What's the most dangerous thing you have survived?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

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?

Anaesthetic. 2 times I have been put under and both times I have had to be revived.

Volkswagen polo encased in my rib cage.

Bird Flu

Several stomach ulcers (given 6 weeks to live)

My mother’s attempts at a murder suicide pact.

These are terrible

Mine isn't nearly as bad. I had cerebral malaria when I was 18 months and nearly didn't make it. Obviously I don't remember it at all but my parents certainly do!

Birth of dc1.

Sepsis

Passenger in a 70yo 2 seater plane that took off with a tail-wind downdraft. We were very lucky not to crash.

Resuscitated from near-drowning at 2yo.

~ 10 yrs ago I went to hospital with temp=41, in for 5 days, mystery infection, maybe that would have killed me without antiBs.

Probably a billion close calls on bicycle/in car that I am oblivious about.

I don't recall being scared about any of those. Close calls that DC have had were scary, though.

My sister repeatedly (on a near daily basis) for years trying to kill me.

Not sure if this was a close call or not. Stuck my fingers in a switched on light without a globe in it as a child. Got the shock of my life but pretty sure I didn’t tell my parents about it (they would have been furious) but to this day have no idea if it was actually something that could have done me serious damage or more like the equivalent of touching an electric fence.

About 30 years ago, Dh and I were driving through a particular area of Manchester. We were on the main thoroughfare going through the green light when a black merc or bmw with blacked out windows, came through from our right (through a red light) nearly hitting us. We swerved one way, so did this other car, so we swerved the other way, as did they. We drove past them and dh gestured he was a bit cross.
Next thing we know we are approaching a red light and there are loads of cars in front of us, when one of the guys from the car got out and ran up the road to us and began punching our car trying to break the windows (our doors were locked) and screaming at us to get out of the car! I screamed at dh "Get us out of here!" and he floored it. Where the other cars went I do not know but it was totally clear in front of us as we sped away. It wasn't until we were a good twenty mins drive away, that we had calmed down enough, that we realised they could have been drug dealers and could even have had guns. Scariest thing ever.

Passenger in a car, abroad, that joined a motorway via an exit slip road, we were going the wrong way in a tunnel with no central reservation - managed to dodge the oncoming traffic and shot up an entry slip the wrong way, dodging a huge 4x4 that was joining the motorway. Absolutely terrifying and thank god it didn’t end like that accident on the M40 a couple of weeks ago

Ex H with his hands round my throat asking for one good reason for him not to strangle me. I said I’d run out of cigarettes (he was a heavy smoker so this would have been “awful” for him) and he let me go to the all night garage to buy some, so I escaped.

Nearly drowned white water rafting

I was mugged and strangled in Bolivia... passed out and came round with no passport, money etc.
Childbirth twice was rough.
A scary bus ride in Peru on the edge of a mountain in a lot of rain slipping and sliding into the rainforest.

I’ve just remembered another incident my DF told me about. What I actually remembered is going up Ben Nevis with him and siblings and getting a boiled sweet stuck in my throat. What he remembered was turning round to look for me and I was gone. He said he found me on a ledge having decided to walk down the wrong side of the mountain. I was either 4 or 5.

Trigger warning: being drugged and raped at 18.

Complications leading to severe infection following emcs (preemie Dd1)

Severe haemorrhage during second trimester miscarriage of my twins. Midwife on ward next day said in 28 years she had seen one worse case and they didn't live to tell the tale (not what I needed to hear right then but meant kindly)

Tractor driver passed out (seizure) and crossed the road taking out several gate posts and fences stopped touching us (miraculously nobody hurt)

Falling off a cliff.

VintageFur Was this you? I remember it being on the news.

My charity recreated that, using the same vehicles. All you can see of the Clio from the cab is the top inch if the radio aerial.

My near misses: trying to eat an electrical cable aged 5. If it hadn't been 110v I'd be dead. Winch failure while gliding. Bike crash, where the oncoming traffic stopped just in time. Rock climbing accident, where the gear came right just before my unprotected head hit the floor.

My near misses are several, though I am still here today so maybe not so bad after all. Good job I am not a cat.

5 - choked on a gobstopper in the back of a car to Warwick Castle, turned blue and had to be resuscitated in a lay-by by my aunt.
9 - school bus skidded on ice, glanced and threw me into a grass bank breaking my arm and shoulder.

14 - crushed by horse rolling on top of me and suffered punctured lung.
18 - trampled by bull, suffered concussion and broken nose.
22 - shot at by sniper when serving and heard the round crack against the wall about three feet away.
32 - was about to close up the office one icy winter night around 6:30 and was told someone was trying to get through reception. Went to see what was going on and a young man with a hammer and large knife was attempting to break their way through the large very thin glass door. He went on to become a notorious police murderer with a whole life tarriff.
34 - went to assist (rather stupidly it turns out) a mugging in Brazil and had a gun held to my head, while my future was debated, luck it seems that I came away alive (most muggings I now know they normally kill you anyway).

42 - aneurysm that burst suddenly on a calm, midsummer Sunday morning in my kitchen, rushed to hospital and told I only had hours to live.
44 - leukaemia, 20% chance of survival, but still here.

The only one that really scared me was being crushed by a horse. I was on my own and really felt I was going to die.

A horse ran into my car in the summer. It's a miracle we all survived. The police at the scene said it's normally far worse

Lived in Málaga, right on the beach, went swimming every day. One stormy day, I decided to still go out but couldn’t get back in due to undercurrent. Bloody terrifying, I stopped struggling, let the currrent take me sideways and finally managed to escape.

Accepted lifts from lots of randomers whilst living abroad.

Hitchhiked for a charity event from Liverpool to Paris. Was locked in the back of some taciturn bloke’s van for hours. Horrifying.

Was knocked down by a horse and trampled, half my calf was torn off. Had she stood on my head, I’d be dead.

Car crash.

I was 19, and borrowed my mate’s knackered old banger. I was driving on a single-carriageway in the rain, when I lost control on a left-hand bend. I wasn’t even going particularly fast. The car spun, seemingly in slow motion across the other side of the road and crashed sideways into a wall. I wasn’t injured at all, but that was purely down to luck. If a lorry had been driving in the opposite direction at that moment, I would have been just another statistic.

Pre-eclampsia twice

Forgot one gem-once as a child choked on angel food cake and my dad turned me upside down held me by the legs and I spat it out-he must’ve had adrenaline ugh as I was 10 or 11 and petite but still!

Just recently I choked on a whole boiled baby potato. Put one in my mouth and it just got lodged in the back of my throat. After frantically running round the room like a headless chicken with the DC looking at me like this , DH walked in from work and did the old Heimlich luckily. I dread to think what would have happened if he hadn't. I was thinking 'Surely I don't go like this'. Completely off new potatoes now!

Meningococcal meningitis when I was 6. No sense of urgency like today.

The attack that never happened in London. When all of Oxford street was shut down, people were running and screaming, tube stations shut, people were crushed... my friends and I ran into the staff toilets in a bar and then walked the 4 miles home.

Terrifying