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I almost died in the stupidest way

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Chloefairydust · 03/10/2022 16:14

So I woke up with the worst of sore throats, and I’m the kind of person who when I come down with a cold, it literally drags on for weeks and weeks and normally leads to a chest infection.

That is until I discovered the gross but effective cure of raw garlic. I read somewhere that if you swallow a small whole raw small garlic clove with a glass of water that it cures the common cold. It actually does work as well. I have been doing this for the past couple of years.

Until this morning, and somehow this garlic clove was just the right shape to get lodged in my throat. I couldn’t breathe or swallow or make a sound. I was home alone and sooo frightened. Somehow I managed to hit my own chest with my head facing down and spat out the offending garlic. So I almost died in the stupidest of ways….

I think now on I’m going to chop the garlic into tiny pieces to cure a cold.

But thought I would warn people who might be as stupid as me not to kill yourself with garlic 🧄

If you have had a near death experience in a similarly stupid way please share to make me feel less of an idiot?

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justasking111 · 03/10/2022 21:42

Got a fish bone stuck in my throat as a child ditto a pineapple cube sweet. I never touched another cube. Didn't touch fish for years but now enjoy it. However, whenever I do eat fish I find the bones by taking tiny pieces at a time. OH fish is always free of bones. He thinks I'm a bone magnet 😀

Emotionalsupportviper · 03/10/2022 21:49

Just reading these I wonder how many of us managed to live long enough learn how to use the internet . . .

Tarkan · 03/10/2022 21:49

DH won't let me do DIY in the house after the time I hung a calendar on the wall and asked him if it was weird that the picture hook I used sounded like it was buzzing. I'd managed to put it right beside electrical wires and was probably millimetres away from electrocuting myself.

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CoastalWave · 03/10/2022 21:58

oh god too many to mention in my 40 + years of living!

Most notable - tripped over my laptop cable - grabbed the chair to stop me falling but just pulled the chair with me as my head slammed into the door architrave.

Knocked myself out - came round covered in blood and in a lot of pain. Home alone.

Had a near drowning experience - which was especially stupid as we had gone out in calm water without a buoyancy aid (experienced sailors and decent swimmers) - squall came out of nowhere and we ended up in a full blown surfing bay getting hammered by enormous waves with no break inbetween.

Choked on some green mange tout which basically got stuck in my throat but out of reach - that was especially bloody scary.

FishFingerSandwiches4Tea · 03/10/2022 22:06

I've just been killed by Buddha

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Pineappleflowers · 03/10/2022 22:08

Burnamer · 03/10/2022 16:24

I think the stupidest thing might be believing that garlic cures a viral infection.

it must have been scary though - hope you’re ok.

It’s been proven over and over again by medical researchers that garlic has antiviral properties and inhibits some viruses like flu and bronchitis. No need to be so dismissive about something you clearly don’t understand.

paintitallover · 03/10/2022 22:10

It has, @Pineappleflowers . I've heard that often too, from people who use it .

MillicentBystander2022 · 03/10/2022 22:13

I found an unexploded ww2 mortar bomb the other week. I thought it looked old and cool. Decided to put it in my pocket, drive it home and look up what it was when I got back.

Phone call to the police was weird. "Err, hello. I have a bomb in my car..."

The carpark was emptied and cordoned off, MOD turned up and bomb was exploded in a field down the road.

Notaflippinclue · 03/10/2022 22:17

Hit by a bud - weiser maybe?

Olivetreebutter · 03/10/2022 22:30

Don't know if anyone has said, but if you're home alone and start choking the absokute best thing you can do (assuming you don't live in the back of beyond with no near neighbours) is run out if your house. Get yourself in the street as quickly as possible and bang on cars, doors, windows.

LeaveIt · 03/10/2022 22:31

MillicentBystander2022 · 03/10/2022 22:13

I found an unexploded ww2 mortar bomb the other week. I thought it looked old and cool. Decided to put it in my pocket, drive it home and look up what it was when I got back.

