Have you ever been close to death?

[T-BOOST]

I thought i had lost my wedding ring once :

[XCSEDAN]

Originally Posted by T-BOOST

I thought i had lost my wedding ring once :

hmmm where to start with mine... near drowning, loosing 2lt of blood due to slicing a vein open in my hand (still have the scar) because i got cut off on my pushie going round a corner and put my hand on top of a broken beer bottle as i fell off my bike (yep sharp bits almost went through both side of my hands), came off the road at seriously high speed, attempted a backflip on my motorbike coming off my damn and landed on my head, i was paralised for 30minutes (probably more shock then anything else).
that's all i can remember at the moment.....
had other bike stacks n stuff but i can't rmember any of them been near death....

[XRNIL8]

Had a knife in my belly ........ dude wanted me dead ....... adrenalin kicked in, he went to hospital ;) ..... Long story short .... Was a Fed ..... copper ... also my mums ex ... got between him and my mum, he wanted to do her in cause she didn't want him back .... stupid ..... he is now a guest of her majesty and is trying to get Parole ..... Adelaide Pre Release Centre ... if interested ;)

[normxb]

Originally Posted by Bent8

That's nothing...I've had KFC

fmc531 " Macca's

ALL these "Horror stories"

When will it End .............

Norm

[XRNIL8]

when will it end? .... guess when death isn't close ... but done and dusted ;)

I was messed up for about 6 months after my little experience, don't care how much training I got in the Army ..... nothing can prepare you for that kinda stuff ...

[normxb]

Originally Posted by XRNIL8

Had a knife in my belly ........ dude wanted me dead ....... adrenalin kicked in, he went to hospital ;) ..... Long story short .... Was a Fed ..... copper ... also my mums ex ... got between him and my mum, he wanted to do her in cause she didn't want him back .... stupid ..... he is now a guest of her majesty and is trying to get Parole ..... Adelaide Pre Release Centre ... if interested ;)

don't care how much training I got in the Army ..... nothing can prepare you for that kinda stuff ...

You're telling me , that type of stuff "you don't expect "

Norm

[Hardtopxb]

Three or four times when I was in Vietnam,after a rather intense engagement descovered I had 2 bullet holes in my giggle hat,Got blown about 5 yards when a mortar went off on front of me, only got minor leg wounds out of that,the worst is when you hear and feel rounds going sonic mm from your head,LOL,I felt pretty close to death on those occasions..

[fmc351]

Originally Posted by Hardtopxb

Three or four times when I was in Vietnam,after a rather intense engagement descovered I had 2 bullet holes in my giggle hat,Got blown about 5 yards when a mortar went off on front of me, only got minor leg wounds out of that,the worst is when you hear and feel rounds going sonic mm from your head,LOL,I felt pretty close to death on those occasions..

Winner, in more than one sense.

I cant imagine a worse place to be (except every other warzone too).

[Hardtopxb]

fmc351..Yeah. I would rather have been at the pub...

[fmc351]

Originally Posted by Hardtopxb

fmc351..Yeah. I would rather have been at the pub...

Ill bet.

[jaydee]

Have I ever been close to death? yes then I divorced the b itch.

[Bearman]

When I was 6 years old I nearly drowned in the local river after being swept into a sequence of two rapids. It was a school excursion to go swimming, I was pulled unconcious from the bottom of the second rapid by one of the parents. I still have very clear memories of the sequence of events up to the point of blacking out.

In my early 20's myself and 3 mates got cornered in a pub in Warnambool by a huge mob of bikies. We had to make a run for it and get the hell out of town, lucky we could run faster than them and get to the car before they could organize themselves to chase us down. I've got no doubt we would have been dead!!

[V3RSAC3]

Originally Posted by jcxr

Ive met Sourbastard!!!!!

me 2 man, im still scard!

i saw him agian last night! i've got abit of a limp!

.........

i don't really have a story, been in a few accidents though that scared the sh!t out of me!

[Jeeepers]

Gees, this will show my age. Easter 1979??, Bell's Beach Surf Comps were moved to Johanna (spelling??)Beach, as there was a very small swell at Bells. So my Brother, a few mates and I hoofed over to Johanna and while we were there, decided to surf part of the beach that wasn't used for the comp. The shore break was making 4-6 feet. Out the back where the comps where held, it was making 10 + feet.

I was out for about an hour, and saw a good swell brewing, and began to possition. Paddled and caught it, took the drop and wiped out on the first cut back. That's when I was in trouble. My zipper on my spring suit came all the way down and the top half opened and dropped to mid arms length. I couldn't swim or paddle, being twisted in the suit. I remember hitting bottom, feeling like I was in a washing machine. I managed to get to the surface, grabbed some air and reached for my board. I tried to pull up the the fouled wet suit, and was hit by another breaking wave.

I went down again, gulped water... This time I thought I was gone, and hit bottom again as I tumbled with the swirling water. It was then I felt weakened and almost done. Then bang, another wave. And to my amazement, I was then being carried by some other Surfers that had seen me struggling. I spent the next hour coughing and shivering.

