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Poll: Near death experiences or illnesses?

hzl eyed grl

hzl eyed grl

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Who here has had a near death experience or been very ill and was supposed to not make it through?

When I was 18, as a lot of you know, I found out I had a brain tumor. When first diagnosed, I supposedly had two years to live. It was later re-diagnosed and I now have only God knows how long. If you have experienced something like that, did it change your views about life/death? Anything?
 
I was skating at night and crossed the street. I looked and saw know cars and skated across and big/busy road. All of a sudden out of no where comes a car going at least 40. I pull my head back and saved my self. If I didn't I would of probably been decapitated;:frown:
 
when i was about 5 i was diagnosed with some kind of cancer. i was supposed to have surgery to take out the tumors but the day of the surgery all traces of teh cancer mysteriously disappeared. the doctors claimed it was a &quot;miracle&quot; but i was too little to reallly understand what was happening or for it to have an effect on me.
 
Wow. Sometimes it just makes you (me rather) wonder what my purpose is here since it obviously wasn't my time to go then. You know?
 
a near death expereience would be when i farted and took a wiff of it, i fainted, and thought i wasn't gonna wake up. 😀
 
i was born a premie, could've died at birth. have had several operations, could've died on the table

i was knocked unconscious, could've been some brain damage due to trauma 'cause i was quite young.
 
When I was 8 I got attacked by a Pitbull.
He hopped a fence and jumped at me and tried to latch on to my face,
but only grazed it. Then it jumped back up and latched on to my right arm and started dragging me all over the road, completly jacking up my arms and back. Finally the owner comes and somehow gets it off.
I had a 2x2 inch hole in my arm down to the bone.
Losing blood fast, family thought it was all over. So happens my aunt is in for a visit for once every 5 years.
But we made it in time to the hospital, and Im pretty sure im still alive.

Had the usual other scares of just avoiding getting hit by a bus, car, falling off buildings.
 
It was once thought that I had Lieukemia (sp?). A couple of my lymph nodes behind my ear and on my head were a little swollen or something.

The blood sample said that I didn't. So far, it's still a No. :frown::disgust:😕😱
 
hmm living with my mother. . .
but nothing worse than that, but i have a cousin who had cancer, she had something the size of a grape fruit growing from a membrene near her bladder. it was a bone cancer though, but it wasn't growing off a bone. It was removed, and she went to the dominican republic for a magnetic thearapy that killed the rest off, and she's right now planning her wedding. . that was 3 yrs ago. . . last month they found another one; same boney cancer, but not on a bone, went to another homepathic type clinic, got it treated, doing real good. still planning her wedding.
🙂😛😀😉
 
When I was around 8 or so, I fell into the deepend of my grandmothers pool and drowned. Swallowed a ton of water and lost consciousness. Luckily my cousin (9 yrs old) saw me and pulled me out. He didnt know cpr, but after he pulled me out and laid me down, I eventually started to breathe on my own.

I have others, but that is the most vivid. Looking up at the sky through a foot or two of water, then losing consciousness, only to wake up a minute or two later along the side of the pool.
 
Although I believe in an 'afterlife' and that our souls will last for eternity, I always thought that seeing and hearing things while very near death was bulsh!t. Seeing angels, or bright lights, talking to long dead relatives, out of body...you get the idea. It was only a trick your mind played on you...or so I thought..

Well, a couple of years ago my Father was near death. Due to many years of smoking cigarettes, his lungs a paper thin. He coughed once a blew a hole in a lung. Luckily he was already in intensive care for a lung puncture than involved him falling down. Everything was under control and the Nurse turned out the lights. He reached up a noticed his face was bloating...luckily before he went to sleep because if he had, it would have been the last time! He called the Nurse and she delared an emergency. It was very close! The air he was taking in was escaping his lungs through the 'blurb' and was in the tissue between the skin and muscle!

He literally looked like a swollen Buda! They put him on drugs and a respirator. The idea was to prevent his own body muscles from doing the work of breathing. The air under his skin was to escape through his skin. This treatment brought him as close to death as probably is possible.

Now I always blamed the near death experience as a trick of the mind. We really know precious little about how it really works.

My Father walked amoung all kinds of people in his 'dream.' At one point an angel beckoned to him. He just knew that if he went it meant never coming back to the living world. He could describe every detail! And yes, he could look down and see himself and the doctors and nurses.

Now I can be sure that I don't know...

BTW, STOP SMOKING! I've lost 5 uncles and a granfather to tobacco. My father and 4 more uncles are not far behind. Do not put your family through this...stop now!

Being young and smoking has already brought you nearer death than you could ever know..

 
When I was ten months old, I caught spinal meningitis. I was in a coma for ten days, and the doctors were not sure if I would ever be normal, even if I survived. But a friend of the family prayed over me, and told my mom I would be fine. But she did say I am worried about her eyes. I woke up the next day with my one eye rolled up in my head, but otherwise fine.

Tominator: I am in the process of quitting right now. It has been three days, and I haven't touched one yet, woohoo! 😀
 
and the doctors were not sure if I would ever be normal

And the doctor's are still out on that one! 🙂


And forgot to mention on my prior post that while unconscious I was seeing everything that was going on from a vantage point of about 25 feet in the air and about 10 feet back from where I was.
 
