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9 years old in a serious football crush. People were screaming and shouting around me. A surge, getting lifted of my feet, my Dad holding onto me and trying to protect me.
Another surge and my shoe gets ripped off. I'm frightened that my mum will shout at me for losing my shoe. I bend down to retrieve it. Had the crowd surged then I would have been trampled and nobody could have done anything about it.
My Dad was a tough bloke but admitted years later that he was genuinely frightened.
Other than that, a few moments of idiocy on my motorbike but got away with it.
The crush memory still haunts me. |
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Woke up in the back of a Spanish ambulance after passing out hitting my head .
Coming round whilst being brought back was a very odd thing indeed seeing two guys above you with paddles and extremely painful ribs.
I was gone for a minute or so I don't know exactly as I have about 20 minutes of my life that's a complete blank.
All I can say without any hesitation is that there is nothing just it's like falling asleep without dreams just empty blackness,no bright lights or choir's of heavenly Angeles.
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By *sh6866Man
over a year ago
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Working on a machine once when it all went dark..looked up and there was a 5 ton lump of steel being lifted past me...thought it would be a good idea to move at this point. Just as i got out of the way it came crashing down where i was working...if i'd have stayed where i was they could have taken me home in a bucket. I was wearing safety boots though.....  |
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over a year ago
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I was pregnant and getting severe stomach pains, after being in hospital and on morphine they decided I had miscarried so sent me home. The next day I was back in with the same stomach pains. Late afternoon they decided to scan me and found a very advanced ectopic pregnancy, so rushed to emergency surgery and got to it just in time, a bit longer and it would have burst and that would have been it x |
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"9 years old in a serious football crush. People were screaming and shouting around me. A surge, getting lifted of my feet, my Dad holding onto me and trying to protect me.
Another surge and my shoe gets ripped off. I'm frightened that my mum will shout at me for losing my shoe. I bend down to retrieve it. Had the crowd surged then I would have been trampled and nobody could have done anything about it.
My Dad was a tough bloke but admitted years later that he was genuinely frightened.
Other than that, a few moments of idiocy on my motorbike but got away with it.
The crush memory still haunts me. "
Phew. Lucky escape, and your experience sent chills down my spine. I'll wager that your Dad still has nightmares about it too.
It wouldn't have happened down The Shay though. |
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Ok...
30wks pregnant with my 2nd son.
I'd had cramp in my calf all weekend, by Monday could hardly walk.
I went to hospital, leg scanned & a massive blood clot detected.
It had split & parts moved round rest of my body. Several where close to my heart.
Immediately hooked up to IV & pumped full of anti coagulants under constant observation.
I had to stay on daily injections after that.
My son was in breach position & at 37wks I started bleeding, rushed in for emergency CS.
I heamoraged during surgery.
I flatlined twice, first time brought back quickly. Second, out for so long they were preparing to call time.
I have no memory of this, just waking up in a small room & being told my baby was in scbu.
The next week a morphine induced haze.
It was decided not to tell me the full details at the time.
But it was all included in my discharge notes.
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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago
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On a beach in the Dominican republic in my teens. Didn't notice the red flag was up and the waters didn't look that rough. I'm quite a strong swimmer anyway. Went in for a paddle. The water drew back and knocked me off my feet and all a sudden I felt like I was in a washing machine. It was a good job my mum and her friend were with me. They just about managed to grab my arms and pull me out. My bikini bottoms were around my ankles though.  |
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I watched my mother die. Six of us, sitting and singing 60s ballads to her for hours. The hospice nurses at their desk outside the room cried.
As for myself, on a family trip on my 1st birthday, standing at a lookout over a 300 foot waterfall, a woman nearby quietly asked my parents--"Should she be doing that?" as I held onto an old metal rail (no health and safety back then, in the Dark Ages) and swung out over the falls.
Apparently my fear of heights was not innate. |
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1991 - I was pregnant and at 12 weeks started bleeding heavily. GP told me I'd miscarried so I went home to get my head around it.
