re: What Was Your Closest Brush With Death?

1.) I had a brain tumor removed as a high-schooler in 2007. Even though it was successfully removed, I have lived with seizures. I've crashed my car twice, all within the past three years, due to my epilepsy. On my most recent wreck, my wife (girlfriend at the time)(no pics) was in the passenger seat and was totally cool, calm and collected and was able to throw the car into park and stop the car about 20 feet short of a tree after I had veered off-road..


2.) My apartment was hit by the Tuscaloosa tornado. It clipped the far end of the units across the way from me, but missed us enough to not cause much damage but destroyed everything across the street. I took this photo as it approached: