How many times have you almost died?

[SoulOfTheFlame]

This thread isn't for heart attacks and life saving surgery. This is more for times where that car missed you by an inch, or you jumped from the hotel room to the pool, only to narrowly miss the edge on your way down.

That sorta thing!

I'll start with 3:

1. When I was about 8 I rode out into an intersection on my bike and came within inches of being nailed by a schoolbus.

2. When I was 19 I was working at a factory and the mechanic decided to pour out my water bottle, fill it with translucent highly toxic brake fluid and then put it exactly where I'd left it. I ended up taking a half swig and running my face under a tap for 20mins, before chasing him around the factory out of my mind with anger.

3. I was about 12 and was riding one of those Dicky Dee ice cream bikes, selling popcicles around town, it was a rainy day and my brakes went out while going down a hill towards a busy intersection. I ended up turning the thing 90 degreed in desperation, rolled it and ended up with nothing more than a couple bloody knees. I can't say the bike was so lucky.


What about you guys?

[Flames in 07]

Wow, people are coming up with novel topics lately.

The only one I can think of was when I was 17 I was driving though Southland and Acadia drive at about 2am in a Jeep CJ5, when a guy ran his red light at about 70km or 80km/h and missed us by about a car length.

[Devils'Advocate]

I don't remember much of this and have pieced together the story from what witnesses told me afterwards....

I was 22 at the time. I was heading out to a friends place... Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistable" was on the radio, which typically made me go slightly over the speed limit. Next thing I remember, I'm waking up in a hospital. That's all I remember. I have 2 hours of blank space.

What I have been told happened is that I drove into an area of road where they had been doing repairs. The shoulder was almost a foot down. I slipped off the shoulder and had the right side tires down on the shoulder, the left tires on the road and the undercarriage scraping the edge. I must have panicked and tried to pull back up on the road. The front tire made it, but the back tire didn't. The whole back axel was ripped right off. The Blazer fell on its side and started rolling laterally down the road. After six complete revolutions, the vehicle landed upside down in the ditch. All the doors were crushed shut, so I scrambled through to the back and jumped out the back window (which was obviously smashed). Apparently I hopped out and asked the witnesses what the hell happened and they were all amazed that I was up and walking around after crawling out of this Blazer crushed all to smithereens.

But like I said, I don't remember any of it. I might as well have been picked up by giant UFO magnet and dropped upside down in the ditch.

In any case, the police told me that had I not been wearing a seatbelt, there is no way I would have been up and walking around after that accident.

[Engine09]

Almost drowned in '93.

Inches from a head-on collision driving the TransCanada in Ontario. Snowstorm and single lane, horrible.

[Azure]

Anyone on here who has actually been dead(heart has stopped) only to have the best group of people in the world(EMTs) bring you back to life again?

Talk about a life-changing experiance.

[eazyduzzit]

Only one near death experience for myself.

It was in 1999 during Operation ECHO when i was serving with 4 Wing Cold Lake in which a 450+lbs AGM-65 Maverick (approx 150lbs payload) munition fell off one of the cranes transporting it from the storage site onto a forklift which was to take it the location of one of the CF-18 Hornets preparing to fly a mission over Bosnia, i was approx 4 FT away when it landed. If it fell a little higher than it did, it could have potentially went off.

[Sylvanfan]

Hiway 16 about 45 kilometers West of McBride I hit some black ice and started spinning out of control going up a hill of all things. Road bends and I kept going straight and just miss the guadrail. My little 1997 Volkswagen GTI is light enough that before the first revolution of the roll over is complete some dinky little tree on the hill is able to save the car from rolling the other 50 feet down the bank and into a creek. I walked away without injury, but who knows if I roll down the bank and into the creek.

[Nehkara]

I have a couple.

One time at the crosswalk across Centre street North near the IDA by 64th avenue, I pressed the button and looked both ways and didn't see anyone so I started to cross with my head down. My friend behind me pulled me back onto the sidewalk just as a POLICE CAR flew by in the curb lane at about 80 km/h (in a 50 km/h zone) with only his lights on in the middle of the day.