Two weeks later I was still bleeding heavily so went back to the doctor just to be told that some women bleed for a while after a miscarriage so I went home.
Two weeks later I was STILL bleeding heavily so I did a pregnancy test and found I was still pregnant. Shortly after, I started haemorrhaging so an ambulance was called.
I was by now 16 weeks pregnant but the baby had become stuck half in and half out of my cervix which was like having an open arterial wound.
My veins collapsed and my blood pressure plummeted (the last reading I remember was 80/50) so they struggled to get a line into me - eventually I was given a plasma transfusion but the only way to stop the bleeding was to remove the baby from my uterus so it was pulled out into a container and whisked away.
I was told things had been touch and go and if I hadn't gone into hospital when I did, I probably wouldn't have survived. I was given a D&C the next day and sent home
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There was also the date with a psycho in my early 20s....ended at a dark park. He pulled a knife. A Big. Long. Sharp. Knife.
Not sure if that would've ended in death though. I'd arranged for work friends to meet me, which they did.
Strangely, mr psycho never showed up for work again after that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Couple of weeks ago driving at 70mph on the M11 near Stansted a deer appeared from nowhere and I hit it causing the bonnet to fly up through the windscreen. The recovery guy told me it's a regular occurrence in that area and at least 1 guy has been decapitated by a deer going through the screen |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Massive anaphylactic reaction to a meal on holiday and miles from the nearest hospital. Luckily for me there was an emergency doctor at a nearby hotel who managed to get to me as I was struggling to breathe. Bloody terrifying. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I went to hospital thinking I was being a hypochondriac and within 30 minutes was in a cardiac suite where i staxed for srveal houes indergoing various tests. That was a bit scary but thankfully only pericarditis which rarely kills.
Got knocked off my bike out training years ago by a car coming out of a sidestreet. Thrown about 20 metres through the air. Landed in the opposite lane on a major suburban A road at precisely the moment there was a gap on the traffic. Ignored the pain got our the road and a few seconds later a truck came round the bend. I think I lucked out massively that day to walk away with cuts and bruises |
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When I was pregnant with my oldest I developed preeclampsia....I eventually needed an emergency C-section at 36 weeks....later that day after the op my blood pressure continued to rise and I suffered s huge seizure and had a cardiac arrest....it took 6 minutes of cpr, oxygen bagging and numerous goes with the defib to bring me back...I broke 2 ribs during the process....I remained in a coma for almost a week ... I woke up feeling like I'd been hit by a train I suffered some kidney problems after and my liver was damaged but after about 18 months I was fully recovered. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to cycle to work about 4-5 years ago. Used the path most of the way where available.
Got up one morning, temperature was about 3-4 degrees and there didn't appear to be any ice. If there was I would walk or drive.
Got on my bike and started off down the path. Got about 1/4 of a mile down the road, and my bike just went from under me, no idea why but I'm guessing a bit of ice that hadn't thawed.
I landed full force on my head, thankfully I was wearing a helmet. It all happened in slow motion, as I slid onto the road I remember a range rover coming towards me, it actually clipped my helmet with the front tyre, I remember very vividly thinking I was going to die and the last thing I remember seeing in a flash back was my kids.
Pales into insignificance with some people's experiences though. |
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Recently had a massive scare with an issue with a seal broken on my feed pipe, hot tea straight into my abdomen, I have never experienced pain like it, genuinely thought my body would not cope, ambulance arrived 3 doses of morphine over 1/2 an hour to stabilise my pain so I could breathe, hospital bed until early hours of the morning when the pain subsided thank god!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was in the sea bobbing around, not a good swimmer and the tide changed. It took me out, my cousin got trapped with me. She started to panic and my brother had to save both of us. I told him to get her first. And just floated until he could come back for me.
