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Have you ever almost died?

stormkroe

stormkroe

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I did today for the first time ever. I was just leaving the gas station to hit the highway and the ball joint that connects the steering rack to the steering box on my 1-ton FELL OFF. It drug on the ground and forced my truck hard-left (which discriminating readers will realize is where the oncoming traffic is located). I was able to stop, I got out quickly and saw what had happened, I grabbed some rebar tie-wire and shoved the knuckle back onto the ball and tied it into place so I was able to pull out of the way slowly.
I hadn't reached highway speed yet obviously, or I don't think I'd be typing this right now.
Still processing it.

What about you guys? Ever put a down payment on the farm?
 
A few times, most of the incidents were in my childhood, but I still remember them. Some others were more than a decade ago.
 
Actually yes. Also car related.

I think anyone who's been in a serious car collision can rightfully say "I've almost died."
 
Depends on what you consider to qualify as "almost" dying. But I think I've almost bit the farm a couple times-

1. 1996 - got rear ended by a drunk driver while in my mother's old toyota corolla. Guy was driving an F150 and was going at least 50MPH when he hit me. Completely crushed the rear of the car I was in. As in the end of the trunk was 6 inches away from the back of the drivers seat. Managed to walk away from that unharmed, amazingly.

2. 1999 - had weird growth under right arm. Went from nothing to cutting off circulation to right arm over a 3-4 day period. Had emergency surgery to have it removed, but pretty sure it would have killed me.

3. 2003 - Got t-boned while making a left hand turn across two lanes of traffic. If the truck that hit my car been going just a little bit faster he would have hit the drivers side front door instead of the rear door. Missed me by a couple feet.

4. 2007 - Came down with Guillain Barre syndrome - basically a weird autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack the myelin sheathe that is around nerves. Sounds innocuous, until you realize that it is harder and harder for the brain to send signals to affected parts of the body due to the degradation in the myelin. Spent 8 days in the hospital getting pumped full of immunoglobulin G. Left the hospital barely able to walk (nerves in my legs and feet were severely affected). Took almost 8 months before I could walk normally again. Had I waited 1-2 more days to go to the hospital, I likely would have ended up on a ventilator and very well could have been killed by the disease.
 
Numerous times, unfortunately. Car wrecks, some bad illnesses, messing around on jet ski's, etc. I consider myself lucky to not only be alive, but also to not be an invalid.
 
Car smashed into me from the right. A few minutes after the accident I saw the right rear-view mirror was lying between my feet. When I saw that I realized I had just escaped a serious head injury.
 
Came close when I first saw that ultimate dog tease video. Then I literally almost died again while watching the goats yelling like humans clip on the youtubes.
 
A UPS driver came within 3 inches of taking my head off with the passenger side mirror.

Got caught in a downdraft while in a helicopter trying to land on a mountain ridge. The pilot floored it* and slid sideways down the ridge to buy enough time/altitude to recover. The pilot was shaken. When pilots get shaken it means thing really weren't going so good at all.

Numerous dumb ideas while rock scrambling.

I've driven off the road a few times to avoid head-on collisions with folks who make poor passing choices.

As a teen driver I crested a hill at a sprightly pace only to find a four way intersection with a gravel truck pulling out. The other driver stopped thereby saving my stupid ass life.

*Whatever it is that helicopter pilots do to increase power.
 
Had a salivary gland get infected a while ago. Had a shooting pain in my neck that I ignored for a few days. Went to bed one night and woke up in the hospital the next day after emergency surgery. The gland got infected and the infection spread. I had three procedures in the first two days and had a line put into my heart so the antibiotics would work. Took five or six different antibiotics for them to get my fever down. They removed a golf ball sized chunk of my neck.

Cut through some muscle and I lost some control of my voice. I was an opera singer at the time.

When I was young fell into a sinkhole and was rescued by my older brother. He grabbed my hand as I was going under.
 
JulesMaximus said:
Maybe you should take better care of your vehicle?
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Yeah I know right? How silly of me to buy something with an undetectable manufacturing flaw.
By the way, is the bolt that holds the retaining cap on your universal joint torqued properly at your rear diff? I'm sure you've checked it...
 
Besides the countless times drivers tried to run me over on my bike...

In second grade, I choked on a tater tot. My friend, who was sitting across from me, was oblivious to my frantic gestures while he ate his sandwich. I finally got an aide to give me the Heimlich.

Also in elementary school, I almost drowned at a water park. The life guard pulled me out.
 
stormkroe said:
I did today for the first time ever. I was just leaving the gas station to hit the highway and the ball joint that connects the steering rack to the steering box on my 1-ton FELL OFF. It drug on the ground and forced my truck hard-left (which discriminating readers will realize is where the oncoming traffic is located). I was able to stop, I got out quickly and saw what had happened, I grabbed some rebar tie-wire and shoved the knuckle back onto the ball and tied it into place so I was able to pull out of the way slowly.
I hadn't reached highway speed yet obviously, or I don't think I'd be typing this right now.
Still processing it.

What about you guys? Ever put a down payment on the farm?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydBPm2KRaU
 
I was driving with some buddies in high school in a small pickup, all three of us crammed on the bench seat.

My buddy had to take a leak. I jokingly was saying he'll have to piss himself and I'm not stopping, but really I was looking for a place to pull over.

This was on a two-lane highway so we're going above 60mph.

My buddy must have really had to pee because he grabbed the steering wheel and pulled it to the side. The truck lost control and we did a full 180 spin. As we did this a semi-truck passed on the opposite direction. Fortunately we did the spin completely in our own lane.
 
Yeah when a co-worker of mine farted in my office today.

He ingested over 7000 calories in junk food and beer, then he ripped an air biscuit that would take out Superman in my office.
 
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