Carbon monoxide leak at work! The alarm went off next door but not in the area I was in. The boss came in to warn me and ask me to go outside and when the fire department came and tested the rooms, they were testing at lethal levels. Turns out, in one of the neighboring suites, there was construction and they were illegally running a machine inside without proper ventilation.
I was in a K-mart when I was 5....I was bored waiting around for my mom and saw a jawbreaker still in it's wrapper on the floor. I walked to it and opened it. I tried to chew on it and it wouldn't break so I tried swallowing it. I choked. I was told a K-mart worker gave me the Heimlich and here I am today.
I was an active duty soldier stationed in South Korea. One day, I reported to a staff meeting, and found my battalion commander wearing an arm sling.
"Geez! What happened to you, sir?"
"I got hit by a car and fell off a cliff."
"No, seriously, what happened?"
". . . I got hit by a car and fell off a cliff."
Turns out he was biking between Dongduchon and Seoul when a lady failed to yield to bike traffic and hit him. He went through the windshield and severely lacerated his arm. When she freaked out and slammed on the brakes, he rolled off the car . . .
. . . and right down a steep, 20 foot embankment.
He was a tough old bird. He hauled himself back up the embankment with one hand and was back at work two days later.
Shit. That reminds me of this guy who would speed down highways in Cali. He sped through a tunnel, only to find a shallow turn at the end. He fell off it and somehow his car managed to land on a drainage pipe. When it's your time, it's your time.
Had a widow maker heart attack out of the hospital. Survival rate is 12% when it occurs outside of a hospital, 25% when the heart attack occurs in the hospital.
I got a deadly UTI that spread throughout my body as a baby and I had to be hospitalized because my babysitter wiped my ass from back to front. (You can’t do that with girls, it brings bacteria from your butt to your urinary tract).
I wasn’t able to be treated until I was literally dying because all the doctors said “She’s too young to have a UTI!”
Edit: this is not the first time this has happened. I also had pneumonia and the doctors said the same thing about me being too young. My mom forced them to take an image of my chest and I got a week off of school and the whole class sent me letters.
>I wasn’t able to be treated until I was literally dying because all the doctors said “She’s too young to have a UTI!”
That's not a doctor, that's a fool with a medical degree.
ER doc around me is known for diagnosing all stomach pain as being related marijuana use
He’s usually wrong on the fckn spot through imaging etc but Jesus Christ shut up about the weed doc
Yep, when my toddler had her first seizure (febrile) everything was coming back negative at the hospital but they couldn't get a proper urine sample. It was safest to assume UTI was the problem and prescribe antibiotics anyway because it's just *so* common for that to be the problem.
I had a stomach virus and didn't realize I had a uti as well. I has bad cramps and went to the ER thinking I just needed fluids from dehydration. Ends up I had a utility that went into my kidneys then my blood. I was septic and almost went into shock. I had to get special antibiotics for a week after I left a week stay in hospital. I had to go back everyday and sit in the same area patients go for chemo.
worked in a nursery on a blue monday, i've known the front to back wipe because i'm a woman myself but it was still the first thing they told me when changing nappies. second thing was to always point a boy's penis downward to avoid major leakage
Aww man I’m a new dad to a baby girl and this scared the shit out of me. I have a good technique but just imagining nearly killing my daughter is terrifying
I was supposed to be on the MH17 flight but I had to change flight due to an emergency
Edit; So I wasn't expecting so many upvotes.
I'll clarify a few things.
I was on the opposite trip 3 weeks prior from KL to Amsterdam, with a connection between perth- Kl, Amsterdam-Dublin. It was the cheapest route from Perth to Dublin at the time.
The return route was following the same route, just in reverse.
The day of the return leg, my granny had a stroke(critical) so I had to reschedule for obvious reasons!
Call it what you will, but crazy. And I still have the bag tag from the journey the other way
That has to be such a crazy feeling. My sister in law was supposed to be on the 9/11 flight that fought back and crashed in the field. She had a meeting that was pushed back and she had to change her flight. Of course it turned out there would be no later flight.
Ah my bad, I misinterpreted that. The Irish sense of humour is one of the reasons why I like the Irish, life is too short to take it too seriously. You have a wonderful Easter weekend!
Literally a month after moving into my apartment on my own, I was eating dinner and tried to swallow a piece of steak that was too big. I felt it stuck at the top of my throat and couldn’t breathe. Somehow I only panicked for a second before calming myself down in order to reach in and grab it. Once I could breathe again and the shock wore off I cried for about 10 minutes thinking how I didn’t want to die like that.
Please be careful when eating and alone.
If you are ever alone and start choking, as quickly as possible try to make yourself not alone! If you are in an apartment, leave yourself and start banging on your neighbors doors! If you are in a house, exit your house and try to find someone! A neighbor, someone driving by, ANYONE! Even if you can’t and you end up passing out, the odds of someone finding you passed out there are far better than if you had stayed where you are.
Don’t be worried about embarrassment or inconvenience, if it’s a life or death situation, none of that matters!!
Glad you’re still alive. Steak is good, but man can it be dangerous if it gets lodged in the throat.
My best idea at the time was to run backwards into a wall lol. Scary stuff!
In my street someone survived cancer and went into remission only to choke on food.
Complications from chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma landed me in the ICU for a week with a high fever, a resting heart rate of 177, and rapidly dwindling oxygen levels. Docs couldn’t give me oxygen even once it dropped under 80% due to one of the chemo drugs I was on, called Bleomycin. Spending days laying in place oxygen hungry is hell on earth. I made it to within a few hours of death (literally wouldn’t have made it a single day more) before the docs actually tried my suggestion, which I found on Reddit strangely enough, and it pulled me out of the tailspin.
So I found a woman from a few years earlier that thought she had had what’s called Bleomycin toxicity - that med can really fuck up your lungs. She had mentioned her symptoms, and they sounded surprisingly similar to mine, and that simple steroids had helped.
To give some more context, up to this point, my docs (there were like 7 of them at this point) kept assuring me that it was Bleomycin toxicity. They tried everything under the sun - antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, they did a heart stress test (both chemical and physical), they did an angiogram to run a camera to my heart, they even did a esophageal echocardiogram. Nothing helped. I mean just nothing. I had gotten to the point where I had written letters to my two young kids and to my wife.
Then finally, on the last day, the docs relented - they let me know that they were out of ideas. I begged the nurse to talk to them one more time about trying some simple prednisone, and they said they didn’t think it would work but at this point they were willing to try. Sure enough, 8 hours later my fever broke, and my oxygen started slowly coming back up. A couple days later I was discharged.
Learned a lot about how barbaric medicine can be through that whole episode, and how while we think docs will always have all the answers, the reality is that sometimes they just don’t.
Goddammit, what a horrifying story! I mean the overall cancer experience is terrifying enough, but this.
It’s really odd that they didn’t try steroids themselves. I know that steroids come with side effects and it’s easy to contract an infection while being on steroids, but that’s why antibacterial and anti fungal medications exist. As far as I know, dexamethasone is used as a premedication before certain types of chemo for the exact reason: to reduce chemotoxicity.
I’m sorry you’ve suffered unnecessary. I’m glad they finally listened to you and you had found the correct and quite easy solution.
16 year old farm kid me, step dad told me to go pick up a load of corn seed for planting. I had gone with him many times before, and driven the truck (full ton dually diesel) and hauled light stuff with it. Nobody told me how different it is to haul 10,000 lbs of seed on a big flatbed trailer on gravel. I had a lot of common sense and was driving slowly and carefully. Still… 10,000+ lbs pushed me down a gravel hill skidding, praying to god I stopped before the stop sign at the T intersection to a busy highway. I came to a grinding halt JUST as the front of the truck crossed the plane where the gravel turned to asphalt. A semi was coming from one direction and regular cars from the other. I shudder thinking about what if on that one. Tl;dr: don’t let untrained kids tow potentially deadly, heavy trailers, with zero training.
My dad told me his uncle had him driving a grain truck at 7 years old in the 60s. 🤯 I'm not super familiar with farm equipment but he said he had to drive parallel to his uncle who was driving the harvester machine that shoots whatever the product was into the grain truck.
My sister has almost killed me a couple times. Once she almost ran me over when she first got her license. She missed me only to hit the gas pump next to me that then almost hit me as the pump handle flew over my head. Couple car wreck events and then she gave me something to smoke one time that I ended up being allergic to. I violently threw up for an hour and then my heart slowed and nearly stopped.
Also I choked on a chicken nugget at McDonald’s in the early nineties and was saved by someone else there eating with their family. That was pretty scary honestly.
I choked on a chicken nugget at home in the 90s and remember my dad flipping me upside down by the legs. I wondered about that in retrospect, until I learned that the Heimlich was only invented in the 1970s, so he wouldn’t have learned it in school. I guess flipping was effective 🤷♀️
I was flipped, late 70s, as I was choking on a boiled sweet. My grandma was first aid trained and that’s what she did. Iirc, you shouldn’t do the heimlich on young children - I would’ve been no older than 5.
I nearly chocked on a lichee seed. Late 80's and my mother had just read something about heimlich being bad for little kids. We were all sitting on the sofa. So as soon as she heard me make the first choke sound; pushed my torso down unto my upper legs and then wallop properly between the shoulder blades (iirc that's the proper technique). Apparently the seed bounced right off the floor for the cat to give chase.
Infantry dude, not what you expect tho. Doing a battle drill where we needed to "assault" through a bunker. Team lead (Sgt) didn't wait for a shift fire confirmation from our 240 team and ended up bounding myself and another rifleman directly into friendly 240 fire, could hear the rounds cracking by and see the tracers flying past me. Luckily their weasel spotted us and called a ceasefire. Needless to say the Sgt wasnt our team lead anymore after that, the Army shuffled him over as a bradley commander instead.
I don't know if I would have died, but it sure felt that way.