Man, that really scared the bejeesus out of me. Not recommended folks.

[Dauphin]

Thanks to everyone who has shared their experiences. It has been an interesting read, some quite scary. I'm glad we're here.

[XR8 Uterous]

Originally Posted by Bearman

In my early 20's myself and 3 mates got cornered in a pub in Warnambool by a huge mob of bikies. We had to make a run for it and get the hell out of town, lucky we could run faster than them and get to the car before they could organize themselves to chase us down. I've got no doubt we would have been dead!!

What did you do to p!ss them off??

[Bearman]

Originally Posted by MYGT05

What did you do to p!ss them off??

Absolutely nothing, we were just there minding our own business. We went in through the front bar to get a counter lunch. We could hear what sounded like a decent crowd in the back bar but what we didn't notice was a heap of Harleys parked around the back. They saw us through the counter window and a couple came in to suss us out. One of my mates saw them signal to the others then they went back to the other bar where their gang was. At that point we were certain they'd decided they were going to have a little fun and we were the entertainment. We were going to be fcuked with bigtime so we bolted.

[ebxr8240]

Been passenger in a few cars ..I thought I was going to die!!!

[Quasi]

Originally Posted by fmc351

Winner, in more than one sense.

I cant imagine a worse place to be (except every other warzone too).

Agreed.

[KITBAG]

I had a brain anyrizeum back about 4 years ago; I was 34 and will never forget it. I was just got home on a normal Monday night
Sat down with beer to watch news, then when I was walking down the corridor to go to the loo.
I blacked out smacked my head on the door jam.
I believe I was out for about 10 minutes, came to I had a huge lump on my head, biggest headache ever.
I called out to neighbor who was going to work to see if he can take me to the local GP.
The GP took my blood presser which was around the 220 mark
Straight away he called an ambulance to go to the hospital.

To cut a long story short
4 weeks intensive care
3 more weeks in hospital
12 weeks of work
5 weeks no driving
4 CAT scan
4 angiograms
2 epidurals
38 stapes
1 scare from middle of forehead to behind right ear…………….
1 Stainless steel clip the size of a 20c piece in my head for life…….

[King Nothing]

Originally Posted by 87 XF - AU11

I had a brain anyrizeum back about 4 years ago; I was 34 and will never forget it. I was just got home on a normal Monday night
Sat down with beer to watch news, then when I was walking down the corridor to go to the loo.
I blacked out smacked my head on the door jam.
I believe I was out for about 10 minutes, came to I had a huge lump on my head, biggest headache ever.
I called out to neighbor who was going to work to see if he can take me to the local GP.
The GP took my blood presser which was around the 220 mark
Straight away he called an ambulance to go to the hospital.

To cut a long story short
4 weeks intensive care
3 more weeks in hospital
12 weeks of work
5 weeks no driving
4 CAT scan
4 angiograms
2 epidurals
38 stapes
1 scare from middle of forehead to behind right ear…………….
1 Stainless steel clip the size of a 20c piece in my head for life…….

Far out mate, you were really lucky. Most people don't make it through something like that!

[KITBAG]

Thanks King Nothing

That is what my doc says
I REALLY look at life differently NOW...........

[blueoval]

While my story isnt as unique as others here in this thread, its still scary to me.

About 4 years ago I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. (Im 30 btw)

About 2 years ago I went into hospital with pneumonia of the lungs spurred on by the RA. This pneumonia wasnt like the regular pneumonia you hear older people getting with flem and all. (excuse the graphic nature) But it was more on the inflammatory side of things. The RA had given me an off shoot pneumonia which clogged up the lungs with fluid right into the lower lobes of the lungs. Effectively making it very hard to breathe and left me incapacitated in hospital for nearly 3 weeks.

Now you might be saying to yourself, well what so life threatening about that?

Well while I was in hospital I had about 7 xrays, 5 CT scans and umpteen numbers of blood tests done. Still no actual diagnosis on the exact condition I had.

they later diagnosed it was BOOP or Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia http://www.epler.com/boop1.html

there really isnt a quick and easy fix for this type of pneumonia, so I was put on a huge regiment of all types of antibiotics as the blood tests were showing that my rheumatoid factor was showing quite elevated.

They then insisted I on wanting a lung bronchoscopy which involved going under local anesthetic (as they wanted me to respond to their requests during the procedure) and getting an endescope going up my nose and down my throat into my lungs to check on the condition and clean out what they could. Sadly the pneumonia was so deep into the lobes they could only get a 1/3 of the way down as the air vessels got too small.

As I woke out of the local anesthesia I only barely noticed I was being moved to a different ward. Intensive care unit. (ICU)

For days I laid there wondering why I was there. According to the doctors who administered the Bronchoscopy they noticed that my breathing was that bad my heart beat got that low that it was a serious concern.

