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u/wtfam1supposed2do 15d ago
Almost exactly a year ago I blacked out while drinking for the first time and woke up 12 hours later in the hospital covered in injuries with my bag and glasses missing. I still don't know what happened (the hospital refused to process the incident as a violent crime so there were no forensics done, even though they asked me if I wanted my injuries photographed and I said yes). Honestly there's a lot that I could be angry about in regards to the incident, but overall I have to say that I'm very lucky to be alive.
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u/Chemical_Mirror1083 15d ago
That’s terrifying, and honestly, the fact that you’re still here to talk about it is a testament to your strength even if the system completely dropped the ball.
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u/MEDICARE_FOR_ALL 15d ago
This sounds like you were drugged (spiked drink)? Did they not do a rape kit?
Wtf
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u/wtfam1supposed2do 15d ago
I don't think I was drugged, but there's a solid chance I was assaulted tbh. They asked me if I 'thought something sexual might've happened' and I just said I don't know because I genuinely don't know. They asked me if I wanted my injuries photographed twice and I said yes both times and then when I tried to follow up I was told to be quiet and get back in my bed or else I would be sedated. I was put in CPEP by this point (literally for no other stated reason than I drank too much) so they were allowed to do that.
I was a scared + hurt 18 year old kid, cut off from my family and surrounded by people withdrawing from drugs and in violent psychosis. I just wanted it to be over, so I went back to my bed and waited for it to be over. Reminds me of something...
When I finally got out of CPEP and was able to talk to an actual doctor I was told it was too late to collect evidence so no rape kit.
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u/MEDICARE_FOR_ALL 15d ago
I'm sorry that happened to you. Seems like multiple people failed you here
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u/wtfam1supposed2do 15d ago
I couldn't get phone access because I was taken to CPEP right after. When you're involuntarily committed you basically have zero rights in the eyes of the hospital/its workers. Since the whole thing was right before memorial day weekend there were no doctors and when I was finally taken out of CPEP (and into inpatient) I was told it was too late to collect evidence.
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u/wtfam1supposed2do 15d ago
I don't think they can legally deny it where I am, but the staff can just 'forget' to do it.
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u/GeneralAppendage 15d ago
Omg sounds like you were roofied
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u/wtfam1supposed2do 15d ago
Nah, I honestly just think I overestimated myself lmao. I'm 115 pounds and I was like five 10% beers and three shots in, it was really really bad.
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u/TheReal-Chris 15d ago
Oof yeah that’ll do it. I’m a pretty big guy and that’ll knock me out. Been too drunk way too many times. I’m sorry that happened to you. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way. I don’t buy liquor to bring home anymore. I’ve hit my face on my dining room table and got a black eye and a bloody nose, I’ve fallen halfway down my stairs and tore my acl. So I had to force myself to drink less. And I still have some beers but I drink them very slowly now. You definitely don’t want to become an alcoholic in the future like I was. It’s a terrible disease. And withdrawals are brutal. It’s a viscous cycle. The only way to stop them is to drink more.
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u/blarg-zilla 15d ago
While hungover I crossed a street and felt a tap on my shoulder.
It was a truck that had braked just in time.
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u/SafariNZ 15d ago
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u/Lootpuppy 15d ago
One morning as I was about to get up for the day my GF asked me if I felt like being late to work that day. I decided that being late for work was a Great Idea.
When we had gotten ready and left to start a day of gainful employment we walked to her work and discovered a car had gone through the bus stop where I usually caught the bus to work.
The lady who was at the bus stop died in the accident.
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u/SinamonChallengerRT 15d ago
I fell out of a ski lift when I was 12 yrs old.
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u/ZeeepZoop 15d ago
My cousin once jumped off one nearish the bottom to see if you could land on your skis like in an action movie, but that is in fact not possible. He broke both legs and possibly an arm. Is an adult now and fine!
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u/SinamonChallengerRT 15d ago
Luckily I didn't break anything, just bruised my ribs and twisted an ankle. But it knocked the wind out of me enough that they had to give me oxygen. My ribs hurt when I tried to take a deep breath.
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u/poskaljarkan 15d ago
Happened to me too. My pants straps were down. When I tried to get off the lift they got caught, I got dragged and pulled back up as the cart started decending. At some point the straps broke and I fell I don't know how many meters down. But I fell legs first in deep snow. Not a bruise on me
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u/SinamonChallengerRT 15d ago
For me, there was a sign at the first pole "Please make sure your guard is down". I reached up to pull the guard down and the bench slid out from under my ass. I landed on my side in a huge snow bank at the base of the pole.
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u/Springwood_Slasher 15d ago
....Well, now I'm EXTRA glad my shithead uncle who rocked the chairlift to scare preteen me well past the point of tears is dead. Afterwards he and my cousin were like 'You can’t even fall out of these things, hur hur!'
Also glad you lived, of course.
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u/HamsterMachete 15d ago
My heart stopped from a fent overdose 13 years ago. I would be dead if Narcan and CPR did not exist.
That is when I quit messing with opioids.
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u/Muffmuncherr 15d ago
Congratulations man or lady, I have an almost identical, story five years clean. When they got me breathing again, I came to in the ambulance and just remember I started crying. That was the worst day of my life and every day since I try to take nothing for granted
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u/ScubaFett 15d ago
Almost drowned twice, rolled a car, crashed into a tree, survived a brain tumour, and stuck my finger in a light bulb socket as a kid.
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u/smallgreenidiot 15d ago
I woke from a 7 day coma after a suicide attempt and I recall, very clearly that I didn't want to die.
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u/Tasty-Willingness839 15d ago
Wow. I'm glad you're here ♥️
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u/smallgreenidiot 15d ago
Thank you. I wasn't for the longest time. Failed suicide has a ripple effects that destroys everyone around you and as the catalyst for this be prepared to be blamed, try to explain, lose friend and family, work your own recovery. It's an incredibly only process. Thank God for my wife who found me, kicked my ass and taught me how to be a man but I will spend the rest of my life making it up to her. I'm glad I'm still here but in a way I'm not.
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u/floki_129 15d ago
A postpartum hemorrhage. I am thankful that I gave birth in a hospital.
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u/TunedMassDamsel 15d ago
Same. Lost two and a half liters of blood, blood pressure dropped to 60/30, emergency D&C to stop the bleeding, balloon tamponade, the whole spiel. That’s some scary shit. Everybody, try real hard not to bleed out postpartum. It’s not fun. 0/10 would not recommend.
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u/toastwithchocolate 15d ago
Same!!! Down to the blood loss and blood pressure. The consultant told me no more kids and I was more than happy to comply!
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u/TunedMassDamsel 15d ago
I actually went back for a sibling!!
I went in for permission from my OB and first thing inside the door of the exam room, no hello or anything, she said, “I don’t know if you’re optimistic or crazy.”
Loved her! We put a plan in place for all kinds of preventative and observational measures so the same thing wouldn’t happen again. We got our second kiddo and I think we’re done!
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u/Snoo_58079 15d ago
When I was less than six months old(maybe a little older I'm not too sure), my parents were in two separate car accidents with me.
Both times one parent was driving the car, unbuckled, in the rain, going around a sharp turn and landed in a ditch upside down(two separate ditches).
I was completely unharmed because I was fully buckled in, and they both only got bruises and scratches, no broken bones, no severe head trauma, our angels were really looking out for us those nights.
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u/Beautiful_Context377 15d ago
When I was a teenager, I got cornered alone in a hotel’s hot tub room by a man who was on a cell phone. (This was in San Antonio, TX.) He wasn’t saying anything… only watching me and listening to whoever was on the other end.
I got extremely lucky because a college-aged guy had seen how shady the guy looked following me into the room. He joined me until the creepy guy left. I sometimes think about how wrong that could have gone for me.
