Your near death experience

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by Donuts & Peelouts, Apr 20, 2019.

  1. Philip66

    Philip66 Well-Known Member



    Smokey....that's what we always called a widow-maker.
    Glad you didn't make one, glad you weren't made one!;););).

    When a tree falls on your moving vehicle....what are you gonna do?!!?
     
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  2. telriv

    telriv Founders Club Member

    Hopefully ANYONE in that situation will be as LUCKY as Smokey & his wife. Call it situational y awareness.
     
  3. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    It was just strange how the timing of the tree happened just as we passed. Now, after both close calls, I drive a bit more slowly at night and roadside leaning, rotted trees make me a bit nervous when its windy.
     
  4. My near death experience came when the wife came home early and caught me.... Washing car parts in the dishwasher.
     
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  5. cruzn57

    cruzn57 cruzn57

    ruptured stomach ulcer, split my stomach wall, and fluids shut down all my organs,
    wife found me, 30 min later, my one and only helicopter ride, to Las Vegas, 100 mi away.
    Dr said no vitals when they off loaded me, .but ... me, being the a$$hat I am , grabbed a nursed hand.
    everyone freaked!
    now 3 yrs later, I pay attention to unusual pains and aches.
     
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  6. John Codman

    John Codman Platinum Level Contributor

    Never had an experience with this - quite. When I was a kid and cared greatly about peer pressure, I walked across the Charles River on the outside of a bridge that was about 80' above the water, just above a waterfall. The "walkway" was about 18" wide and sloped towards the water. It may have been the stupidest thing that I have ever done. Somehow, I made it, but it cured me of "peer pressure" for life. I am purposely leaving the details out - I don't want anyone else to try it.
     
  7. BQUICK

    BQUICK Gold Level Contributor

    Mine was at Norwalk....car rolled off on me....thought I was done....I won't elaborate been discussed here....o_O:eek:
     
  8. BQUICK

    BQUICK Gold Level Contributor

    This is hard to talk about it wasn't me but was girlfriend in HS. She was driving her MG to my house on a windy day....tree fell and hit right on her head and her car kept on going into neighbor's yard. Went right over there and saw her with dark rings below her eyes knew she was gone. Only deceased person I ever saw in my life. Effected me for a long while....
    One of those freak things....when your number is up...it's over
     
  9. Footbag

    Footbag Well-Known Member

    Dont ever drive tired!!!! Pull over and sleep somewhere. i was dumb and tried to make it home one night after working out of town. Witness said i was coming down a hill doing what looked like 90mph. I fell asleep at the top and went off the road into the ditch. The car (a 98 honda prelude at the time) fliped nose to trunk 3 times before turning and barreling sideways another 6 times. landed on its wheel. i woke up when it was rolling sideways and then it all stopped moving and i got out and walked away from the car somehow with out a single injury. Even till this day, no one can believe i survived that and still dont seem to have any injuries showing up 10 years later. I learned my lesson and never risk anything like that again.

    Work related. Was in a scissor lift installing cantilever beam racks. Each unit was 2,000 lbs and had one unit on each side. The retaining strap that was used till the middle supports were in place broke. i was 20 feet up and when it snapped had no time to run and jump off the 8 foot long lift. Curled up in the lift and held on for the ride down as the lift and all the weight of the racks went sideways. I honestly fully thought that i was going to die and be crushed that day. The scissor lift held the weight of the impact of the racks thankfully. i walked away with permanent indents in my shines and forearms from slamming into the bars of the scissor lift. Quit that job the moment i stopped shaking from what had just happened.
     
  10. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    THAT is the absolute truth! I am really careful about that -- I've driven long distances enough that i can tell when i'm starting to lose it. My dad still tells me to be careful driving late at night.

    Anyway....

    Driving up to Virginia from Florida with an old roommate years ago. He was driving, I was asleep in the passenger seat, and I woke up at about 3 AM to find him bleary-eyed and barely holding it together.

    "Cliff, you want me to take over?"
    "Yeah man, I almost dozed off a couple times back there but caught myself on the shoulder."
    "Why the hell didn't you wake me up?!!"
    "I dunno, you looked so peaceful."

    Yeah, I'd hate to have you tap me on the shoulder to wake me up when a barrel roll or a tree could do the same thing.o_O
     
  11. BadBrad

    BadBrad Got 4-speed?

    I don't recall mine as it was on day Number One of my ex utero existence . Amusingly, I recently learned the doctor never sent a bill to my parents for the resuscitation. He told them later he'd thought they'd been through enough already.
     
