Ever Thought You Were Going to Die?

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SpicyDuck

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I'd be interested in hearing people's near death experiences in here. It's always nice to remember sometimes, "Wow, I made it". :)

I've had two near-death experiences.

#1 - This was when I was 14 and swimming in the Mediterranean Sea in Mammaris, Turkey. I swam quite far out on a little plastic floaty thingymajig. Anyway, I was messing about in the sea as you do and I could no long touch the sea bed so I decided to swim back out.

To my horror, I felt that I was being pulled back and it suddenly became very strong. Scared for my life I started swimming but I wasn't going anywhere. When I realised this I must have had a massive adrenaline boost. I stopped for a minute, caught my breath and then just manically swam as hard as I could.

Luckily, I escaped the current and managed to swim safely back to the shore.

#2 - This was when I was about 10 years old. My family were staying down in Devon in a static caravan and earlier in the day my big brother pushed me in the pool and my lips went purple. Having Asthma back then, it was scary but I quickly warmed up and all was good.

Later in the night I went to bed and all was ok. I woke up though, about 3 hours later and I couldn't catch a breath. I was suffocating and didn't know what to do at first.

I managed to gather my thoughts and decided I needed to get to my mum so I rolled onto the floor and started crawling. I was suffocating and I felt faint and like I was about to just collapse.

With my mum in sight I managed to JUST tap her and wake her (luckily, as she is a heavy sleeper). She quickly realised what was going on and sat me up and ran outside to the phone box which was close by.

When she was away, I remember feeling this absolutely awesome and amazing feeling whilst suffocating, then, in a last frantic attempt I tried to get some breath to no avail. Then I went unconscious.

I woke up about an hour later in an ambulance and that's all I remember of those 2 weeks. I don't remember my 2 week stay in the hospital apart from a slight memory of a Thomas the Tank Engine dinner cart.

So what about you? Any near-death experiences?

Phil.
 
I was alone at work one night, eating an apple. I started to choke on it. I just managed to get out the door and self-Heimlich by punching myself in the stomach as the edges of my vision began to darken.

I never eat apples alone now. :D
 
Was getting a piggy-back when I was little from a friend of the family when we were at the CIU club.

He decided it would be fun to do a forward roll while I was still on his back.

Luckily my Mum saw and she kicked him full force in the stomach just as he was about to snap my neck :eek:

Edit - oh yeah... been in a couple of car accidents etc but that ^^ is the first that comes to mind :)
 
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Nothing really as bad as that, but I once impaled my head on a broken 4litre glass bottle. Blood everywhere and it wouldn't stop. Still have the scar on my forhead.

2 inches lower, straight through my eye and possibly into my brain.
 
When I'd just passed my test last year, the back end of my car lost grip at over 90mph round a bend. Somehow managed to recover it and with such little driving experience I really don't know how I did. But if I had hit anything at that speed I would almost certainly be dead. :rolleyes: and :eek: just about sum that up.
 
When i was about 7 or 8, i eat a large chunk of gammon and thought i could swallow it. Turned out i couldnt, and thankfully my dad saved my life. If it wernt for him i wouldn't be here now.
 
About 20 years ago I was experiencing pains in the area of my kidneys. Since my brother had had problems with his, the doctor decided to check mine so he arranged for me to have my kidneys x-rayed.
The procedure involved being injected with an Iodine dye which would show up on the x-ray. It turns out, I'm allergic to Iodine - in a bad way.
As the trainee doctor was pumping the dye in, I started to feel odd which rapidly turned into feeling like **** and then went on to utter panic as I could feel myself slipping away.

Luckily the surgeon was nearby and he orchestrated the pumping in of various drugs which slowly stabilised my condition :cool:

The nurse told me afterwards that if my heart rate had slipped another couple of beats per minute, I would have gone into cardiac arrest :eek:

Stan :)
 
I got chased by a bunch of druggies threatening to kill me with a "For Sale" sign when I was about 10 :p . Funny now but v. scary back then.
 