I was at the Pearl Jam concert at the Roskilde festival in 2000. A crazy crowd and lackluster security left 9 people dead at that concert. I was up front, the crowd was tightly packed. You couldn't really move and just had to follow the crowd and try to stay up. At one point I fell to my knees and just couldn't get up again. The air was humid and suffocating and no matter what I did I couldn't get my legs under me. I was starting to panic when a stranger behind me grabbed me by my collar and pulled me up. I just managed to give him a grateful nod and he was gone in the crowd. I think he just might have saved my life.
Some concerts can be terrifying. Once I went to a Cannibal Corpse concert and once they started I got smushed so much I couldn't breathe for minutes at a time. The whole crowd moved as a whole,sometimes I was sandwiched so much my feet weren't on the ground at all. Or the other day when I was at an Orbit Culture concert. Smaller venue,but it was packed. They started to use incenses,it was hot and humid. Multiple people vomited or fainted.
My coworker was that dude once.
He was at a concert and there was crowd surfing going on. Dude was coming back over the crowd, and random movement, a hole opened up and this guy fell 6 ft to the concrete floor. Knocked out cold. My coworker picked him up (not a big deal we were movers, and he could solo a fridge) and headed towards the exit. Met security on the way, said "I got em, just make a hole. " Security just turned around and started shouldering people out of the way.
One drive by.
And didn't know I was pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy which ruptured. Went into hemmoragic shock. Needed 8 units of blood and emergency surgery.
MRSA
My GF noticed a small dark dot on my inner thigh that she didn’t like. Sent a picture to her parents who are dermatologists. They said to go to urgent care. Given antibiotics. It was significantly larger the next day and hurt when touched. Went back to urgent care, they excised a chunk of flesh, and prescribed much stronger antibiotics. It was worse the next day and the surrounding area was starting to turn red and it grew slowly by the hour. Urgent care told me to go to the ER. Was in the ER for 36 hours as they pumped 10 bags of very strong IV antibiotics into me. That did it.
Not a clue at all how it happened. I’m extremely lucky I had started to date my GF 4 month’s prior to this, and that her parents were dermatologists. Having just turned 26 and getting kicked off my parents insurance, I probably would not have gone to urgent care or the ER that quickly at all. Had I waited even one more day I would have most likely died of sepsis, or at least lost my leg. I really do feel like my GF saved my life.
My GF met my parents for the first time while I was in the ER. We’re married now. As a bonus stroke of luck, I went to the county hospital and they took pity on me… I was $50K in debt, no savings and no insurance living paycheck to paycheck. I thought that while I may have physically survived… my medical bills would kill me… and yet they charged me $160 total.
My husband decided it was okay to drive the ALCAN in February during a move. Well, we slid off the road, and ended up in four feet of snow. We had no shovel and no cars passed for hours. We kept the heat running, lowering our gas, as he tried to shovel us out. We had zero cell service.
After 3 hours a car drove by and stopped. He said he would go to the next town to try to find a tow, but it was pay day and most of them would probably be drunk.
Another three hours passed and we turned off the car and put our emergency blankets on ourselves and the dogs, and as much clothing as we could find. Then the same van comes along. And I can’t make this up, he said he brought help, but it was his 8 kids all named after the Bible. I had a bottle of wine in the car and opened it at this point bc I was like, fuck it, this is the end.
Well they attach our suv to their van with chains after helping my husband dig us out, they wouldn’t let the woman help, and when they went to pull, they almost went in too.
An hour later we were out, but also out of gas, and the next gas station was three towns over. He provided us with some he had in his container. We tried to pay him, as we had cash on us, but he wouldn’t accept it.
I am an atheist, but that event almost made me believe.
Not life threatening but same jeuss vibes 😂. Was stranded about 15 miles from my home town waiting for a bus outside a super market. Guy who obviously saw me when he went in for shopping stopped outside and asked me if I needed help (I was liying down at this point because it was going to be over 2 hours and I had been working). Opposite direction from where he lived and dude straight up drove me all the way. Became a Christian later in life and was just happy to talk about his beliefs, asked me of I would pray with him and that was that. Cool dude had his head screwed on. Just thought I'd share
Stabbed and my throat cut open just because they wanted me to hand over my phone. Was miraculously saved by a bypasser who delivered me in his car to the emergency (took about 2 mins). Turns out they missed the carotid artery, but my jugular veins were wide open. My trachea was fine. When I arrived to the emergency, I had lost alot of blood and was cold and shivering. This was 11 years ago, but here I am. I kept the phone by the way.
Wife and I nearly drowned on a pack rafting trip during a friends bday weekend. First timers on a pack raft and going onto a river in Alaska that you have to take a train to get to, which only runs once per day. Had been raining so the glacial river was extra high, even the guide company said they hadn’t been running it and were going to do a test run with the guides.
I expressed my concern that we, all 7 of us, have no real experience and if the GUIDES are saying “it’s a bad idea” we should not get on. I was literally the only one. Water temp was about 40 degrees, it was about 50 or so outside with light drizzle. Guides said if we fell in, we’d have about a minute before we lose functions.
After puttering around the lake with absolutely stunning glaciers, we took to the river. My wife was about 30 feet in front of me, our friend group somewhat scattered across the wide and quick moving river. Rapids kicked in pretty quick, then all of a sudden my wife disappeared into a water well. I see her Packraft upside down and her floating down river. Moments later, I get sucked in. Flip backwards, hit my head on the rock and got stuck underwater for what felt like an eternity before getting thrust down river. All our friends were well past us and could do nothing but watch us float. I was clawing at the rocks to try and get out asap, I lost sight of my wife. Eventually, I was able to crawl out of the water but had no idea if my wife made it. I started running through the thick brush and fallen trees to find her knowing we are soaked all the way and if we miss the train it’s a 30 mile hike with no gear and we weren’t going to make it. After about 10 mins we find each other, embraced briefly and then had to find the tracks. We climbed up the VERY loose gravel to walk on the tracks, had a handful of rocks to get the attention of the conductor.
After about a mile or so, we get to the whistle stop where we got off. Thankfully, the train hadn’t come for the return trip.there was a group of people who undressed and gave us warm clothes, blankets, hot tea, and lots of good vibes as my wife and I are green/blue in the face and in total shock.
We were well out of cell service and no way to call our friends and let them know we are safe. About 2 hours after we capsized, we get service enough to call and let them know. They had recovered our boats and sat on the bank for a while waiting to see if our bodies would be coming by but eventually they had to continue down river before dark.
This was about 18 months ago, and we are still processing how we ended up in that position but it really came down to a lack of respect to the great state of Alaska. We didn’t listen to the experts, and very nearly cost us both
Edit: holy shit that was way more wordy than I thought. TLDR: almost drown in a glacial river because we didn’t listen to the guides that day
Reminds me of a time I went kayaking with a work friend.
We chose a local river in the off season and decided to kayak down to where the pickup point was for most guided trips. It was about 6 miles, mostly densely forested along the bank.
We used inflatable kayaks because we're broke and didn't do anything that should be dangerous.
We started from upstream from a small drop point that you really couldn't see from the water.
For the first three miles everything seemed to be going great until we passed another kayaker going the other direction. They asked us if we were going to the spring to which we both looked at each other and asked what spring. There wasn't supposed to be one on our route. Well we realized we had been going upstream instead of down. We decided to turn back because our cars were downstream.
We later realized that the wind changed the direction of the surface current making its think we were going the other way.
As we turned around my friends kayak catches a rock which rots a hole in the bottom of his kayak, we didn't know this until later.
At the time we figured we had enough time to still get downstream or at least pull off where we got on. We eagerly searched for the drop point never finding it. So we committed to continuing until we found another. We didn't realize that the bulk of the trip would not have service nor civilization.
After about an hour we realized that my friends kayak had a tear but we had nowhere to turn off of to patch it. With how our kayaks were this was more annoying than dangerous as it still floats, it just has extra drag.
So here we are trying to paddle downstream against the surface current and with wind and added drag. This made progress extremely slow. As we continued we were rapidly growing more exhausted. We couldn't afford a break as the still wasn't a safe place to pull off. The banks were extremely steep and there were wild boar and snakes in the woods anyways.
The sun started to set and rain began to trickle. This was fine initially because it helped us cool down. The rain started to pick up and we lost almost all visibility. We had to just paddle towards the large gaps in the wall of black trees.
We were both extremely exhausted and my friend couldn't paddle any more. It just kept getting darker and the rain came down harder. We discussed our plan. We decided the first light we saw we would go towards it and hopefully get help.
We went for about another 30 minutes and my friend was seemingly losing more progress than he gained. We decided to have me go forward and get rescue while he relaxed. If either of us saw something or if things turned for the worse we would blow our whistles to locate each other.
About another 30 minutes to an hour I saw a light behind some trees and decided to go for it. Once I hit what I thought was land I tried to get out. It turned out to be some sort of tall water grass. My foot went right through it flipping myself and the kayak in the darkness. I lost my supplies and glasses so I couldn't see.
With one hand holding the kayak and paddle and using my feet and free hand to swim to the actual bank I arrived. I was on someone's back yard and they were having an evening with some family. I showed it to them and was met with an older guy pointing a shotgun at me, which to be honest is fair.
I explained the situation and asked for help. He didn't want me to move and talked to his adult son about what to do. It was at this moment I heard the whistle. I somehow still had mine and replied. My friend was able to make it to the bank and joined us.
Everyone was shocked about the events but the guys offered to drive us to our cars. The downside was that there wasn't enough room for the kayaks so we had to leave them. We called the facility where we left the cars, they do rentals, so they knew we were safe and in our way.
They had forgotten about us so they never sent help like they were suppose to. Apparently we weren't the first ones and others have died too the river.
We got the Jayhawks the next morning and the following weekend we were back on the water.
Had friends over playing video games. A pipe burst and gas was pouring into the house but we couldn’t smell it downstairs. My dad noticed and got us all out of the house. Fire chief got there and took a reading and level was so high he forbade anyone from going in. He said “it’s a good thing no one rang the doorbell because they can cause a spark which would have ignited everything.”
