to the clinic looking for Dr. Q. I went to the receptionist, still sweating and fucking freezing like I was sitting in an ice bath. I asked for a water fountain and went for a drink. I remember leaning over to drink then BAM I black out. The next thing I remember I was in an ambulance heading to the hospital. When I got there they put me in a little waiting room (with one of those tables with the shitty butcher paper on it) and I blacked out THREE more times. Again this was a small hospital with ONE doctor on duty, so I don't blame them, they had a lot going on. The BEST part IMO is this. I kept passing out on this table and waking up confused and sweating. The second time I wake up and I hear this sweet little black lady in the room next to me (they were curtain "rooms" not walled off) literally say "ohhhh I think I shit myself." I was very weak at this point and I let out a "HA" and passed out one more time. I woke up with my friends dad in my face and I was sitting in a wheel chair. They took me to get some xrays and run test. I could barely feel my legs at this point, they didn't feel numb it just felt like they weren't there. They helped me stand for an xray and I vomited stomach acid all over the floor. I was in the hospital for a few weeks trying to recover. I couldn't use my legs for about 2 weeks, I had to be showered by my other friends mom (she was a nurse). And no, it wasn't sexy because I was fucking miserable. I had to piss and shit laying in bed, and it burned like 1000 knives that were on fire, crafted by Satan himself, when I urinated. It was so bad I almost passed out from the pain. I would try to avoid pissing as much as possible. I made a full recovery, but holy shit it was scary. This is an "I almost died" story because the infection was so bad if I had not gone to the Hospital that day I likely would have died (according to my doctor).

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[–] thuvia_1 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

two years ago i cracked a molar. three days later i was in the hospital with a gigantic abscess that made the entire right side of my face swell up monstrously and a 102* fever. i got intravenous antibiotics and copious amounts of morphine. the dental surgeon who treated me told me that 150 years ago i would have been dead. i wanted to be dead, that was the absolute worst pain i have ever been in.

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