What's the closest you have been to death?

I had a burst appendix about 5 years ago and the surgeons failed to do a clean job, so I developed sepsis ...good job I was already in the hospital. Wasn't nice.
I fell in the river Irwell at 5 am the day after finding out my missus was preggers with our first child in 1994. Alcohol. I haven't a clue how I got out.
My son is now living in Cheshire, working in mental health, and his missus is about to give birth. My first grandchild. I don't drink these days, but I still fall in the Irwell ;)
 
mexico1970 said:
Jesus fucking Christ, sound like a horror story mate. Hopefully you will be telling that story in decades time and well done you for surviving that shit storm.
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Thanks mate, 20 years later and I am still here to tell it. It was torture really, certainly gives you an interesting sense of perspective.

I would say weirdly there are some upsides. I can also compartmentalise my health troubles better than most, there’s like a box in my brain that I put them all in and forget they exist. Nothing anybody can do to me will ever phase me - you could tell me I’m having my leg cut off next week and I’d be like “Ah, that sounds inconvenient” (maybe a bit of an exaggeration but you get my point).
 
Fell asleep at 3.00am on the M62 driving my Renault Clio home after work. Woke up hitting the wires in the central reservation. I could have killed myself and others but lucky no one was hurt. I had flash backs for months after. I didn’t even feel tired while driving.
 
I had a medical condition that I was unaware of, after becoming increasingly unwell for several days I was in so much pain that I got myself to the hospital, I was told that had I left it for another 24 hours it would be highly likely that I wouldn't have made it.

That said, there was no way I could have coped with the pain for another 24 hours.
 
Went to Jazbo Browns in Bury on a Sunday night after going Sequins the night before ( no kip ) , I drove like a dickhead in the rain , went through a roundabout and missed the sharp diversion sign by inches , got out alive but the car was fucked , them days where mental something happened most weekends
 
bluevillain said:
25/05/1982. 18 year old radar operator in the operations room aboard HMS Coventry. Attacked by Argentine A4 Skyhawks. 3 500 pound bombs entered the ship. 2 very close to my position. 1 exploded beneath the Ops room destroying it causing fire to engulf it. The second bomb failed to explode. If it had, good night me. 19 of the ships company killed in the attack. Ship sank within 40 mins.
Photos of the attack taken from the ship with us.
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Driving my car across a junction and hit by a bus square on to the drivers door. Can’t remember a thing about it as I had a head injury but I must have seen it moments before the collision because I had swung my legs into the passenger seat. Good job as the drivers footwell was completely crushed and my legs would have been gone if they had been in the normal position. Ambulance needed to cut me out. I was a lucky lucky lad.
 
Dicko69 said:
I was tied to my bed and asked my Mrs to smother me with her breasts, couldn't breathe, genuinely thought this is it.
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My uncles boyfriend accidentally killed himself in an act of self affixation whilst they were both pissed up, was a good man too bless him, we were only kids and got told he had a heart attack for obvious reasons! Got to be careful in the bedroom.
 
I got hit by a flying cheese and onion flavour crisp bag once in one of Manchesters fiercest named storms.

I still have nightmares........
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Driving my car across a junction and hit by a bus square on to the drivers door. Can’t remember a thing about it as I had a head injury but I must have seen it moments before the collision because I had swung my legs into the passenger seat. Good job as the drivers footwell was completely crushed and my legs would have been gone if they had been in the normal position. Ambulance needed to cut me out. I was a lucky lucky lad.
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kaz7 said:
The car accident that disabled me , i had multiple injuries and my heart stopped , been dead for a few mins , sad to say there was no light or angels
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I wasn’t going to post until I read your two posts.
I’m still not sure if my episode equates to the trouble you have endured.
A year ago in July in the early hours of the morning having gotten off the ferry at Holyhead and driven across North Wales, I crashed the car heading south on the M6.
I was doing the full 70mph and hit the median in the centre of the motorway having, for all intents and purposes, blacked out.
I came around to my wife in the passenger seat screaming at me and me then struggling to straighten the car scraping along the motorway divide.
We were blessed that there was not much on the road at that hour in the morning.
We both exited the vehicle unharmed. My wife was pretty shook. I was inexplicably dead calm.
The car was towed and we were left high and dry at a roadside service station wondering, what do we do now?

The truth is, I could have killed us both.
I had a couple more blackouts up until December and have been tested for everything since. A couple of MRI’s, ECG’s EEG’s, echo’s, haven’t a clue what they call some of the tests. Latest one was a Sleep Apnea test.

The good news is I’m as fit as a fiddle. Nothing physically wrong with me.
But like I said to the last expert, so we’re back to the question I asked at the start of all of this; why am I not sleeping?
You can’t self diagnose, but I maintained all along it is sleep deprivation. What was stressing me so much last year? Well that’s the real story. Unfortunately until we all agree on that (meaning the whole family) then it won’t be properly addressed.
We’re getting there though.

Like I said. Don’t know if it qualifies for the thread, but I basically could have killed both of us. Both of us walked away without a scratch.
 
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