[–] MaliciousCarrot 0 points 1 point 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.
[–] 100011 0 points 1 point 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 .
[–] Fuckmesilly ago
I have Crohn's Disease and got really sick last year. I was bedridden for five months, unbearable pain, bleeding every day, losing about 5 lbs a week after it got bad. Luckily I convinced my parents to let me buy some weed to make brownies; it didn't heal me but I stopped the weight loss with what little I had until I got real medicine. I was down to 114 (and dropping) at 5'10" before I got it.
[–] reed 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
One of many artillery attacks I went through during my first deployment.
One night, me and a buddy were tossing a bunch of shit over the side and out the back of our platoon's deuce and a half, into the burn pit at FOB Sykes, which was positioned right on the perimeter of the base. In the middle of this, we both heard a pop pop pop from off in the distance, outside the wire. We both stopped what we were doing immediately and stared at each other for a second with an oh shit look on our faces. Then the rounds landed BOOM BOOM BOOM in the opposite direction from where we heard the pops just aa few seconds prior. The rounds were literally flying directly over our heads before landing inside the base. We tossed the rest of the shit over, jumped in the cab, and hauled fucking ass out of there. Wasn't easy to do though because the area around the burn pit was all ash mixed with that moon dust Iraqi sand bullshit, and a deuce and a half is a big fucking truck that also had the water buffalo hitched on the back. VROOM VROOM VROOM, BOOM BOOM BOOM.
I mean, we got hit with that shit nearly every day, for literally months on end, but that was one of the times where I was like holy shit I might fucking die out here. Mainly I think because we were caught pretty much out in the open, by ourselves.
There were also the myriad of convoys and shit, especially the one were the serials in front of and behind ours both got hit with IEDs, but whatever.
[–] thuvia_1 0 points 1 point 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.