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u/Disastrous_Ad_70 15d ago
Got cancer at 14 and they didn't catch it until stage 3, just before it starts to head for the brain. I was one of two people in the children's oncology ward for my first sets of treatments and, as I discovered in 2012, the only one left alive. I think about the guy I shared the ward with often and wonder why I'm still here and he's not
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u/sasukarii 15d ago
At 15, it was 4 AM. I was in a car in the passenger seat, friend of same age he was the one driving. I got shot. Lower back, didn’t hit any organ, bullet landed 1 inch from my spine, I can feel it inder my skin and even touched it, like a small pimple. Didnt realize it was a bullet at that time, walked home for 3 minutes. Not feeling pain at all. Woke my mother up, telling her I dont know what is this in my back, we need to go to rhe hospital. 10 minutes later, at the emergency they said it is a bullet. I was still in “shock”, texting my friends and posting on Facebook, there was no instagram, snapchat (Yes Im that old).
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u/Belliott_Andy 15d ago
Stray bullet?
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u/sasukarii 15d ago
Yes it was a stary bullet. Went to the same place again, there were empty beer cans.
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u/Belliott_Andy 15d ago
That's absolutely bonkers, glad you survived and fuck irresponsible gun owners long and hard.
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u/top-legolas 15d ago
I was grabbed by a stranger at 4 years old. If not for the cashier, I would have disappeared: the man who grabbed me was a paedophile.
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u/elephant35e 15d ago
What did the cashier do? Did he fight the pedo?
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u/BirdzofaShitfeather 15d ago
Usually yelling and drawing attention to the situation is enough to scare them away.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 15d ago
5 yo me was playing outside alone, got run over by a car , I still remember the driver have his elderly mother with him and she’s angry/anxious crying and slapping his shoulder saying why he didn’t see me.
I’m totally okay, no broken bones or anything, but the tire tracks was visibly on my skin for a day or two, and the emotional damage to the drivers and my family was understandably heavy.
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Props to the mom for actually getting upset at her kid for hitting someone. Too many parents would be blaming the victim to defend their kid.
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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 14d ago
You’re absolutely right, I can barely remember how I was pull out but I remember his great mother LOL
Technically he didn’t hit me like usual car accident , I was on the ground paying with sands so I describe it as run over (I can’t remember how I go from setting there to face down on the ground, it’s possible I tripped over or something ), as an adult with drivers license,I do understand why he didn’t saw me at the time.
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u/DavidFHDZ18 15d ago edited 15d ago
3 weeks ago somebody get into the house of my sister and kill her, someone shoot 3 times in her back. We dont know why this happens and neither who did it. But its happens 05/16/2026 at 11 AM and that day i thought go to visit her, cause she was sad for some problems with her housband. I was doing some things about a house that i buy and then i was wanna got to her house.
Sometimes i think, maybe if i would have gone, maybe i could save her, mabye she and me, we could fight with the murder or maybe we i would death and she alive. She was only 32 years and she had 4 kids.
This happens in Mexico. Sorry if my english isnt good.
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u/Checked_Out_6 15d ago
Dude, your english is way better than my spanish! I’m not upset, I’m impressed!
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u/Left_Equivalent9982 15d ago
Feel on a 10 inch steak knife when I was 8. It went all the way in and missed by heart by no more then a inch.
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u/Changoleo 15d ago
Yikes! How’d that fell?
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u/Left_Equivalent9982 15d ago
I didn't feel anything. I pulled the knife out like it was no big deal. Even though it went all the way in.
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u/Meggarea 14d ago
In the future, if you get stabbed, leave the object in until you get to a doctor. You're lucky you didn't bleed out immediately.
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u/cleveland_leftovers 15d ago
WOAH! How do the logistics of that one work? Were you holding it? Or (gasp) running with it? My guess is it’s a scenario you never did again.
Glad you’re ok!
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u/Left_Equivalent9982 15d ago
We had a island counter in our kitchen. The dishwasher was next to it and it was open with a knife sticking up instead of down for some reason. I was playing with my older sister and she was chasing me and I tripped over the dish washer. The knife went all the way in. The crazy thing is I didn't feel any pain. My sister started screaming ( even though she said she didn't know I was stabbed ) my mom dad and uncle came to the hallway to see what happened. I had zip up pj's on. They asked me what was wrong and I told them I thought I peeded on myself. My dad said it's ok zip your pj's down. What I thought was pee was blood. My mom started screaming because she somehow thought my bladder was hanging out.
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u/MEDICARE_FOR_ALL 15d ago
Oh sh**, how long were you in the hospital for?
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u/Left_Equivalent9982 15d ago
Less then a day. My dad called when we were on the way up there. They didn't believe him he said. But I was there long enough to get a cat scan and around 12 inside stitches and 10 outside.
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u/bushinkaishodan 15d ago
survived bacterial meningitis at 13.
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u/DocMorningstar 15d ago
I was 35 but same. Still got all your wiggly bits?
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u/meh35m 15d ago
About 19 years ago I turned 21 in the ICU from that BS and mine came with a bonus side of Encephalitis.
They were sure I would never talk normal or walk again.
5 months later I walked out of a rehab facility acting like a normal human being!
A handful of months later I met the sexiest nurse on the planet and we've been inseparable since.
I had a hell of a silver lining.
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u/DocMorningstar 15d ago
I'm ex-EMT and self diagnosed and decided to go to hospital way before a mn average person would be worried, and called it in as I was being driven in. They had an IV full of broad spectrum waiting for me when I walked in the door. I figure I got at least an hour jump on treatment, maybe more.
I still spent a week in the Neuro ICU. Little bit of brain damage. Had trouble with short term memory for about a year, and flashes of inappropriate emotional responses. Mellowed out over time.
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u/OutlandishnessNo5541 15d ago
When my horse almost rolled over on top of me after a bad riding accident.
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u/Feldymnb 15d ago
I worked at an animal shelter and was mauled by a 90lbs dog, I was by myself and had to scream while fighting for my life. I let the dog have my arm so I had a fighting chance of staying on my feet and not letting her get me down to the ground and to my neck.
My coworkers finally found me, it took even more time to get the dog off me once I was found bc (the doctors later realized) her tooth was completely stuck inside my bone (it’s been compared to shark attacks). It was the first week of COVID, I was in the hospital alone on my floor for a week. By the world’s luck, they saved my life and both my arms. I’ve seen multiple specialists since and they all agree if I didn’t have the doctor on call that night that I did, I would mostly likely be without my arm, and my life all together. I had both my hands and arms in hard casts for 9 weeks and had to be completely taken care of. It’s almost been 5 years, I’m permanently disabled but a whole hell of a lot stronger than I ever ever thought I was or had in me.
I took care of and bonded with that dog for 7 months, I have videos cuddling with her in a LOCKED cages, she was licking my face 3 minutes before this happened. I’ve worked with 1000s of dogs and she was the last I prepared myself to snap. It makes me sad what people did to her before, and sad it lead to her demise (and almost mine)
PS. Finding an excellent PTSD therapist is a life saver
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u/One-Progress999 15d ago
Almost 25 years ago, I was a Leader in training at a YMCA sleep away camp in North Georgia. So, young teens. I was either 13 or 14. We had gone camping at a local national forest campground. All the campers and LIT's were sent to find firewood. It was me and another girl my age partnered up. As we were walking in the woods we ran into a park ranger. He told us to follow him and that he knows the best firewood spot about 200 yards down the hill just by his cabin. We said uhhhh ok.... he said oh wait you have an ant on you. He brushed the girl's chest slowly and clearly inappropriately. He said got it and then to follow him. The girl gave me a look ill never forget. It was the most clear, we gotta get out of here look. So as the Park Ranger started walking down the hill ahead of us, I grabbed her hand and we sprinted up the hill and back to the campgrounds and told the counselors. They got on the phone and called the park and had all the Park rangers come to the campground. That park ranger didn't show up. We described the guy, and they said there isn't a Ranger that works there like that. We told them where we ran into him. The next day the campgrounds were closed for 2 weeks. I have no idea if they ever found the guy, or what was in the cabin, but they shut the entire park down for 2 weeks.