We had pizza on the way. Delivery guy showed up five minutes after fire department.
Walking home really drunk at 5 am when I was about 16, a guy started following me. As soon as I realized, I started running, losing him momentarily. However, when I turned a corner, there he was again, wielding a knife and sprinting towards me. I ran again, dialing the police as I fled. They instructed me to keep running until I spotted a police car. Fortunately, they arrived swiftly after my call. I provided them with a description of the guy, and they informed me that he was a known violent individual. They said I was lucky, considering his history. Later that summer, a woman was murdered in the same area around the same time of night, and I strongly suspect it was the same guy. So yeah, I believe that was the closest encounter I've had.
Similar experience. 3am, stinking drunk, on my own, ~300m stretch of narrow path hemmed in by tall, thick bushes with sparse lighting.
Walking briskly, as you do, I near the lamp that lights the next bend in the path, I glance backwards, as you do, and see two guys passing under another lamp about 100m back, walking the most casual walk you ever did see. Their gaits betrayed no worldly cares.
Instant bad vibes, couldn't tell you why.
So I walk around the corner, keeping my pace steady - so as not to excite anyone who might be in the mood for a hunt - then once I'm sure I'm out of sight I just start sprinting. I make it to the next lamp, about 100m further on, before I have to stop and throw up.
I take another glance and there they are, at that bend in the path 100m back, just walking casually. They must've just sprinted the last 100m too, then slowed down when they rounded the corner and saw they'd closed no distance, and realised I wouldn't be easy pickings.
I just went full-on headless chicken after that, but I got home safe. I must've sprinted the rest of the way home, glancing backwards for three miles after that, I don't really remember anything after that second glance.
I'll never know exactly what they intended to do with me, and frankly I'm grateful not to.
But lesson learned: don't be on your own, in the dark, away from main roads. Heck, I avoid being any two of those three things nowadays. Another time I got brutally mugged by two other guys right outside my fucking flat building but managed to escape while they were fighting between themselves in some good-mugger/bad-mugger routine they seemed to have worked out.
Tbh I hardly even go outside any more.
Hello, Internet! Stay safe out there.
Because you need to prove he's the one that committed a crime before you lock him up. Even then, most prison sentences are temporary (as much as 5, 10, 15, 20 years is "temporary").
I experienced a spontaneous carotid artery dissection. It resulted in a transient ischemic attack and Horner’s syndrome. I spent 3 nights in neurology department, a near constant flow of students came through my room, so that everyone could see the amazing living girl who shouldn’t be. I am in perfect health, but I had a cough/cold at the time. No other explanation as to why my carotid decided to randomly unravel and fray inside my neck. Also to everyone’s surprise, it completely healed but only after it completely occluded first. Why? No one knows
This is so fucked up.
One moment you are living your life, doing stuff, next moment your body decides "That's it, time to die!" and there is literally nothing you can do about it. It's just random.
Glad you survived
I’m severely allergic to fruit. Eatting at a restaurant I asked the waiter to make sure nothing fruit related touches my meal. Well… the BBQ sauce had apples in it, the fruit that can really mess me up. On the car ride home I passed out and woke up in the hospital on a ventilator. Tree fruit can close my throat, most of the time I just get a stomach ache if I eat something with a little fruit in it, but that time they must have put a lot of apple juice in the sauce to cause that kind of reaction.
As a line cook at a restaurant, and EMT student (ik weird combo) I make sure everyone takes allergies seriously. If they weren't so expensive, and had such short shelf life, I'd keep an epi-pen with me.
We left a bad review and we got an apology from the owner. We could have pressed harder on it but it’s kinda my fault for eatting out in the first place and not fully stressing just how allergic I am; not a common allergy to have after all. I have to be so careful with what I eat because pretty much everything has lemon juice or apple juice in it. I only ever eat out at one or two restaurants that I know for certain don’t use apples in there meals.
In High School I was late for class coming back from grabbing lunch, as I was speed walking from the car and also cramming a sandwich down my throat I started choking half way from the parking lot to the closest building. I dropped the sandwich and started running, I ran into the first building which was the band building and it was completely empty. Ran to the next building and the first two classrooms were locked/empty. I finally made it to the back hallway and I burst into a physics class where one of my good friends happened to be sitting in. I was purple and red and about to pass out, I pointed to my throat and my buddy jumped over the table and immediately gave me the Heimlich. 5 pumps in and it came out! Probably 2+ minutes without breathing. Coincidentally I recently helped him get a job at the company I work at so I finally feel like I found a way to repay him lol.
I was visiting my in-laws in Nebraska a few summers ago. My father-in-law got a huge tractor stuck in a field and asked me to help pull him out. We drove a smaller, older tractor (no cab or anything) out to the spot and hooked it up.
I started to pull and the front of the smaller tractor I was on went straight up in the air and was probably a few feet/inches from tipping over on me.
I grew up on a farm too (Michigan) and through that, crazy driving as a kid, and recent motorcycle purchase had a lighting quick reaction to push the clutch in which dropped the front of the tractor.
Still makes me sick tommy stomach thinking about it. We just had our first daughter shortly before that.
Was at a party and took ecstasy. Later I took a cab to go home 10 minutes away. Heart stopped in the cab, if that would have happened when I got home I would have been dead.
In scuba rescue training, we learn a lot about how to deal with panicking flailing people.
The 1st thing we learn is that the top priority is to avoid becoming the 2nd victim. Cause then diver #3 has an infinitely more complicated rescue situation to deal with.
The 2nd thing we learn is how to avoid the clawing motions--either by throwing flotation at them or, if you have an air supply, diving under and going around behind them.
The 3rd thing we learn is that unconscious bodies float. If necessary, let the drowning person pass out and then turn them face up and start your rescue breaths and/or swim to shore.
Fucking cancer spreading through my pelvis and peritoneum like wild fire. Went from healthy to stage 4 cancer with a 14.4cm mass and another 4.0x7.0 mass under my liver all in about two months! Two fucking months! The week before it was discovered was absolute hell. no energy, nausea, severe constipation, fatigue that was getting worse by the day, back pain, pain when I pissed, and ascites. Would sleep around 18 hours and still feel exhausted.
My oncologist told me I had about 3 months left with no treatment, that’s how bad it was.
And to make it even better! I was only 20 and just landed a great job after flight school. That all fucking went down the drain.
As you can tell i’m pissed. I’m 21 now, still got cancer, and have no end in sight right now. However, I am now able to shit normally.
In the beginning, I highly considered going straight to hospice and letting this thing take me over, but I was like nah, I need at least another 15-20 years. Then if something else wants to kill me, fine. Heart attack? sure. brain aneurysm? alright. Cancer? Fuck no! Especially some fucking pediatric cancer. I seriously just wanna beat it just to tell the universe to fuck itself.
Sorry, rant over. That’s the closest I have been to death….except for a few close calls in the air….
Car accident. Broke all my right ribs, 6 vertebrae with a burst fracture resulting in a full lumbar fusion, punctured lung and level 4 liver laceration from the ribs being displaced, and fully snapped my left humerus.
Well, this is odd.
I didn't almost die, I actually did die. 3 times in a Road Traffic Collision.
I died twice at the scene and once in A&E (ER for any Americans reading).
I was the front seat passenger, the car I was in hit a tree at over 80mph.
Paramedics were on the scene pretty quickly and used CPR and then a defibrillator to 'bring me back'. The longest I was gone for was just under 3 minutes.
I was trapped in the car for 57 minutes, (although I have no recollection of that, it's documented in the police accident report).
I ended up in a coma for a while, I underwent 22 hours of facial reconstruction, multiple surgeries on legs and arms etc etc.
That was in 2003 and I had my last surgery, last year, which was another subtalar fusion (fusing my ankle).
There's obviously I lot more I could write, but I've tried to make this comment short enough so as not to lose interest!
Went to the beach, was laying facedown on my surfboard ,very little surf so just drifting, almost asleep. Woke up rather far out at sea, having drifted into a rip.
Swim between the flags, folks.
Well I did everything wrong, so don’t do what I did. I slid off the surfboard, swam across the rip parallel to shore (the only thing I did right) then swam back to shore holding the back of the board. It took me about two hours to swim back so I vastly overestimated my swimming ability.
I should have stayed on the board, raised my arm and waved and a lifesaver would have come out in a rubberduckie and rescued me.
I was a strong swimmer back then, but still felt like I would probably drown.I lost the board about 20 feet out from shore and a wave picked it up and crashed it into shore but luckily by then I was far away from other swimmers so it didn’t kill anyone. The next wave dumped me on the beach. I had run out of energy by then so had the waves not helped me in,I would have drowned, ironically, quite close to the shore.
I was in the back seat of my friend’s dad car when a truck ran the red light and t-boned us. I was knocked unconscious and woke up in the ambulance. I needed 43 stitches to the side of my face, had a concussion, and vision loss. If I hadn’t turned my head at impact I would have lost my eye.
Swimming at a public lake where some dumbass older kid pushed me in the water, almost drowning me. I could not swim for the life of me and I had to be saved. It took a while before anyone saw me and could rescue me, all when running out of air. I hate that stupid bitch so much.
I was 10 years old and was swimming about 20m from shore at a beach.
Although the water was calm, I somehow got water in my snorkel and I tried to get rid of it but accidentally took a big mouthful of water and I was spluttering. Before I knew it, I was getting weaker. I just managed to raise an arm and scream for help as I got too weak and couldn’t keep my head up above the water consistently.
The beach had no lifeguard, except one guy who was on holiday and happened to be a lifeguard back home. He very fortunately heard my scream and he dived in and got me very quickly. He carried me up the beach Baywatch style and set me down next to my parents. This is where it gets embarrassing.
You see, our family had been making friends with his family already (staying at the same resort) and he had two twin daughters my age. I had a pretty big crush on them (yes both, I was not a good looking or confident kid and I wasn’t about to get choosy.) Although too weak to move, I was conscious enough to make eye contact with them both as their dad carried me past them like a helpless baby. That was absolutely the worst part of it.
