Odd question

[Watchingthetreetops]

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This might seem strange, but I'm wondering if anyone here has had a near death experience? If so, what happened? Or has anyone almost died here? I'm looking for some stories on this.

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[MagicalCat590]

Yes. I have epilepsy and when I was fifteen I had my first seizures. I had three Grand mal seizures in two days.

 

[Motte]

I nearly drowned when I was young. The first thing I saw when I came to was a moth and ever since I've had an affinity for them, which is another story. Not sure what you'd want me to elaborate on.

 

[Clara Oswald]

Been in a couple car crashes, I had to go in an ambulance (broke a leg one time and a rib another). I count myself as semi-lucky, it could've been a lot worse and I was the only one hurt. So yeah don't know if that counts, I'm pretty accident prone as a person so I've done a range if things that could've been a lot worse but weren't.

 

[Aradai]

A few, yes.

Almost drowned as a kid because someone thought that it was totally safe to pin someone underwater.
And I've been in a car wreck before.

 

[Zane]

Apparently once I got stuck underwater somehow at the beach and nearly drowned, however I was very young and don't remember it.

 

[MeghanNewLeaf]

The closest I've come to is a car accident, but no one even got hurt that I remember. I've never had to go to the hospital before, so I can't say that I've had any near-death experiences.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

I don't know if this counts but once my cousin tried to drown me. That's the only thing that I know of that came close to a ner-death experience. The second was last year when we got in a not-very-serious car accident. Nobody got hurt but it was a scary exaperience.

 

[Stevey Queen]

I walk home everyday from work at night. The ghetto neighborhoods aren't far off. That's pretty much gambling life right there

 

[epona]

I walk home everyday from work at night. The ghetto neighborhoods aren't far off. That's pretty much gambling life right there

this post makes me really uncomfortable, the prejudice is ripe


and no, not really, but i was a miracle baby (my mum had an ovarian cyst when she was pregnant with me and the doctors weren't expecting me to live but hey ho here i am)

 

[Watchingthetreetops]

I nearly drowned when I was young. The first thing I saw when I came to was a moth and ever since I've had an affinity for them, which is another story. Not sure what you'd want me to elaborate on.

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I would love for you to elaborate on this actually.

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I walk home everyday from work at night. The ghetto neighborhoods aren't far off. That's pretty much gambling life right there

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I actually relate to this. I've never been very rich, and I used to walk everywhere before I got a car.

 

[starlark]

Oh yes.

Spoiler: don't read if you don't like reading please thanks <3

Last year, I went kind of crazy. I went on holiday to my "homeland" of the Philippines and for the most part, it was lovely.
Now, I don't like most Filipino food since I'm an extremely picky eater. On the mainland, you're in reach of supermarkets
Unfortunately, my dad comes from a remote island 30 minutes across the sea from anything, and another 3 hours away
We stayed there for a week. I didn't eat much, though I was rather lucky there was a restaurant down the road my dad ordered from to keep me going. I came to this stage where I didn't feel like eating, it just seemed pointless. (I'm still like that now but better, since I have access to food I enjoy and like.) I drank nothing but Coca-Cola and ate next to nothing.
On the Saturday night, three days before we left, I started vomiting violently. At first I thought, hey, it's no issue. But then every 10 minutes I'd suddenly get that horrible squeezing in my stomach and I'd vomit again.
This continued for an hour. Eventually, I was escorted to the hospital on their "ambulance" (motorbike).
I was checked into a room and put on an IV drip with no wheels. I was given a bedroom which had no source of entertainment except picking at the peeling walls and listening to the rubbish TV the nurses were watching, and I couldn't eat anything without throwing up. The bathroom was the worst thing I have ever seen. I'm not going to describe it but it was horrible.
At that moment, I have never ever wanted to die more.
Fortunately, after a day and a half, I was released with a diagnosis of hyper acidity. I took pills for the next 2 months and my stomach was rotted so badly I couldn't walk, so I had to be in a wheelchair. The pain was unbearable, I lost 20% of my body weight and I was almost suicidal at that point because I just wanted to be myself again.

TL;DR: I starved myself close to death and experienced hell for a day and a half.

 

[Radda]

Drowned in the ocean and a swimming pool,on a class trip I fell into the ocean and I was pretty dead in my eyes,then a classmate saw me and saved me due to her lovely swimming skills,it was dark.Since it was cloudy overseas.And it feels awful.
Swimming pool,girl tried teaching me how to swim at my Bf's birthday party.Like 2 years ago?That was a embarrassing day.

 

[Shirohibiki]

yes

Spoiler: dont read if squeamish

in order to test for autoimmune diseases (which i ended up not having), i had a liver biopsy done a little while ago. i dont know if the doctor made a mistake or was just bad at his job (he sure as hell dug around in there more than seemed necessary); he gave me the largest subcapsular hepatic hematoma the doctors i went to had ever seen. it pushed all of my organs aside and took an entire year to resolve (when they told me itd take a month). i lost so much blood (some even dripping into my pelvis) i had to get a blood transfusion, and was in ICU for a while, then the regular hospital for a while after that. they also had no idea what they were DOING at that hospital, and almost removed my gallbladder while i still had internal bleeding. that would have easily ruptured the hematoma and couldve killed me as well. the doctors at that hospital were all so incredibly stupid, they had no idea what they were doing with me. i am very lucky to be alive because of their incompetence. i still have scar tissue that will never go away. THANKS COOPER HOSPITAL

 

[Saylor]

My mom told me I almost died a couple of weeks ago when she found I'd fallen asleep inside our car while it was really hot outside. I don't know though, she said when she found me I was passed out but I don't remember that, I thought I just fell asleep normally.

 

[ShinyYoshi]

Right after I was born, I got really sick. I couldn't come down from awful fevers and they stuck so many IV's in my head my mom said they ran out of places to put them and started putting them on other parts of my body. The fever was dangerously high for a few days and my parents were scared to death. After it finally all went away, it had been a couple weeks since I was born. I would still get sick after leaving the hospital, but not as bad as the time I was in the hospital.

Of course, I don't remember any of that. That's just the story I've heard my whole life.

 

[DarkOnyx]

At the swimming pool when I was really little,there were two slightly younger kids on a pool raft.I decided to act like a shark and swim under the boat.I got trapped and started drowning.Took a while to get out.

 

[honeymoo]

not really, i mean i almost '''''drowned''''' once, but it wasn't v scary for me, like i was younger and i just went into the deep end of the pool and kinda slipped and was struggling for air for a second and my mom made it a bigger deal that it was hahaha. um i'm trying to think of a near death experience other than that.. really don't think i have one omg... i was in a physical fight once with this guy and it was really scary i guess but not really that bad i guess?? i'm a pretty safe person.

 

[35mm]

I walk home everyday from work at night. The ghetto neighborhoods aren't far off. That's pretty much gambling life right there

I lived in ~the projects~ for a really long time and I would keep a close watch on the parking lot outside of my apartment. I would literally just sit and stare because I never had anything to do, and I've seen soME THINGS.

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When I was about 2 years old my mother would never take care of me 'cause she'd always be passed out somewhere around the house so I've had TVs, shelves, desks, lamps, and many other things fall on me. I would also fall down the stairs all the time. And to make it worse we had a dog that was literally the puppy embodiment of Satan himself. That thing would maul me to bits. It's not really a near death expirience but I probably looked like I was about to die, like, 24/7.

 

[Jake]

My school went into lockdown bcos some guy with a knife came in and I thought I was gonna die and suffered from post traumatic stress disorder