How close to death have you been, close shaves/lucky escapes
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jimmyone said:
got caught in a rip tide.
the thing about drowning is ,you have time to think while its happening !
one of the thoughts i had was.. " BLOODY HELL.. After all the s
t ive been thrpugh, Im gonna die this way !!!! "
I no what you mean ive been dragged under the water when body boarding. Was not the best experience of my life i can tell you. the thing about drowning is ,you have time to think while its happening !
one of the thoughts i had was.. " BLOODY HELL.. After all the s
t ive been thrpugh, Im gonna die this way !!!! "I fell 60 ft off an electricity pylon in 1995(part of my job), hit the side on the way down which broke my fall and damaged my leg quite badly. Numerous broken bones and other injuries, touch and go at one point. 13 operations and a year later I had my right leg amputated below the knee. Since then life has just got better and better with every day a bonus
doogz said:
Falling off pylons was part of your job?
Oh. Em, then I read the rest of your post. Is joking acceptable? It's a bit taboo. The document controller in here that used to be a joiner, til he lost 3 fingers (not the pinky or thumb) on one hand certainly doesn't appreciate when people call him "The Claw"
No taboos hereOh. Em, then I read the rest of your post. Is joking acceptable? It's a bit taboo. The document controller in here that used to be a joiner, til he lost 3 fingers (not the pinky or thumb) on one hand certainly doesn't appreciate when people call him "The Claw"
Attended a fancy dress a while ago as Heather Mills, my running limb is called "Oscar" etc etc
Humour is a big part of my life and generally puts people at their ease ie if I'm relaxed enough to have a laugh they relax and we move on.
Birdster said:
Rough story. Doctor's comment must have been a bit surreal.
So the chap who waited with you needed you to verify that the Uno driver didn't hit you as the Police assumed the worst?
It hadn't actually occurred to me, the Uno driver or the other chap that it might even be important. I knew he'd not hit me, as did he, but neither of us thought to tell the third chap. The thought that I might not have survived to vouch for him, or that he might've ended up in all sorts of trouble despite having done nothing wrong was, with hindsight, quite a chilling thought.So the chap who waited with you needed you to verify that the Uno driver didn't hit you as the Police assumed the worst?
Went swimming in a lake when I was about 12. Got some weeds or something wrapped around my ankle which i couldn't get off. As i panicked and called for help my friends thought i was messing about and just laughed. Incredibly my other foot found a pipe about 4-5 " across that I managed to balance on and free my ankle. Seriously scared me, by the time my mates would have realised it would have been too late.
At work, got on a fork truck and reversed it down the factory with my foot right down. The roof is held up with large blue metal columns which obviously i could see. What I didn't see was a large Genie Boom (cherry picker) also blue, with the arm facing me straight on. It hit the cab upright and smashed it nearly in half. A foot to the right and it would have gone right through me.
At work, got on a fork truck and reversed it down the factory with my foot right down. The roof is held up with large blue metal columns which obviously i could see. What I didn't see was a large Genie Boom (cherry picker) also blue, with the arm facing me straight on. It hit the cab upright and smashed it nearly in half. A foot to the right and it would have gone right through me.
You know how people send you messages saying "look at this, you'll find it really useful/funny/interesting/sad", and 99.99% of the time they're anything but?
With regards to the various comments on here about people nearly drowning, here's one of the 0.01% of links which I was sent that actually is informative, scary, useful, etc....
Drowning doesn't look like drowning
With regards to the various comments on here about people nearly drowning, here's one of the 0.01% of links which I was sent that actually is informative, scary, useful, etc....
Drowning doesn't look like drowning
A routine operation which went ever so slightly wrong when a blood vessel was accidently torn.
It was touch an go whilst the surgeons battled to save me. I bled out twice and spent 24 hours in the recovery room.
It was only the day after that when the consultant came to see me and said that I was lucky to survive as up until very recently my chances would have been slim that it really hit home.
I had the same operation again five year later and this time they had my old notes out, the same anesthetist and surgical team and a hell of a lot of blood on stand by. Thankfully this time all went to plan and no transfusions were needed.
It was touch an go whilst the surgeons battled to save me. I bled out twice and spent 24 hours in the recovery room.
It was only the day after that when the consultant came to see me and said that I was lucky to survive as up until very recently my chances would have been slim that it really hit home.
I had the same operation again five year later and this time they had my old notes out, the same anesthetist and surgical team and a hell of a lot of blood on stand by. Thankfully this time all went to plan and no transfusions were needed.
Mobile Chicane said:
Council Baby said:
Close enough for people to think I was dead.
Spill.All of them
If he didn't get around to tell his gnarly yachting yarn (and the consequent inspiration for a tattoo), whilst reclining dans votre piscine, you must have jumped him spectacularly quickly.
Lady Summerisle said:
I should have been on one of the trains involved in the Ladbroke grove train crash heading to Reading. Luckily for me my meeting was canceled last minute, it was only when my Mum phoned my up asking if i was OK I realised how close I had come!
I read somewhere that the number of people who 'miss' planes that crash is more than double the normal rate for planes that don't crash. Anybody else heard this or has proof either way?