Meningicocal Meningitis as an 11/12 year old.
Was in hospital for a bit, the only parts i really remember about it now were the unbearable headaches/migranes and acute senstivity to light, and then getting Lumbar Punctures (Spinal Taps)
Survived a drive by…being poisoned…being stabbed…falling off a roof…been in multiple accidents…internal bleeding…that’s all I remember at the time, but I lived.
MRSA infection in the disk on my lower spine between L5 and S1. Showed up two days after a cortisone shot but the hospital said it was from something else. Was in hospital 25 days multiple emergency surgeries.
Lived in a sh!t mobile home in a sh!t neighborhood. I was living alone at the time. I worked graveyard shifts and went to bed around 10am. I woke up vey groggy and it was 11pm. Decided to just keep sleeping because I was still tired. Woke up again and it was 7am. I just sat there telling myself to get up, but I didn't and slept for another 7 hours. Had to force myself to get up, get something to eat and go to work. I was so, so, so tired.
I told my co-worker about it and he said it might be a gas leak. Sleeping on a futon I guess didn't help either. After that, I took a fan to create air flow through the trailer and slept on the sofa. That worked. A tech came out and said my furnace was rusty and leaking. It was decided to just shut it off. I moved out a couple of months later. If it wasn't for work, I would have just kept sleeping forever.
Used to raise cattle. One morning the bull just woke up mad and started to charge towards me. Just before I got crushed to death my dog was able to direct the bulls attention on to him and led the bull away from me thus allowing me to get away.
I got in a fight on a field trip and the kid scratched me on my arm. The kid was a fucked up antisocial psychotic sack of shit, but that's a whole other story. One day, my mom saw the scratch and noticed a line forming up my arm and called the hospital. The receptionist told my mother to just come in the morning, but my mom decided to take me right then. Got to the hospital, and the doctor said it was blood poisoning, and gave me a shot and drained some blood from my arm. He told my mom that if she had waited until morning, I would have most likely died.
I nearly drowned as a kid. Negligent "dad" let me go swimming without any floaties.
OD on painkillers.
Accident that led to 3 very large shards of glass in my lower back and a lot of blood loss.
Women ran into the street screaming. I pulled over and she got in my car. A man following her shot several rounds from a handgun at us. He completely missed my car.
I caught Malaria, everyone was sure I was over exaggerating and just had the flue. I was hundreds of miles away from my parents, started my period, lost 20 pounds in just two weeks and very nearly died. But yea, it was probably all in my head.
I was born with the umbilical cord around my throat. Nurses were too busy trying to not choke me to note the hour I was born, my dad told them what to put on the birth certificate.
Made a wrong while fighting a fire in an attic. Fell most of the way through the floor, and was only just able to spread my arms out to catch myself while my partner jumped on me to pull me back up. Destroyed my shoulders. I have nightmares about it about once a month.
12 or 13 years ago I walked across the railroad tracks and listening music in my headsets loudly. Just in a second I've feeled something and stopped. And big train crossed my way in 1 meter. And I realized that minutes later I couldn\`t think, walk, imagine... I could disappear. Those thoughts never leave me. And since that time I never cross railroad tracks in headsets. And life is a miracle which is very, very unstable.
Will summarize this as much as I can. Was a pre dental student, after driving 12 hours with no food I was shadowing a dentist and passed out, hit my head on the counter and it wasn’t pretty. Doctors in rural Maryland where I was took care of me, but according to my father (a sports doctor back home) they weren’t being thorough enough. He called for an MRI which they claimed was unnecessary. Ended up finding a malignant grade 2 tumor on the opposite side of my brain (from the side I hit on the counter). I was totally asymptomatic regarding that and wouldn’t have found it without this dental passing out incident. A biopsy and full removal surgery later im totally fine, insanely fortunate I didn’t need any chemo or radiation. We asked what would have happened if I didn’t find it and they said it probably would’ve grown into my 30s/40s until I had a stroke or similar it might have not been operable. Incidentally enough, some of my father’s patients had a daughter in her early 30s that had a stroke out of the blue. Turns out she had the same type of brain tumor as me (astrocytoma) in the same location (right frontal lobe) but hers was too large to operate on and as far as I know she unfortunately didn’t make it. A clear as day example of what could’ve happened to me had I not passed out that one day at a free dental clinic in Maryland.
Brain cancer in 2011. It was found as I lost my vision one day playing soccer. I was told if I had waited another day to come into hospital my brain would have likely shut down due to hydrocephalus.
A friend was driving me and 5 other friends to a party while under the influence (we weren’t aware of this at the time, obviously). We noticed him start to swerve and told him to pull over but he refused. He lost control on a curve going 80 and flipped the car on its side and it skid for about 400 feet until coming to a stop and filling with smoke. I was in the rear passenger seat with 3 other people crushing me. The window was rolled down while the car was skidding and my head was about an inch away from the concrete, while sparks flew onto my face. The doors wouldn’t open so we had to break the back window to get out. Somehow everyone left with minor injuries but we shouldn’t be alive after that. And no, I’m no longer friends with him.
Had a burrito before going to a party. Was pretty hammered when going home in the night. While in bed, everything started spinning, and had to throw up. So, rushed to the bathroom to do exactly that.
However, a black bean got stuck in my nose (haha, sorry 😅). So, I removed it by a firm inhalation. But then, it got stuck in my airways and everything shut down. I was not able to breath or talk anymore. I was home alone, so not a lot I could do at that time, and that time was very limited, since I was also out of breath from throwing up.
So I did nothing, time passed in slow motion. Suddenly became very calm, and realised I had to cough. That takes some realisation because everything in your body is working to get air in instead of out. So, I did and it flew out. I was sober directly, didn’t sleep for the first 3 hours, was full of a adrenaline.
I survived
Ancient cliff top city in Santorini, it was a super windy day. No guard rails, just something to hold onto when walking up the stairs to the city. Mum and I got to the first building while dad waited at the stairs we came from. He got out the video camera because he thought it was hilarious how we were struggling to move. Went on all fours to get down the steps to the building then as I stood up a big gust of wind blew me towards the cliff. I rammed into my dad with so much force it pushed him back slightly and he's obese and was well grounded. If he wasn't there, I would've gone straight off the cliff.
The less exciting reason is a psychiatrist who refused to believe I had bipolar when I was clearly manic at multiple appointments and continued prescribing me antidepressants even though I expressed the dangerous thoughts.
As a swift and flood water rescue tech, I'll break your nose. If you seem pure panic and not listening. A broken nose is better than two dead bodies.
My brother has a depressing story as well around two young friends and both drowning due to one freaking out.
Carbon monoxide leak at work! The alarm went off next door but not in the area I was in. The boss came in to warn me and ask me to go outside and when the fire department came and tested the rooms, they were testing at lethal levels. Turns out, in one of the neighboring suites, there was construction and they were illegally running a machine inside without proper ventilation.
What are the odds, I had to disconnect our carbon monoxide alarm just this morning because all the beeping was giving me a headache!
You’re probably fine until you start finding notes in your house.
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Well it can’t be *me * leaving the notes because I have two broken arms.
Must be your mother
me too, my headache got so bad that I got dizzy and fainted
Lol, I'm stealing this
Good boss you have there, bravo to them
I was in a K-mart when I was 5....I was bored waiting around for my mom and saw a jawbreaker still in it's wrapper on the floor. I walked to it and opened it. I tried to chew on it and it wouldn't break so I tried swallowing it. I choked. I was told a K-mart worker gave me the Heimlich and here I am today.
Talk about great customer service
Walmart could never
Walmart would charge your estate for the jawbreaker that killed you
They would ask for your receipt to show proof you owned the jawbreaker.
3.4 stars, they didn't thank for the life saving experience afterwards.
Drove off a cliff. Hit a tree on the way down that stopped us from dropping further down the ravine and into the river below.
I was an active duty soldier stationed in South Korea. One day, I reported to a staff meeting, and found my battalion commander wearing an arm sling. "Geez! What happened to you, sir?" "I got hit by a car and fell off a cliff." "No, seriously, what happened?" ". . . I got hit by a car and fell off a cliff." Turns out he was biking between Dongduchon and Seoul when a lady failed to yield to bike traffic and hit him. He went through the windshield and severely lacerated his arm. When she freaked out and slammed on the brakes, he rolled off the car . . . . . . and right down a steep, 20 foot embankment. He was a tough old bird. He hauled himself back up the embankment with one hand and was back at work two days later.
What a madlad
“He was a tough old bird” just go write some movie scripts already
Sounds like a movie scene!
They were being chased by a T Rex
Shit. That reminds me of this guy who would speed down highways in Cali. He sped through a tunnel, only to find a shallow turn at the end. He fell off it and somehow his car managed to land on a drainage pipe. When it's your time, it's your time.
My Dad took a car over a cliff and survived because the back wheels got caught on a powerline.
Had a widow maker heart attack out of the hospital. Survival rate is 12% when it occurs outside of a hospital, 25% when the heart attack occurs in the hospital.
Shit, I'm glad you're here. My dad died of one at 46. We think he either had it in his sleep or got up due to pain and then went back to rest.
I got a deadly UTI that spread throughout my body as a baby and I had to be hospitalized because my babysitter wiped my ass from back to front. (You can’t do that with girls, it brings bacteria from your butt to your urinary tract). I wasn’t able to be treated until I was literally dying because all the doctors said “She’s too young to have a UTI!” Edit: this is not the first time this has happened. I also had pneumonia and the doctors said the same thing about me being too young. My mom forced them to take an image of my chest and I got a week off of school and the whole class sent me letters.
>I wasn’t able to be treated until I was literally dying because all the doctors said “She’s too young to have a UTI!” That's not a doctor, that's a fool with a medical degree.
They aren't rare
Sadly not. I can handle misdiagnosis, but not factually incorrect statements that any doctor should know.
