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Closest You Been to Death?
Posted by dcg123 • 4/04/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: afterlife, bikers, death, digg, stumble, technorti
I've never had an death then back to life experience but, once after a motorcycle accident, I heard a voice telling me to stand up and live.
My question to you is.....What's the closest that you have ever been to death?
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getting cancer the second time and undergoing a bone marrow transplant.
they say such things change your life, but other than having the enforced "vacation" of being in the hospital for 17 days, i didn't notice much difference.
helpful hint if you ever have to have a bone marrow transplant: the nurses think it's really really funny if you race your remote control car out of your isolation room and into the nurses desk. the doctors don't find it quite as amusing .... -
Scraping the side of hubby's brand new truck against a green pole at Mc Donald's drive thru years ago.
They are right about Mc D's being dangerous to your health, ya know hehe.-
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damn, you KNOW he loves you! -
You have a charmed life....lol
I once fell asleep doing 65 mph on the freeway and scraped against the concrete meridian before I woke up. -
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Ooooops!!!!
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Being in a coma for a month, following a bad 1966 car wreck. Full out-of-body experience. Can advance and fortify arguments for an after life.-
Wow, I'd love to hear that story Jack. I love reading about NDE's.
Dr. Melvin Morse (child doc) wrote some great books about it. -
Please feel free to elaborate....
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@Jack
I've been there too.
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Hey funny man, that's pretty funny. You should have one of those funny blogs over at funny-blogs dot com!
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Hahahahahaha.....Sorry, can't help it...Closer and closer eh..
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I slept through the most recent near-miss: and it wasn't really that serious.
When my left hip was getting swapped out, the surgeon encountered muscles that were, he told me, stiffer than any he'd encountered before. No surprise. Many of them hadn't been flexed or stretched in over a half-century.
Anyway, by the time he'd gotten everything sorted out, I was getting rather low on blood. Days later, when I was up to dragging myself across the room, I saw myself in a mirror.
I've seen movie Draculas with ruddier complexions.
The hospital had me plugged into a sort of recycling gadget. It took the stuff accumulating in the incision, sorted out and bagged the blood: then at intervals someone would come along, take the bag, and start it feeding back into me through an IV.
It was a real treat, seeing some of today's medical technology at work. -
A man pulled a knife on me in broad daylight in a shop ready to slash me. He flipped out and slasshed his own wrist instead.
riding on Indian buses in India :-) -
every time I see another Seinfeld re-run.-
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Good one.
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Stepping out into the road, feeling the bus breeze past me and then hearing that voice say "Wow that was close! You think that was maybe a warning? I don't know to me that was a warning! But shit! maybe to you it wasn't! If it had been two inches closer!
Do you think you would have took that as a warning?
Cos I would have!
I know what you are like, you will think this was meant to be, but I'm not sure that was quite close." -
I've had cops point guns at me, if that counts?
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wrong placement. Drats.
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Quickly, and to oversimplify, because out-of-body experiences are not my niche, I can only say this:
Floating in outer space, circling the earth, falling further and further into deep space. The feeling was unbelieveably euphoric. Happened 42 years ago, yet the feeling is as it was yesterday. Vived pastels everywhere around me. The colors were luminous, brillliant, breathtaking. Total peace and tranquility prevailed. Then, movement, closer and closer to earth. This, followed by a deep smoke-edged tunnel (like the suspense movies of the 1930s and 1940s), down which I slowly descended, toward a hospital bed. I could faintly make out the form of the patient. It was me. I kept descending, getting closer and closer. Then, I awoke, to may wife sitting at bedside. Her first question, after my month-long sleep was, "Do you want a cigarette?
I later likened the drifting, further and further away from earth as the process of dying. Then, the rallying point, the return to earth, down the tunnel, and back into my own skin, as a reenactment of the whole give and take, fade and rally scene.-
That is really neat, no wonder it stuck with you so vividly.
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Good stuff...I agree, thanx for sharing.
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Jack, how did this impact your life and view of the world?
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@Jack
My experience was similar to yours minus the tunnel. My "vision" was affected for life and I mean that in both senses of the word. I can recall the feeling of floating and the colors and euphoria like they happened to me moments ago. I was slowly moving upward to into the beautiful light and I looked down at myself on the bed then, suddenly I had the sensation of falling and I was back in my body and awake in the bed.
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I almost fell off the side of a mountain one dark night. Luckily my flexibility and battered skies saved my ass. -
You and the old whiskey...
