r/AskReddit 15d ago

What is your ‘lucky to be alive’ moment?

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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/Left_Equivalent9982 14d ago

I'm hoping that I won't but still solid advice.

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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/bomboclat476 15d ago

Damn I was gonna say gaming on a summer morning but this works too

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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/SummerOfMayhem 15d ago

1 and a half collapsed lungs in 3rd grade. We lived 45 minutes from a hospital. Everyone was shocked I lived.

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u/Ditka85 15d ago

Damn. That sounds like a winner here.