I was really glad he knew what to do.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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School trip,Norfolk broads on boat.Playing run outs on boat!Fell in Couldn't swim,went under, came up got fished out.Happened so quickly didn't have time to be scared. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have permanent scarring on my lungs. I caaught the flu when I was in my early 30's and didn't go to the doctors when I should have, to seek medication. My oxygen levels depleted over time, so i was not thinking rationally. My friend came to visit and drove me straight to hospital in a panic, when she saw me. It took me 20 minutes to get to the A+E reception desk (while my friend looked for a parking space), because I was struggling to breathe. Before I even took 2 steps away from the desk, two nurses came rushing out with a wheelchair and rushed me into a cubicle. It goes hazy after that. I later found out that my lips had turned blue. I was told if I'd left it even a few more hours, I would have died. That definitely taught me a lesson. I would never let myself get that bad again. One sign of a respitory infection and I go straight to the doctors. |
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Motorcycle accident.
A car crossed road in front of me on a dual carriageway, the driver never saw me the time. Both me and the bike cleared her bonnet, as we got the car at the front wheel.
I landed on the back of my head and rolled forward quite a bit, the bike I heard hit a few cars on its journey.
I got away with light injuries. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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7 years old.
Cycling back from Connah's Quay to St. Helens, I was with my dad at the time.
I was hit by a car on the Stamlow roundabout, I was taken halfway round the roundabout by the car. I had injuries to my jaws and light injuries to my legs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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While diving inside a Japanese battleship in the Philippines .A ceiling collapsed and then total darkness from debris made visibility zero with less 20 mins air in tank .i got out to surface and air stopped.I was saved by excellent training.  |
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Way to many to remember but think the closest was when I broke my skull but didn't realise for a few weeks. Only reason I found out was my nose was constantly dripping. I just thought it was a daft cold that wouldn't go. It turned out I'd burst by brain sack and it was brain fluid leaking out through my nose. Happy days  |
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A few motorbike accidents in my youth that could have been nasty if I'd fallen a different way or whatever, and a very scary moment at college when in the back of a friends car who was driving like an idiot and lost control.
There was the time I was working on my dads farm and had taken a 10 ton trailer full of wet straw and pig shit up to the muck hill, I opened the hydraulic rear door of the trailer and started tipping it but the muck wasn't coming out, so I fully lifted the trailer up and all of a sudden the load shifted and dropped, the force of 10 tons of shit suddenly dropping caused the drawbar to snap off the hitch on the back of the tractor and swing through the back window of the cab at full force narrowly missing my head, I'm lucky I wasn't decapitated! I got a right bollocking from my dad later for it as well |
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By *vcarolTV/TS
over a year ago
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Severe car crash, severe amnesia, fracture to the noggin.
You’ll get snippets of the accident, one is the horizon at 45degrees, then upside down.
First thing I saw when waking up after 2 days, the most beautiful nurse ever, 6 inches from my face. Can still picture her now.
Another is going backwards in a spin at 140+mph, but that’s for another day, lol
1st one I actually convinced myself I had died.
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By *ocks99Man
over a year ago
Reading |
Worked in the Tesco distribution centre one summer. Fork lift on the next Isle pushed a pallet through and it dropped onto the row I was working. 3/4 ton of Fanta fell about 30 foot up, missed me by about 10ft. Heart in mouth moment |
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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago
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25 years ago on a refurbished 50's Greyhound bus travelling through the us desert late at night, keeping the driver company while everybody else slept.
The windscreens came loose and then then wrapped itself around the driver's face in one piece but totally splinted as safety glass can.
At the moment it came loose I had bent down, to pick up something from the floor, so was not caught in it team. I could see his face through the glass and some blood well little shards were cutting him. He was immediately in shock and actually continued trying to drive without slowing down.
I had to peel the glass panel off his face, so he could hear me, which loosened it and sent lots of little pieces flying down the bus at people. I managed to get him to pull over.
There were 42 of us on that bus, and apart from the shock, nobody said anything more than some shallow cuts.
I have no idea how the driver managed to not crash the bus, and to stay on the road for the moments when he continued driving. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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2002 lorry I was driving was blown over on the A1 , broken collar bone and glass in my arse , but a piece of the metal barrier missed my head by inches when it came through the window |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I got stupidly close to a very venomous snake in Africa, and was told afterwards that I'd absolutely have died a horrible death if it had bitten me.
