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What's the most dangerous thing you have survived?

365 replies

AbsentmindedWoman · 01/11/2018 15:34

Curious about all kinds of narrow squeaks, really. I find it fascinating because they can be dramatic or terrifying like a car accident or being held up at knifepoint, or something that happens in the blink of an eye and death/ serious damage is averted thanks to sheer good luck! I seem to have had a fair few of the latter experiences (falls off horses, best friend pulling me out of the way of a bus by a hair's breadth, etc) but no big event.

I love how tough human beings are and what we can survive. What's the maddest and baddest thing you have survived?

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Branleuse · 02/11/2018 18:51

getting hit by a car travelling at 40mph on a dual carriageway I was trying to cross with my mate when we were 12

NooNooHead · 02/11/2018 18:53

Being born 3 months early 37 years ago and getting the last incubator in the SCBU at the best hospital in London to be premature in (King’s College).

Losing quite a bit of blood during my c-section with my DD.

My good friend grabbing me after I nearly walked out in front of a car after I looked left, right but not left again outside the venue to a James Blunt gig in London.., God knows if i would had survived without serious injury.

Having a mild TBI there years ago, going through a dreadful time with post concussion syndrome and a breakdown then having a drug induced involuntary movement disorder. It’s still with me now. (Pah!)

There by the grace of God go I...

NooNooHead · 02/11/2018 19:00

Oh, and post pregnancy pre-eclampsia after I had undiagnosed gestational diabetes in my first pregnancy, and then last year an ectopic pregnancy that was caught in time then operated on.🙄😩

NooNooHead · 02/11/2018 19:00

*three years ago

PastaRedWine · 02/11/2018 19:04

Lightening striking just in front of me the day before I got married (was it a sign? 😆)

My first ever epileptic fit in a third world country, middle of nowhere, hours from any hospital or clinic, as it was getting dark and wild animals were around.

FuckKnuckle · 02/11/2018 19:27

Cycling along a Fen road, so completely flat fields on either side. The sky was very dark, and it was muggy. A bolt of lightning (with a simultaneous roll of thunder) hit the field to my left; then I felt odd and all the hairs on my bare arms stood on end; then a bolt of lightning hit the field to my right. I dread to think how close I was to getting fried.

And more recently, involved in quite a nasty 60 mph car accident. The trige nurse took me straight into a cubicle and left to put the wheelchair away; I remember sitting on the bed feeling increasingly hot and sick and wishing I could lie down...
The next thing I remember is waking up staring at the ceiling in Resus Bay 1 with a nurse trying and failing to get a blood pressure reading and two doctors with an arm each trying to find a vein to get a line into. I knew enough to realise what was going on, but I was strangely calm about it all - I remember laying there thinking, "Is this it, then? Is this where it ends? Ok then..."

OurMiracle1106 · 02/11/2018 22:11

Being stabbed by my ex husband. He also would strangle me til I would pass out and on one of these occasions he broke my collarbone whilst I was unconscious.

Been hit by a car as a result of an absence- I was unconscious on the road for a while as I didn’t come round until after both ambulance and police had arrived. I was then in and out for a number of hours and had to have trauma surgery on my ankle.

Fallen on number of horses. Dislocated my shoulder at 10 pulled muscles in my legs at 12 and Managed to trap some nerves in my back mesning I couldn’t walk for a week at age 13

High heart rate age 17. Ended up in Enduced coma for 2 days.

Tried to take my own life.

I believe I was being protected by those who I have loved and who have passed.

NotUmbongoUnchained · 02/11/2018 22:13

My ex beating me with a crow bar and slicing my wrists open.

LondonLassInTheCountry · 02/11/2018 22:16

Pneumonia
Kidney failure
Lung blood clot
Pleurisy
Meningitis
Swine flu and Complications of it

BiologyMatters · 02/11/2018 23:43

Childbirth. Also A pretty routine operation at 6 months old where I very nearly died.

Rememory · 03/11/2018 07:29

Car crash when I was five. Family members through the windscreen, lying on bonnet of car. Mum and sister knocked out and covered in blood in back seat. Me, not a mark and got myself out of the car. When the firemen and police arrived they couldn't believe anyone had survived. Drunk drivers hit us

BikeRunSki · 03/11/2018 07:36

I was 8 weeks early and was given 24 hours to live when I was born. I had my Last Rites from the hospital chaplain and everything. (1970).

Parachute jump where the parachute didn’t open properly.

Earlier this week the driver of car in front of me on the motorway lost control. He was towing a trailer with a van on, snaked across 2 lanes 4 times before rolling off into the verge. If I had been slightly less on the call and hadn’t slowed down as much as I did, when I did, I don’t think dd(7) and I would have gone home that day. The drivee who lost control and his passenger were walking wounded.

BikeRunSki · 03/11/2018 07:38

Uterine rupture and huge haemorrhage when dd was born. They knocked me out. DH was told that we might not both survive surgery. We both did.

VeryFoolishFay · 03/11/2018 07:50

I had a difficult time with DS2, pre eclampsia at 29 weeks but we're both fine. DH has had a charmed life; survived an attack by an angry elephant aged 9, one stop ahead on the tube during the 7/7 bombings and more recently, suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest unscathed - usually fatal or at least causing brain damage. He was at a festival with a group of nursing colleagues in a tent next door to St John's Ambulance! Guardian Angels on double overtime that night.

Mammyofasuperbaby · 03/11/2018 07:54

A bus Vs lorry crash. I was on the bus and a lorry hit us side on. Surprisingly the only injuries were a broken wrist and lots of whiplash. We were all very lucky that day.
Sudden onset pre eclampsia. I didn't get help syndrome but I confused the consultants as I should have. In thier own words, I should of had at least a stroke, a heart attack and total organ failure but I was sitting in bed chatting away to them.
I'm either extremely lucky or someone was watching over me and my baby that day

Bloomburger · 03/11/2018 07:58

A roof tile dropping off the roof and grazing the top of my head as I bent over to pick another fallen tile up.

Ending up in the front passenger footwell of a car that crashed when I was a baby, the person who was sitting in the passenger seat, whose lap I was on, went through the windscreen and was killed instantly.

PrincessJuanita · 03/11/2018 08:03

I tried to swim along the coastline in Mexico, from our beach to the next hotel's beach. Only the current carried me out to see and I ended up far out to sea with nobody around to raise the alarm. I got back eventually, sheer panic gave me strength I think but I was very badly sunburnt.

NicoAndTheNiners · 03/11/2018 08:03

Wow Bloomburger, the baby experience is awful, lucky you won’t be able to remember it I guess.

The roof tile story reminds me of a time in France when a massive block of compacted snow slid off a hotel roof 4 floors up and landed on my head as I stood at a bus stop. Knocked me out and missed toddler dd by inches.

StUmbrageinSkelt · 03/11/2018 08:08

Nearly fell down an open mine shaft in Central Otago NZ when I was 8. We were walking through an abandoned village. If my dad had not caught my arm I would have fallen.

pisner · 03/11/2018 08:12

Fell out of an upstairs window when I was a toddler, luckily fell onto a coal bunker with a squishy tarmac roof. My grandad was supposed to be looking after me but turned his back for a second . He was so distraught my mum never shouted or anything .

Roomba · 03/11/2018 08:20

I've told this story before on MN. I drove off a cliff on a moped in Greece - a lorry came round a hairpin bend on the wrong side of the road in the dark and I was forced off the edge! I ended up hanging upside down from a tree 1/3 of the way down. The big backpack I had on saved my life as the straps got caught in the tree branches and it fortunately held my weight! Because it was pitch black, I wa absolutely convinced that I was in fact dead for a minute or two (could have been seconds, I don't know, but it felt like a long time). I was very confused over why I was still thinking if I was dead, until I heard shouting and my eyes adjusted and I realised I was still in the land of the living, thank god.

n0ne · 03/11/2018 10:24

Got chased into a well (a sheer-sided deep hole with water at the bottom) by a billy goat when I was 4 or so. No adults around, started sinking into the mud at the bottom, fortunately they noticed the dog barking and found me.

Fell down drunk in the road, car swerved around me. Also ran out in front of a car as a kid, guy stopped just in time.

DV relationship, that was the scariest

pollysproggle · 03/11/2018 10:28

I fell off a balcony into the Thames, central London, middle of the night.
I managed to swim to the side and climb up a ladder.
At the time it wasn't a massive deal to me but as I've aged the memory turns my stomach. I was very lucky!

mugalug · 03/11/2018 10:28

Plane crash!

Whatamuddleduck · 03/11/2018 11:14

Whilst travelling got a it carried away and accepted the offer of a moonlight boat ride to see crocodiles. I was with a complete stranger who was taking about marrying me when I realised that the ‘shiny rock’ all around the canoe with a moter were crocodile eyes.
Happily the man accepted that I would quite like to go back and didn’t chuck me in.
Despite falls from horses, diving incidents, a fall whilst climbing and all kind of other things, that was the time that I thought I’d had it!