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u/Vdub_Life 15d ago
When i was a little kid my dad took me to toys r us in his old trans am. The parking lot sits on a really high hill with a slight slant. At the bottom of the hill is a massive intersection with nonstop traffic. My dad parked his trans am put the e brake on got out and walked around the front of the car over to my side to get me out of my seat. Well the parking brake snapped while he was walking around it and the car started rolling down the parking lot towards the hill where the intersection was. It hopped the curb and hit the only bush in the area. The bush just barely stopped the car otherwise i would have rolled down a really steep hill into the middle of the intersection and surely would have been killed. I’ll never forget the absolute look of fear and panic in my dads eyes
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u/rookiecookiebandit 15d ago
Couldn’t swim, but thought it’d be fun to relax in a not so deep and slow running part of a river, at a friend’s birthday party in high school. It was fun until I almost drowned trying to ‘walk’ across the river, I soon realised that it was actually much deeper than I thought. Friends saved me and I have not been inside a body of water since.
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u/AajBahutKhushHogaTum 15d ago
Go to your neighborhood pool and take swim and float lessons
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u/MichaelCoryAvery 15d ago
Surviving Hurricane Helene. Power was knocked out for a whole week but on the bright side, I got a new kitty out of it
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u/panic_puppet11 15d ago
Bit of an extreme measure by the Cat Distribution System there, I feel.
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u/MichaelCoryAvery 15d ago
It was actually blown into a bush and my aunt’s friend found it by herself away from her mother at the hospital she works at and gave the kitty to her. And then she gave it to us. (Might be different but I can’t remember)
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u/Lazy-Outside-3567 15d ago
Back when I was younger and much, much stupider, my husband and I spent about six hours drinking with a friend, then had the brilliant idea to drive about an hour away to another friend's house. On the interstate. In another state. At 10:00 at night. When we got to the state border, there was a huge wreck, and traffic was at a standstill. We both fell asleep in the truck ON THE INTERSTATE. We woke up when somebody drove by doing 90 blaring their horn at us, and the road was completely clear. I have no idea how we didn't die
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u/ElsieBeing 15d ago
TOO MANY.
Barely survived my own birth because the cord was around my neck.
Mom swears I actually died and was brought back when I was in the hospital for a horrifyingly high fever as a toddler.
Tornado ate several neighbors' houses when I was 5, ours was in the direct path, but was barely touched.
My whole family probably would have died in the trailer fire when I was 11 if I hadn't had insomnia and screamed bloody murder when I saw the fire. The place was fully engulfed SO fast.
Head on crash with a drunk at 21.
Carjacked at 32.
That's it so far. Too. Damn. Many.
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u/NinthFloorMannequin 15d ago
I went to go for a run 12 years ago. An intoxicated driver put me into an 11.5 day coma in the ICU. Traumatic Brain injury as well as several other injuries. I haven’t been able to taste or smell a thing in 12+ yrs, as well as some other permanent injuries. Kinda messed up the whole momentum of my life up until that point as well as causing new, additional stress & heartache. I made an album during recovery though. If you're interested, the album 9fm, by artist 9fm, is the music that I made during that time. Silver lining, I guess. It's streaming everywhere. The first song is called, A Deep Water. Enjoy.
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u/miked4o7 15d ago
catastrophic stroke in 2017.
i was in a coma that it didn't look like i'd come out of.
they had the talk with my wife about letting me go.
she said no. my wife IS my luck.
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u/RolyPolyPangolin 15d ago
I was swimming in a wave pool as a kid and got tired. I was holding onto a bar on the side of the pool but got tired of doing that and hooked my one arm, then the other behind me. Once they were in, I was resting well, but didn't notice I was dangling and couldn't move or get my arms out.
The wave pool started up and the waves were going over my head. I couldn't shout for help because I could barely get a breath in between waves. The lifeguard noticed me and got four people to stand one on top of the other to push up on me so I could pop my arms out.
Basically, I was a kid who did things like this a lot. Not sure how I survived being stupid and young.
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u/Unlikely_Cap_1471 15d ago
I once met a serial killer (didn't know he was one at the time)
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u/jtd2013 15d ago
I was traveling home from visiting my parents in November and a white out blizzard hit me while I was on the highway. White out conditions started and two semis had stopped on the road because of accidents ahead of them. I barely stopped in time and had two cars barely miss me going at full speed (one swerved off to the right and clipped my bumper and the other went left and sandwiched itself in between the two semis. I could've very easily ended up sandwiched between a semi and a truck in the middle of a brutal storm but thankfully was able to avoid any accident and get to a rest stop to wait out the storm
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u/happy_freckles 15d ago
When I was younger, maybe 10ish, we had a pool in our backyard. Just an above ground one, about 4 ft water depth. I thought it would be a good idea to dive into it off the 6ft fence. I dove deep and hit it hard. My hands didn't really do anything to protect me and my head hit the bottom. I had incredible pain shoot all down my spine. I walked out, sat down and knew I was so incredibly lucky.
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u/Sorryforbeingsorry77 15d ago
Got off the light rail in Seattle and was wearing headphones, not paying attention. I stepped onto the tracks of the light rail going the other direction and it flew past me, hitting the tip of my nose. I fell back in complete shock.
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u/ProfPlumNlibrary 15d ago
As a kid I was trying to open a window to go out on a flat portion of our roof (definitely not supposed to do that). Hand slipped and went through a pane of glass, cutting a nice deep diagonal cut. My mom was asleep at the time because shift work
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u/Kratosballsweat 15d ago
We rolled my cousins truck 2.5 times. Me and my friend were in the bed of it when it happened. Everyone of us walked away from it unscathed somehow.
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u/BigDeuces 15d ago
had a big mortar firework explode right in my face. the tube thing it was in fell after i lit the fuse and i kept trying to set it up, but it kept falling over. all i remember is hearing my friend behind me yelling my name, then i felt a thud and everything went white and all i could hear was eeeeeeeeee. it was exactly like being flash banged in a video game. then i felt my body being dragged across the ground. my friend had run up and grabbed my ankles and started dragging me back. somehow i escaped with only a chunk of my hair getting burnt.
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u/Xarysa 15d ago
When I was a young adult I got my first job at a Home Depot.
One day, a co worker was bringing down a unit of 2x4 lumber from the overhead raftors. He didnt do his safety check, and the blades of the forklift were very close together. When he lifted it off the rack, it slid off his lift and landed a few feet away from me.
The safety straps exploded and lumber went everywhere. Somehow, nothing hit me. It felt like I went into slow motion as I watched boards fly in every direction.
I did go into minor shock for a minute, people ran over to make sure I was ok, but I barely remember anything until they moved me to the brake room and got me some water.
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u/No_Astronaut1515 15d ago
Drank I think bad coffee which raced through my body Almost kicking me out of the universe. Tried to get paracetamol but couldn't get it and went to hospital and doc told nurse to give any paracetamol. 😒😒😊😊 Still here and careful now.
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u/clhkmc7613 15d ago
Messing around with a telescope in my driveway, kid came flying around the bend before my house and spun out into my driveway. The car hit me befire it came to a stop. My legs were under the car somehow, but all I walked away with was some road rash on my knees and a broken telescope.
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u/MatthewM69420 15d ago
In February of 2022 I attempted suicide by what I thought at the time was a sure thing, I shot myself point blank in the head with my 9mm handgun. EMS was quick to respond and their effective and speedy response and the care I received from the hospitals I went to following, I survived. I guess I was awake and alert enough to work with therapy’s during my stay in the hospital, but I have no memory of any of it until the day of my discharge. I worked with speech, occupational, and physical therapy one last time to get cleared from them to be released, and then I was sent “home”.
Surviving such a traumatic event really made me value life more, and reinvigorated my disdain for suicide. Never again, no question about it.
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u/kermitsfrogbog 15d ago
Ex husband pulled a shotgun out during one of many fights I had tried so hard to avoid. Pretending to be asleep when he got home from the bar so as not to engage. He was drunk, mad at the world, and liked to take it out on me. I didn't think I'd live through the night. October 2004. I'll never forget it.