Once had carbon monoxide in the house and we had collapsed, a door to door salesman came to the door and for some reason came in and found us and got us out the house. As you may imagine I am very wary of carbon monoxide now, we probably only had minutes to live so pretty damn lucky.
anonymous said:
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I saw my own daughter nearly drown a couple of years ago. We were at a big pool, nobody else there, no lifeguard. She was swimming, I was going to lay down and sunbathe, but after a couple of minutes I decided no, I'd better keep an eye on the young 'un. She was 10, and can swim, but not brilliantly. I immediately saw she was sinking lower in the water, and changed her stroke a couple of times, I knew something was wrong.
No yelling, no splashing, but her head was half underwater and she was still trying to swim forwards, almost carefully, deliberately, as if she were pretending nothing was wrong.
I ran and dived into the pool, shot across to her and grabbed her up. There were tears and stuff and I realised just how close it had been.
If I had laid down for another minute.....
monthefish said:
Any idea how it happened? Were you unstable when you deployed?
(I was upside down during deployment on my incident - but it was about my 20th jump and that is my excuse!)
Somehow I got into a violent somersault after I pulled the pilot chute, don't know how many times I went over, but it was a few as the risers were so twisted the slider hardly moved down more than a metre.(I was upside down during deployment on my incident - but it was about my 20th jump and that is my excuse!)
I was actually extremely hungover when it happened, so probably my own fault. I wasted time trying to do a back-loop to get some twist out, but lost a whole bunch of altitude before I acknowledged I had to cut-away, which was when it got really really scary.
All was well in the end, the reserve snivelled a bit before popping open, but I landed in a ploughed field without a problem.
King Herald said:
I saw my own daughter nearly drown a couple of years ago. We were at a big pool, nobody else there, no lifeguard. She was swimming, I was going to lay down and sunbathe, but after a couple of minutes I decided no, I'd better keep an eye on the young 'un. She was 10, and can swim, but not brilliantly.
I immediately saw she was sinking lower in the water, and changed her stroke a couple of times, I knew something was wrong.
No yelling, no splashing, but her head was half underwater and she was still trying to swim forwards, almost carefully, deliberately, as if she were pretending nothing was wrong.
I ran and dived into the pool, shot across to her and grabbed her up. There were tears and stuff and I realised just how close it had been.
If I had laid down for another minute.....
That made my blood run cold. I immediately saw she was sinking lower in the water, and changed her stroke a couple of times, I knew something was wrong.
No yelling, no splashing, but her head was half underwater and she was still trying to swim forwards, almost carefully, deliberately, as if she were pretending nothing was wrong.
I ran and dived into the pool, shot across to her and grabbed her up. There were tears and stuff and I realised just how close it had been.
If I had laid down for another minute.....
Landlord said:
King Herald said:
I saw my own daughter nearly drown a couple of years ago. We were at a big pool, nobody else there, no lifeguard. She was swimming, I was going to lay down and sunbathe, but after a couple of minutes I decided no, I'd better keep an eye on the young 'un. She was 10, and can swim, but not brilliantly.
I immediately saw she was sinking lower in the water, and changed her stroke a couple of times, I knew something was wrong.
No yelling, no splashing, but her head was half underwater and she was still trying to swim forwards, almost carefully, deliberately, as if she were pretending nothing was wrong.
I ran and dived into the pool, shot across to her and grabbed her up. There were tears and stuff and I realised just how close it had been.
If I had laid down for another minute.....
That made my blood run cold. I immediately saw she was sinking lower in the water, and changed her stroke a couple of times, I knew something was wrong.
No yelling, no splashing, but her head was half underwater and she was still trying to swim forwards, almost carefully, deliberately, as if she were pretending nothing was wrong.
I ran and dived into the pool, shot across to her and grabbed her up. There were tears and stuff and I realised just how close it had been.
If I had laid down for another minute.....
On the opposite side, on a family trip to the local pool (a sort of community thing, don't think there was a lifeguard) when we were on holiday up north I, aged maybe 5 or something, had to use arm bands to swim.
After I had enough of the pool my mum was helping my get changed when I suddenly decided I wanted to go swimming again so bolted out of the changing room and jumped straight into the deep end of the pool, obviously without arm bands. After much flailing about it was fairly obvious I was drowning...
The only issue was that my dearest mother didn't want to jump in and save me because her clothes would get wet so left it to my dad to swim an olympic standard length from the other end of the pool. Dads are great!
I suppose that's fairly close to death for me.
Another story is when I was about 12 climbing trees I fell about 15 foot out of a tree and landed flat on my back in the dirt with my head about 10cm from a paving slab and about a metre away from a pile of logs. No broken bones just a massive scrape down my left side which healed nicely after a week or two. Spent a night in Sick Kids. Funnily enough as I was falling all I could think was "Oh, so that's what the top of that metal shed looks like."
Edited by AndrewEH1 on Thursday 20th June 14:30
staples230uk said:
Ahhh Moneypenny said:
ovarian cyst nearly killed me! bd thing
My wife had them....horrible things! Hope your okay now though.d thing had it cut out like a cesarean, caught to late though no babies for me, or highly unlikelyGassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff