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Have you ever almost died?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:04 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:04 pm
Like in the moment you think "this is it, this is how I die "
I almost died Sunday night. In the kitchen by myself and my fatty arse was eating a slice of hangover cake. Got stuck halfway down. Couldn't cough it up. Couldn't breathe. After a few seconds I started trying to heimlich myself on the lip of the sink.
It starts to get dark. I feel myself fading. And I think. "49, survived 18 months in Afghanistan... choked on cake."
Anyway, sink dislodged it. Still thinking about it.
I almost died Sunday night. In the kitchen by myself and my fatty arse was eating a slice of hangover cake. Got stuck halfway down. Couldn't cough it up. Couldn't breathe. After a few seconds I started trying to heimlich myself on the lip of the sink.
It starts to get dark. I feel myself fading. And I think. "49, survived 18 months in Afghanistan... choked on cake."
Anyway, sink dislodged it. Still thinking about it.
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:07 pm to LordSnow
Congrats on saving your own life. Glad you’re still around. Thank you for your service.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:08 pm to LordSnow
Damn, I eat cake, too. Could have been me.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:08 pm to LordSnow
Yep.
FUBAR in Cancun and stepped off the curb on the street and didn’t see a bus coming. Friend grabbed my shirt and pulled me back.
FUBAR in Cancun and stepped off the curb on the street and didn’t see a bus coming. Friend grabbed my shirt and pulled me back.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:08 pm to LordSnow
Yes.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:08 pm to LordSnow
quote:
hangover cake
What kind of bullshite is this?
Edit: yes to your question but it never hit me in the moment it was only after that I realized.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:09 pm to LordSnow
I bet there are times in everyone’s life when they were “this close” to dying but didn’t know it.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:10 pm to LordSnow
Was behind a truck at night on the way back to BR from NOLA that was carrying a mattress.
Mattress and box spring flew out the back of the truck into my lane. Spun me off the interstate. Thought for sure I was going to die. Last thought was how sad my mom was going to be and waited for the quick knockout blow of a tree or something that never came.
Mattress and box spring flew out the back of the truck into my lane. Spun me off the interstate. Thought for sure I was going to die. Last thought was how sad my mom was going to be and waited for the quick knockout blow of a tree or something that never came.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:10 pm to Aguga
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:11 pm to LordSnow
Twice that I can recall. When I was a kid on a church trip, we went to some podunk water park in Mississippi. Several of us were playing in the pool, and my hands slipped off the rope barrier that separated the shallow end from the deep end. I couldn't quite swim yet, and nearly drowned. An adult on the trip drug me out of the pool and performed CPR on me. Rode in an ambulance and spent the night in the hospital.
The other time was also in Mississippi. I was 15, and we were driving back and forth to the hospital every day to be with my grandmother who had a stroke. I had my learners permit, and was driving my mom's little Nissan 240. We were coming up a hill with a curve in it, and at the top there was an intersection, but it wasn't a 4 way stop. This big Mack dumptruck pulled up to the stop sign, and I guess didn't see us, and started to pull out into the road. I swerved over into the shoulder, fishtailed the car a little, and I pass right in front of his bumper. I was shaking the rest of the drive. If I hadn't seen him we could have ended up underneath the back end and surely would have died.
The other time was also in Mississippi. I was 15, and we were driving back and forth to the hospital every day to be with my grandmother who had a stroke. I had my learners permit, and was driving my mom's little Nissan 240. We were coming up a hill with a curve in it, and at the top there was an intersection, but it wasn't a 4 way stop. This big Mack dumptruck pulled up to the stop sign, and I guess didn't see us, and started to pull out into the road. I swerved over into the shoulder, fishtailed the car a little, and I pass right in front of his bumper. I was shaking the rest of the drive. If I hadn't seen him we could have ended up underneath the back end and surely would have died.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:12 pm to Saint Alfonzo
yeah. It was an odd existence in the 6 to 12 months after the event. Worked out for the best. But, that's just me. I don't recommend near death.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:12 pm to Festus
quote:
Thank you for your service
Point of clarification. I never served. I was attached as a civilian to a signal brigade as a contractor. Don't want anyone to come for me.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:12 pm to LordSnow
Hell yeah. God is Great
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:13 pm to LordSnow
yes
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:13 pm to LordSnow
I was about 22, driving on the highway around midnight (100% sober) in the middle lane and suddenly a car going to wrong way was coming right at me, probably doing 90. Luckily I swerved to my right and he swerved to his right. I can still hear the guttural scream I let out. Absolutely terrifying..
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:13 pm to LordSnow
quote:
I almost died Sunday night. In the kitchen by myself and my fatty arse was eating a slice of hangover cake. Got stuck halfway down.
Sounds more like hung up cake.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:13 pm to 214
Allah Akbar 2 u 2
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:14 pm to LordSnow
Yup. Cutting the grass last summer, got hit twice in the shoulder by those a-hole mahogany wasps; hurt like a bitch but thought nothing of it. As I'm walking into the garage to grab the spray, I start losing all peripheral vision and i can't breathe- Pass out cold. Thankfully the GF found me and called the ambulance. Stung all my life and never had issue till now. Now I have to carry an epi pen everywhere I go. Same as you, two tours to Iraq and a freaking wasp almost took me out.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:17 pm to LordSnow
About 1 1/2 yrs ago I thought I was about to slide down the side of one of the volcanoes here on Ascension Island. It would have been about a 300 foot slide and then about a 300 feet fall onto volcanic rocks at the shore.
So many things were flashing in my mind. "They will never find my body...they will talk about how I died in the middle of nowhere...I'll never (snow) ski again."
I just knew I was about to die.
So many things were flashing in my mind. "They will never find my body...they will talk about how I died in the middle of nowhere...I'll never (snow) ski again."
I just knew I was about to die.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 7:18 pm to LordSnow
Funny you should give this example… I almost choked on a piece of dry roast beef in my kitchen by myself and was thinking “what a shitty way to go.” This was last week.
Then the ole diaphragm kicked in and I was able to regurgitate it back up projectile style onto the floor. The dog ate the piece of meat.
Then the ole diaphragm kicked in and I was able to regurgitate it back up projectile style onto the floor. The dog ate the piece of meat.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 7:20 pm
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