re: Have you ever almost died?

Yep. Was in a bad wreck back in like 05-06.
a buddy of mine was driving and we were hit kinda like a pit maneuver . Started spinning on the interstate and flipped onto my side.
Several people were in the backseat with me and all fell on top of me as we were sliding down the road. I was watching the sparks out my window ,face was literally inches away from pavement. if it were to break I wouldn’t be talking right now. Still freaks me out every time I think about it.

Westbound on the Jean Lafitte bridge, the cab roof fairing came off an eastbound semi, bounced off the hood of my car, shattered the windshield, and flew over the roof. If it had hit the windshield directly, it would have taken my head off. Knew the bridge was dangerous but never expected that.

At 6 months old I had pneumonia. Doctors told my parents to go home and make funeral arrangements. They came back the next morning and I was rolling around under the oxygen tent.

Choked on a squirrel bone. Luckily I was at a football party with a few first responders there. Started to black out before they finally got it cleared.

Got caught in a rip current when I was younger. Swam for what felt like an hour. Was about to give up when I heard somebody hollering "are you ok?". I looked up and there was a guy standing in waist deep water about 20 ft from me. I had lost all reference to where the shore was and didn't realize I'd left the current and made it to a sandbar.

Working in Odessa, TX. Had a bad headache for a few days, but didn't think much of it. Finally, my brother convinced to me go to Redi Med. They did an MRI and reluctantly told me they see something, and I need to go to Hospital. So I went, after dealing with terrible doctors and nurses there, they sent me home with pain meds. Sitting down watching TV at the man camp, I had my first seizure. My buddies called an ambulance, I felt dumb so for them doing it because I didn't think it was a big deal, so I got one of them to drive me to Hospital. Well after about 4-5 more seizures, biting half my tongue off, and not remembering shite for 3 days, they gave me a CT scan, and found a blood clot in my brain and jugular. Cerebral venous thrombosis 28 years old, had 2 strokes that night. Think this is the point anxiety came into my life, frick that day.

Had a routine surgery in Iraq. I had a reaction to the anesthetic while under. i woke up to all the machines beeping and turned to the nurse next to me and asked what was wrong. She said your heart keeps stopping. I said ok and drifted back to sleep I woke up a day later

Yeah, and I still have nightmares about it over 75 years later. When I was about five years old, I was staying at my uncle's farm near Magnolia, Mississippi for a few weeks one summer. I went with my cousin to split wood for the woodburning stove and fireplace. He carefully sat me a good distance away from his activities, but I was right in the line of the direction he was swinging the axe. He swung the axe, and the head came flying off directly at me. I must have flinched, because the axe head only hit me a glancing blow on the forehead.

My cousin checked me out, and the only injury I sustained was a cut over one eye. He pleaded with me not to tell his mother what happened. We made up a story about me running into a tree. I ended up with two black eyes and a knot on my forehead.

I've had several instances where I came thru instantaneous situations that would surely have killed me, but good luck and good reflexes pulled me thru - but in those cases there was no time to form any kind of thought process until the danger was past.

I did recently have a 'this is it' moment and it was very sobering. I have suffered from a chronic cough for about 6 years now and nothing seems to completely cure it. About a year ago, I began a coughing fit that I could not control - coughing outward without breathing in. I couldn't even call out for help - nothing but repeated extreme exhalation. I began blacking out and thought 'this is it' as I crumpled to the floor. A ?few? moments later I woke up and all was back to normal except feeling of extreme exhaustion.

I did not like that episode.

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Westbound on the Jean Lafitte bridge, the cab roof fairing came off an eastbound semi, bounced off the hood of my car, shattered the windshield, and flew over the roof. If it had hit the windshield directly, it would have taken my head off. Knew the bridge was dangerous but never expected that.

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Did you call Gordon or Morris?

Yes, not almost I died twice actually