Nothing happened, but it's a much cooler story than when I was in a car accident. That wasn't very exciting. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rolled my xr3i into a field when I was younger fortunately wasn't hurt, badly shaken up though,Im also in the funeral trade and pretty much close to death everyday |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’ve had too many close calls to mention but the closest was probably when I was two, went down a slide into the deep end of an out door pool and sunk straight to the bottom, was saved by the life guard, I’d stopped breathing etc and spent a week in alder hey. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Heavily pregnant and given a transfusion that put me in anaphylactic shock. I died a few seconds later: it was peaceful and beautiful.
Luckily, a nurse was sat with me and saved my life. The after effects weren’t nice! |
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In my younger days raining 150 mph on the a5 younger cousins on the back. Vw camper went to turn right. Thank fuck he looked in his mirror. Locked up skidded I control it. Flashed my lights. He see me stopped 1000yards passed him. 1 thing if he didn’t look we would be both dead. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yesterday morning. I was about to cross at the pedestrian crossing outside my house when a van jumped the red light. Luckily I hadn't started to cross as I had stopped to glance at a text that Ms B had just sent (I never look at my phone while I'm crossing a road). If she hadn't sent it at that moment, the dog and I would have been splattered up the front of a transit van.
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A car accident on the Glasgow M8 during rush hour...stupid lorry driver didn't see us in left lane and tried to drive into our lane. He ended up jamming our car onto the corner of his bumper and then carrying us across 3 lanes before eventually coming to a stop. It's a wonder we didn't hit any other cars and were able to walk away without a scratch! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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First time was during labour with my eldest who was sadly still born, Post partum haemorrhage.
Very peaceful to be honest as didn’t really know what was going on but I just remember looking down at myself and feeling free.
Second time was DUB which resulted in a massive haemorrhage, 3 blood transfusions later and my count was down to 4 and not picking up. I knew what was going on this time and my youngest was only 5 so I knew I needed to hang on for him.
Emergency hysterectomy and never looked back! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Motorbike crash when I was 21.Car pulled out of a side road,I swerved to miss it,ended up ditching the bike and bouncing off a car as well as a signpost and a wall.Was touch and go in intensive care,family were told I may not see the morning at one point but I pulled through.I can remember as far as hitting the signpost,then nothing until I woke up in hospital two days later.It's why I will always be grateful to the NHS,they literally kept me alive and put me back together again. |
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I had a rare medical emergency that should have killed me within a week. Excruciating pain, but I've never been a complainer, so the doctor decided I was faking and sent me home (after a stupid inappropriate irrelevant lecture about my life choices). After over a month of unspeakable agony and fighting for a second opinion, I had surgery, and it was the worst case the surgeon had seen in years. I made a full recovery and the relief was immense. But I should have died a fairly hideous and totally avoidable death. |
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Three homeless junkie thugs decided I was an easy target because I was clunking my 11 month old son in his buggy down the stairwell to the wee flat where we lived with his mum. This was in Central Edinburgh 16 years ago. They came hurtling after me unprovoked and I couldn't get the key into the lock on our flat quickly enough. I got forced to the ground. The buggy and son went flying (there was a railing along the balcony so he was fine) One stinking thug pulled a f*cking knife the size of a sword and rammed it into my stomach. He made to drive it up through my chest but thankfully on of his stinking junkie friends stepped in and pulled him and his weapon away. The stinking junkies ran away.
I thought I was gonna die. I lived... but I was never the same again. We moved away from Edinburgh a few months later. I didn't sleep properly for years.
I've been with a few people I was very close to as they died and I would strongly recommend it if the situation presents itself. Held one of their hands at a PM/OR too. That's not too bad - honest. You end up with a massive respect for Life, Doctors, Nurses and the Deceased. Changes you for the better. |
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They had to get me the crash team after i had my 2nd child, the first one was 9lb 11 and this one was 10lb 2, my womb hadn't shrunk back quick enough so i heamorhhaged a lot of blood.