Another time at the intersection (lights and everything) of 64th avenue and 4th street NW, I was crossing from the SE corner of the intersection to the SW corner of the intersection (and I had the walk sign, the light had turned about 5 seconds before). I stepped out onto the road and walked a few feet (with my head down again) and again a POLICE CAR flew by me in broad daylight with only his lights on, this one was going way way faster... probably 100 km/h or more as by the time I looked up, he was almost a full block away. He only missed me by about 6 inches and he was running a red.

The two incidents with the police cars happened when I was about 10 and 14 respectively.

When I was about 8 or 9, me and my dad were coming home from a icefishing trip in the dark and we both fell asleep. We were on highway 2 near the Balzac overpass... about 5 minutes from home. We left the highway at a speed of about 110 km/h and we hit the guardrail on the side of the highway at a speed of about 95 km/h. We were in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, an old one that was all steel (thank god). The front left was crushed in right up to the passenger cabin, the front left wheel was torn off. My dad was fine, no injuries. I hit my head on the passenger window or dash (I don't really recall) and I had a terrible nosebleed for over an hour but that was the worst of it. If we had been in a car we probably would have at least been in the hospital, possibly worse.

[SaskaBushFire]

Every time I drive with my friend Ricky..

[FLAMESRULE]

3 Times

1) Was about 7 years old, young and stupid. Decided I's show my parents and aunt how I could suck a grape off the table from 2-3" or so. Needless to say I sucked her right back into the wind pipe. Lucky for me my dad is a doctor and popped the grape out.

2) swimming with my cousin on Lake Okanogan. Was about 9 and about 500m from shore on an air mattress. I fell off and thought I could swim back while my cousin got dragged back by his parents boat. I got tired and they had to come rescue me.

3) Had an asthma attack in my parents car on the way home from a 3 week vacation to San Diego, doing lots of camping. We were about 5 minutes from home and I had an asthma attack and took my medicine which had a pop off cap. I had chewed it so that it ddidnt stay on very well, and sucked it back into my throat. My dad was freaking and had the car stopped to run into a neighbours house for a knife. But I managed to dislodge it on my own.

4) Had a big house fire when I was 13. Ran back into to rescue my dog, a great Lab called Bailey. But never felt my life was in danger, in fact I didnt think about anything, just reacted.

Lucky to be alive

GO FLAMES GO!!

[Inferno]

I can think of four:

1. My parents told me my heart stopped when I was born. Even after that my life was still in trouble due to possible complications I could have been facing being born with the disability I have and had to be kept in the hospital before my parents could take me home.

2. I had a severe case of apendicitis when I was young and if it wasnt for my parents driving an hour to Thompson to get a second opinion from the doctors there my apendics would have burst and I probably would have died.

The doctor where I used to live kept on telling my parents it was a stomach flu but I kept on getting worse so they finally took me to Thompson. After getting my apendics out I spent a few weeks in the hospital getting the posion that was still in my body pumped out. One thing I remember about it is telling my mom that I had 'monsters' in my stomach and that the tubes were getting rid of them.

3. I remember almost getting hit by a car on my way to school. I wasnt paying attention at all and walked right in front of it but luckily it stopped in time. I felt really stupid and ****ed off at myself for doing that and now I'm extra cautious when crossing a road.

4. Had a car run a stop sign and cut right in front of me and parents who were in a truck. We didnt have our seatbelts on and if we would have hit the car we would have went through the windshield but my dad stopped in time.

[FunkMasterFlame]

A few years ago, on my way to school, I was walking down a steep hill that didn't have a sidewalk, and I was forced to walk on the side of the street. It was in the middle of winter too but it was chinooking so all the slushy, slippery gravel was exposed on the street.

I ended up slipping on the gravel just as a giant SUV was coming down the hill behind me. I landed with my head about 3in away from being crushed underneath the front tire.

That would have been a crappy way to go.

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Azure

Anyone on here who has actually been dead(heart has stopped) only to have the best group of people in the world(EMTs) bring you back to life again?

Talk about a life-changing experiance.

ii had complete respiratoryt failure, but they got me back before my heart stopped....

[Sample00]

wow, great topic.