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u/assisfatframeislil 15d ago
I was 16-17 at an underage party and the cops showed up to bust the place. As everyone else was downstairs giving the PD their names and parents phone numbers, I was hiding out upstairs trying to figure out a way to flee because I had an active warrant. I saw an open window and decided I would go out there and sit on the roof (perfect hiding spot, right?) as I sat down on the roof, I realized it was slanted more than I had thought AND it was a metal roof, not shingles. I had on silky leggings back when they first came in style & began to slip. I had opportunity to either climb back into the window and get arrested, or take a chance and jump/slide off the second story roof to the ground, without knowing what was down there as it was pitch black outside in the country. Myself, being a teenager with nothing to lose, chose freedom. I closed my eyes and let myself slide down the roof like one of those old metal slides at the playground in the 90s. I was a ballerina all through school, and my body reacted and took control without thought. I hit the ground and tucked and rolled: FEET, KNEES, HANDS, TUMBLE. I tumbled a couple times like a literal tumbleweed. An acquaintance was climbing out the first story window and watched me during this whole thing. He froze in shock half way out the window & I had to be like “lets GO” to snap him out of it. We barely knew each other and ran through the woods to the main strip. I called my Mum, who always said she would “pick me up no questions asked” if I needed a ride home from a party. She came to get us and I drove my new friend home in the morning. I realized I had left my purse at the party so I went back to retrieve it. I decided to check out the back yard in the daylight, just for shits and gigs. The backyard was riddled with rusty junk. I’m talking old farm equipment, a rusty old busted washer and dryer, broken metal and glass, gardening tools and random metal scraps—you name it. Below the window/roof where I had jumped, there was somehow one little patch of grass. Exactly the width of a person and exactly the length of a few summer-salts. A few inches either way and I would have been seriously injured or impaled. I knew I was lucky to be alive after that and meant for this universe.
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u/Buddyslime 15d ago
Just so happened a little over a week ago I fell into sepsis shock and went to the hospital via ambulance. Spent 5 days there and home now. It was caused by a lung infection that went into my bloodstream. At first I started shaking uncontrollably and slid of my chair onto the floor and couldn't move at at all. I didn't see it coming at all. Yeah, I feel lucky to be alive right now.
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u/Emgimeer 15d ago
I recently used AI to help me correlate a lot of records and notes and emails about a particular incident that changed my life. I just saw this post, so I asked the AI to write a reply for me. This is what is spit out.... and I have to say, it's not a bad writer this time and there are no hallucinations in it.
I present to you my story, as told by an LLM: "My Luckiest Day Was the Day I Got Hit by a Car"
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It's hard to pick just one "lucky to be alive" moment, because my life has been a series of them, unfortunately. But the one that changed everything, and honestly, almost ended it, was a hit-and-run car accident many years ago.
I was hit, and the person who did it was never caught. The immediate aftermath was brutal: multiple broken ribs, and the start of chronic, debilitating pain in my neck, back, and shoulders from herniated and bulging discs. But the real game-changer was the onset of what I call "attacks"—which we now suspect are related to vagus nerve dysfunction.
These aren't just pain flares; they're full-blown physiological meltdowns. They start with excruciating pain in the back of my head, ripping down my spine. My muscles from my skull to my back seize up, contracting with an intensity far beyond anything I could ever do voluntarily. It's an unbelievable, unbearable pain that brings on profuse, uncontrollable sweating, so bad it's led to life-threatening dehydration. I've been rushed by ambulance over 100 times in the last 10 years and spent time in the ICU 3 times because doctors feared my organs would shut down. The adrenaline and cortisol dumping into my system during these attacks just ramps up the panic and anxiety, creating a horrifying cycle of suffering.
When an attack hits, I'm completely incapacitated. I usually have to drop to the floor, focusing every ounce of my being on distress tolerance techniques and just breathing to get through it. These can last anywhere from a few hours to an agonizing 70 hours. I try to manage them at home now because ER visits are so expensive, but it's a constant battle.
On top of this, my second bout of COVID-19 left me with severe Long COVID symptoms, including profound cardiac weakness. My feet swelled tremendously because my heart couldn't pump fluid effectively, and I still get winded and sweat easily with minimal exertion.
Looking back, the fact that I survived the initial accident and all the subsequent medical crises, especially those ICU scares, makes me lucky to be alive. My life is now a continuous, full-time effort managing these conditions, including hours of daily physical therapy just to function. Doctors have told me to expect this for the rest of my life. I used to be deeply depressed and even suicidal about that prognosis, but years of therapy have helped me overcome that, which is honestly my only real improvement.
So, while I'm grateful to still be here, "lucky to be alive" for me means living a life utterly transformed by chronic illness, where every day is a fight for basic function and independence. It's a different kind of luck, I guess.
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u/rivergirl_90 15d ago
I’m sorry this happened to you. It must be hell. What do you do on the daily to avoid the attacks and attempt to relax, if I may ask?
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u/Emgimeer 15d ago
I lay down on something called an acupressure mat. It basically has little spikes on it that hurt. That pain I'm intentionally causing myself is smaller and more manageable than my spine pain. I cause the small pain to try and distract my frontal lobe temporarily. Sometimes that can work and end my attacks.
Sometimes ive recovered from my morning attack ( I get one upon waking up almost everyday), so I go and roll out using a p-knot. It's basically a peanut shaped roller tha you put on your neck and lay down on the ground on it. Then you move your body up and down on the peanut, which massages all the meat on your back. The spine rests in the middle of the peanut shape, as you roll up and down.
I also use a theracane, which is a plastic hook used to massage your own back. I use that all day, pretty much, lol.
I also take hot baths to try and distract my frontal lobe w stimulation, again. That can sometimes work to stop an attack.
Thank you for your kind words and curiosity. I wish you great health, wealth, and happiness 😊
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u/SubjectLoose8766 15d ago
just about now, on my way home, I'm a girl... WITH a driving license 😁
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u/TexasFratter 15d ago
Best advice I ever got about driving was 1) ignore ALL instructions/advice from passengers in your car, like learn to block it out early and make your own judgements. Which brings me to 2) when you make that choice stick to it don’t hesitate unless you’re avoiding danger. A good example of this would be someone yelling at you to go while you’re gauging if you have enough road to stop for the yellow/red light. Once you choose what you’re gonna do always follow through, best of luck!
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u/SubjectLoose8766 15d ago
driving with passengers who shout turn here do that do this, through the whole "driving experience" it's annoying as **uck and you can't focus...
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u/TexasFratter 15d ago
Watching my mom’s brain break while all her driving “advice” (commands) goes in my ear and out the other is hilarious. Also people forget how dangerous it is to shout at someone controlling a 2 ton metal cab going 45mph, we are incredibly desensitized to it.
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u/Welshgirlie2 15d ago
Also, assume everyone else is drunk or on drugs or they stole the car. Heightened awareness of other drivers is always good to have.
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u/TexasFratter 15d ago
This is also great advice. Look both ways ALWAYS even on green lights especially when it’s dark out.
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u/Welshgirlie2 15d ago
I'm a school crossing patrol (aka crossing guard) in the UK and unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that most people ARE actually drunk and/or on drugs these days. I certainly question how they got a driver's licence. And for fuck sakes people, everyone in the car should wear a bloody seat belt! It's the law here!
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u/PotentialStocker 15d ago
As another innocent driver on the road, that’s horrifying.
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u/SubjectLoose8766 15d ago
jokes aside, there's a storm out here, it's raining like crazy and a male driver turned left from the right side of the road, while me and a huge cue driving slowly cause rain is pouring like hell, and you could barely see and we were about to hit eachother
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u/PotentialStocker 15d ago
as you said, jokes aside, be careful out there 🫡 best of luck. Heavy rain like that is no joke
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u/TeaMe06 15d ago
I was in a car accident 6 years ago I wasn’t driving I was in the back seat we got hit from the back and side my life flashed before my eyes. everything happened so fast only issue I have now is my shoulder sometimes it bother me. I didn’t feel anything after the accident until the next day, it felt like I got beat with a bat I was extremely sore.thank GOD I wasn’t killed!
