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Following on from the other thread, what is the nearest you have come to death? Mine was about 4 years ago after having a heart attack. I was laying on the treatment table having the third stent inserted with the oxygen mask on watching the whole procedure on a monitor when the assistant nurse announced "he's going into shock". Just then I remember going very cold and started to shake uncontrollably, I remember thinking this is it, this is how you die. I made a full recovery and feel better than ever. Well?
 
Think one of the closest was at a car crash on a motorway . It was dark and chucking it down. I was one of the first there calling 999. There were 2 cars one with a lady screaming one with no noise. I went to the quiet one and looked to see if the lady was breathing or had a pulse. I looked up and saw a car speeding down towards us. I jumped on the roof of the crashed car and the speeding car just missed the crashed car. I just carried on with the call to 999 apologising for swearing as we had nearly been hit. It's only about a minute after the paramedics arrived did it just dawn on me that I nearly got hit.
 
Being about 13 and swimming in the sea on holiday, I think it was France. We were quite far out and I got hit by a wave, forced under the water and into a current. A few seconds (I think) later it dumped me on the shore. Could have easily dragged me in the opposite direction. I wasn't under the water for long but it took me really far.
 
Brain tumour just over 3 years ago. Thankfully operable and I'm still around!
 
Had a heart attack 2007 got my second stent inserted. Although ok now but it came good in the end, critical insurance cover cleared my mortgage because of it. Came back to bite me in the bum 3 years later tho', I was told I had bowel cancer, scary words you don't want to hear. Fortunately after ten days in hospital they were able to cut the small affected section of bowel out and all is well again. I suppose I'm living on borrowed time now :)

If anyone gets one of these free packs through the door to test for bowel cancer I know it's a mucky job (no pun intended) doing it but a few mins in the loo can save your life if caught early enough.
 
frank said:
If anyone gets one of these free packs through the door to test for bowel cancer I know it's a mucky job (no pun intended) doing it but a few mins in the loo can save your life if caught early enough.
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I keep putting this off...stupid I know, especially considering my fathers dad and mother both died from bowel cancer. My father also had to undergo a similar operation to yours two years ago. I really should have done it by now.
 
davys said:
I keep putting this off...stupid I know, especially considering my fathers dad and mother both died from bowel cancer. My father also had to undergo a similar operation to yours two years ago. I really should have done it by now.
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Me too, did one 2-3 years ago but never got around to doing the last one, very stupid I know but just can't bring myself to do it.
 
Motorbike accident last year. Smashed femur, collar bone, pneumothorax (collapsed lung).
My leg still hasn't healed up yet over 12 months later.
Don't remember a thing about the accident which is damned annoying.
The consultant that fixed me up asked what other hobbies I have and when I mentioned road cycling I was told they fix up more cyclists than motorcyclists.:(
My workmates suggested I take up knitting as a safe option but the some bright spark said I'd probably stab myself with the needles:)
 
davys said:
I keep putting this off...stupid I know, especially considering my fathers dad and mother both died from bowel cancer. My father also had to undergo a similar operation to yours two years ago. I really should have done it by now.
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Bloody hell David get it done asap.
 
Yeah, I know...thanks for your concern chaps, I'll make an effort to look out the kit that was sent through the post. If it's not to hand I'll pick up another at the docs next week.

Cheers,
David
 
davys said:
Yeah, I know...thanks for your concern chaps, I'll make an effort to look out the kit that was sent through the post. If it's not to hand I'll pick up another at the docs next week.

Cheers,
David
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I know 2 guys without symptoms who were picked up by the test and quickly operated on for a full recovery, so it's definitely worth the minor "yuck factor". (y)
 
I've been in several car crashes, done loads of stupid stuff as a kid and been knocked down by a car driven by my mother, but have never officially had so much as a fractured bone (Doc insisted I'd broken an ankle once but X ray said I hadn't), so I'm very fortunate to say I've never started death in the face directly, however many of those incidents could have easily been very different. The Mrs trying to deliberately crash the car during a row springs to mind.
 
Crumbs what some folk having been through makes me feel almost charmed!

Other than the odd driving scare (have been driving over 44 years) the two events that stand out were from my late teens/early twenties when I was into rock climbing and mountaineering.

First one, I used to climb just in a soft cap and eventually could afford a Joe Brown branded helmet. The first outing I banged my head quite hard on spike of rock sufficiently hard to chip the glass fibre shell..........heaven only knows what my skull would have looked like if I had done the same 24 hours earlier.

The second time was on a rock & ice climbing course in this Alps, as the weather was so bad we were taking the winter route in a party of approx 12. As we reached the col an avalanche swept me and I think 7 others off dropping us 300 feet down the mountain into a snowfield within about 50 feet of a crevasse. Apart from being very shaken up (thankfully no one was 'completely' buried by the snow) only one of the party was injured with what turned out to be a ruptured spleen we visited him in hospital about 4 days later........his journey to hospital because of the weather conditions and the altitude we were at is a short story all of its own!

Sadly the older I get it is the increasing number of folks suffering and dying that I hear of and about and a number who are much fitter and younger than me :(
 
Today superseded yesterday, tomorrow will supersede today, I hope.
 
I got shot, was worse mentally than the physical damage done luckily. But if it hit me elsewhere then that could have been it.

Oh and my main parachute not opening would classify for most, but as my training was good I got the spare opened at about 1200 foot iirc as that was about 25 years ago.
 
dejongj said:
I got shot, was worse mentally than the physical damage done luckily. But if it hit me elsewhere then that could have been it.

