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re: Have you ever almost died?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:59 pm to LordSnow
Posted on 4/9/25 at 8:59 pm to LordSnow
Yeah. Passed out and hit a tree head on. Broken femur, head caved in windshield resulting in a combo of like 33 staples and stitches, collapsed lung and lacerated liver.
You guys talking about choking freaks me out. I eat my breakfast on the road 99% of the time. Just two days ago, I took a bite of a sausage egg cheese McMuffin and got too much egg or something and I could feel it almost hang in my throat. I was like damn, it really can happen that fast.
You guys talking about choking freaks me out. I eat my breakfast on the road 99% of the time. Just two days ago, I took a bite of a sausage egg cheese McMuffin and got too much egg or something and I could feel it almost hang in my throat. I was like damn, it really can happen that fast.
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:01 pm to LordSnow
Same thing, choking. Piece of smoked sausage from some red beans. Hocked it up.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:01 pm to LordSnow
Yikes dude. Glad you made it. I got a vitamin stuck in my throat a little the other day. I didn't choke but had the scary pre-choking / suffocating feeling. I was ready to pounce on the sofa arm if it didn't dislodge.
Closest I've come was taking a bad line on a Class 4+ (a Montana 4) rapid in a 5lb packraft, to avoid going under my friend's catamaran raft (I'd paddled this rapid before with the same group and everything had gone perfectly). Somehow I'd forgotten just how much faster my 5lb raft went when it hit a rapid and got in a shitty situation. ended up going straight over the highest spot and sucked down into a hydraulic. It slammed me against the rocky bed 5-6 times before it spit me out. It felt like 10 minutes. Was probably 10 seconds. Had time to say goodbye. I haven't done real white water since. That was almost 5 years ago.
eta: i forgot the stage iv lymphoma that went un/misdiagnosed for 6 months after I started feeling like death. Fortunately it was soundly defeated quickly. But i think an ESPN guy had the same exact version and died because they didn't diagnose him properly (or at all).
Closest I've come was taking a bad line on a Class 4+ (a Montana 4) rapid in a 5lb packraft, to avoid going under my friend's catamaran raft (I'd paddled this rapid before with the same group and everything had gone perfectly). Somehow I'd forgotten just how much faster my 5lb raft went when it hit a rapid and got in a shitty situation. ended up going straight over the highest spot and sucked down into a hydraulic. It slammed me against the rocky bed 5-6 times before it spit me out. It felt like 10 minutes. Was probably 10 seconds. Had time to say goodbye. I haven't done real white water since. That was almost 5 years ago.
eta: i forgot the stage iv lymphoma that went un/misdiagnosed for 6 months after I started feeling like death. Fortunately it was soundly defeated quickly. But i think an ESPN guy had the same exact version and died because they didn't diagnose him properly (or at all).
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:03 pm to LordSnow
Once. An infection turned into sepsis. I had a tube running to my heart pumping me with antibiotics. Also got a blood transfusion. I knew that I was close to my final reward but really did not care. I received extreme unction from an African priest in a Baptist hospital. That was four years ago. I've gained 60 pounds since then.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:04 pm to LordSnow
Sure. A couple of times maybe even 3. But it's no big deal and isn't worth worrying about. When things go black, that's it. It's gonna happen and timing is 100% chance. So, don't waste time thinking about it.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:12 pm to LordSnow
Put on a vent with Covid in 2021. I really don’t remember much other than the Dr said something less than 10% chance of me coming off but then he said I would for sure not make it if I didn’t go on it. I was by myself in ICU. Couldn’t have family. Hospital was on lockdown. Pretty sad you can’t even tell ur family good bye in person. I told my kids and my wife I loved them over the phone and vaguely remember talking about my funeral. Pretty surreal looking back on it.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:14 pm to LordSnow
Yep…. Rafting the Upper Gauley river. Got sucked under the water at Pillow Rock rapids. Wasn’t under long, but went under when boat flipped and was t expecting it so went under as I need to take a breath. Luckily I popped up down river.
37 year old woman from Tennessee died in same spot the next day. She was pinned under a rock outcrop by her life jacket about 20 feet down.
37 year old woman from Tennessee died in same spot the next day. She was pinned under a rock outcrop by her life jacket about 20 feet down.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:14 pm to LordSnow
Fell like a fricking lawn dart from the hay mow onto concrete - headfirst.
Blew out both ear drums, ruptured my esophagus, crushed two vertebrae in my back and still managed to somehow get to the house.
I walked in like a wreck, told my mom I fell bad and she without looking said "you will be ok, just go lay down for a while". A couple hours later she couldn't roust me. Does she call an ambulance? Hell no, she gets me to the car and takes me to the pediatrician's office (this was the summer between 5th and 6th grade).