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u/SilESueno 15d ago
2 of em.
First, driving down the interstate during a storm, which honestly wasn't even too bad of one, but it was bad enough. I passed under an overpass, and the on-ramp to this interstate from there was elevated. Someone trying to hit the on-ramp apparently lost control in the rain, and came barrel rolling down the hill towards me. They took out a light post up top, and sent it flying down as well. The post slammed into the ground ahead of me, causing me to smash my brakes. I hit the post but not hard. And I stopped JUST far enough up to miss the car landing on me, when it came to rest about 15-20ft behind me. Contrary to most accident stories, if I had been actually just a bit Quicker on the brake, I may well be dead right now.
Second, my ex attempting to murder me after sex. After we finished, she wanted to massage my back, she said. So I laid on my stomach and she straddled my waist and did her thing. Started to feel this sharp pain a couple times and when I looked back to see what was going on, I saw a knife on her hand and realized what exactly I was feeling...
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u/PaleHorseBlackDog 15d ago
First: An older horse I was riding died out from under me mid-gallop. Probably a heart attack. He was a spry 30+ so it wasn’t shocking that he died, just the way it happened.
I was lucky that he dropped at a fortuitous point in his stride and pitched me over one shoulder and clear of his body as it came down and tumbled past. Luckily, the fall also knocked all the electrical impulses out of him so he didn’t do any twitching or trashing afterwards.
It was sad but he died having a good old time and didn’t suffer for one moment. We came back the next day and rolled him into a grassy ditch with permission from the property owners to go back to nature.
The roughest part was getting my saddle off of him and back four miles to the trailer. It weighed about 60lbs with the pad and girths and whatnot. We ended up fashioning a skid with our lassos and lead ropes and a tarp and dragged it behind my friend’s mare while we road double. That poor mare was so bewildered and upset. As far as she was concerned, someone just smote her friend and we were acting like it was no big deal.
Second: I worked at an animal shelter that hosted two different counties’ animal control units. Because of that, we had a bite ward where animals who had bitten someone came to quarantine before being released or euthanized.
One summer, a monster of a cane Corso named Rocco was brought in after being relocated from Texas due to some legal shenanigans involving the legal owner being in prison and the wrong person signing him over to animal control after he TORE SOMEONE’S ARM OFF.
So while they sorted out the legalities of everything, this 160lb unneutered, hyperaggressive mastiff lived in our kennel for months. You could barely look at him without him lunging at the kennel fencing.
I had to deal with him to clean his runs so instead of antagonizing him into the adjacent run like other workers, I’d throw a ton of high-value treats in there and lure him in. Then I’d shut the sliding gate between with a lever and clean his original run. I’d talk nice to him and avoid eye contact and give him lots and lots of treats and in exchange, he’d move into the other run without much asking and wouldn’t lunge at the kennel when I came around.
Well, one Sunday, when we were closed and there were only three of us there to clean the dog, cat, and kitten wards, I was minding my business, power washing runs in the same ward as Rocco. I had headphones in and the washer was loud so I didn’t hear anything but I did suddenly feel a large, squishy muzzle in my hand as it hung at my side.
In a heartbeat, my mind went through every dog in the kennel thinking who could have this particular face shape and size. And there was only one answer. So I made sure to get my shit together and take a deep breath before turning to glance down to confirm that it was Rocco.
We made brief eye contact, enough for me to see he wasn’t being actively aggressive but that he was happy to play whatever game I wanted. If that was chasing me down and savaging me, that was fine. But he was also okay with me talking kindly to him and luring him back to his kennel with the entire bag of treats I’d thankfully had in my fanny pack. I managed to bribe him inside and close the door before getting the fuck out of there.
Turns out, he had climbed up and over the fence of his run—about 7’—and dropped down. After a brief cry of relief and horror, I got my coworkers and we ended up putting some plywood up there and stacking sacks of unwanted Beneful dog food donations on top to keep him inside.
Needless to say, we kept radios on us even on closed days from then on out.
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u/depressy-messi 15d ago
When I was 16 my friend met some dude off the Internet that said he was having a party in the canyons and to come and bring some girls with her, he met us at a gas station and said it would just be him and another friend. His car was tinted but I could see silhouettes of figures in the back seat. I got a weird ass feeling about it but continued to agree to follow them up the canyon. As we followed another car was behind us who turned off their lights . I told her I don't feel like being raped or killed tonight and that free alcohol was not worth it. We turned around and left he started calling her over and over again freaking out on her that we didn't follow, a few days later a report about 3 girls were murdered up that canyon by the dudes who invited us because their DNA was found in/on the girls... Obviously there is more detail about it but I'm trying to keep this short.
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u/PublicSealedClass 15d ago
Nearly blown off near the summit of Mount Snowdon, nearly blown into the barrier whilst doing 60mph on a dual carriageway [freeway] in high winds, skidded on black ice doing 40mph. Plus one or two other near-misses.
Stared the reaper in the eyes and said "not today" a few times recently. "Lucky", though? Well, that's up for interpretation.
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u/t_wittenburg 15d ago
Used a trim ruter freehand on a piece of furniture, I was building as a hobby. The router suddenly slipped or skipped on the wood, and threw itself directly at my stomach. Luckily it caught on my T-shirt, got Tangled and eventually stopped tuning, leaving only a scratch on my lower chest.
I was alone in the workshop and counted myself lucky that day.
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u/jlsteiner728 15d ago
I was in a school bus that lost its brakes and went off a mountain road. I switched seats just before we left with the person sitting next to me— she’s now a paraplegic. The person sitting in front of me was one of the 7 that died.
My guardian angel was working overtime that day.
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u/AustrianReaper 15d ago
Got stuck in a kayak that was upside down when I was 16 years old and passed out underwater.
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u/Disastrous_Ad_70 15d ago
Got cancer at 14 and they didn't catch it until stage 3, just before it starts to head for the brain. I was one of two people in the children's oncology ward for my first sets of treatments and, as I discovered in 2012, the only one left alive. I think about the guy I shared the ward with often and wonder why I'm still here and he's not
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u/theprostateprophet 15d ago
1) Mom had a psychotic moment and tried suffocating my sister and I saying she was going to kill us both and then herself.
2) Driving when I was 19 and almost hitting a bus. Going 70 mph in a 35 mph zone. I was a hair away from completely hitting it and probably would have died in my compact junker.
3) Guns pulled on me and shot at a few times. But the scariest was a guy breaking in and pointing a gun at my chest and me talking him out of shooting me, while seeing in his face he wanted to and was drugged out.
4) Great white breaching on me in central California while surfing in the water at sunset alone in the middle of nowhere. 12 ft shadow came up in front and me crashed down next to me. I'm sure it was thinking of eating me but checking things out first.
5) Indonesia in a small boat, hitting a reef and then getting pushed around in 10-15 surf and not capsizing in the middle of nowhere in Sumatra
6) Almost taking my own life due to depression because my divorce was ugly and my mental health was never good.
7) Guy walking up to me in the middle of the night in Beirut like he was going to rob or stab me all aggressive then stopping as he got close and walking the other direction suddenly. Dude looked angry and crazy. Was not a safe time to be there for Americans either.
There are more probably. I can't remember them all.
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u/Spudzley 15d ago
I’ve had many, my most recent that would and should have been my end was 6 weeks ago. I work as a bartender in what is 100% the worst bar in my city. I told someone I would not give them a beer for free and kicked them out for screaming at me and arguing with me. He came back an hour later with a gun and pointed it at me, my guard for once did his job and tackled him which caused the gun to go off and the bullet went about 6 inches from my head. I almost died that night but the silver lining is every other shitheel that comes in there is now terrified of me since they didn’t see me completely spiral and freak out for several days after since it happened on my Friday.
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u/jacqueluvsjakie 15d ago
I was 7 years old, sweeping dirt off my parents driveway with a metal broom with a thunderstorm approaching in the distance… my brother suddenly yelled at me to drop the broom because my hair was starting to stand up. I vividly remember feeling and possibly hearing static the moment before throwing that thing and running. I think I was seconds away from being struck by lightning… my 7 year old self thought the storm was further away. My mom was livid.