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Yup. Friends don't let friends drink whiskey on mountains....
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They buy them beer at the bottom?
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Yeah, and late at night, they help them get their F@*$@*@ boots off!
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Reliving past traumas are we?
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No, I just can't get my F@*@*@* boots off!
I'm tired
And cranky
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I'm tired and cranky as FCUK and I'm going to bed. Why do I waste so much time of this effin' computer? I could be frolicking with bunny rabbits, smelling wild flowers, etc.
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Yes. Thank God your ass was OK.
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Hey, don't be thinking of her ass, I am done sharing now.
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I meant than in a purely anatomical sense. Really. Her 'firm as a ripe young peach' derrière means nothing to me mon petit chou-chou.
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Oh good, because I don't want to have to make her have a NDE over all this. I kinda like the ninja myself.
In fact, the other night I had this dream and...
Well, heh, nevermind. It might offend someone if I go on. -
Give you a blog post though, so there's a silver lining.
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When I was 13 years old I saw a young women who was drowning.
I tired to get the lifeguards attention, but he was to busy flirting with the girls across the other side of the pool.
At that moment I just jumped in to try and save her as she was really struggling. I did some how manage to save her, only I should of waited a while for her to get tired as her strength became unreal and she pulled me under to where I actually saw my life flash before me. As I started to sink down to the bottom of the pool I did heard my own spirit say "push yourself up, its not your time" and I some how floated to the top just barely reaching the side of the pool and someone helped me get out of the pool.
It was a very scary experience.
I actually saw my name in the paper as a drowning victim.-
That's scary. But leave it to the press to get the facts wrong again (Mind you, it was probably for the best that time.)
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I did not know it at the time but I got a severe eye infection that was said to be Pink eye. It wasn't and the infection was spreading to my pea sized brain. Only later did my doctor tell me how close it was. Seems there is not a lot between your eye and your brain -
I was 13 or 14 I didn't feel good so I went to lay down. When I woke my skin began to itch terribly and it was like I couldn't control it. My lips began to swell and so did my eyes. My mom began to wipe my skin down w/ rubbing alcohol. That didn't work. We have never seen anything like this before. Next, my throat started to close I couldn't breath. That's when we ran to the hospital. A 30 minute drive to the hospital took 5 minutes. I blacked out getting to the car and while in the car. I was admitted immediately. I was administered oxygen and benadryl. I was fine after that. I was told to keep a journal of all that I eat because it was some food that I had. I went to an allergist as well. Turns out I'm allergic to fish. I haven't eaten it since. -
I had Scarlet Fever as a child which was pretty severe and left me at home for quite a long time to recover.-
My mom had that.
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Whilst walking in the Welsh hills a couple of years ago, I slipped over the edge of a quarry and tumbled 50ft before freefalling a further 40ft and landing on my shoulder. I was eventually rescued by helicopter and taken to hospital where I had a shoulder placement.
(This photograph was taken by the Mountain Rescue Team)
I can clearly remember during the fall, thinking about my family and friends. They say your life flashes past you before you die - Mine certainly did, but I was lucky enough to stay around. There is a day for coming and a day for going... that clearly wasn't my day for going.-
That was a good day to live.
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I had a bicycle accident, I was running downhill very fast even overtaking a van at the bottom the front wheel hit a rock that sent me flying my leg locked on the bike's frame. I bounced back to the ground 3 times, the last time I hit my head on a rock. I broke my front teeth and had stitches on my forehead knees and wounds everywhere else. I never remembered anything about my life flashing by, just the blood oozing down my face many people trying to carry me to the hospital. -
Just a few...
A shock wave from an explosion in an ammunition factory a few miles from my house, sucked-in and crashed all the windows in my room while I was sleeping there.
A friend pulled me back to the pavement, just as a bus was passing by in full speed, about 3 inches from my face.
Went into the sea with a friend and got into trouble. Managed to get out of the currents. Came back for my friend. Got into trouble again. Both almost drowned. Finally washed to a sharp reef and from there back to the beach.
One evening me and my wife was planning to go out to a specific club in Tel-Aviv. Then, my friend called me (the same friend from the previous incident) and invited us to a party at the beach (the same beach from the previous incident) celebrating his departure to a long trip to South America. We went to the party instead of the club. That night, 21 people were killed and 120 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up just outside this club.