  12. got_tork

    got_tork Well-Known Member

    About this time 4yrs ago was not good for me.Lost over 1/2 my blood from what I thought was a runny nose.
     
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  13. Donuts & Peelouts

    Donuts & Peelouts Life's 2 Short. Live like it.

    Now this one has impacted me more than anything that has happened to me on the st..
    When I was around 23 I left all the hardcore friends behind me either through death or on my own, all my favorite friends died anyway.
    I made a new set of friends from work. I got close with a white boy who liked to hike he was a survivalist at heart. We went out hiking down to a waterfall in the national forest with another one of his friends. We were drinking and smoking even we were driving up. They took the lead as I never been and hiking wasn't my thing. I've been in the mountains since I was a boy due to my uncle's in Honduras on my visits so I wasn't scared. These guys however did not stay on the path. We cut down the hike going through the brush and making our own way. His friend went off somewhere the started to scream for his help, he was stuck on a edge and losing his footing. My friend left me and told me below him there were 2 paths one was easy and that's the way I should go down. The only problem was that he told me as he was facing me so his left was my right. He left and I made my way down slowly. I lost my footing, the dirt was soft, I fell on my stomach grabbing anything I could to hold on. But I keep on sliding down, the floor under me was soft and at about 10% slope or downward grade. It was nothing to me as I slide down about 5 feet, I remembered I laughed but as 5 feet turned into 15 and dust was everywhere I remember I was breathing it in, I tried to pull on small trees but they ripped out of the ground. This gradual slope then turned into a cliff. I was f#cke.d, I now was on the edge of cliff hanging on by my hands just dangling In the air with about a 4 story fall, at the Time I didn't know what lay below me. I could not maintain my grip as my nails started to pop and crack off my my fingertips. I fell. And I fell in a position like feet fists in open fetal position. As I fell I knew I was going to die. I just knew it, a familiar feeling I've had before (once too I was robbed gunpoint on the floor and I thought the same thing " I'm going to die right now). When I was falling It felt like my stomach came out of my mouth, it's a feeling coupled with nervousness that made my body fill up with so much pressure as I fell. I landed in that position feet first and my body just followed hitting the floor like a spring. Dirt came tumbling down after me Making a big dirt mountain the size of me. My friend came fast to help me up. Next to me was a tree that was standing at an angle split, if I would of landed on it it would of went through me killing me. My knee was bloody, my ancle was killing me, my back hurt. I tied up my knew with my shirt and continued on the hike down to the water fall. But I asked for a picture because I knew no one would believe me right next to the dirt fell. I am a very tuff guy, and have been dealing with pain since I tore all my ligaments in my knee when I was 18 and didnt have the insurance to fix it until my early 20's. So I can manage pain, so mentally I knew I had more walking to do. I think the rush helped me power through it, when I got to the water fall I put my body in the water and I felt like the cold water took much of my pain away.

    The next day I could not walk. I could not walk for a week because of the pain in my lower back and next. I had real bad whiplash and till today still get pain in my back. After I would freak out watching movies when people would fall, I would relive it and my body will go through the shock mode. Ptsd.

    It made me value life, slow down, appreciate small things and made me who I am today.
     
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  14. lostGS

    lostGS Well-Known Member

    Mine happened a year ago April. I had been having pain in my right elbow. heat/cold didn't really help any. then I started having slight pain in my left lower back. When the elbow didn't get any better. I went to the VA. Wound up have a DVT(blood clot) in my elbow. Got meds for that. But my side was continuing to hurt and getting worse. moving up my side. Felt like when I broke my ribs in a motorcycle accident. But was still able to take deep breaths. So didn't think too much about it.

    next couple days I was in agony my side hurt like hell. next day off. wound up going back to the VA once my wife got home from work. Got a CAT scan. PE (pulmonary embolism) blood clots in both lungs. Wound up in Cheyenne medical center for 4 days 2 of those in ICU. Never knew how bad it really was until I saw my counselor 3 weeks later. She said, that was deadly.

    Tim
     
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  15. Mister T

    Mister T Just truckin' around

    March 15, 2010 I was hit by a GMC Tahoe in a truck stop parking lot while walking to my rig. No memory of actual impact, rolling onto the hood, and onto the pavement. Memory returned several seconds later as I slowly picked myself up while doing body injury inventory. I was fortunate to have no broken bones, only contusions and bruises. Driver who hit me took off, but I got his tags. He was located a few days later. It could have been much worse had I went beneath that Tahoe.