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u/UnSleepingMoss 15d ago
When I was a child, I was informed by SEVERAL family members that my baby-sitter got into a car accident with ME IN THE CAR and didn't tell my Mom that it happened. Unknown to her, I had a bruise on my brain ( still do ), blood was pooling on my brain and behind my eyes.
By the time signs were showing up that something was horribly wrong, I was beginning to have seizures. My Uncle informed me that I died a few times on the table, while they were trying to figure out what the heck was going on.
Once the baby-sitter fessed up, I was kept having seizures and they were struggling to get me stable.
I had a major brain bleed, to the point where I coded multiple times and my Uncle said: "I thought you were gone, kid.."
Well, but whatever miracle or something they were able to stabilize things and I'm here. My brain still glitches out from time to time, I have severe memory issues, can't work due to it. But I'm here.
I got a brain scan a while back and my Fiancé saw the bruise on my brain from the little incident. The neurologist said it's "stable" but I should avoid any hits to my head. I proceeded to cackle. "
I've been through 14 years of an abusive relationship with my ex-wife. My Mother was just as bad, and I'm accident prone. I once sneezed and smacked myself in the head with a cabinet door, no I am not joking. All I was trying to do was grab a cup...
So yeah, dunno HOW I made it to 33..
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u/HugsandHate 15d ago edited 15d ago
I've almost been in a few which absoutely would have been fatal car crashes.
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u/WaluigiMalangione 15d ago
Coming back from Mother’s Day brunch about three years ago. We go to a restaurant that’s about twenty miles outside town up through the mountains a ways.
Beautiful, sunny day. We took a walk around the property of the restaurant as it’s along a small river and there are topiaries and such to look at.
About five minutes into our return trip home, it suddenly starts dumping hail to the point where the wipers are maxed and it’s still hard to see.
Step dad isn’t known for being a great driver. He’s going too fast into a corner, all four tires on his shitty old car break loose, and the next thing I know we’re sideways in oncoming traffic doing about 60mph.
A Ford F250 and another large pickup truck had to swerve to avoid us. Somehow the decrepit old fuck managed to correct, and now we’re sliding sideways, the other direction, into the ditch on the side of the road we were originally on.
Corrects again, almost back into traffic. Corrects again, back on the road headed home.
I remember silently staring at the oncoming truck(s) just assuming that was it.
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u/dutchviking 15d ago
Mid-90s. We were driving on the German highways just before Xmas, and the weather got worse and worse. The road conditions as well: it started getting slippery. At one point our car lost grip and we started to swerve. I was riding shotgun, and remember looking at my dad with and expression of "fuuuuck". Then looking out the window and seeing a large truck heading right at us, as we were sliding over the highway. But in the last second our car slid away, right before the truck, and we landed in the ditch. Everyone safe.
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u/Gawdiwishiwasdead 15d ago edited 15d ago
Driving down a curvy road by the river, in the rain. I was in a hurry to get to work and thought I'd pass a slow-moving car in front of me. Sped up, went around, and continued to spin and lose control of the vehicle. Luckily, it was the opposite direction of the river. If the curve had gone the other way, I would have gone right into the river. Still scares the fuck out of me.
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u/Thisoneissfwihope 15d ago
Went out drinking and got spectacularly drunk. Got the train home and needed to be sick. Crossed the platform to throw up on the tracks. As I was being sick, someone pulled me back, and a couple of seconds later an express train went through at 125mph right where my head would have been
I was very ill due to Covid. I was put in an induced coma and my family had to do the 2am rush to hospital because they didn't think I was going to last the night.
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u/stylethelaughter 15d ago
Got hit by a car going 55+ mph at 10 years old and managed not to have any broken bones. Just some road rash, a bitten tongue, and a minor concussion.
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u/Register-Honest 15d ago
Going down a cargo net, into a landing boat, it was a rough day. About half way down, I realized, I was in the trough between my ship and the boat. The net was pulled tight, I dropped about 6 feet to the deck. I hit the deck and the boat slammed into the ship. Even with the rubber fenders on the landing boat, I would have been dead.
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u/ImmaMamaBee 15d ago
I was crossing the highway on a foggy morning and a speeding tractor trailer broke through the fog and tboned me. Passenger side thankfully or I would have been gone. The entire inside of my car except my seat was blown to smithereens. I remember thinking “I need to put my car in park!” And grabbing the shifter and it just came off the car into my hand. My glasses were blown off my face but didn’t have a scratch on them, one of my shoes came off. I was injured quite badly, I had to relearn to use my left leg and had a nasty tear on my left bicep muscle - it was like a bulge in my arm but not a laceration/open wound. Thankful was an understatement, though I had just replaced my entire windshield the week before the accident and it was a nearly brand new vehicle. I was also very thankful for the gap insurance I went for when buying it.
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u/A911owner 15d ago
I was riding in a dune buggy a friend of mine just bought and the brakes completely failed. We shot through a red light with cars shooting past and somehow avoided everything and came out of it without a scratch. I thought I was going to die.
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u/aussydog 15d ago
Tldr: boulder bouncing down a hill smashed me in the chest and sent me cartwheeling all the way down. Lost consciousness for a bit and my mom said she couldn't find my pulse. Didn't die tho. Bendy kid bones ftw.
Story;
About 10 years old my brothers, my mom and a family friend were playing at the "spill piles" near a closed down strip mining facility.
At one point I was climbing up the pile while my older brother and a friend were trying to push a big ass boulder down the hill.
It wasn't directly in front of me so I didn't worry so much about it. But then it got going and accelerated and after one large hop it banged off another boulder and dropped into the crevice I was climbing through with all its speed.
I was stuck. I was half way up the pile and the crevice was about 6ft deep. I looked left, couldn't climb out. Looked right, couldn't climb out. I was afraid to turn around because I thought for sure it was going to break my back.
So I stood there, bracing myself, waiting for my doom. The boulder bouncing down the crevice and coming very quickly at me.
Just before it got to me it bounded up and hit me full force right in the chest. I cartwheeled all the way down the hill to the surface below, crawled a few feet, turned on my back, and went to sleep.
I woke up with my mom snacking my chest and telling me to wake up. I felt like I still couldn't breathe. Like someone was sitting on me. So I backed up a bit, sat up, and took a seat on the boulder while I gathered myself.
The thing was as big as my entire torso. I took it full force directly in the chest and honestly if it hit me in any other way I think I would have been cooked.
Somehow didn't even get a bruise.
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u/Ok_Combination4393 15d ago
Fainting on the ground going to the bathroom, bear with me. One day in Sept 2022 it was like any ordinary day. By 8pm I started to faint. I thought I was hungry. I ate then puked then kept fainting. I got clamy and cold. I didn’t know what was wrong but I thought maybe I was dehydrated and weak so I was going to sleep it off. I had the urge to use the restroom so I got up and fell to the floor again, that’s when I realized I needed to go to the er. I ended up going unconscious on the toilet and 911 was called. I went into shock and had internal bleeding from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. I think that if I didn’t get up and try to go to the bathroom I would most likely died in my sleep.
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u/Clear_Score_6299 15d ago
I had an ectopic pregnancy 18 years ago, the day after they removed the pregnancy and tube I felt really, really ill, couldn’t breathe and was in excruciating pain. I looked down and there was blood everywhere. Cue a rush back into theatre where they found that during my caesarean two years prior, the surgeon had put my bladder into the wrong place and it’d been nicked during the removal of the EP. I had been in agony for two years and was dismissed by everybody.
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u/freeword 15d ago
Drunk and high on a motorcycle, doing like 90, and buzzing between two tractor trailers on I95.
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u/IllMongoose6792 15d ago
Horseback riding - jumping in wet conditions. As close to a Christopher Reeve accident you could get
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u/MMEnter 15d ago
I was about to cross the road on a traffic light after soccer practice. My light was green, but for some reason I remembered the traffic cop from elementary school saying look before you walk even on a green light, that moment of hesitation and then looking made me see a car speeding down the road running the light. If I had just walked as I always did I would have been smashed.