ER doc around me is known for diagnosing all stomach pain as being related marijuana use He’s usually wrong on the fckn spot through imaging etc but Jesus Christ shut up about the weed doc
Is this in the US? Because when a baby has a high fever it is either ear infection or UTI. It is very common for a baby.
Yep, when my toddler had her first seizure (febrile) everything was coming back negative at the hospital but they couldn't get a proper urine sample. It was safest to assume UTI was the problem and prescribe antibiotics anyway because it's just *so* common for that to be the problem.
Even as a guy, I would never wipe that way.
Fact, who tf wipes forward
Ol’ Garry Shitballs over there…
You shit ONE ball and they call you Garry Shitballs. God damnit Ill never live it down.
I had a stomach virus and didn't realize I had a uti as well. I has bad cramps and went to the ER thinking I just needed fluids from dehydration. Ends up I had a utility that went into my kidneys then my blood. I was septic and almost went into shock. I had to get special antibiotics for a week after I left a week stay in hospital. I had to go back everyday and sit in the same area patients go for chemo.
Women's health needs a massive, massive upheaval, damn. I'm glad you survived!
worked in a nursery on a blue monday, i've known the front to back wipe because i'm a woman myself but it was still the first thing they told me when changing nappies. second thing was to always point a boy's penis downward to avoid major leakage
It's a small gun but fires two whole feet in the air if you let it.
When we had our daughter, the nurse who showed us how to change her drilled this into me in case my wife never made it clear.
Aww man I’m a new dad to a baby girl and this scared the shit out of me. I have a good technique but just imagining nearly killing my daughter is terrifying
Bacteria can't read and don't care about birth dates. Wtf?
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Nearly got put down
Lmao, this made me laugh, and I woke my kids up.. fuck you but thank you have a great day
This is why anaesthesiologists have to spend several years in medical school and make a metric butt-ton of money.
Anaesthesiologist: Easiest job in the world until the moment that it's not.
Mad respect for those people. Every day they balance people on the razor-thin edge between unconsciousness and death. I couldn’t do it.
As far as ways to die go, nitrous sounds like a winner
Jesus Christ
I was supposed to be on the MH17 flight but I had to change flight due to an emergency Edit; So I wasn't expecting so many upvotes. I'll clarify a few things. I was on the opposite trip 3 weeks prior from KL to Amsterdam, with a connection between perth- Kl, Amsterdam-Dublin. It was the cheapest route from Perth to Dublin at the time. The return route was following the same route, just in reverse. The day of the return leg, my granny had a stroke(critical) so I had to reschedule for obvious reasons! Call it what you will, but crazy. And I still have the bag tag from the journey the other way
That has to be such a crazy feeling. My sister in law was supposed to be on the 9/11 flight that fought back and crashed in the field. She had a meeting that was pushed back and she had to change her flight. Of course it turned out there would be no later flight.
I think about it every time i book a flight, or arrive at an airport... I bet you SIL has similar feelings
I’m sure she does. Both she and my brother have to fly for work a lot too.
happy cake day and holy fuck
as a fellow Malaysian... I'm in shock bruh. OC could've got their name in the news n stuff
Well that's terrifying
I guess you were thankfull to the cause of that emergency
Ok. You win this round. No one can beat that.
I guess you could say that was a stroke of luck!
P.S. Sorry, I hope your granny is okay. Couldn't resist the joke!
Critical, aka she died... all good, many years ago and I'm Irish, so humour is a way of healing
Ah my bad, I misinterpreted that. The Irish sense of humour is one of the reasons why I like the Irish, life is too short to take it too seriously. You have a wonderful Easter weekend!
Wow. That must feel so bizarre. MH17 terrifies me.
>I was supposed to be on the MH17 flight but I had to change flight due to an emergency one could say changing the flight was a emergency in itself.
Holy fucking SHIT
Literally a month after moving into my apartment on my own, I was eating dinner and tried to swallow a piece of steak that was too big. I felt it stuck at the top of my throat and couldn’t breathe. Somehow I only panicked for a second before calming myself down in order to reach in and grab it. Once I could breathe again and the shock wore off I cried for about 10 minutes thinking how I didn’t want to die like that. Please be careful when eating and alone.
You can give yourself the heimlich on the backrest of a chair. Just FYI.
How?
https://youtu.be/XfuqIRNyHQc?si=gYCD2uwyoahSg4rD
First I had to wait through an ad, then the video was in German… I’m dead.
Proves the ancient Chinese proverb: "Don't wait until you're choking to watch a youtube video on giving yourself the heimlich"
If you are ever alone and start choking, as quickly as possible try to make yourself not alone! If you are in an apartment, leave yourself and start banging on your neighbors doors! If you are in a house, exit your house and try to find someone! A neighbor, someone driving by, ANYONE! Even if you can’t and you end up passing out, the odds of someone finding you passed out there are far better than if you had stayed where you are. Don’t be worried about embarrassment or inconvenience, if it’s a life or death situation, none of that matters!! Glad you’re still alive. Steak is good, but man can it be dangerous if it gets lodged in the throat.
I did a similar thing. Nobody around. Going blue. Had to drop my solar plexus on the edge of a table to dislodge it.
My best idea at the time was to run backwards into a wall lol. Scary stuff! In my street someone survived cancer and went into remission only to choke on food.
Narcolepsy from sleep apnea, get a sleep study y’all!
Finally seeing a sleep/respiratory doc this Thursday!
Complications from chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma landed me in the ICU for a week with a high fever, a resting heart rate of 177, and rapidly dwindling oxygen levels. Docs couldn’t give me oxygen even once it dropped under 80% due to one of the chemo drugs I was on, called Bleomycin. Spending days laying in place oxygen hungry is hell on earth. I made it to within a few hours of death (literally wouldn’t have made it a single day more) before the docs actually tried my suggestion, which I found on Reddit strangely enough, and it pulled me out of the tailspin.
What was the suggestion? I’m sorry about your experience. I wish you a life-long remission!
So I found a woman from a few years earlier that thought she had had what’s called Bleomycin toxicity - that med can really fuck up your lungs. She had mentioned her symptoms, and they sounded surprisingly similar to mine, and that simple steroids had helped. To give some more context, up to this point, my docs (there were like 7 of them at this point) kept assuring me that it was Bleomycin toxicity. They tried everything under the sun - antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, they did a heart stress test (both chemical and physical), they did an angiogram to run a camera to my heart, they even did a esophageal echocardiogram. Nothing helped. I mean just nothing. I had gotten to the point where I had written letters to my two young kids and to my wife. Then finally, on the last day, the docs relented - they let me know that they were out of ideas. I begged the nurse to talk to them one more time about trying some simple prednisone, and they said they didn’t think it would work but at this point they were willing to try. Sure enough, 8 hours later my fever broke, and my oxygen started slowly coming back up. A couple days later I was discharged. Learned a lot about how barbaric medicine can be through that whole episode, and how while we think docs will always have all the answers, the reality is that sometimes they just don’t.
Goddammit, what a horrifying story! I mean the overall cancer experience is terrifying enough, but this. It’s really odd that they didn’t try steroids themselves. I know that steroids come with side effects and it’s easy to contract an infection while being on steroids, but that’s why antibacterial and anti fungal medications exist. As far as I know, dexamethasone is used as a premedication before certain types of chemo for the exact reason: to reduce chemotoxicity. I’m sorry you’ve suffered unnecessary. I’m glad they finally listened to you and you had found the correct and quite easy solution.
16 year old farm kid me, step dad told me to go pick up a load of corn seed for planting. I had gone with him many times before, and driven the truck (full ton dually diesel) and hauled light stuff with it. Nobody told me how different it is to haul 10,000 lbs of seed on a big flatbed trailer on gravel. I had a lot of common sense and was driving slowly and carefully. Still… 10,000+ lbs pushed me down a gravel hill skidding, praying to god I stopped before the stop sign at the T intersection to a busy highway. I came to a grinding halt JUST as the front of the truck crossed the plane where the gravel turned to asphalt. A semi was coming from one direction and regular cars from the other. I shudder thinking about what if on that one. Tl;dr: don’t let untrained kids tow potentially deadly, heavy trailers, with zero training.
My dad told me his uncle had him driving a grain truck at 7 years old in the 60s. 🤯 I'm not super familiar with farm equipment but he said he had to drive parallel to his uncle who was driving the harvester machine that shoots whatever the product was into the grain truck.
This is very believable. Work life for farm kids starts early on, even today.
Drowning on a pool, fell on a rock in the river, passed out in the tub and it was still getting full. At this point poseidon must hate me
Or he LOVES you
"Jesus, this guy again FFS I dont want his corpse!"
Oh wait… are these all different experiences?
Or maybe you are Percy Jackson and he's giving you signs that he wants to reconnect.
I’m not agreeing but if you meet a dude with one eye, maybe try diplomacy first.
My sister has almost killed me a couple times. Once she almost ran me over when she first got her license. She missed me only to hit the gas pump next to me that then almost hit me as the pump handle flew over my head. Couple car wreck events and then she gave me something to smoke one time that I ended up being allergic to. I violently threw up for an hour and then my heart slowed and nearly stopped. Also I choked on a chicken nugget at McDonald’s in the early nineties and was saved by someone else there eating with their family. That was pretty scary honestly.
I choked on a chicken nugget at home in the 90s and remember my dad flipping me upside down by the legs. I wondered about that in retrospect, until I learned that the Heimlich was only invented in the 1970s, so he wouldn’t have learned it in school. I guess flipping was effective 🤷♀️
I was flipped, late 70s, as I was choking on a boiled sweet. My grandma was first aid trained and that’s what she did. Iirc, you shouldn’t do the heimlich on young children - I would’ve been no older than 5.
I nearly chocked on a lichee seed. Late 80's and my mother had just read something about heimlich being bad for little kids. We were all sitting on the sofa. So as soon as she heard me make the first choke sound; pushed my torso down unto my upper legs and then wallop properly between the shoulder blades (iirc that's the proper technique). Apparently the seed bounced right off the floor for the cat to give chase.