Only in dreams for me - in fact this morning I dreamt I was being chased by 2 chavs with knives (for some reason, don't ask why) and it felt so real I thought I was going to die. Then I recognised it was a dream (it was set in my school, but there aren't really any english chavs around here!) and all was well :)

BTW mate, you need to sort out that french in your sig! :o
 
When I was a lot younger (I'm 29) maybe 24 years ago, I was on a bouncy castle down in Hastings I think, anyway, the damn thing capsized into a boating lake trapping a few kids underneath both water and castle, lucky really, because if it had tipped the other direction it would have fallen off of a pretty long drop.

It was in the early 80's so health and safety probably wasn't what it is now.
 
Zip said:
It wasnt depressing the thread megsy.
I feel the same about life as you at the moment :(
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Live for the moment, you never know what the future holds for you. Thats my motto for getting me through this.
 
megzy said:
Live for the moment, you never know what the future holds for you. Thats my motto for getting me through this.
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How do you stop thinking about it? I can do everything i find fun and what i like to do but its always there in my head and i cant stop thinking about it.
Its driving me insane :(
 
Ok this is lame but it works for me, say to yourself, " I have spent too much of my time and effort thinking bout this." Then I force myself to think of something else, its the only thing that stops me doing stupid stuff.
 
I was once canoeing down the Honddu from Brecon to Crickhowell when I took an offshoot that was narrow and a deadend. I remember seeing a couple of kids playing on the bank which was unusual as there were no public access routes nearby. I assumed they were up to no good.

I paddled backwards into the current in order to take the correct route and the was whipped over and trapped up against a load of driftwood and flotsam that had collected in between the two routes. The force of the water against my splash deck was holding me under and no matter how hard I pulled, it wouldn't budge.

I still had hold of the paddle and pushed it into the river bed in the hope of righting myself. It wouldn't budge and my lungs were now bursting. I remember thinking that this was it!

All of a sudden there was an almighty wallop on the bottom of the canoe. It started to bounce up and down until it popped up. The two kids had watched it all unfold and had rushed down to help. Apparently both had tried to move it by hand but it was only by jumping up and down on the canoe that they saved my life.

I shook their hands and thanked them before they shot off. The strange thing was that this was in the middle of absolutely nowhere and the chances of there being anyone about were astronomical, given that it was so far off the beaten track.

The whole experience scared me severely and although I continued down river for several more miles before giving up, I was incredibly shaken up and capsized several times in open calmer waters. I never canoed again.
 
megzy said:
Ok this is lame but it works for me, say to yourself, " I have spent too much of my time and effort thinking bout this." Then I force myself to think of something else, its the only thing that stops me doing stupid stuff.
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Ill try, ive kinda tryed that before but it didnt work really well.
She keeps giving me glimpses of hope and then she completely shuts me out in a matter of minutes. I dont know if shes doing it on purpouse or not but it seem crewl :(
I hate caring for someone so much then i care for myself for them not to even really talk to me :(
Im not a suicidal person at all, the only stupid thing i do is throw the car around skinny back roads faster then i should.
I just want to fix everything or some how completely forget everything. I feel like a part of me has died and i miss her so much :(
She wasnt a girlfriend, she was just my best friend and i was closer to her then i have ever been closer to anyone else in my life.
Its completely messed me up and every thing i do. Im not sleeping well because of it to
 
OvertoneBliss said:
Zip, you'll feel worse when you hit somebody and kill them, driving like that. Be more careful where you take out your frustration, yeh? :)
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Yeah i know. The back roads i do it on are right through the countryside far away from civerlization .
I also think ahead. Like "what if another car comes" "What if a cows in the road"
Im always making sure my full concerntration is focused on whats around the next corner. It keeps my mind off of things but its still there in my head, just not as bad.
 
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