I awaken enough to walk/stumble into the peds office, as I go through the sliding doors I puke blood everywhere like the poltergeist, I must have shot the blood 15 feet across the waiting room. My pediatrician sees me and yells at my mom for bringing me there instead of the ER. Everything went dark and I spent the next 4 days in a coma it was very touch and go for those 4 days.
Blew out both ear drums, ruptured my esophagus, crushed two vertebrae in my back and still managed to somehow get to the house.
I walked in like a wreck, told my mom I fell bad and she without looking said "you will be ok, just go lay down for a while". A couple hours later she couldn't roust me. Does she call an ambulance? Hell no, she gets me to the car and takes me to the pediatrician's office (this was the summer between 5th and 6th grade).
I awaken enough to walk/stumble into the peds office, as I go through the sliding doors I puke blood everywhere like the poltergeist, I must have shot the blood 15 feet across the waiting room. My pediatrician sees me and yells at my mom for bringing me there instead of the ER. Everything went dark and I spent the next 4 days in a coma it was very touch and go for those 4 days.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:16 pm to LordSnow
I drank a THC seltzer a while back and had a panic attack from it. Yes I’m a lightweight with that shite. Anywho. I had accepted the fact that I was a dying and that was the last night I’d see my wife and daughter. Thought I was dying. Woke up the next day with a hangover from hell and threw the rest of those seltzers away.
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:17 pm to LordSnow
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Like in the moment you think "this is it, this is how I die "
Accidentally stabbed myself with a pencil. I thought I was done for. Lead poisoning.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:20 pm to LordSnow
Had a leaky colon that required extensive surgery. A former LSU gymnast performed surgery on me and saved my life. Had my uncle not taken me to OLOL ER I would have died. This happened 25 years ago.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:21 pm to LordSnow
Hydroplaned on I110 at the curve by the governor's mansion, car sun around and I ended up facing oncoming traffic.
Cut a sapling and almost impaled myself
Cut a sapling and almost impaled myself
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:23 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Appendicitis - i was 19 at the job site. Next thing i know I can't stand straight up and the pain was crazy and fever was very high. Got me to the hospital , rushed me to surgery and it ruptured when i was on the operating table. BC of sepsis from the rupture, I ended up back in the hospital and week later with fever. That cleared up and all good .
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:23 pm to Gifman
There have been a few
on the Frio River on the road to Fredericksburg. different trip, a night out with drunk friends, I don't drink
maybe rescuing my HS crush's sister from possible sex assault from a truckload of white boys
and the stroke,, the one that got me
It meant a lot to have someone to hold my hand in those moments
on the Frio River on the road to Fredericksburg. different trip, a night out with drunk friends, I don't drink
maybe rescuing my HS crush's sister from possible sex assault from a truckload of white boys
and the stroke,, the one that got me
It meant a lot to have someone to hold my hand in those moments
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:26 pm to Lugnut
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Yes. Tilt table test. Flatlined for 22 seconds
I may have to get this test. May I ask what you were testing for?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:27 pm to Klingler7
shite last 10 seconds of the game
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:30 pm to LordSnow
Get your life together fat boy
This post was edited on 4/9/25 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:32 pm to LordSnow
Driving through a horrible rain storm on the causeway. Couldn’t see, so I focused on the white lane lines and followed those and prayed every time a vehicle would pass me. It was the entire drive across and I just forced myself to stay calm and focus. I’m not afraid to drive in the rain, but this was brutal.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:32 pm to LordSnow
I've had a few close calls.
One while on a bicycle at night. A driver didn't see me, and started heading right in my path. I was going fast, and I didn't notice him until it was beyond the point of no return, and for a split second I felt that. I got lucky, I guess, to the extent that luck is a thing. He braked right before he hit me.
There was another time I was a passenger in a vehicle that flipped off the road. Again, we got "lucky". Everyone got out physically unscathed.
Those are the most obvious to me. It may be possible I've come close without knowing.
One while on a bicycle at night. A driver didn't see me, and started heading right in my path. I was going fast, and I didn't notice him until it was beyond the point of no return, and for a split second I felt that. I got lucky, I guess, to the extent that luck is a thing. He braked right before he hit me.
There was another time I was a passenger in a vehicle that flipped off the road. Again, we got "lucky". Everyone got out physically unscathed.
Those are the most obvious to me. It may be possible I've come close without knowing.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:37 pm to Lugnut
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Flatlined for 22 seconds.
Did you experience anything in those 22 seconds?
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