Your Near Death Experience

[cluckcluck42]

1- I got lost in the city, and pulled off on a quiet rode to turn around. I put my left signal light on and was about to turn left into a private driveway when I see this car speeding towards me. It was clear by his speed that he was NOT going to slow down and let me turn, so I figured he was going to pass me on the shoulder, to the right (which is what is standard in this situation). Fatefully, for some unknown reason, I didn't make the turn, I just stopped the car at the last second only to see the guy whoosh by right where I should have been.The guy passed me on my LEFT SIDE going 100 km/h. I have no idea why he did not take the shoulder, to this day I wish I could find the guy and yell at him. He literally almost killed me, if I had tried to make the turn he would have crashed into the drivers side going that speed and I would have been a goner.

2- Also in a car, I was driving to Georgia, all on my lonesome. It was late at night, very cloudy and foggy. I was following a huge tractor trailer going about 65 km/h. I was basically following his tail lights, it was that bad. I was trying to make it to the next town to pull over til the fog lifted. Well, all of a sudden the trailer SWERVES into the next lane and as soon as he is out of sight I see the red lights of a parked tractor trailer, sitting in the middle of the highway lane with his flashers on. I was quite literally inches from crashing into him, if I hadn't turned at the second I had, I don't know what would have happened. Maybe not death, but possibly close! No idea why this guy didn';t just pull over onto the shoulder. Stupid drivers get other people killed.

3-In Florida as a child my brother got on my shoulders in the deep end of the pool. I couldn't carry him and keep afloat so I was under water for quite awhile. I really thought I was going to die. I finally managed to throw him off (he was hanging on like it was a game) and got myself out of the pool.

 

[DuckLady]

I found out the hard way that I developed an allergy to penicillin.

After taking it, I developed the hives, facial swelling, itching and closed throat.
I managed to choke down a handful of Benadryl tablets before collapsing on the floor. As I frantically and unsuccessfully tried to dial the phone , I felt myself sinking down in a deep dark hole and I could barely see my 2 cats perched on the edge of that hole peering down at me. Finally the darkness enveloped me and I gave up fighting.

In what turned out to be several hours later I felt myself slowly surfacing to the top of that hole, with my 2 cats still there, one on each side of my head watching me, purring.

I drove myself to the hospital where I was kept overnight. The doctor said if i had not managed to swallow those Benadryl tablets, I would likely have died.

 

[BellLisamo]

Speaking of Diesels!!! Those guys are crazy!! I was stopped on the freeway in backed up traffic (in the middle of construction to say the least). I ALWAYS watch behind me, and keep enough room to get out of anyones way... I happen to be watching, and saw a diesel coming that WAS NOT slowing down... (He managed to get down to about 15 mph, but I immediately went to the right, onto the side of the highway, and the diesel ended up hitting the car that was in front of me. Whoops! Sorry car in front of me, better pay attention next time. I had to protect my babies in the back of my truck...

 

[Southernbelle]

My brother and I were almost kidnapped. We were playing in our front yard in a rural area, the main road went right by our house - he was 6 and I was 4. A man stopped in front of our house and offered us some candy to go with him. My brother grabbed my hand and we ran towards our house. All these years, I thought that memory was a dream I'd had. A few years ago, my brother asked if I remembered it and my jaw dropped, "That really happened?!" Creepy, creepy, creepy. I don't even know if my mom knew about it.

The scariest near-death experience I've had was my son. He'd always been a climber and one morning when he was 2, he climbed out of his crib while everyone in the house was sleeping. He went to the back door and unlocked the door handle and unlocked the deadbolt so he could go play in our fenced-in backyard. He climbed the 4 ft chain-link fence and started wandering the neighborhood while we were all sleeping in the house. My neighbor was getting in her car to go to work when she saw a slight movement in her side-view window. She opened the car door to look and saw my little boy behind her back tire under her car! He'd followed the neighbor's cat under her car. She lived 4 doors down from me and didn't know who's baby he was, she called the neighbor 2 doors down and she knew he was mine. The 2 of them ringing the doorbell at 8am got me out of bed and I was absolutely shocked to see them holding my baby. I started crying hysterically when I thought of what could've happened to him! I didn't even know he was gone! (They didn't tell me he was under her car until years later, they just told me he was in her driveway.) I immediately went to Lowes and bought chain locks and hotel locks for every exterior door in the house and installed them as high as I could reach. People must've thought we were security freaks, but it wasn't to keep burglers out, it was to keep my wild boy IN! I still get all shivery when I think of how close it could've been and I thank God that our neighbor stopped to look at whatever caught her attention - my son definately had a guardian angel that day!