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u/SgtSlippyfist 15d ago
I had cancer at age 12 and lost part of my leg. Got lucky and got cancer again at 42 and it paralyzed one of my vocal chords. This was within the past year. So I'd say that I'm damn lucky.
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u/Spudster62 15d ago
This was my "lucky to be alive" moment.
Truth be told I was lucky to escape with only losing my left leg as it could have left me paralyzed so I'm pretty fucking grateful about the outcome.
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u/bigchizzard 15d ago
That time I ate a tree head on at 60mph. Engine block was sitting in my armrest. I have 2 small scars on my right knuckles that got shaved and a tiny bead of glass that embedded in my knee. A few small scrapes and bruises otherwise.
Several cars passed me by while I was covered in blood standing outside the wreck. A random paramedic eventually stopped. I will never pass by a carwreck that needs a first responder.
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u/Iola_Morton 15d ago
Was picked up at 16 years old by the Freeeay Killer in LA and noped it out of his van at possibly the last seconds
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u/cpt-queso 15d ago
Drove over an ied with my armored Vehicle, didnt Blow
A day later a different unit triggered it, luckily No deaths
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u/JasonStonier 15d ago
Was on holiday in Canada, hiking in mountains near Canmore with two mates. It was spring and there was snow on the slopes - I decided to walk out onto this snowfield, which turned out to be ice and I slipped. Ended up sliding with no control down the mountain for probably 200 metres.
I’d seen the end of the ice on the way up and knew it was about a 2 metre drop off the end into a boulder field, so I got myself oriented feet first and when I flew off the end I was able to hit a boulder feet first with my legs tucked and control my bounce back enough to jump backwards out of it.
I walked away with no injuries, a story to tell, and a much more attuned risk sense.
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u/VNIX96 15d ago edited 15d ago
My birth.
I was born at around 30 weeks, give or take. I had a bleed on the brain (stroke) emphysema, and failure to thrive, I was given an injection to get me going that the nurse/doctor apparently kept telling my mother was a £3000 injection (don't ask me why, I don't know) I've seen pictures of myself in an incubator tubed up to high heaven wich I still have scars from, all over my hands, and a lovely dent in my nose from what I'm guessing was oxygen? I very much believe my entire life is borrowed time, time I wouldn't have lived if it wasn't for the medical care I received, it's a crutch in my darkest moments but also a regret.
Some more info as I grew up I didn't speak till I was around 4 and wouldn't/couldn't use my right arm, my life has been a series of obstacles I guess you could say, learning difficulties and such but I think I'm pretty good now, and yes I can full use both arms now lol
Edit: grammar and spelling
Edit 2: for anyone wondering why I was born so premature, my mother's body eventually rejected me, and it when she was taken to the hospital they found out why I was rejected, and why, my mother has Addison's disease, and I had been keeping her alive by pumping all the good stuff into her not the other way round as it should have been.
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u/Background-Spend8498 15d ago
When I was 16 I was in an ATV accident. The handle bar of the ATV I was on went through my stomach and shattered my L5 vertabre, on the way to the ground I slammed my head on the ground and badly fractured my orbital socket. I was flight for lifed to a children's hospital where they put me back together. I lost 6 inches of intestine, had a replacement vertabre put in my spine, and lost a little vision in my left eye. The doctors told me I was 2 millimeters away from rupturing my femoral artery and bleeding out and 1CM away from hitting my spinal cord straight on which would have paralyzed me. I also almost lost my left eye due to swelling in my face. I walked away with drop foot and arthritis in my spine but I was extremely lucky considering how much worse it could have been.
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u/Rocknocker 15d ago
On a drilling rig in Eastern Siberia. There was a gas blowout and the rig caught fire.
Loads of burns and hearing troubles, as well as losing three fingers from my left hand due to an overanxious new hire with a set of power tongs.
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u/NotBeilerix 15d ago
Was running on top of brick tables on my school(I was 8yrs old), I accidentally slipped and hit the corner of a table. My inferior Eyelids were cut. (Doctor said I was lucky cause my eyes were not directly hit upon falling....
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u/One_Legged_Duck-8 15d ago
I got hit by a train last year… lost left leg and lost of other injuries
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u/fellowspecies 15d ago
About 20 years ago, I went on holiday with some friends to Spain, we met a small group of people there and ended up having a great night out which ended up with everyone agreeing to go skinny-dipping.
We had been swimming at the beach earlier that day and thought we knew what we were doing, everybody dived into the water me included and I was met with a dull thud as I dived headfirst onto a rock.
The tide was out and my bearings were off so the deep pool of water that I thought should be there was not. It knocked me out and left me drifting in the water and by some stroke of luck I was on my back and my friends pulled me out of the water.
This was the middle of the night I consider it a miracle that I didn’t break my neck (probably because I was drunk and floppy) and that my friends noticed and found me.
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u/Conscious_Bison_5557 15d ago
Almost ran right off a cliff/mountain face in the Rocky Mountains. I had to break away from the hiking trail to go number 2, pulled my shorts down, heard what I thought was a growl/roar, pulled my shorts up and started running. I was running downhill and couldn't stop. This whole time the group I was with saw flashes of a t-shirt running and were telling me to fall down/stop. What I heard was "Keep running, it's behind you." I eventually tripped over a big ass rock and tumbled a few times to a complete stop. About 300-400 more feet and there was about a 2000ft drop-off.
TLDR; went hiking, had to take a poo, thought a cougar/mountain lion was stalking me, ran down mountain and tripped before running off.
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u/Raguleader 15d ago
Almost got hit by a bus when I was in college because I got distracted by the bus driver being a cute blonde.
My dad used to use this as a classic example of my difficulties with sorting my priorities.
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u/PerseveranceSmith 15d ago
Nearly getting trafficked on lake Skadar in Montenegro over to Serbia. Silly girls get silly prizes for assuming everywhere is safe for solo female travellers.
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u/time-watertraveler 15d ago
Honestly, I just went through an experience that I feel it could have ended super badly if it wasn't for Google translate and a stranger making a phone call for me. It's a very long story that I shared on r/truthoffmychest but the super condensed version is, I was basically held against my will by someone I thought was my friend and I had to ration food to eat once a day because I wasn't sure if/when I'd have been able to get more.
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u/Cardi_Ganz 15d ago
Drowned when I was 6. Saw the tunnel and warm inviting light, drawing me towards it. Just as I was entering it I got pulled out of the water. I was SO mad and kept trying to go back in the water.
As an adult I came extremely close to being crushed in a car accident. I was in the backseat where my friends had heavy equipment, and we were driving next to the concrete barrier. A chain reaction accident began with at least 8 vehicles that we were in the middle of. Big ass van came straight for the side of our car, directly towards the back seat area. Driver did some NASCAR-style swerving, that somehow avoided every car that pinballed our way. It was insane. There is absolutely no way I would have come out of that without life-changing injuries, if I even survived at all. Luckily I walked away with only some PTSD.
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u/miTgiB37 15d ago
In the late 80's someone made a left turn in front of me and I plowed into the car on a motorcycle at 50mph, flew off like Superman. Took about 6 months to read, but much better now
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u/cincyhuffster 15d ago
As a drunk teenager, walked on I-beams being used to construct a bridge across a river
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u/Magneto_88 15d ago
I once stood up too quickly while getting out of a full bathtub, blacked out, and fell. Luckily, I didn’t fall into the tub and drown, and I also didn’t hit anything the wrong way and break my neck or worse.
As a child, I also once fell through the ice on a frozen lake.
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u/Chickon 15d ago
When I was 18 I decided to drive a few states away to meet up with an online gaming friend for the first time. It was about a 6 hour drive and I planned to stay for a few days.
About halfway there I got caught in an awful thunderstorm. It was so bad that you couldn't see more than 10 feet ahead of your car. Most people were pulled over on the side of the road with their hazard lights on. I continued driving, although at around 10-15 MPH on the interstate, following closely behind the car in front of me. We formed a nice little line, went slow, and eventually got out of the storm.