MANY incidents as part of the service in the Israel Defense Forces. Last one – during the Second Lebanon War, incoming rockets exploding less than 100 meters from us, while tons of ammunition lying all around us.-
Wow! You are extremely lucky to still be here. Or, we suppose some people might consider it bad luck that you keep getting into all those near death situations! -
My friend, you definately live on the edge with unseen protectors.
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I've never been that close to death luckily. I got caught in quicksand up to shoulders once, but that was a matter of patience.-
WOW! That sounds dangerous enough....lol!
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Many times I've nearly hit several animals.
That's just a matter of keeping your cool and not over correcting.
One time I tried to dodge a prairie dog with the family van.
BOY!!! My sister cussed me out! She said, never try to dodge anything smaller than a dog.
So…I guess in that sense, I'm blessed.
LOL - Fell off a slide when I was in 5th grade. Got a concussion, the ambulance came, was knocked out for a good 10 hrs, couldn't remember the past two days, going in and out of consciousness.
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No closer than me
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Sheesh Uri!
I would have to say, I'm far from it compared to you. lol
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When I was a young teenager, I had a reaction to the gas in the dentist's office and was entirely unable to move. My mind was perfectly clear, but my body was completely non-responsive. Given that I was heavily anaesthetized, I was very calm about the fact that I was pretty sure I was dying--the thing that was bothering me was a need to let them know that I knew I was dying. I kept thinking that we always heard that people just drifted off and didn't know, and it seemed imperative to let them know that I DID know. The dentist just happened to finish up and start the oxygen in time, since I had no way to communicate the problem to him.
Shortly after my daughter was born, I had endocarditis and didn't know it. I thought I had a bad flu and was just staying in bed--I really had no choice, as I was so weak that I was afraid to pick my daughter up. A doctor I'd done some work for happened to call me, and when I described my symptoms he asked if I had mitral valve prolapse. As soon as I said yes he said that he thought I had endocarditis and asked for my pharmacy--he said that if he was wrong, the medication wouldn't hurt me, but if he was right we couldn't afford to wait. Two minutes later he called me back and said my pharmacy didn't open for two hours and this couldn't wait that long. Just a few hours after I started taking it, I was almost miraculously better.
That's it for the physical brushes, but I also had someone break into my apartment with the specific intent of killing me with a butcher knife...fortunately, I wasn't home.-
I counted three there.
Allow me to express my gratitude that you're still here.
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I could died 38 times so far.Last time i ve been on safari in Africa , and 3 lions tried to kill me, but hopefully i climbed the nearest tree and i avoided the direct fight with the animals.I was so lucky this day. -
drugs overdose. dramatic, i know *rolls eyes*-
Dramatic doesn't mean not real. Glad that you're still here.
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Wow, some amazing and interesting stuff. I have a few but .. I dunno- only one makes me look back and say 'I could have been dead!' That one being when my mom and I, city folk that we were, went for a drive up in the country to look at a house she was going to rent. It was foggy and rainy and that early-dark time of day when the light is really weird. She doesn't see too well anyways and I always had to tell her what signs said, etc. The cars were riding on her arse like no tomorrow so she got into the right lane to let them pass. Well, turns out the right lane was a 'turn out' lane and they don't go far. Suddenly I was seeing a silver metal thing approaching us. Also known as 'Guard rails' Lol. I screamed 'LEFT LEFT LEFT! She didn't know WHY I was screaming left, but if she had taken the time to ask.. we'd have been in the river on that wet foggy eve. Not a pleasant thought! -
Whoa that's a freaky story. You should write about it. We've spent some time addicted to reading near death experiences and it always seems amazing what people claim to hear, or see.
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That was just a close call as far as how I remember it... vs. when I was about 5 and I was playing at the edge of the waves while on a family trip. I had my back to the water ( Oh yes I did!) and got knocked to my hands and knees. As I clutched at the sand beneath me, it was washing backwards into the ocean, my hands could not keep any of it in my grasp, and I was SURE I was going with it. It was more of an illusion than reality, but I didn't know that. I was having a near heart attack thinking I was being 'sucked' into the ocean. While I was sobbing my Dad was laughing at me and NOT coming to get me as I continued to stay in the position for fear I'd loose hold of what little bit of ground I had. That was horrible. I'd much rather see a guard rail coming at me at only 45 MPH, lol.
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1st incident, as told by my mum: An old school TV fell on my leg when I was 3 years old. No friggin' idea how I survived that one!
2nd: Almost drowned at sea cause I can't swim for nuts, or pearls. Probably when I was 12 or something.