I was released from the ICU after 3 days and put back into my original ward. The very next day of me being back I woke early one morning totally unable to breathe, no air in, no air out, it was like someone had covered my head in a plastic bag, I pressed the emergency alarm and the doctors came running in wondering what was going on. I was in the bed choking, gagging, blue in the face and holding onto one of the nurses shirts petrified not knowing what was happening to me. Strangely, the nurses kept telling me 'calm down mr bird, calm down' but this made me more irrate as I couldnt breathe! The other urse told me I need to calm down and regulate my heart beat right down as I panicked not being able to breathe. It was hard but I managed to do this after about 10mins.

The docs came in later that morning to address me on the cause, but they couldnt, so down I went to the xrays area and got another xray. The results were back within hours and according to my specialist, I had a hole in my main bronchial passage. Friggin great I thought. All I wanted to do was go home. They put me on heavy pain killers to kill the chest pain.

Later that day, I found that my skin around my shoulders, neck and face started ballooning to the point of being scary. it was weird, I lost 8kgs in the first week, my legs looked like sticks but my upper half looked like I ate 40 bugers within a week. when I touched the skin, it felt and sounded like bubble wrap. like tiny little bubbles wiggling around under my skin. The docs diagnosed it to be subcutaneous emphysema. Meaning that when ever I breathed in and out, the hole in my lungs was letting out particles of air under my skin. The other option was to lacerate areas in my skin to release the air that way which would leave me scarred for life. Alternatively I could wait till the hole fixed it self and let the trapped air slowly over weeks dissipate into the skin. i opted for the latter.

So while I may not have totally died it was still a traumatic experience in which I thought on a number of occasions while I was in hospital it could be my last time.

But with all this happening, Id like to thank my wonderful wife who was right there beside me every step of the way. She slept there with me in the ward on a chair every night and kept the positivity going as well as emotional support.

[SPK-250]

When i was 15 i was practicing my BMX racing at the local track. While power pedaling on the back wheel through some whoops my chain snapped casuing myself to shoot forward of my bike and into berm, my head hitting the only rock in sight.

Woke up 2 1/2 hours later in emergency with only my jocks on with 15 wires stuck to me and some indian doctor trying to stitch up my face.

I couldn't walk right for nearly 3 weeks as my brain had all that fluid surrounding it and evrytime i stepped i could literally feel it moving around inside my skull. My doctor said if it doesn't get better within the next week they may have to drill to relieve the pressure. I thought bugger that! and 2 days later it all went away.

Till this day i still thank someone that i'm as solid as a rock.

[KITBAG]

I forgot to mention :
I had fluid surrounding my brain.
That is why I had the 2 epidurals..........
THEY DO A THINK CALL SPINAL DRAIN TAP (a tap in the base of your spin)
WHICH LET OUT THE FLUID IN THE BRAIN......
On A Pain Scale out of 10 ................... 20 out of 10 : :

[trick_xd]

Originally Posted by Bearman

In my early 20's myself and 3 mates got cornered in a pub in Warnambool by a huge mob of bikies. We had to make a run for it and get the hell out of town, lucky we could run faster than them and get to the car before they could organize themselves to chase us down. I've got no doubt we would have been dead!!

That sort of stuff used to happen a bit at the CRI in Warrnambool , It don't happen a lot now as the younger guys (im 33 now) remember what these guys used to do when we where 18 - 25 .... Now it's more like payback time some times ... there might be 20 of them and 10 of us but we are the "bulls" now , they don't do much at all but sit down and drink .

In saying all that , I don't think I have had a run in with them for at least 5 - 6 years but I see a few others still getting into trouble

[trick_xd]

and as for ever being close to death .....
I Called my partner the name of my EX g/f one night just as I got into bed..

" Hanna" can you bring in my phone please ......
WELL
"Amanda" bought in my phone ... and chucked it at me , and she slept in the kids room the nite
Next day was FAR from nice ... she told EVERYONE what I did and they all said " Oh you poor girl ... he is a barstard "

and that was just the START of me being close to death for the rest of the mth.

[fordxrtfan]

Originally Posted by Bent8

But seriously I was riding my mountain bike on some dunes when I was 18...so I decided to go down this really really steep part (about 40m downhill) and as I'm heading down the dune, I can feel the rear wheel lifting off the sand!!!...

That was a very scary few seconds for me, I though okay any moment now my bike's gonna tip *** over end and I'll probably end up with a broken neck or something...

I've had something similiar, but was on a borrowed mountain bike in the Adelaide Hills, when I was 10, steep hill no brakes, major road, steep cliff....
Came to as I was being lifted into the ambulance then that was it till 2 days later in hospital. Spent 2 weeks there, nothing broken but a few internal injuries etc.

[SVR73]

Yes, a couple times
Car accident at six weeks of age when our beloved XA falcon sedan got nailed by a valiant and we rolled one way and he rolled the other

Mum got 80 stitches on her arms, I got thrown around the car and because of that, am on hormone medication for the rest of my days. Not so bad as it has some bodybuilding and other advantages that may appeal to the blokes

Then at age 10, dentist stuffed up giving me anesthetic and I stopped breathing for many minutes and only just got revived.
Probably not as bad as others but that's enough for me

[bigfoot_69]

throwing rocks at the pelcains when i was 3 years old, and they didnt liek that so they come at me and tried to eat me, very scary lol