Oh and my main parachute not opening would classify for most, but as my training was good I got the spare opened at about 1200 foot iirc as that was about 25 years ago.
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Blimey :eek: unlucky.....then lucky! :cool:

Can't decide whether you'd be a good omen or not, if I was on the same flight as you. :LOL:



(btw, I clicked on your Oooia! link to your photo's & my PC froze! :mad:
I do now remember the same thing happening some time ago when I tried to view, but thought it may just be coincidence & thought nothing of it at the time.
Just thought I'd let you know in case anyone else has a problem. :cautious: (y) )
 
Three years ago, 1am, raining, took my dog for his late night pee walk, I had felt a slight pain in my right calf most of the day but thought it was just
muscle ache or something.

About a hundred yrds from home pains in my chest, really struggling to breath, tried to get home but collapsed from being unable to breath, came to
about 15 mins later, still very difficult to breath, lay there in the rain for I don't know how long trying to shout for help, no help coming so managed to get to my feet.

Got home about 2 am and rang for help, next thing im in hospital on oxygen, turns out I had suffered a pulmonary Embolism due to a blood clot in my leg moving, the specialist who tended me said I was a lucky man to have survived and asked if I had done the Lottery that week as winning it and surviving was about the same odds as a high percentage of people who have an Embolism die in the first hour without help.
 
OldCarlos said:
Blimey :eek: unlucky.....then lucky! :cool:

Can't decide whether you'd be a good omen or not, if I was on the same flight as you. :LOL:



(btw, I clicked on your Oooia! link to your photo's & my PC froze! :mad:
I do now remember the same thing happening some time ago when I tried to view, but thought it may just be coincidence & thought nothing of it at the time.
Just thought I'd let you know in case anyone else has a problem. :cautious: (y) )
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Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look into it.

And yes you'll be safe with me. Someone or something is looking out for me.
 
About 12 years ago, myself my father and my dog where all on the bank of a local small river, both myself and my father fishing.
A storm started to brew up nearby and developed intensely and very fast, I remember saying to dad (who like me is a Christian) " I think your mates trying to tell us to pack up and go home" when we both saw an intense ball of light floating down above the opposite bank of the river, all off a sudden there where 6 massive explosions, one after the other, so powerful that all of us dog included where blown off our feet.
I'm not sure I felt my heart stop but I did feel it restart!! It seemed to take forever until it exploded into life again. The sensation was of immense tightness/ squeezing in my chest along with complete confusion, it scared the hell out of me.
We'd taken an indirect hit and the phenomenon we had witnessed was ball lightning which we saw again further away when loading the car.
I've been pretty close to lightning strikes in the past and even got caught out in an EF 0 - EF 1 tornado before but nothing as terrifying as that experience, I'm certain that had we not had the river between us and the "hit" we most likely would not be here now
 
Rock climbing fall - two vertebrae and an elbow - no helmet. walked 3/4 mile to the car and was driven to hospital as I was worried about the elbow.

Got a serious b0llocking from mountain rescue who were practising in the next valley
 
Drunk driver hitting my taxi head on ,he was actually airborne at the time ,I was driving up a steep hill he was coming down ,he had already hit a stone wall that pushed him into the air ,all I saw was the underneath of his car coming towards me .my engine ended up in the passenger seat ,amazingly all I had was a bruised thumb from the steering wheel spinning .
 
My close shave with Mr Death was not long after I married my ex and before my daughter was born.

Was sat at my desk in my home office one early Saturday morning when I started to feel a tad unwell, I put it down to indigestion & took some Gaviscon, the chest type pain just got worst and I then though to myself I need to get to hospital.

So I wake my ex up from her Saturday morning sleep in and explained what was going on, she got up and drove me to A&E, upon arrival I was rushed straight to resus and within seconds I was surrounded by doctors and nurses, who started attaching me to various bits of kit and jabbing me with lots of injections.

Seems I was in the throws of having a heart attack

I was worked on for nearly 3 hours and at one point was attached to the national grid

I had to insist that they get my ex in to see me as she had been left out in reception for the last 3 odd hours, seems no one told her what was going on either, when she came in she balled her eyes out seeing me attached up to all the gizmos
 
Ermmmm... You posted some of that in the main forum last year, Marcel - gave some of us a bit of scare! Hope all's still well and no repeat performances.
 
Did I, Nod?
I just tried to find it but couldn't so I dug into the staff room.
 
Pretty sure you did, Marcel. We exchanged a few PMs about it.
 
Just found a PM from me to you dated May 1 last year. Seems to refer to the suspected TIA as having occurred a few weeks earlier.
 
My scariest moment was in the Scottish Highlands a few winters ago. Traversing across a steep face I slipped and lost my footing. I got my ice axe into the snow to try to brake my fall, as I'd been taught to do, but the snow was too soft and it didn't bite properly. I slid down the mountainside for about 200m on my back, desperately trying to keep my feet off the ground in case my crampons caught in the snow and set me cartwheeling. After what seemed an eternity but was probably no longer than 10-15 seconds, I hit a patch of exposed rocks. My momentum pitched me up into the air, I landed hard and rolled a few times, and stopped about 5m from the edge of a cliff. Nothing broken, just the biggest bruise I've ever seen covering the whole of my buttocks and right thigh, and my waterproof trousers were fairly well shredded. I think I got off very lightly.
 
I have had a few near misses...most notable a stroke, being hit by a bus (whilst crossing the road) and walking out if a building which exploded seconds later...other than that nothing exciting :D
 
I had a paraglider attempt to put itself back in the bag 3,000 ft above the ground after a closer then comfortable experience with an RAF Chinook a couple of years ago. That lead to a few heart stopping moments

After I filed a near miss report I had a very apologetic Captain on the phone saying he hadn't realised how catastrophic an effect his helicopter passing close by would have on me.
 
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