Have you ever felt yourself close to death?

They knocked me out with drugs when I got to the hospital. After I fell, I stood up and waved to my acquaintances and changed my clothes.
 
I had a freak accident a while ago. I was going to the mailbox. On the way back, I missed a step somehow and fell into some bushes that had just been pruned. A sharp edge of a branch poked me in my side...HARD. It didn't puncture me, but oh it hurt. I had a bruise and it kept hurting. Eventually, it had me in so much pain, I went to the doctor. There I found out I had some blood clot. I had to stay in the hospital for a short time and get monitored and was given anticoagulants. All because I was a clutz. They never told me I was near-death...but in my mind, it was scary, thinking a blood clot could somehow break off and cause a stroke or whatever.
 
Breath said:
I had a freak accident a while ago. I was going to the mailbox. On the way back, I missed a step somehow and fell into some bushes that had just been pruned. A sharp edge of a branch poked me in my side...HARD. It didn't puncture me, but oh it hurt. I had a bruise and it kept hurting. Eventually, it had me in so much pain, I went to the doctor. There I found out I had some blood clot. I had to stay in the hospital for a short time and get monitored and was given anticoagulants. All because I was a clutz. They never told me I was near-death...but in my mind, it was scary, thinking a blood clot could somehow break off and cause a stroke or whatever.
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I know a guy that had to have his leg amputated recently for that very thing. A clot.
 
7th grade- partially ruptured spleen. After I ruptured it, my doctor was pushing on my stomach and told me to go home that it was just a stomach virus, come back in 24 hours. My mom wanted a second opinion so she took me to the ER. They told me if I would have came in any later, I would have been dead.

2002- Went to florida for spring break. On the way back my friend was driving my car, both of us WEREN'T wearing seatbelts. We were going about 100-110 mph up rt95 in south carolina. She went to flick her cigarette and lost complete control of the car. We did about two 360s, went down an embankment and through a bunch of trees. It was basically right after rush hour and not one car hit us. The only injuries we got were cuts from the thorn bushes we had to walk through to get out of the wreckage and back to the highway.

2003- Swimming in daytona beach, I caught the undertow and couldn't get back in. I was too far away from a life guard to use my last breath to scream...couldn't chance him not hearing me. So I looked for my friend Joel who was about 50-100 feet away from me and started waving at him screaming. Moron just looked at me and started waving back....but then he realized that I needed help and came over just in time as I really started to go under.
 
thrawn said:
You realize I am probably the only one round these parts that has any clue what you are talking about...:D
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I figured as much.

thrawn said:
I fell about a hundred feet off of a cliff and screwed up my left arm pretty good. I spent a week in the hospital, most of it unconscious. But I never felt like I was near death or was going to die.
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100 feet? That is about 10 stories. You were lucky, very lucky.
It was your ornery narn attitude that kept you alive.
 
A number of times yes.

Have had to be ressucitated a few times too.

I just get on with life though and don't dwell on what was, because it can't be changed, it happened and I am still alive, so I don't analyse it really - I just take each day as it comes, but that is because of my son not what happened to me. :)
 
I have a terrible fear of water, and unfortunately, can't really swim. That doesn't stop me from going to the swimming pool now and then, however.

I am smart enough nowadays to know where I should stay, but that wasn't always the case a couple of years ago. I was with a friend in a public pool that didn't have a shallow end. So, as usual, I stayed close to the edge and paddled around.

I've forgotten why, but for some reason I strayed from the edge slightly. I think my friend had decided to see if she could swim to the other end (which wasn't actually that great a distance) and I'd decided to have a go as well. Within seconds, I panicked, and felt myself losing ability to keep my head above water. Somehow I managed to do the 2 or 3 strokes needed to get back to the edge of the pool.

I'm sure that if I had gone under, I would have been resuscitated by the pool staff (if anyone actually noticed that I'd gone, lol). So, perhaps to call it a near-death experience is an exaggeration. But, for those few seconds, the thought raced through my mind - I could be about to die.

It was quite frightening, to say the least.
 
gLing said:
I figured as much.


100 feet? That is about 10 stories. You were lucky, very lucky.
It was your ornery narn attitude that kept you alive.
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Actually, it was more than twelve stories but ~100 feet generally gets the point across. The hot nurse taking my clothes off in the ER was the last thing I remember for a week. Maybe that's what kept me alive. :24:
 
One specifially, I dont want to get into... so I'll skip that


In 2003, I was driving to class early in the morning.. in the rain.. A Yukon cut in front of me and threw a whole mess of rain on my windshield.. couldnt see anything... I tried to slow down, but I ended up doing 2 or 3 360s going down the parkway at 55-60 mph.. across the median and into oncoming traffic... facing the wrong way



'tis why I dont like driving in the rain
 
yes, several times...no nothing came out of it...ppl care for that minute, after that life goes on as if nothing ever happened...noone ever says, i can't believe we almost lost you...i'm so greatful you're still alive.
 
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