Phone call to the police was weird. "Err, hello. I have a bomb in my car..."

The carpark was emptied and cordoned off, MOD turned up and bomb was exploded in a field down the road.

Blimey, how big’s your pocket?

IcakethereforeIam · 03/10/2022 22:33

I thought you should run onto the corner of a table or kitchen counter?

SilverLiningPlaybook · 03/10/2022 22:33

This thread is morbidly fascinating.

Ledkr · 03/10/2022 22:36

I choked in the library and was terrified. I was coughing and tears were streaming down my face and saw the librarian walking towards me and thought "thank god she's going to help me"
As she gor to me she said "just letting you know we close in 5 minutes for lunch" 😖

mamabear715 · 03/10/2022 22:37

I had an awful time having my twins. Won't go into it all (it left me with PTSD for 18 months.) Care was absymal in hospital, but some kind visitor had brought my fave, massive bar of Aero! Lying flat in my back chomping it down (no-one had thought to bring me any actual FOOD) & started choking.. it did occur to me how hilarious it would be if I died on my favourite choccie.. :-0

Cats23 · 03/10/2022 22:39

I tried M&S percy pig sweet last year.
Got stuck in my throat.
Our M&S is next to Hospital, I actually started walking towards the A&E full on choking!
Managed to doslodge it at last min.
Stupid pig!

Changechangychange · 03/10/2022 22:46

Soubriquet · 03/10/2022 16:38

I as a kid, stupidly went down a water slide face first, with a rubber ring around my waist.

Landed in the water, obviously head down and I couldn’t wiggle out of the ring.

I was very slowly drowning. Had to be rescued by the life guard

I did something similar diving in a dry suit. Had completed the dive and taken my fins, weight belt and cylinder off, and walked back into the water to pick something up off the bottom, in about waist-deep water, while my friends were loading up the van.

I bent over from the waist, all the air rushed up into my feet, and I ended up floating head-down, unable to touch the bottom to right myself (in retrospect I should have tried a forward roll). I managed to scull, upside down, into shallower water and get my head up, but it was so scary. Have never liked dry suits.

Inyournewdress · 03/10/2022 22:46

Burnamer · 03/10/2022 16:24

I think the stupidest thing might be believing that garlic cures a viral infection.

it must have been scary though - hope you’re ok.

garlic does have anti viral properties I think so it would probably help

MrsTumblebee · 03/10/2022 22:47

IcakethereforeIam · 03/10/2022 22:33

I thought you should run onto the corner of a table or kitchen counter?

I’d have to be on my knees for the table or cupboard to hit me in the right spot and I’m not sure I could move fast enough on my knees to help myself. 😂

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 03/10/2022 22:49

I nearly choked on a piece of garlic bread. I panicked so badly, luckily my husband was there to pound me on the back.

Hope you’re feeling better now.

BloodyMabel · 03/10/2022 22:50

I choked on the mint they give you at the end of your meal in a restaurant, the worst part was my family knew the owners so they were all loudly saying goodbye while I couldn’t breathe! I was so embarrassed I luckily managed to cough it up before they noticed.

Dou8hnuts · 03/10/2022 22:51

The only near death experience I’ve had was from pieces of grated carrot you get in some bags of salad from supermarkets. It’s happened twice now and each time my partner has had to SLAP my back hard to dislodge it. I look for the flatter pieces if I can but then sometimes I forget and just order online. There’s a bag in the fridge but my partner is in hospital so I daren’t eat any while he’s not there to rescue me. Salads can be deadly.

Gilly0812 · 03/10/2022 22:53

My “guardian”, as she was at the time, (I was a ward of the court) used to shove a garlic clove up the cat’s ass believing it would cure all ills (of the cat, not the world I mean).
back to topic and I almost choked to death on a skittle sweet. Can’t eat them to this day.

MillicentBystander2022 · 03/10/2022 23:00

@LeaveIt it wasn't that big, about the size of a spray can.

Daftasabroom · 03/10/2022 23:06

On a slightly different note I've been struck by lightening - twice.