I still had 3 more kids after this, it didn't put me off.
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Two car crashes when i was a kid, a motorbike accident 25 years ago, aged 19. Was hit by a volvo that decided my lower right leg would make a great bonnet mascot. They tried to re attach it but after 16 hours it was decided that it was unsuccesful so had a below knee amputation and then gangrene set in so above knee amputation five days later. 2 years ago i had pneumonia and sepsis. About half way through my nine lives now  |
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"Two car crashes when i was a kid, a motorbike accident 25 years ago, aged 19. Was hit by a volvo that decided my lower right leg would make a great bonnet mascot. They tried to re attach it but after 16 hours it was decided that it was unsuccesful so had a below knee amputation and then gangrene set in so above knee amputation five days later. 2 years ago i had pneumonia and sepsis. About half way through my nine lives now "
I Dred to think how few I have left now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting shot. Stung like fuck but thankfully it was nothing major.
Also had a prick in a hgv decide he wanted to be exactly where I was on the M6 once, that did put the shits up me to be honest |
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Cycle accident when a car came out of a side road without looking, luckily I spotted what was about to happen and leant into the Car and skidded to a halt on the windscreen. Otherwise I'd have been knocked into fast moving oncoming traffic.
Also got legionnaires disease once on holiday , that was distinctly unpleasant and took months to get over properly. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was really I'll for about 2 weeks. I couldn't leave the flat. My mum came to see if I was ok with some shopping and I couldn't even lift the bags. She said 'right hospital now!'. I said 'no it'll take hours'. Anyway got to hospital and waited about half hour to see the nurse and she took my temperature and said 'you're going to have to stay in'.
I saw a doctor and he didn't know what was wrong. They gave me antibiotic drip and fluids. Had x-ray next day and nothing showed up. Had cat scan and showed something. Cut a long story short. Ended up having neumoni with 6 abscess' on my lungs. Was in hospital for 8 weeks with a hickman line 2 drips 4 times a day. Terrible time for the first 5 weeks, wanted to die at points. Went through stages that I could only breath out as it hurt too much to breath in. Gwent hospital saved my life! Dr said if I hadn't had gone in when I did I'd be a gonner. Actually it was November 2011. |
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Car
County road near higham ferrers
Hill with blind summit driven on plenty of times
For some reason slowed down more than normal
As I neared the top a transit was overtaking a car coming straight at me
If I'd been 3 seconds sooner, no chance, but as I had slowed swerved onto the verge
Drive was a f**k*** idiot - whoever it was |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have had a few but a recent one was when I went climbing with a guy off an internet group his belay technique was dodgy to say the least
I was 70ft up when I popped off at the crux I fell 50ft before he just about caught the rope
I remember falling passed one piece of gear then another and another
I had a thought rush through my head this is it!! |
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At a rock gig near the front. Band comes on and all hell breaks loose. My arms were pinned against my chest and I was struggling to breath. Had to elbow people out of the way and get out of the crush. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Served in the British army for 16 years. Done 2 tours of Iraq plus 3 tours of Afghanistan. Been shot at so many times I cannot remember. Luckily I’ve never had so much as a scrape but I’ve seen more than my fair share of incidents. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lots
I always wonder how I am not dead
Sailing at sea and caught in a massive storm. Had to sail all night to avoid hitting the wind turbines
Also racing on my motor bike in my 20s. Hit a bridge. In hospital for months. Told if I hit a bit closer to my helmet I would be gone.
I am brown and in LA dressed in a blue pony hoodie. A gang car pulled up pointed a shot gun at me. It was the bloods.Lucky the traffic lights changed and the car behind started tooting so they drove off. I wore white tee shirts after that.
Also I was windsurfing in new Zealand. Did a jump landed badly and went through my sail. Packed up my kit and started to paddle in to shore. But the tide turned and I spent 4 hours fighting the tide not to be swept out to sea. On a remote beach with no one else around.
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