 

[MagsC]

I almost died giving birth to my youngest daughter.
The other one that stands out most in my mind was when we were kids, climbing into a pasture to go down to a creek to go fishing.
There was a mean bull...it started chasing us when we were about midway through the pasture. The only reason we got to the fence and werent stomped or gored was our dog. She darted in and grabbed hold of its nose, distracting it and giving us enough time to get away.(But afterwards, she was right behind us,lol)

 

[Cindiloohoo]

My closest call was 5 a.m. on a 2 lane highway, no shoulder on the road, in a Toyota Tercel. I was taking my boyfriend to work, running late, doing about 90 mph. I went to pass a semi, got half way around and met another semi coming toward us over a little hill. I still have no idea how we squeezed between those two big rigs, but we did and only lost one mirror

I have never seen the blood rush from someone's face like it did his! I drove slower going to work myself that morning, and wound up late, but that was FINE WITH ME! I thought I was a goner for sure. Now I'm afraid to go around someone without a LOT of room to pass, and I am claustrophobic..lol!

 

[Fowl97]

I WAS climbing DUNNS river falls in jamicia (SP) and i got stuck in a whirl pool 2 i was walking thru the woods and triped on a rock while i was biting my lip and my teeth went thru my lip 3 I put a popcorn curnal in my ear and it got stuck and the hospital couldnt get it out my peditrition (SP) put super glur on a QTIP and pulled it out 4 a couple years ago when i was in third grade a rusty nail was sticking out of a class room book shelf and me being a boy got myself stuck on it even worse i didnt feel it and when i couldnt walk forward i thought i got my jeans stuck (but i was wearing shorts) so i kicked my knee forward and that is when it hurt

nothing was near deth but scary

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

The ones that really stick out in my mind are:

1) When my brother and I were young, we all decied to go to the pond round about the first part of December. We hadn't had enuogh cold weather to freeze it through, so it cracked under our feet. Thankfully we were only a few feet out, and it was only a couple feet deep. My oldest brohter was able to run down and pull me and middle brother out. We were cold and wet, but alive.

2) The summer the DNR drained Lake Wapello. Again, middle brother and I had a bright idea, this time we decided to walk out into the middle of the lake. We immediatly began to sink in the nasty, black methane smelling mud. We struggled, only burying ourselves deeper and deeper. I can remember the choking smell and the discomfort from the pressure of all that mud closing in around me. My dad had to find any debrit he could to toss out ahead of him to step on, finally reaching us and using a boat oar to free us. Maybe it really wasn't "near death" but when you're 7 years old, it sure felt like it!

3) Another ice story, and probably the scariest. I had just gotten into my newfound trapping hobby a couple years back. I had permission to trap a local pond for beaver, and had pulled a 50 pounder out the first week of the season. Once the pond froze, I could get to places and feeder streams that I couldn't get to before. I made the rookie mistake of assuming that since the ice was 6"-8" on most of the pond, I would surely be ok. The ice was covered with snow, and I must have hit a muskrat run near one of the creeks, because before I knew it I had fallen through. I could stand, so it was maybe only 5' deep, but the bottom was muddy and didn't provide stable footing. I credit my dog and my knife for saving my life. I had him on a 20' cable, and as soon as I fell through he took off for the shore. He got to solid ground and firmly planted all four feet, scared to go back on to the ice. I tossed my pack off my back and pulled my buck knife out and between it and the tension from Diesel's cable (and him not wanting to move) I made it out. If it wasn't for him being a huge chicken that day, I may have froze to death before I could have gotten help.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Drowned twice before I was 10. Once in a pool an once in the Tennessee river. Brought back by CPR both times.

Got hit by a car at 14.

Countless car related thing as a teen driver. (alluding)

Around 2005.
My chef(driving) an I running code, took a curve sideways in a 1/4th of a mile 70MPH power-slide when our 1300 gallon load of water shifted in out 2000 model Kenworth T300 fire truck. Ran several cars off the road but it stayed upright.

This truck.

around 2006.
I had to abandon(run from) that same fire truck when the smoke an flames from the fire we were fighting over took me an it.

Took a pic as I was running.

The truck is there in the middle of the road.


I probably have hundreds more if I really thought about it.

 

[silkydragon]

when i was a kid i got into a canoe with 1 of my dads friends to go fishing on otherside of the pound didnt know how to swim didnt have a life jacket but i was too young to know there was some kind of difference between the canoe and a vbottom so didnt think it would flip we got out to the middle and it rolled i sunk like a rock till my dads friend swam down and saved me remember my parents screaming from the shore and that by some mericle i didnt even need mouth to mouth but also remember the view under the merky water im an adult now and my dad makes fun of me cuz i still wont go out on a boat alone but the good news in the accedent was somehow my hook got stuck in the guys back pocket he got outa the water and started walking around we noticed a string slowly pooled out of the water and there was my pole that guy lost alot of fishing gear and stuff i didnt lose a thing so i laugh at him about it sometimes