3rd: Almost got knocked by a white mercedez benz while crossing the road backwards. Silly, I know. I was about an inch's length away from the front of the when it screeched to a halt. Was too smokey. I stood there in shock and was walked away by friends. No clue what words the driver swore at me.
4th: Van travelling along Johor Bahru, Malaysia coming back to Singapore, made a 720, yes 720 degree turn. Hit the road barrier, tyre burst. Bumped my head on the window. Ouch. Reason? My brother dozed off while driving. Was so shocked had to come out of the vehicle to take a smoke and console the ladies who were crying terribly.
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When I was in my teens a group of men drove up to me an my friends in a van stuck a revolver out of the window. I thought they were cops so I didn't run big mistake they opened fire.Even though I was the last one to run the adrenaline made me pass my friends who had a 1 block lead. LOL
I can laugh about it now but back then is was so not funny.-
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Did that incident make you for or against the right to bear arms?
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crkian I ran faster than forrest LOL
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As I type this, any statement I could make is wrong because I am constantly moving closer to death. It might be 50, maybe even 100 years away, but it will come. -
urikalish; that is a good question I have mixed views on the subject. If I would have owned a firearm I might not have ran and the story would have been how I killed some one. or I could have stayed and been killed. As it was happing to me I wished I had a fire arm. Now that i'm older I realize that every thing turned out for the best. owning a firearm is a huge responsibility
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On the other hand, if guns were illegal, these men didn't have them either..
Here in Israel, you can't just buy a gun in a store.
p.s. I get an M-16 from time to time during my army reserve duties. -
I almost plummeted to my death in the Niagara gorge one day. Ended up hanging by my forearm over a large drop onto jagged rocks. Fortunately someone helped pull me back up. -
I was diving on Nias island 3 years ago and when i reach the bottoms of the ocean, not very deep, perhaps around 20m, there's an electricity eel emerged from the seaweed (sort of - don't remember). The eel try to runaway by passing my legs (or attack me? i'm not sure) and his body touch my left leg...
do you know that electricity eel has 650volts in his body? so, i passed out - can't see anything... everything went black...
i woke up after 12 hours sleeping at the nearest clinic and that SOB eel left me a burn scar for a year... UGH -
Got into a really bad car accident when I was 8 and almost lost my eye. We could've easily been killed. An 80+ year old woman ran two red lights and came across 4 lanes of traffic at over 60 MPH and hit us dead-on coming around a turn. Strangely enough, when I woke up that morning I warned my dad that I "had a dream we were all being operated on in the hospital" - my dad got knocked out cold from the accident, broke both wrists (holding onto the steering wheel) and both collarbones - brother had a busted collar bone and shoulder. The old woman died of her injuries. I rememmber hearing my dad yell "Look out!!!!" and then WHAM! Next thing I know there was steam and noise coming from our car, I crawled out with the help of some good samaritans who saw the accident, and watched as her car spun around like on it's top (it had flipped completely over and was spinning on it's top like a top). My eye injury was because I was reading a hardcover book, and the edge of the book came up and hit just below my left eye. I still get blurred vision from it.
Last year I was on a United flight that fell about 30,000 feet in a matter of seconds. People were screaming - luggage started popping out of the overhead compartments - even the crew was panicking. Talk about your life flashing before your eyes - I kissed the ground when we returned (literrally - I actually did kiss it). My partner got so freaked out that she has to take medication and see a shrink routinely to deal with her newfound fear of flying.-
Wow...Terrifying stories! Sorry about the eye injury & your partner's problems. Precognitive dreams aren't as unusual as some people may think. I recently blogged about my own experiences with it; lucidflora.blogspot.com/2008/03/dreams-come-true.html
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Twelve years ago on a motorway in thick fog with my two small children in the back of the car. We had pulled into a layby when 'second sense' made me put the car into first gear and pull out fast. Just as well as in that split second an articulated lorry came ploughing into the space where we had been and we would have been killed instantly. -
When my first wife sat on me
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I'm comfortable enough admitting it now, I was suicidal back in late 2000/early 2001 thanks to an extremely bad breakup in which my ex then was hellbent on getting rid of me in every sense of the turn of phrase. (I don't exactly kid around when I say I've had terrible relationships, unfortunately.) But I survived all that.
Then when I was younger, the undertow got me at the beach and chucked me up on some jagged rocks. I nearly got impaled repeatedly and barely managed to get over them without getting impaled. I did get cut up quite a bit in the process, though. That was pretty scary. -
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Having a truck passing with its doors opened,hit me in my back.Knocked me out cold but surprisingly after x-rays no broken bones or bruises only had some after pains -
Yep twice:
I was thrown out of a fast moving bus and thrown into a garbage pit luckily to escape death. A inch farther or nearer would have made me fall into a 200ft deep low lying area.
I was given a wrong treatment and was unconscious for 2 days with no hope of life. When everyone almost thought i was done, i woke up miraculously. -
I knew someone who wanted to die and committed suicide by jumping out of the school building, 3rd floor. He hit a car at the bottom and damaged the windshields and roof of the car. He was still alive and paid for the damages on the car.
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Wow, ya'll have had some pretty scary experiences!! I've had a few. when I was 4, my appendix ruptured on a car trip from Texas to Meridian,Ms. My mom thought I had a stomach virus, I threw up the whole ride. We got to my grandparent's house at about midnight, and I threw up all night long. They took me to the emergency room early that morning, and the drs couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. My right leg refused to work anymore, I was still throwing up. They told my mom I wouldn't make it another 24 hours. This one doctor walked in, took one look at me, started laughing, and said his daughter just did the same thing the week before. My appendix had been ruptured for about two days, and I had severe peretinitis (sp?). I have a TERRIBLE scar from it, because of the infection.
I have been in several car accidents where the car was totaled, only one of which I was driving.
I used to work in a zoo. I got chased by a lion once. The groundskeeper indadverdantly let her out of the pen (he thought she was locked in her house, but her door was still up). Thankfully it was before we opened for the day. They were trying to dart her, but she kept moving so they were missing. I was standing inside her pen, when she decided to go back home on her own. She looked up and saw me, started running, I started running, I dove through her night house door just as the other keeper dropped it behind me. When I turned around, her nose was pressed to the wire door. I started laughing hysterically. She was really sweet, but she also had not had contact with people except through wire. Chances are she wouldn't have done anything but lick me to death, but 500 lbs knocking you down HAS to hurt!! -
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...I was in the 10th floor of a building in Taiwan- specifically in a dressing room (half-naked), lols! when an intensity 6 earthquake shook the building for about a minute & all I hear were screaming from people and when it stopped I hurriedly put on my shirt back and there's an aftershock of about intensity 7! Gezzzzzzzz...I thought that was my END -
Being held under water (approx. 6 seconds each wave) for multiple (1/2 dozen), consecutive 20ft wave sets, while body boarding, at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. If anyone knows the beach when I was held under the first set I was close to the Cliff House. When I finally recovered from being pummelled by outside sets I was past the second windmill towards the waste treatment plant. Each time I came up for a breath I was pulled back down by the next wave which crashed right after it. On another occasion I almost smashed into the rocks at Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge (same place where someone else had facial reconstructive surgery from an accident a few days prior). One more time I was hit by an agressive bull seal when I was out in the water. Honestly, I thank my lucky stars I was not bitten by a shark...considering how many hours I spent in the water up and down the pacific coast in great white territory (the Red Triangle).
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Not something I like to talk about often, but it was when I had my son via emergency C-section. We were both on the way out. But strangely enough, I wasn't afraid. I almost gave up and went along with the flow, but he fought tooth and nail. Somehow, we both made it. It gave me more of an appreciation for life. - Nards
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When I was 16 (many stupid years ago) I got drunk and took some pills at a party - later to find out were some type of aspirin. The dr's said the aspirin was worse then most other drugs on my system and it put me into shock or something. I woke up a week later in the ICU with a collapsed lung. Don't remember a damn thing except for how stupid that was.
The I was thrown from a horse 6 years ago and landed on the back of my head. Went into convulsions and passed out. Was in a coma for several days before snapping out of it with a full recovery. Everyone said I was awake, but I don't remember it either. But I do feel like the experience changed who I am. After the experience even my taste in foods changed.-
Wow! That's interesting. I read a book once about an individual who tasted colors after a head injury.
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Once I was at a basketball game and the crowd were screaming like crazy and we won and when I left the stadium the noise was still ringing in my ears and I couldn't hear a thing. And in conclusion, that's the nearest I've ever been to def. -
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overdosed at 21. Had tube in my nose heart monitor on, iv, respitory therapist and i got to sleep next to the nurses station, but i didnt like the baths, i was just too freakin old for someone to give me a bath.
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