19 years old, heading south on highway 2a, just north of the calgary airport. coming back from seeing my girlfriend in balzac. was cruising along and hit the intersection with my 1973 AMC Javelin and its the last thing I remember, next thing I know, some guy is pulling me out of the passenger door. Some guy in a 1977 Buick LaSabre made an unsafe left turn into the intersection and my Javelin hit him straight on. I hit his LaSabre so hard that it pushed the fan into the block and created a perfect V into his front end. My car was destroyed, my seat came totally dislodged from the floor and I hit the wind shield. He doubled over the steering wheel from the impact.
The only thing I remember is asking somebody to go take the tape out of my cheap 5.00 tape deck which ate all my tapes all the time. I can still hear "Closer to the heart" playing as I was lying on the side of the road.

3 years ago, I went in for a scope of my pancreas at the University of Alberta Hospital. After the scope, my wife and I went out for a bite to eat at Earls on 170th street in Edmonton. I started feeling nautious during the lunch and went to the washroom, where I started to puke. I couldnt stop and crawled on my hands and knees back to the table and got my wife to rush me to the Miseracordia. As I got out of the truck in the emergency entrance I passed out from the pain. Next thing I remember is a whole bunch of doctors and nurses all around me. My wife tells me that they asked if I had a living will. miseracordia didnt want to deal with me, as my procedure was done at the UofA and they transported me back to that hospital. Doctors told my wife that "if" if I made it through the night, I would have a good chance of survival. Apprently I developed pancreatitis from the scope and my levels, whatever they are, were the highest they had ever seen on a living person. They were totally amazed that I pulled through as they kept thinking my pancreas was going to explode or something. I am missing about 12 hours out of my life.

[Fozzie_DeBear]

2 times...

Once I was about 8 and started chocking a steak sandwich, luckily my dad knoew the heimlich(sp?)...from that point on I NEVER ate a steak that cost less than $3

Heading home from the bar, I was absolutely shattered...my sober buddy was driving my car home at about 100 kph on a major highway, but I thought it would be a great idea to climb out the window and ride on the roof of the car for about two minutes...nothing bad happened and it was really fun...but one little slip and I would have been hamburger...

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Sample00

wow, great topic.

19 years old, heading south on highway 2a, just north of the calgary airport. coming back from seeing my girlfriend in balzac. was cruising along and hit the intersection with my 1973 AMC Javelin and its the last thing I remember, next thing I know, some guy is pulling me out of the passenger door. Some guy in a 1977 Buick LaSabre made an unsafe left turn into the intersection and my Javelin hit him straight on. I hit his LaSabre so hard that it pushed the fan into the block and created a perfect V into his front end. My car was destroyed, my seat came totally dislodged from the floor and I hit the wind shield. He doubled over the steering wheel from the impact.
The only thing I remember is asking somebody to go take the tape out of my cheap 5.00 tape deck which ate all my tapes all the time. I can still hear "Closer to the heart" playing as I was lying on the side of the road.

3 years ago, I went in for a scope of my pancreas at the University of Alberta Hospital. After the scope, my wife and I went out for a bite to eat at Earls on 170th street in Edmonton. I started feeling nautious during the lunch and went to the washroom, where I started to puke. I couldnt stop and crawled on my hands and knees back to the table and got my wife to rush me to the Miseracordia. As I got out of the truck in the emergency entrance I passed out from the pain. Next thing I remember is a whole bunch of doctors and nurses all around me. My wife tells me that they asked if I had a living will. miseracordia didnt want to deal with me, as my procedure was done at the UofA and they transported me back to that hospital. Doctors told my wife that "if" if I made it through the night, I would have a good chance of survival. Apprently I developed pancreatitis from the scope and my levels, whatever they are, were the highest they had ever seen on a living person. They were totally amazed that I pulled through as they kept thinking my pancreas was going to explode or something. I am missing about 12 hours out of my life.

I, for one, am really glad you are still around and I'm sorry you have come so close to being gone twice.

[Eddie Bronze]

When I was 18 I was almost run over in a crosswalk.

The Oilers won the cup, I almost died then, too.

[feartheflames]

hit by a bus

[CaptainCrunch]

I had a bullet miss my head by about 2 feet. Freaked me out when I heard it spanging off the side of the truck I was kneeling beside. It proved that you don't hear the shot til after the bullet hits.

[feartheflames]

fell into a gutter when I was 1 years old