I had a seizure, took a fall, hit my head, and went into a coma for more than a week. I was on a respirator with tubes everywhere. Eventually when I came to, I had lost some memories of the recent past, and had newly found memories of events in my childhood I had completely blocked out. I also had a weird &quot;dream&quot; that seemed incredibly real. This was during my coma or right before I slipped into the coma. Time seems to blend together in those things, especially when you're unconscious for most of it. I've had several seizures, and been deeply unconscious several times, but this was really different.


Nearly dying and being practically dead for a week kept alive by machines really did change my life. I quit med school, business school (was taking them together), and went to go enjoy my life. Still doing it 🙂.
 
Lot's of close calls. I'm glad that all of you survived. Sometimes when I feel that all is horrible and I've got it bad, I hear other stories like this and it reminds me that I'm not the only one. People have/had it waaaaaaay worse than me. I guess I should learn to count my blessings. 😀
 
i forgot to mention that i also almost drowned in my grandfather's pool when i was really little. i was riding my tricycle around the pool and i took a corner too fast and fell in...luckily my grandfather noticed and swam in and rescued me. i remember looking up and seeing the blue water all around me. but that's all...don't remember anything else. anyways, did u know that in some hospitals they have things written on the tops of the cabinets in the rooms so if somebody has a near death experience and claims they were &quot;floating above their body&quot; or whatevers they can prove it by saying if they can read what was on top. i never finished watching the show to be able to tell if anybody actually was able to read the messages tho but i thought it was interesting.
 
and the doctors were not sure if I would ever be normal

And the doctor's are still out on that one!


Now Frenchie, with some of the things you ramble on about sometimes, do you really want to point fingers and call people weird? 😉
 
weezergirl, I've never heard that they do that in some hospitals. That is cool though. I've wondered before if people really do or if they just think or dream it or whatever cuz they are near death. Very interesting. 🙂

Hey, if GF isn't normal I really don't want to even think about what I am. 😱 Heehee
 


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Cablegod,

Me too. 🙂

Actually, I had a seizure (low blood sugars) a few months ago; that was the closest I've ever been to death. Scared the hell out of me.

The weirdest feeling was having me think something and having my muscles not respond at all. Like in a dream; I was completely powerless.

Rob
 
Me and 2 friends were on a bike ride one day when we decided to do some rock climbing. We headed to the nearest cliff, full of dirt and concrete blocks from old buildings. Anyway, we were coming down (the hard route), and got stuck between very slippery sand. Underneath us were big huge rocks (it was very high, no gears or anything to help us). Anyway, we came down half way slipping and sliding.

We found a small shoelace in the dirt that we used to get across the sandy area. 2 of my friends went first. It looked strong enough. I grabbed on to it, and tried to go across when it suddenly broke off. I was sliding down the cliff at an increasing speed. I put my foot down hard trying to break on the sandy/rocky dirty, and stopped around an inch from the edge of the cliff. After that, the route was easy cause of the bigger rocks. Anyway, we took the easy route back up...

Each of us had a life and death experience up in that cliff? we had some pretty interesting discussions up there.

EDIT - Blah! Too many grammer/spelling mistakes there to correct. Damn.. the story don't fit the thread... oh well.
 
The only thing I had that was near death was my birth. I was originaly one of two but my twin passed away in the womb. He was not filtered out properly so I was born with a lung infection. I spent a lot of my early life in the hospital. I took meication for it until I was about 7.
 
Not quite on the same subject, but I've definitely &quot;lost time&quot; before... I had surgery earlier this summer. I remember going into the ER and being on a gurney around 9AM. Next thing I know, I wake up and it's the next morning. I found out later that the surgery was at 5pm, and that I was actually fairly lucid until then. I even supposedly talked to several doctors, but I have no memory of anything!

The last time I went in for surgery back in '92, the same thing happened... they gave me anesthesia, and between then and when I dropped off, I don't remember a thing...

Weird stuff... 🙂

Dave
 
Back In 1994, a few friends and I were working on a movie set; the movie was Water World (on the Big Island of Hawaii). We frequently visited the local bars and got pretty missed up, and would do some crazy stuff afterward.

One night a few of us (4 of us I think) decided to do a beer run, this was after a long night at a local night club (it was about 3am). Anyway, to make a long story short a few of us decided to lie on the car roof (not a good idea folks), and yes I was one of the few. The next thing I remember was waking up in a Hospital next to my friend who looked like Frankenstein?s brother. I was also in pretty bad shape, I felt like how my friend looked. A few days later I was finally able to talk to where my mom and girlfriend were able to understand me, the Doctor asked me if I could remember anything about that night. I could not remember I single thing, but what he told me next is what changed my life forever. He said that they lost me for a few minutes, and he really thought I wasn?t coming back.

I later found out what really happened, I found out I fell off of the car roof when the driver made a sudden turn, and my friend who was laying next to me in the Hospital fell of because he tried to stop me from falling off. But instead he fell with me, and I then found out we were traveling at 40MPH, when we both fell on to the asphalt. But the worst part about this whole Incident, what I found out later is that on the Big Island they stop selling beer at 11pm.😱

Anyway, that?s my near death experience; I don?t talk about this really. I feel really embarrassed about it, I should have been smarter then that (but at that time I was a young (dumb) man and didn?t have my son yet, and if you have a son or daughter then you know how much they can change a person).
 
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