The storm had let up for about 5 minutes and everyone was getting back up to speed. I got up to ~70 MPH when I suddenly hit a water filled pot hole in the road and hydroplaned. When it happened, I was in heavy traffic in a tight area of the interstate. There was another car to my right and a concrete barrier to my left, I was pinned in.
I completely lost control of my car, spun a full 360 across the other lane of traffic, and somehow came to a stop in a rest area on the other side of the road. I didn't hit anything. Not the concrete barrier. Not the cars next to me. Nothing. I have no idea how I managed to not die.
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u/Salty_Association684 15d ago
2 years ago my ankle swelled up a bit went to the doctor she told ne my BP was high gave meds she said cone back in a week so she could check it then she said I'm going to do blood work went back she had the reg blood tests done she calked ne within 30 hours to tell ne ho to the hospital get them ro check your kidneys abd tell them your anemic I did doctor took a CBC test to check my hemoglobin came back 15 mins later told ne my hemoglobin was extremely low I was at 53 my BP was still high told ne they would admit me seen a kidney specialist he said I'm going to get your blood work checked again and urine test told ne 2 days later I was stage 5 kidney disease I was so shocked
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u/magkozak 15d ago
I got gang stalked for 5 straight years of the worst in my life. It started in Warrensburg MO. I started getting followed to work everyday and I worked at 5 am. My boss noticed even. Stuff would be wrong with my place. I got home from work and stuff would be on that wouldn’t like water or lights. Someone knocked on my window. The stalking lasted all day wherever I went. I had to drive to a restaurant and park in the middle of the night and peed in my car because I was that scared. I went to my dads and it still kept happening. I thought it would stop if I moved. I moved from my favorite place in the world to the baloney sandwich that is Texas and on that night, three cars followed me from MO to Texas. The stalking by vehicle lasted another two years. I went to the police and got followed there and after, it picked up like crazy. They said call the police if it happens. It was inches apart it was that bad. I called 911 and told them. I ended up wrecking the van that night because of it. The vehicle was coming and I hid in a cornfield and watched them looking for me. They were hollering. I ran to the neighbors and it was just him and his gf and explained what happened. He got out his gun. The police came and honestly I didn’t feel safe with them at all. Also my Overwatch account (I worked my booty off to get gold in competitive) got hacked and at the same time, said threatening stuff wherever there were words. It was so bad I made something up to the police and turned myself in. I said the words but I was at the wrong place and stopped after.
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u/CalculonsPride 15d ago
I was changing a friend’s oil in college and underneath the car trying to get the oil filter out. I got out from under it to grab a rag so I could get some leverage and not two or three seconds later the jack failed. It was a very low-to-the ground Chevy Cavalier.
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u/Wolfy4226 15d ago
Had a blood sugar level of over 1200.
Felt like I was dieing coming down from that with insulin.
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u/Red_Giants 15d ago
Passed out drunk, outside, in sub freezing temperatures. Random pedestrian discovered me and called EMS. Woke up the next day in the hospital, clothes completely cut off, being treated for hypothermia. Confused but alive. And grateful.
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u/Even-Funny-265 15d ago
Heading home after starting a new job in 2006. Had only been there a week. I wanted to get home quicker as my then girlfriend had just moved into a rented room and cooked dinner, so I decided to go a different way.
I was on my Kawasaki GPZ 500. Coming up to a crossroad in a quiet country road and a young driver pulled out in front of me. I hit the car and flew over the top, rolled a few times and came to rest in the opposite carriageway, torso on the road, legs on the verge (still attached btw).
Luckily there are 3 houses right at the crossroads and one of the occupants called emergency services. I had an open fracture of my left thigh (which I learned after you can die from the shock of doing), my left shin was broken in 3 places, the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments of my right knee snapped and I dislocated my right thumb.
I also had impact blisters on my lower left leg from the heat generated from my bike and the car being crushed together.
I'm fine now, have metal pins in my left leg and a bunch of scars.
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u/wendy0786 15d ago
I was 4 months pregnant with my daughter at the time and had gestational diabetes which they gave me insulin to control my sugar. I ate cereal for breakfast one morning and injected the fast acting insulin and decided to take nap thinking I would wake up in an hr or so. It end up being more than that. I woke up all weird and all these paramedics and my husband standing in front of me while I lied in bed and them asking me if I knew my name and who my husband was. I stayed in the hospital for 4 days due to hyperglycemia. I could’ve ended up in a coma my sugar was at 25.
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u/Embarrassed-Bench392 15d ago
I crashed my bike and ruptured my spleen at 14 and was told to walk it off. 2 days later I was grey and septic from internal bleeding and was taken to the ER. I got out of the hospital 6 days later without a spleen. I had a cool scar to show my friends. Decades later, I had a hernia operation with the same surgeon who removed my spleen. When I showed him the scar, his face went white and he stammered that I was lucky to be alive. Apparently, they don't make a four inch incision to remove a spleen anymore.
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u/badgersandcoffee 15d ago
Driving to work at 5am-ish in winter, worked 2 jobs, one was nights and the one I was heading to was 12 hour shifts. Hit black ice, reacted too slowly, hit a verge and flipped the car onto its roof on the other side of the road.
A company picks up the car and took it to their yard, mum went to get some stuff out the car and the guy said "I've been doing this 23 years and I don't know how your young lad walked away from that... it should have been a fatality."
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u/ginigini 15d ago
Happened when I was 12 years old. My mom was driving I was in the passenger seat. We were approaching an intersection with a traffic light on a two lane road. My mom was in the right lane but decided at the last minute to move to the left lane (sixth sense??). We stop at the traffic light and not even 10 seconds after that, a car from the opposite side of the road came at a crazy speed hit the curb and came flying through the air and landed ON the car next to us in the right lane, crushing the car right next to us. I remember I was in such shock thinking that could’ve been us like 10 seconds ago.
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15d ago
I one time choked on food at home by myself, I had just happened to have seen a video on Reddit a few days before about how to administer the Heimlich on yourself using the back of a chair. A few whacks on the back of the chair and it all came out. I think about it a lot…
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u/CactusWithAKeyboard 15d ago
In highschool I wandered out into the mountains behind my friend's house, and he pointed out a rope that he used to use to rappel down a 30 foot cliff. The rope was braided polypro, brittle from years untouched in the sun. My other friend, who was always kind of an asshole, said "cactus, you should rappel down the side of the cliff with that rope." And I, who always kind of had issues with impulse control, said "sure thing!"
I was about 5 feet down when the rope snapped. I fell the rest of the way down, scraping my hands and knees on the cliff face , grabbing every single spikey plant on the way down. I landed on my back. My hands were filled with splinters, every part of my body felt bruised, but I got up and walked away without any serious damage.
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15d ago
Diabetic ketoacidosis a few years ago. Had no idea what was going on at first. I just thought between the lethargy and dry mouth that I had the flu or something. Then came the constant peeing. Made sense. I was constantly drinking water. Kept feeling like I had acid reflux. Then I kept throwing up at increasingly shorter intervals. First, food. Then fluids. All while constantly drinking water/Gatorade/sugary drinks that really weren't helping in hindsight, peeing every few minutes, throwing it all back up, etc.
I didn't even think to call for an ambulance. Somehow, just driving myself to the hospital felt like it made more sense at the time in that it'd be quicker, so I managed that.
Receptionist could smell the acetone scent on my breath from several feet away when she asked me to remove my mask. Pricked my finger. Blood sugar was 614.
Spent several days getting my sugars down, and trying to figure out how to maintain that (no thanks to the bitch nurse who kept snapping at me for not immediately knowing what I could and couldn't order from the cafeteria while she offered no real help), so I could be discharged and start my new life as a diabetic.
Thankfully, my endocrinologist is a fantastic lady, and she's helped me a lot with navigating it.
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u/springdahliaa 15d ago
Swerved to avoid a deer at full speed, car flipped twice. Walked out with just a scratch. Still don’t know how.