    During my CDL instructor days, had a guy exit the planet in my training truck less than one hour after obtaining his CDL. I usually let my students drive after their road test, but for some reason, I chose to drive back that day. He fell towards me as I was releasing the parking brake, head striking my arm. Either a stroke or heart attack, never found out for sure. Even stranger was I had to reschedule his road test from the previous day due to a minor equipment issue. He was a bachelor, and could have died alone at home, perhaps not being found for days.
     
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  16. WV-MADMAN

    WV-MADMAN Well-Known Member

    Don't talk about it much but Ive come close to dying more times than I will ever speak on.

    But one that sticks out is waking up in the middle of a esophagus stint surgery and being annoyed that the surgeon and nurses were standing around me freaking out, after a little bit they all looked shocked and started cheering and hugging, I thought they had lost their minds and went back to sleep....

    The next day I told my doctor I had woken up during the procedure and next time to be sure to knock me out.

    He asked why I thought I had woken up and I told him what I saw.

    He was shocked!

    Because I had died on the table because something had gone wrong with my breathing tube and I had suffocated.

    What I had ''seen'' was the surgeon and doctors and nurses freaking out because I had a DNR order, then they were shocked and happy and even hugging because my heart restarted on its own and I started breathing, that's when I went back to ''sleep''.

    My Dr was very annoyed with my DNR order because he thought I was crazy for being fairly young and going through the surgeries I was having basically without a safety net. He said that was for elderly people that don't want to waste away on life support, not a man with decades of life ahead if he survives a few months.

    I told him Ive had a wild ride and if God wants me now he can have me.

    And if God passes Im headed to Valhalla LOL
     
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  17. GKMoz

    GKMoz Gary / Moz

    1978 April, 15 th 28 years old I'm on my Suzuki RM250 dirt bike testing & tuning for race the following weekend, I go down a small hill to the dried up riverbed it was bogging down so I kicked it into 1st! so I get moving pretty good and I normally take a hill in 2nd? I forgot to kick it up to 2 and when I took the hill the bike wheel standed on me and the bike & separated at the top of the hill the bike went right I went quasi left to the ground and at that exact moment two other guys crested the hill and landed on my back crushing three vertebrae 9-10-11 thoracic I went unconscious , I was floating upward in the bottom of a well like place completely spread eagled and floating to the top of the lavender light at the top? then I heard the people who were checking on me back here in the world ! WOW that is the closest I've ever been to death ! 22 months later I accepted Jesus Christ as my savior and here I am an old guy :)

    Suzuki RM 250 1977.....212 lbs....55 H.P........loved that bike ! it was one bad to the bone fast bike ! :)




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  18. 66electrafied

    66electrafied Just tossing in my nickel's worth

    Twice in one year back when I was 12 and we lived in the Philippines. The first time was when a buddy and I were walking around this one small island we were visiting on a Sunday boat trip, the walk usually took 2 hours. We got to a cliff, we decided to climb over it as the current from the tide coming was rushing into a cave. My buddy was two steps ahead, and at about 40-50 feet up, he fell, into about 6 inches of water. I went back down almost grabbed him before the current took him in the cave. I ended up swimming across the channel and running to get the parents, and they told me he had died on impact.
    The next time was about 6 months later, our parents had decided to send all of the expat kids on a vacation to a resort in a nearby southern city. We ended up touring around in open air jeeps, and on one of those tours we came under fire from a local Moro group (Muslims who hate anything Christian or western) and as we were crouching in a ditch as the government troops were trying to get a handle on the situation, our guide decided to stick his head up and have a look. I wore his brains on my shirt for the rest of the day.
    Events like these tend to colour one's life into adulthood, and for years afterward I was pretty screwed up.
     
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  19. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    All I can say is "Wow!" And, that I am grateful that You All are here with us.
     
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  20. dyll

    dyll Well-Known Member

    never really had a near death experience, but ill try and think o what was the closest to it, back about 2 years ago? maybe? i was riding my quad with my younger sis, im on a 2017 polaris sportsman 110, shes on a polaris outlander 110? we get the idea to play, well tag, on quads, i go down the steep hill, to get to the back trail, i make a hard left whil inclining, flip, all the weight on top of me, i thought that was it, but luckley it wasnt, i emeidtadtley knew, or said oh BEEP, as i fell, thats why you wear gear people, which i was, and cut my leg pretty good, nice scar as well, fun times
     

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