Your Near Death Experience

[ozark hen]

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm I wonder if our spouses are related????????????
Terrie, I am so glad you are still with us! Please get liquid Benadryl to keep around as I would think that would work faster!?

 

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My 2 year old was playing in the house while I was cleaning. She came to me with her little purse and her play heels and said, "Bye, Mommy, I'm going shopping". So I said bye, have fun. A few minutes later I looked to see where she was and couldn't find her. So I went outside and she was half way down the dirt road. At the end of the road was a very busy road. If she'd made it all the way she probably would have been dead.

 

[Dar]

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Terrie.. I hope you have an epi-pen and a medic alert

 

[DuckLady]

Ozark and Dar...

Thanks!
I do have a medic alert and liquid Benedryl in date in the house at all times. I also do not take any antibiotic or new drug unless I have taken it at the doctor's office where it was prescribed and wait for 30 minutes in case of reaction.

Probably overkill, but better safe than down a hole with 2 cats staring at you.

 

[thebritt]

Asthma attack. About 3 years ago I had a bad cold, but was feeling a bit beter, and bored laying around doing nothing but being sick. It was a nice day, so I decided to rake out the gacky duck house straw. Almost put me into anaphylactic shock. Could not breath...Mom called 911 (she lives with us) and had the ambulance meet us at the gas station. I couldn't even handle the oxygen mask covering my face - just wanted the calendula so I could breath with my mouth open. At the hospital, my lips were blue, so they wanted to intubate, so a machine could breath for me. I couldn't talk, but made it clear that as long as I was concious, no one was knocking me out and sticking some germ-infested tube into my lungs! Ended up in ICU for 3 days, then in a room for another 5.
If medicine to prevent asthma attacks weren't $200/month, that probably wouldn't have happened.

 

[DragonFeathers]

Sept 2001, Labor day weekend, decided to put horse poop on the blueberry beds, had garden tractor halfway thru gate when my horse tried to get out, I got off the tractor to push her back till I was out of the field and gate was closed and locked up, I felt bad about pushing her away and bumping her in the nose with the gate (I was on the other side of the tractor from her) she had a sore eye at the time and was wearing a mask, as I walked up on her side a large black horse fly was after her and when I touched her side she kicked me with both hind legs at the same time, I was sent head over heals and landed on my right side face/shoulder first, ended up pulling myself up with tractor tire and yelling for SO for help, I managed to walk to the house where DD yelled for SO, I ended up waiting 1/2 hour for my Mother to come to watch DD (6 years old at the time) ended up with broken rib, 3 cracked ribs and a punchered lung, 9 days in the hospital, pure H3LL!!!!

 

[JP33]

Yep, a number of us on here should have been gonners by now, particularly the fire truck dude. I've had other encounters but the tree company almost killing me was perhaps the closest I ever came and is still fresh in my mind.

Seems like quite a few have had really close calls with icy situations.

Terrie, I always ask people who tell me they're allergic to bee stings if they're allergic to penicillian and vice versa, are you?

Now everyone be careful, life can be taken in the blink of an eye!


...JP

 

[DuckLady]

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Good question. I have never been stung by a bee, so I have no idea!

 

[JP33]

Terrie, if you're not certain, definitely keep the epi-pen at bay, just in case.


...JP

 

[Mac in Wisco]

I made a living as a power linesman for 17 years. They have harnesses to attach you to the bucket truck's boom. Probably mandatory under OSHA. Can't say I had any near death experiences as a linesman besides being shocked a few times or slipping and sliding really fast down a utility pole.

Let's see... The worst shock I ever got was in high school. I was playing with a 40,000 volt spark generator in the physics lab and became latched onto the leads. I was latched onto this thing for about 15 seconds, trying to unplug it by kicking the plug out of the wall. Finally somebody realized what was happening and pulled the plug. That hurt.

Built a very large Tesla Coil in the garage and was hit in the shoulder by a three foot lightning bolt. Hey, Nik Tesla used to do it all the time...

Been in a few car wrecks.

Fell through the ice a few times.

Tried to wreck a Cessna 172. On landing, a wing tip actually dragged on the ground before I recovered it and took it back in the air. Good pucker factor there.

Was Flight Engineer on a C-130 that we ran off the end of the runway.

Had a rocket hit within a few hundred feet of our aircraft while sitting on the ramp at Baghdad International.

I can't say that I've ever been to the hospital for anything worse than stitches though...