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Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:17 pm to rebeloke
I was working at the edge of a highway right of way when a garbage truck hit a telephone pole a little ways away...high voltage power line fell between my coworker and I...arcing everywhere...
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:35 pm to bencoleman
In the ninth grade choked on a lemon head jaw breaker. My dad had to give me the Heimlich maneuver. Couldn't get it out. It starts sliding down more and I start struggling to breath. I am eventually able to swallow it.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:36 pm to rebeloke
VBIED or a really close mortar round. Also a shoutout, but their aim sucked.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:39 pm to rebeloke
In June of 1997 I had an angioplasty. I coded that night and that was just the beginning of a very strange summer. It turned out that I was allergic to a medication they gave me after the angioplasty. My reaction was that it shut down my immune system and I could not generate white blood cells. I was in and out of the Washington Hospital Center a few times and then transferred to Georgetown University Hospital Center in August. When I got there I was told that I needed a bone marrow transplant. The hematologist/oncologist who met me at Georgetown asked my age. I told him that I would be 46 on September 10. He said, “I don’t think so”. Nice bedside manner, huh?
I had two bone marrow aspirations from the lower back. My parents came to see me and my 4 siblings came to D.C. to be tested as bone marrow donors. I felt horrible for my son, who was then 15, when he came to see me.
I was fortunate and recovered without a transplant. The good medical care of the doctors; the absence of the drug that I was allergic to; the presence of a new drug; my body; and the Hand of God worked in concert and I was able to generate white blood cells again. I was followed at the Lombardi Clinic for 6 months. I was amazed by the brave men and women of all ages who were there fighting cancer. I am not sure that I had/have the will to do the same. I was written up in medical journals because apparently only a 40 year old in France and I survived the drug reaction. Just goes to prove that only the good die young.
I had two bone marrow aspirations from the lower back. My parents came to see me and my 4 siblings came to D.C. to be tested as bone marrow donors. I felt horrible for my son, who was then 15, when he came to see me.
I was fortunate and recovered without a transplant. The good medical care of the doctors; the absence of the drug that I was allergic to; the presence of a new drug; my body; and the Hand of God worked in concert and I was able to generate white blood cells again. I was followed at the Lombardi Clinic for 6 months. I was amazed by the brave men and women of all ages who were there fighting cancer. I am not sure that I had/have the will to do the same. I was written up in medical journals because apparently only a 40 year old in France and I survived the drug reaction. Just goes to prove that only the good die young.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:45 pm to rebeloke
I lost my skis after getting cut off in park city this past January and tumbled back first into a tree at 35mph.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:45 pm to Goldrush25
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3. Grenade chucked at our vehicle driving down an Iraqi highway. Missed my window by a few feet, although I could be misremembering how close it actually was since it was 10 years ago.
MSR Tampa? Good times...
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:47 pm to touchdownjeebus
Oh and a plane that skid off the strip at Salerno.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 7:50 pm to rebeloke
Close enough that I was administered Extreme Unction although I was unconscious.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:10 pm to Swampeast
Passenger in a car that ran off road and flipped three times, not a scratch.
Shot a BMP armored troop carrier while standing on a humvee with an AT4 which apparently was being used to carry munitions and exploded peppering me with shrapnel and blew me off the vehicle. I woke up after Desert Dust Off was called with a concussion and fragments all over. Medics used tweezers and stitches to sew me up. I slept hard, woke up the next morning and went back to work. Hell of a day.
Shot a BMP armored troop carrier while standing on a humvee with an AT4 which apparently was being used to carry munitions and exploded peppering me with shrapnel and blew me off the vehicle. I woke up after Desert Dust Off was called with a concussion and fragments all over. Medics used tweezers and stitches to sew me up. I slept hard, woke up the next morning and went back to work. Hell of a day.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:13 pm to rebeloke
Drilled into a 220 line while standing in about 6 inches of water. The only thing that saved me was rubber boots and gloves.
Diving in Cozumel, had my regulator quit working at about 70 feet diving the Santa Rosa wall. Never rent Mexican dive equipment, ask me how I know!
Told my wife, "yes those jeans do make your butt look fat".
Won't do that ever again.
Diving in Cozumel, had my regulator quit working at about 70 feet diving the Santa Rosa wall. Never rent Mexican dive equipment, ask me how I know!
Told my wife, "yes those jeans do make your butt look fat".
Won't do that ever again.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:14 pm to Swampeast
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Close enough that I was administered Extreme Unction
Why no regular unction?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:20 pm to ruzil
Combat Vet here too, Baghdad 03-04. Worst thing I can remember was during some training when I was stationed at ft polk. About 10 of us were in the back of an uncovered 5 ton and the retard driving hit a sharp turn doing about 40 mph , we were basically hanging from the side of the thing. Also, I was in a M1 abrams unit in Korea driving down ice and snow covered mountain roads and sliding all over the place with tanks sliding behind me, cliffs on the sides.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:51 pm to touchdownjeebus
Reminded me of a time that a flight from NOLA to Houston my wife and I took circled the airport for 45 minutes. The pilot finally came on and told us he was burning off excess fuel because our landing gear was not working properly. We landed okay but the tarmac was full of emergency responders.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:03 pm to Redbone
My wife is in anethesia. If they gave you too much then you would be dead. Not sure if most people know this but they use "the same drug that killed Michael" just about every day in every case where a patient goes under for surgery. It likely wasn't the drug but more the person administering it that likely almost killed you.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:08 pm to warr09
I was mugged at gunpoint back in college, near Gardere, go figure. I was pretty calm when it happened because I didn't think they would shoot me. I was pretty shook up though after everything went down and I had time to think about what could have happened.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:08 pm to ForeverLSU02
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woke up right before running into a bridge head on.
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I was able to swerve and avoid it
Oh
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:10 pm to rebeloke
Going on 17 years of building cellphone towers. I have had multiple near death experiences. Some caused by me, some caused by others, some caused by equipment malfunctions and then there have been a few times they were caused by mother nature. I have seen fingers ripped off. Skulls crushed open. 300 Ton Demag cranes flip over. I have been on towers that were struck by lightning. I have had a knife pulled on me in an attempted robbery. Was asleep in the backseet of a crew truck when the driver lost control on an icy road in Pennsylvania. The only thing that stopped us from going over a cliff was the tool trailer behind our truck.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:10 pm to Grim
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and tumbled back first into a tree at 35mph.
crazy how you were able to read your handheld speedometer
Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:15 pm to rebeloke
Driving down Nicholson late at night a few months ago..bad idea always. 
Some a-hole (probably drunk) is speeding and swerves into our lane to go around an 18-wheeler, driving straight at us. Luckily someone else was driving and swerved around him onto the side of the road, though the other guy kept driving along as if he hadn't almost gotten in a head-on collision. I look back and he's tailgating another 18-wheeler, probably about to go around again...
I can never forget seeing headlights coming straight at us.
Some a-hole (probably drunk) is speeding and swerves into our lane to go around an 18-wheeler, driving straight at us. Luckily someone else was driving and swerved around him onto the side of the road, though the other guy kept driving along as if he hadn't almost gotten in a head-on collision. I look back and he's tailgating another 18-wheeler, probably about to go around again...
I can never forget seeing headlights coming straight at us.
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