re: Change Of Pace: Your Closest Call To Death

Is that the rapid you reach up to touch the top of the rock? Have done that one more than once. Before we went through the first time, my guide said a navy seal died at the same spot a year before.

i was 19 and was on Tiger Bend late one night doing about 90ish and I came to what was presumably a soft left which it was until the middle of the curve. The middle of the curve had a massive gravel patch that I wasn't expecting and of course i instantly went into a high speed drift and being unable to control I drove into a huge culvert that sent my car around 10ft off the ground and into a massive tree nearly tearing off the front end of my car. I woke up covered in blood and on the side of the road with a good Samaritan that had me wrapped up and putting pressure on the massive cut in the back of my head..
Seriously one of the scariest experiences I've ever had..

Flipped my Jeep Cherokee a bunch of times going down the interstate. 18 wheeler changed lanes and didn't see me. Ran me into the median but my passenger side tires were still in the road. Slowed down enough to get back on the road completely, but over-corrected.

I woke up in the forest about 40 yards from the road and 70-80 yards from my vehicle. I was on my back looking up and put my hands on the ground to push myself up and my elbow bends the wrong way and hits my ribs as I had destroyed my elbow joint and my arm from the elbow down was hanging by the skin and ligaments. I had a really bad cut down the side of my butt cheek to about halfway down my thigh. I still have no feeling in spots around my hip from nerve damage from that cut (it was very deep, don't know if it was from the vehicle or from flying through the pine trees).

Crazy part is when I went to the junkyard later to look at my car, the driver's side roof was flattened so much that it pushed the steering wheel down to the butt part of the seat and snapped the back of the seat in half. I wasn't wearing a seatbelt (I was 20 yrs old and thought I was invincible) and that let me be ejected. Witness said I came out of the passenger side window. Had I been wearing it and sitting in the driver's seat, I would have been crushed to death probably.


ETA: Another one was when I was maybe 13 or 14 playing in a baseball tournament. Storm comes through and ump delays the game. Everyone goes and gets under whatever they can to get out of the rain. About 10 mins in and everyone is under shelter and bam, huge lightning. Loud as hell. About 10 yards to my left, the coach from the team we're playing is laying on the ground shaking. He had been standing beside one of those big green ground transformers or whatever they are for the field lights. It had a platform over it where the scorekeepers would sit to operate the scoreboard. He had on a gold necklace that had somehow melted to the metal of the transformer and melted his watch on his wrist. Our coach gathered us up and we hit the parking lot to get in cars.

The guy who got struck was coaching in the tournament two days later. Crazy shite.

When I was 19 I was driving to New Mexico from BR with some buddies to camp for a few weeks. Planned to drive straight through and crash when we got to the first spot.

Crossing over the New Mexico border we hit an insane storm a few hours from our first camping spot in an F250 hauling an enclosed trailer; after driving straight through and being exhausted and ready for sleep I decided to just keep driving hoping it would clear up. A few minutes later lighting directly hit the trailer and fried the entire electrical system for the truck.

I seriously thought we were all instantly dead. To top it off...we then had to wait for hours on the side of the road in this crazy storm in a dead arse truck for a tow.

Edit: Not me but my dad’s brother shot him in the neck with an arrow when he was 11 on Christmas Day. He still has the scar under his ear from it.

This one time, in a foreign nation called CHOP, this gunfight broke out, and like 2 people died because there were no police allowed to protect lifesaving EMT's ...

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Bad reaction to chemotherapy.

Almost died last year hiking the Grand Canyon. 10 miles into a 12 mile hike, I got elevation sickness. Couldn't walk straight, talk, eat, drink, etc. Several times I almost waddled off the trail and plunged to my death.

As luck would have it, while I was walking like a zombie against the rock, a real-life paramedic walked by me and immediately knew by looking at my face I was in a world of crap.

He sat me down, took care of me for 30 minutes until I could talk. Once I could talk, he finished helping me get hydrated, some sugar, gave me walking poles, and carried my bag up the last two miles. Had that guy not helped me, I have no doubt I would have fallen off that cliff or worse, had to sleep out there in the damn freezing cold (it was March).

Driving back to BR from TX on I-10 back sometime in the early 2000s at night. I just switched lanes to get back in the right lane and I swore that a car flew past me going in the opposite direction. I saw no lights, just suddenly something going a million miles an hour flying past. Thought I was crazy. I get up a bit further and cars are all over the place in the grass on both sides. Found out on the news that some crazy arse lady got in the interstate going the wrong way with no head lights on. I honestly don’t remember if she finally figured it out or if she ended up killing someone. Not sure I ever found out, really.

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My OCD took over my life to the point where it took so much from me that I grabbed a butcher knife from my kitchen and considered slitting my own throat. I was too big a pussy to do it, called my mom, and her voice pretty much saved my life.

At that point was when I decided to get help. Much bette now.

If you’re going through a tough time people, get help. It saved my life.

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Really glad you're better. That's a scary read.