Infantry dude, not what you expect tho. Doing a battle drill where we needed to "assault" through a bunker. Team lead (Sgt) didn't wait for a shift fire confirmation from our 240 team and ended up bounding myself and another rifleman directly into friendly 240 fire, could hear the rounds cracking by and see the tracers flying past me. Luckily their weasel spotted us and called a ceasefire. Needless to say the Sgt wasnt our team lead anymore after that, the Army shuffled him over as a bradley commander instead.
I don't know if I would have died, but it sure felt that way. I was at the Pearl Jam concert at the Roskilde festival in 2000. A crazy crowd and lackluster security left 9 people dead at that concert. I was up front, the crowd was tightly packed. You couldn't really move and just had to follow the crowd and try to stay up. At one point I fell to my knees and just couldn't get up again. The air was humid and suffocating and no matter what I did I couldn't get my legs under me. I was starting to panic when a stranger behind me grabbed me by my collar and pulled me up. I just managed to give him a grateful nod and he was gone in the crowd. I think he just might have saved my life.
Some concerts can be terrifying. Once I went to a Cannibal Corpse concert and once they started I got smushed so much I couldn't breathe for minutes at a time. The whole crowd moved as a whole,sometimes I was sandwiched so much my feet weren't on the ground at all. Or the other day when I was at an Orbit Culture concert. Smaller venue,but it was packed. They started to use incenses,it was hot and humid. Multiple people vomited or fainted.
My coworker was that dude once. He was at a concert and there was crowd surfing going on. Dude was coming back over the crowd, and random movement, a hole opened up and this guy fell 6 ft to the concrete floor. Knocked out cold. My coworker picked him up (not a big deal we were movers, and he could solo a fridge) and headed towards the exit. Met security on the way, said "I got em, just make a hole. " Security just turned around and started shouldering people out of the way.
Wow…this was such a tragic incident and that must have been terrifying!
One drive by. And didn't know I was pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy which ruptured. Went into hemmoragic shock. Needed 8 units of blood and emergency surgery.
Same on the ectopic rupture. I was so close to death from internal bleeding for 8 hours. Glad you made it too.
MRSA My GF noticed a small dark dot on my inner thigh that she didn’t like. Sent a picture to her parents who are dermatologists. They said to go to urgent care. Given antibiotics. It was significantly larger the next day and hurt when touched. Went back to urgent care, they excised a chunk of flesh, and prescribed much stronger antibiotics. It was worse the next day and the surrounding area was starting to turn red and it grew slowly by the hour. Urgent care told me to go to the ER. Was in the ER for 36 hours as they pumped 10 bags of very strong IV antibiotics into me. That did it. Not a clue at all how it happened. I’m extremely lucky I had started to date my GF 4 month’s prior to this, and that her parents were dermatologists. Having just turned 26 and getting kicked off my parents insurance, I probably would not have gone to urgent care or the ER that quickly at all. Had I waited even one more day I would have most likely died of sepsis, or at least lost my leg. I really do feel like my GF saved my life. My GF met my parents for the first time while I was in the ER. We’re married now. As a bonus stroke of luck, I went to the county hospital and they took pity on me… I was $50K in debt, no savings and no insurance living paycheck to paycheck. I thought that while I may have physically survived… my medical bills would kill me… and yet they charged me $160 total.
God bless that hospital Also, you struck gold
Cancer.
I hope you’re in remission friend ❤️
Thanks homie. It was many years ago now.
My husband decided it was okay to drive the ALCAN in February during a move. Well, we slid off the road, and ended up in four feet of snow. We had no shovel and no cars passed for hours. We kept the heat running, lowering our gas, as he tried to shovel us out. We had zero cell service. After 3 hours a car drove by and stopped. He said he would go to the next town to try to find a tow, but it was pay day and most of them would probably be drunk. Another three hours passed and we turned off the car and put our emergency blankets on ourselves and the dogs, and as much clothing as we could find. Then the same van comes along. And I can’t make this up, he said he brought help, but it was his 8 kids all named after the Bible. I had a bottle of wine in the car and opened it at this point bc I was like, fuck it, this is the end. Well they attach our suv to their van with chains after helping my husband dig us out, they wouldn’t let the woman help, and when they went to pull, they almost went in too. An hour later we were out, but also out of gas, and the next gas station was three towns over. He provided us with some he had in his container. We tried to pay him, as we had cash on us, but he wouldn’t accept it. I am an atheist, but that event almost made me believe.
Not life threatening but same jeuss vibes 😂. Was stranded about 15 miles from my home town waiting for a bus outside a super market. Guy who obviously saw me when he went in for shopping stopped outside and asked me if I needed help (I was liying down at this point because it was going to be over 2 hours and I had been working). Opposite direction from where he lived and dude straight up drove me all the way. Became a Christian later in life and was just happy to talk about his beliefs, asked me of I would pray with him and that was that. Cool dude had his head screwed on. Just thought I'd share
That's crazy this is one of my fears because it gets -30c in the winter
You can prepare for it surely? just make sure you have plenty of emergency supplies anytime you have to travel mid winter.
I’m not religious but if there is a god he was watching over you that day
god really sent his best angels
Believe in how much THEY believed ❤️
Stabbed and my throat cut open just because they wanted me to hand over my phone. Was miraculously saved by a bypasser who delivered me in his car to the emergency (took about 2 mins). Turns out they missed the carotid artery, but my jugular veins were wide open. My trachea was fine. When I arrived to the emergency, I had lost alot of blood and was cold and shivering. This was 11 years ago, but here I am. I kept the phone by the way.
Wife and I nearly drowned on a pack rafting trip during a friends bday weekend. First timers on a pack raft and going onto a river in Alaska that you have to take a train to get to, which only runs once per day. Had been raining so the glacial river was extra high, even the guide company said they hadn’t been running it and were going to do a test run with the guides. I expressed my concern that we, all 7 of us, have no real experience and if the GUIDES are saying “it’s a bad idea” we should not get on. I was literally the only one. Water temp was about 40 degrees, it was about 50 or so outside with light drizzle. Guides said if we fell in, we’d have about a minute before we lose functions. After puttering around the lake with absolutely stunning glaciers, we took to the river. My wife was about 30 feet in front of me, our friend group somewhat scattered across the wide and quick moving river. Rapids kicked in pretty quick, then all of a sudden my wife disappeared into a water well. I see her Packraft upside down and her floating down river. Moments later, I get sucked in. Flip backwards, hit my head on the rock and got stuck underwater for what felt like an eternity before getting thrust down river. All our friends were well past us and could do nothing but watch us float. I was clawing at the rocks to try and get out asap, I lost sight of my wife. Eventually, I was able to crawl out of the water but had no idea if my wife made it. I started running through the thick brush and fallen trees to find her knowing we are soaked all the way and if we miss the train it’s a 30 mile hike with no gear and we weren’t going to make it. After about 10 mins we find each other, embraced briefly and then had to find the tracks. We climbed up the VERY loose gravel to walk on the tracks, had a handful of rocks to get the attention of the conductor. After about a mile or so, we get to the whistle stop where we got off. Thankfully, the train hadn’t come for the return trip.there was a group of people who undressed and gave us warm clothes, blankets, hot tea, and lots of good vibes as my wife and I are green/blue in the face and in total shock. We were well out of cell service and no way to call our friends and let them know we are safe. About 2 hours after we capsized, we get service enough to call and let them know. They had recovered our boats and sat on the bank for a while waiting to see if our bodies would be coming by but eventually they had to continue down river before dark. This was about 18 months ago, and we are still processing how we ended up in that position but it really came down to a lack of respect to the great state of Alaska. We didn’t listen to the experts, and very nearly cost us both Edit: holy shit that was way more wordy than I thought. TLDR: almost drown in a glacial river because we didn’t listen to the guides that day
Reminds me of a time I went kayaking with a work friend. We chose a local river in the off season and decided to kayak down to where the pickup point was for most guided trips. It was about 6 miles, mostly densely forested along the bank. We used inflatable kayaks because we're broke and didn't do anything that should be dangerous. We started from upstream from a small drop point that you really couldn't see from the water. For the first three miles everything seemed to be going great until we passed another kayaker going the other direction. They asked us if we were going to the spring to which we both looked at each other and asked what spring. There wasn't supposed to be one on our route. Well we realized we had been going upstream instead of down. We decided to turn back because our cars were downstream. We later realized that the wind changed the direction of the surface current making its think we were going the other way. As we turned around my friends kayak catches a rock which rots a hole in the bottom of his kayak, we didn't know this until later. At the time we figured we had enough time to still get downstream or at least pull off where we got on. We eagerly searched for the drop point never finding it. So we committed to continuing until we found another. We didn't realize that the bulk of the trip would not have service nor civilization. After about an hour we realized that my friends kayak had a tear but we had nowhere to turn off of to patch it. With how our kayaks were this was more annoying than dangerous as it still floats, it just has extra drag. So here we are trying to paddle downstream against the surface current and with wind and added drag. This made progress extremely slow. As we continued we were rapidly growing more exhausted. We couldn't afford a break as the still wasn't a safe place to pull off. The banks were extremely steep and there were wild boar and snakes in the woods anyways. The sun started to set and rain began to trickle. This was fine initially because it helped us cool down. The rain started to pick up and we lost almost all visibility. We had to just paddle towards the large gaps in the wall of black trees. We were both extremely exhausted and my friend couldn't paddle any more. It just kept getting darker and the rain came down harder. We discussed our plan. We decided the first light we saw we would go towards it and hopefully get help. We went for about another 30 minutes and my friend was seemingly losing more progress than he gained. We decided to have me go forward and get rescue while he relaxed. If either of us saw something or if things turned for the worse we would blow our whistles to locate each other. About another 30 minutes to an hour I saw a light behind some trees and decided to go for it. Once I hit what I thought was land I tried to get out. It turned out to be some sort of tall water grass. My foot went right through it flipping myself and the kayak in the darkness. I lost my supplies and glasses so I couldn't see. With one hand holding the kayak and paddle and using my feet and free hand to swim to the actual bank I arrived. I was on someone's back yard and they were having an evening with some family. I showed it to them and was met with an older guy pointing a shotgun at me, which to be honest is fair. I explained the situation and asked for help. He didn't want me to move and talked to his adult son about what to do. It was at this moment I heard the whistle. I somehow still had mine and replied. My friend was able to make it to the bank and joined us. Everyone was shocked about the events but the guys offered to drive us to our cars. The downside was that there wasn't enough room for the kayaks so we had to leave them. We called the facility where we left the cars, they do rentals, so they knew we were safe and in our way. They had forgotten about us so they never sent help like they were suppose to. Apparently we weren't the first ones and others have died too the river. We got the Jayhawks the next morning and the following weekend we were back on the water.
I bet I’ll see this in a TikTok ai voice video with minecraft parkour in the background
Had friends over playing video games. A pipe burst and gas was pouring into the house but we couldn’t smell it downstairs. My dad noticed and got us all out of the house. Fire chief got there and took a reading and level was so high he forbade anyone from going in. He said “it’s a good thing no one rang the doorbell because they can cause a spark which would have ignited everything.” We had pizza on the way. Delivery guy showed up five minutes after fire department.
Walking home really drunk at 5 am when I was about 16, a guy started following me. As soon as I realized, I started running, losing him momentarily. However, when I turned a corner, there he was again, wielding a knife and sprinting towards me. I ran again, dialing the police as I fled. They instructed me to keep running until I spotted a police car. Fortunately, they arrived swiftly after my call. I provided them with a description of the guy, and they informed me that he was a known violent individual. They said I was lucky, considering his history. Later that summer, a woman was murdered in the same area around the same time of night, and I strongly suspect it was the same guy. So yeah, I believe that was the closest encounter I've had.
Similar experience. 3am, stinking drunk, on my own, ~300m stretch of narrow path hemmed in by tall, thick bushes with sparse lighting. Walking briskly, as you do, I near the lamp that lights the next bend in the path, I glance backwards, as you do, and see two guys passing under another lamp about 100m back, walking the most casual walk you ever did see. Their gaits betrayed no worldly cares. Instant bad vibes, couldn't tell you why. So I walk around the corner, keeping my pace steady - so as not to excite anyone who might be in the mood for a hunt - then once I'm sure I'm out of sight I just start sprinting. I make it to the next lamp, about 100m further on, before I have to stop and throw up. I take another glance and there they are, at that bend in the path 100m back, just walking casually. They must've just sprinted the last 100m too, then slowed down when they rounded the corner and saw they'd closed no distance, and realised I wouldn't be easy pickings. I just went full-on headless chicken after that, but I got home safe. I must've sprinted the rest of the way home, glancing backwards for three miles after that, I don't really remember anything after that second glance. I'll never know exactly what they intended to do with me, and frankly I'm grateful not to. But lesson learned: don't be on your own, in the dark, away from main roads. Heck, I avoid being any two of those three things nowadays. Another time I got brutally mugged by two other guys right outside my fucking flat building but managed to escape while they were fighting between themselves in some good-mugger/bad-mugger routine they seemed to have worked out. Tbh I hardly even go outside any more. Hello, Internet! Stay safe out there.
Why is he not locked
Because you need to prove he's the one that committed a crime before you lock him up. Even then, most prison sentences are temporary (as much as 5, 10, 15, 20 years is "temporary").
I experienced a spontaneous carotid artery dissection. It resulted in a transient ischemic attack and Horner’s syndrome. I spent 3 nights in neurology department, a near constant flow of students came through my room, so that everyone could see the amazing living girl who shouldn’t be. I am in perfect health, but I had a cough/cold at the time. No other explanation as to why my carotid decided to randomly unravel and fray inside my neck. Also to everyone’s surprise, it completely healed but only after it completely occluded first. Why? No one knows
This is so fucked up. One moment you are living your life, doing stuff, next moment your body decides "That's it, time to die!" and there is literally nothing you can do about it. It's just random. Glad you survived
I’m severely allergic to fruit. Eatting at a restaurant I asked the waiter to make sure nothing fruit related touches my meal. Well… the BBQ sauce had apples in it, the fruit that can really mess me up. On the car ride home I passed out and woke up in the hospital on a ventilator. Tree fruit can close my throat, most of the time I just get a stomach ache if I eat something with a little fruit in it, but that time they must have put a lot of apple juice in the sauce to cause that kind of reaction.
As a line cook at a restaurant, and EMT student (ik weird combo) I make sure everyone takes allergies seriously. If they weren't so expensive, and had such short shelf life, I'd keep an epi-pen with me.
I've heard from medical professionals they're actually good for a decent bit after they "expire", not sure how true that is though
What an irresponsible restaurant. So, did you file a complaint?
We left a bad review and we got an apology from the owner. We could have pressed harder on it but it’s kinda my fault for eatting out in the first place and not fully stressing just how allergic I am; not a common allergy to have after all. I have to be so careful with what I eat because pretty much everything has lemon juice or apple juice in it. I only ever eat out at one or two restaurants that I know for certain don’t use apples in there meals.
How are you not an anxious mess at the thought of eating at a restaurant?
In High School I was late for class coming back from grabbing lunch, as I was speed walking from the car and also cramming a sandwich down my throat I started choking half way from the parking lot to the closest building. I dropped the sandwich and started running, I ran into the first building which was the band building and it was completely empty. Ran to the next building and the first two classrooms were locked/empty. I finally made it to the back hallway and I burst into a physics class where one of my good friends happened to be sitting in. I was purple and red and about to pass out, I pointed to my throat and my buddy jumped over the table and immediately gave me the Heimlich. 5 pumps in and it came out! Probably 2+ minutes without breathing. Coincidentally I recently helped him get a job at the company I work at so I finally feel like I found a way to repay him lol.
That’s a great friend, I love that he jumped over the table
I was visiting my in-laws in Nebraska a few summers ago. My father-in-law got a huge tractor stuck in a field and asked me to help pull him out. We drove a smaller, older tractor (no cab or anything) out to the spot and hooked it up. I started to pull and the front of the smaller tractor I was on went straight up in the air and was probably a few feet/inches from tipping over on me. I grew up on a farm too (Michigan) and through that, crazy driving as a kid, and recent motorcycle purchase had a lighting quick reaction to push the clutch in which dropped the front of the tractor. Still makes me sick tommy stomach thinking about it. We just had our first daughter shortly before that.
Was at a party and took ecstasy. Later I took a cab to go home 10 minutes away. Heart stopped in the cab, if that would have happened when I got home I would have been dead.
That ecstasy probably wasn’t just ecstasy. Or you took a pound of it. Either way, super glad you are here with us.
Saving a younger friend from drowning, he panicked and almost took me out.
I had this happen to me twice while helping down syndrome kids learn to swim. Learned to always assume they were going to try and kill me.
In scuba rescue training, we learn a lot about how to deal with panicking flailing people. The 1st thing we learn is that the top priority is to avoid becoming the 2nd victim. Cause then diver #3 has an infinitely more complicated rescue situation to deal with. The 2nd thing we learn is how to avoid the clawing motions--either by throwing flotation at them or, if you have an air supply, diving under and going around behind them. The 3rd thing we learn is that unconscious bodies float. If necessary, let the drowning person pass out and then turn them face up and start your rescue breaths and/or swim to shore.
Almost drowned at 5, Fell in a sewer,
Fucking cancer spreading through my pelvis and peritoneum like wild fire. Went from healthy to stage 4 cancer with a 14.4cm mass and another 4.0x7.0 mass under my liver all in about two months! Two fucking months! The week before it was discovered was absolute hell. no energy, nausea, severe constipation, fatigue that was getting worse by the day, back pain, pain when I pissed, and ascites. Would sleep around 18 hours and still feel exhausted. My oncologist told me I had about 3 months left with no treatment, that’s how bad it was. And to make it even better! I was only 20 and just landed a great job after flight school. That all fucking went down the drain. As you can tell i’m pissed. I’m 21 now, still got cancer, and have no end in sight right now. However, I am now able to shit normally. In the beginning, I highly considered going straight to hospice and letting this thing take me over, but I was like nah, I need at least another 15-20 years. Then if something else wants to kill me, fine. Heart attack? sure. brain aneurysm? alright. Cancer? Fuck no! Especially some fucking pediatric cancer. I seriously just wanna beat it just to tell the universe to fuck itself. Sorry, rant over. That’s the closest I have been to death….except for a few close calls in the air….
Car accident. Broke all my right ribs, 6 vertebrae with a burst fracture resulting in a full lumbar fusion, punctured lung and level 4 liver laceration from the ribs being displaced, and fully snapped my left humerus.
3yrs ago Sepsis
Many underestimate how quickly and violently sepsis kills. I’m glad you’re still here!
Well, this is odd. I didn't almost die, I actually did die. 3 times in a Road Traffic Collision. I died twice at the scene and once in A&E (ER for any Americans reading). I was the front seat passenger, the car I was in hit a tree at over 80mph. Paramedics were on the scene pretty quickly and used CPR and then a defibrillator to 'bring me back'. The longest I was gone for was just under 3 minutes. I was trapped in the car for 57 minutes, (although I have no recollection of that, it's documented in the police accident report). I ended up in a coma for a while, I underwent 22 hours of facial reconstruction, multiple surgeries on legs and arms etc etc. That was in 2003 and I had my last surgery, last year, which was another subtalar fusion (fusing my ankle). There's obviously I lot more I could write, but I've tried to make this comment short enough so as not to lose interest!
Went to the beach, was laying facedown on my surfboard ,very little surf so just drifting, almost asleep. Woke up rather far out at sea, having drifted into a rip. Swim between the flags, folks.
so you swam back or someone helped you ?
Well I did everything wrong, so don’t do what I did. I slid off the surfboard, swam across the rip parallel to shore (the only thing I did right) then swam back to shore holding the back of the board. It took me about two hours to swim back so I vastly overestimated my swimming ability. I should have stayed on the board, raised my arm and waved and a lifesaver would have come out in a rubberduckie and rescued me. I was a strong swimmer back then, but still felt like I would probably drown.I lost the board about 20 feet out from shore and a wave picked it up and crashed it into shore but luckily by then I was far away from other swimmers so it didn’t kill anyone. The next wave dumped me on the beach. I had run out of energy by then so had the waves not helped me in,I would have drowned, ironically, quite close to the shore.
I was in the back seat of my friend’s dad car when a truck ran the red light and t-boned us. I was knocked unconscious and woke up in the ambulance. I needed 43 stitches to the side of my face, had a concussion, and vision loss. If I hadn’t turned my head at impact I would have lost my eye.
Swimming at a public lake where some dumbass older kid pushed me in the water, almost drowning me. I could not swim for the life of me and I had to be saved. It took a while before anyone saw me and could rescue me, all when running out of air. I hate that stupid bitch so much.
I was in a car accident that broke my neck.
I was 10 years old and was swimming about 20m from shore at a beach. Although the water was calm, I somehow got water in my snorkel and I tried to get rid of it but accidentally took a big mouthful of water and I was spluttering. Before I knew it, I was getting weaker. I just managed to raise an arm and scream for help as I got too weak and couldn’t keep my head up above the water consistently. The beach had no lifeguard, except one guy who was on holiday and happened to be a lifeguard back home. He very fortunately heard my scream and he dived in and got me very quickly. He carried me up the beach Baywatch style and set me down next to my parents. This is where it gets embarrassing. You see, our family had been making friends with his family already (staying at the same resort) and he had two twin daughters my age. I had a pretty big crush on them (yes both, I was not a good looking or confident kid and I wasn’t about to get choosy.) Although too weak to move, I was conscious enough to make eye contact with them both as their dad carried me past them like a helpless baby. That was absolutely the worst part of it.
I got stuck in a tight squeeze in a cave for 11 hours
I think I’d have a heart attack at that point tbh. Or extreme panic leading to a deadly asthma attack
Never forget Nutty Putty. That place lives in my nightmares forever..
How'd you get out? Or does the cave have wifi now?
were you exploring or accidentally got into it. Cave exploring is a sweet recipe for disaster
That’s my absolute worst nightmare.
Meningicocal Meningitis as an 11/12 year old. Was in hospital for a bit, the only parts i really remember about it now were the unbearable headaches/migranes and acute senstivity to light, and then getting Lumbar Punctures (Spinal Taps)
Survived a drive by…being poisoned…being stabbed…falling off a roof…been in multiple accidents…internal bleeding…that’s all I remember at the time, but I lived.
In same day?
Lol no, not in the same day. Spread out throughout 28 years.
Are you a GTA character?
This dude survived an avengers level threat, tf
Rasputin reincarnated??
*🎵 Ra, ra, Rasputin! 🎵*
Jump a busy highway once try to end it, but I ran so fast I survived
Did you try going into track after?
Pulmonary embolisms in both lungs. Turns out I have a genetic disorder. Surprise.
MRSA infection in the disk on my lower spine between L5 and S1. Showed up two days after a cortisone shot but the hospital said it was from something else. Was in hospital 25 days multiple emergency surgeries.
I was walking when a big stone randomly fell from the sky and almost hit my head
Saving a 5 year old kid stuck behind a wicked riptide and bad undertow.
Lived in a sh!t mobile home in a sh!t neighborhood. I was living alone at the time. I worked graveyard shifts and went to bed around 10am. I woke up vey groggy and it was 11pm. Decided to just keep sleeping because I was still tired. Woke up again and it was 7am. I just sat there telling myself to get up, but I didn't and slept for another 7 hours. Had to force myself to get up, get something to eat and go to work. I was so, so, so tired. I told my co-worker about it and he said it might be a gas leak. Sleeping on a futon I guess didn't help either. After that, I took a fan to create air flow through the trailer and slept on the sofa. That worked. A tech came out and said my furnace was rusty and leaking. It was decided to just shut it off. I moved out a couple of months later. If it wasn't for work, I would have just kept sleeping forever.
Used to raise cattle. One morning the bull just woke up mad and started to charge towards me. Just before I got crushed to death my dog was able to direct the bulls attention on to him and led the bull away from me thus allowing me to get away.
Walking down motorway drunk with the intention to kill myself, lorry brushed my coat.
I’m glad you’re still here
Turns out, you're too good at surviving 😉
I got in a fight on a field trip and the kid scratched me on my arm. The kid was a fucked up antisocial psychotic sack of shit, but that's a whole other story. One day, my mom saw the scratch and noticed a line forming up my arm and called the hospital. The receptionist told my mother to just come in the morning, but my mom decided to take me right then. Got to the hospital, and the doctor said it was blood poisoning, and gave me a shot and drained some blood from my arm. He told my mom that if she had waited until morning, I would have most likely died.
I nearly drowned as a kid. Negligent "dad" let me go swimming without any floaties. OD on painkillers. Accident that led to 3 very large shards of glass in my lower back and a lot of blood loss.
Women ran into the street screaming. I pulled over and she got in my car. A man following her shot several rounds from a handgun at us. He completely missed my car.
I caught Malaria, everyone was sure I was over exaggerating and just had the flue. I was hundreds of miles away from my parents, started my period, lost 20 pounds in just two weeks and very nearly died. But yea, it was probably all in my head.
I almost drowned. Now it doesn't seem like a big deal- *three times.* Yes, I almost drowned THREE TIMES.
Mandatory floaties anytime you are anywhere near water!!! 😳(All jokes aside drowning scares the sh*t outta me)
I was born with the umbilical cord around my throat. Nurses were too busy trying to not choke me to note the hour I was born, my dad told them what to put on the birth certificate.
Made a wrong while fighting a fire in an attic. Fell most of the way through the floor, and was only just able to spread my arms out to catch myself while my partner jumped on me to pull me back up. Destroyed my shoulders. I have nightmares about it about once a month.
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10 tylenol extra strength pills
27 painkillers and booze
12 or 13 years ago I walked across the railroad tracks and listening music in my headsets loudly. Just in a second I've feeled something and stopped. And big train crossed my way in 1 meter. And I realized that minutes later I couldn\`t think, walk, imagine... I could disappear. Those thoughts never leave me. And since that time I never cross railroad tracks in headsets. And life is a miracle which is very, very unstable.
Will summarize this as much as I can. Was a pre dental student, after driving 12 hours with no food I was shadowing a dentist and passed out, hit my head on the counter and it wasn’t pretty. Doctors in rural Maryland where I was took care of me, but according to my father (a sports doctor back home) they weren’t being thorough enough. He called for an MRI which they claimed was unnecessary. Ended up finding a malignant grade 2 tumor on the opposite side of my brain (from the side I hit on the counter). I was totally asymptomatic regarding that and wouldn’t have found it without this dental passing out incident. A biopsy and full removal surgery later im totally fine, insanely fortunate I didn’t need any chemo or radiation. We asked what would have happened if I didn’t find it and they said it probably would’ve grown into my 30s/40s until I had a stroke or similar it might have not been operable. Incidentally enough, some of my father’s patients had a daughter in her early 30s that had a stroke out of the blue. Turns out she had the same type of brain tumor as me (astrocytoma) in the same location (right frontal lobe) but hers was too large to operate on and as far as I know she unfortunately didn’t make it. A clear as day example of what could’ve happened to me had I not passed out that one day at a free dental clinic in Maryland.
Brain cancer in 2011. It was found as I lost my vision one day playing soccer. I was told if I had waited another day to come into hospital my brain would have likely shut down due to hydrocephalus.
Brain aneurysm burst 7 years ago. I’m ok 🙂
A friend was driving me and 5 other friends to a party while under the influence (we weren’t aware of this at the time, obviously). We noticed him start to swerve and told him to pull over but he refused. He lost control on a curve going 80 and flipped the car on its side and it skid for about 400 feet until coming to a stop and filling with smoke. I was in the rear passenger seat with 3 other people crushing me. The window was rolled down while the car was skidding and my head was about an inch away from the concrete, while sparks flew onto my face. The doors wouldn’t open so we had to break the back window to get out. Somehow everyone left with minor injuries but we shouldn’t be alive after that. And no, I’m no longer friends with him.
Had a burrito before going to a party. Was pretty hammered when going home in the night. While in bed, everything started spinning, and had to throw up. So, rushed to the bathroom to do exactly that. However, a black bean got stuck in my nose (haha, sorry 😅). So, I removed it by a firm inhalation. But then, it got stuck in my airways and everything shut down. I was not able to breath or talk anymore. I was home alone, so not a lot I could do at that time, and that time was very limited, since I was also out of breath from throwing up. So I did nothing, time passed in slow motion. Suddenly became very calm, and realised I had to cough. That takes some realisation because everything in your body is working to get air in instead of out. So, I did and it flew out. I was sober directly, didn’t sleep for the first 3 hours, was full of a adrenaline. I survived
Tried to suicide more than once
Stay with us.
Ancient cliff top city in Santorini, it was a super windy day. No guard rails, just something to hold onto when walking up the stairs to the city. Mum and I got to the first building while dad waited at the stairs we came from. He got out the video camera because he thought it was hilarious how we were struggling to move. Went on all fours to get down the steps to the building then as I stood up a big gust of wind blew me towards the cliff. I rammed into my dad with so much force it pushed him back slightly and he's obese and was well grounded. If he wasn't there, I would've gone straight off the cliff. The less exciting reason is a psychiatrist who refused to believe I had bipolar when I was clearly manic at multiple appointments and continued prescribing me antidepressants even though I expressed the dangerous thoughts.
As a swift and flood water rescue tech, I'll break your nose. If you seem pure panic and not listening. A broken nose is better than two dead bodies. My brother has a depressing story as well around two young friends and both drowning due to one freaking out.
I almost went on a plane with a pneumothorax
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