I almost died in the stupidest way

[Chloefairydust]

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?

Can we please get back to how half an onion in a room will absorb viruses. How exactly? Does it have to be peeled?

and how should we invest garlic to attack a cold?

This has absolutely finished me off as I read this as your family and the owners all stood around you shouting goodbye as you slowly expired in front of them.

😂'I'll admit not but it's no surprise as there's seems to be little 'credited' research into natural remedies (probably as it's not profit making) so that's a standard line .
Arnica is widely used nowadays despite homeopathy being eye rolled.

I'm not saying it's definitive garlic fights a cold......but it's not stupid to think it might.

I remember too that the covid vaccine didn't do what we thought either. Science is always evolving and I try to stay open minded as much as I can be because what we're told today is likely to have changed in 20yrs! I try not to label anything as stupid.
Profit driven pharmaceutical companies aren't exactly the most trustworthy and moral so I admit I am cynical there.

I'm be happy to dose myself with garlic although chopped up given OPs experience😂!! No harm in it anyway!

First date with hubby almost electrocuted myself attempting to fish out a crumpet with a fork from the toaster. He had to rugby tackle me!

Mine aren’t as funny as some of these corkers.

Aged about ten I was nearly decapitated by a sledge. I was lucky that it hit me above the eyes and I gently rolled unconscious down the slope to rest against a tree.

Early nineties, fancy new bar, Mantos, in the Gay Village. First really fancy one and it was the place to be seen. However , not the place to be seen walking into a plate glass window instead of the door. The shame as I was picked off the floor by some very butch lesbians.

I’ve got more, a lot of mine seemed to happen on holiday or in a, ahem, recreational setting.

Also took up roller skating but couldn't stop. I forgot this whilst gathering speed down a large steep hill so I launched myself at a tree and knocked myself out cold.

My colleagues wife choked to death eating an apple. There has also been a couple of local cases of people in restaurants choking and dying.

I was walking my dog. There was a sudden heavy downpour. I was wearing flat open sandals that had a leather sole. The effect of the rainwater getting inbetween the soles of my feet and my sandals turned it into a 'dancing on ice' situation, and not in a good way. My feet lost all grip. I smashed my head into the pavement, narrowly missing a concrete bollard. The sandals went into the bin that day.

To make it worse, I'd already smashed face first into the pavement walking the greyhounds I then owned several years previously. One of them was scared of other dogs. They were both rescues. He went into lunging forward mode as a dog came towards us and the other one thought, 'This is fun', and lunged with him. I went down. Ended up in A and E, but the stone in my cheek must have not shown up on the x-ray. A couple of weeks later it started emerging and I ended up pulling it out with tweezers.

In short, don't have dogs - they'll kill you 😐🤔

Firstly, almost choking to death on a garlic clove, meant to ward off viruses, sounds positively medieval OP. Have you seen the second episode of the current series of Ghosts? I think you’d have empathy for Annie 😉. Secondly, I apologise for lmfao at some of these near death experiences, but some of them are truly stupendous. Finally, my own contribution, not me but an ex boyfriend - went to help a friend decorate their newly ‘converted’ loft (1990s - not building regs compliant clearly) went up in the loft space, laid groundsheets to catch paint splashes. Forgot groundsheets covered loft hatch. Stepped back, fell through said loft hatch. Broke one leg and both arms. Lucky to not be deceased frankly.

WTF , garlic up a cats arse 🤣🤣 , laughing out loud here

I nearly got run over by a very large truck as a teen, it was going down a steep hill, no way it could have stopped. Luckily my friend pulled me back. I've actually had quite a few close encounters with vehicles, mostly in my teens and early 20s. My DC are all ND and I've thought at times having read the diagnostic criteria when my DC were being assessed, that I might have the inattentive ADD type of ADHD.

@Chloefairydust similar. Had an awful migraine, took some soluble pain killers that went down the wrong way, like you I was hone alone and I thought I was going to drown somehow. Still remember it vividly 25 years later. Remember thinking how ironic ‘death by painkillers’ 😳🙄

As kids my brother and I used to bite off bits of sponge in the bath and spit them at each other. One lodged in my throat, I managed to cough it up but remember gasping for air. Didn’t do that again.

I was dating an awful man and leapt out the car to say goodbye to him, left the handbrake off and the car began to roll down the hill. To give credit to him he leapt in to turn pull up the handbrake. I was not in immediate danger but dread to think how others might have been.

I was playing with my friend’s son a week after my mother had died traumatically, and he pinched my bottom very hard and painfully; I was wearing high top trainers and I fell over backwards and smacked my head on a brick a wall - was off work for months recovering.

Be careful everyone!

I was taking an escalator to the 3rd floor of a store and decided to stick my head over the side to look down, I was almost decapitated by a solid acrylic barrier. Hate thinking about that.

A couple of near death experiences

when I was around 10 I choked on an ice cube, I was panicked couldn’t breathe my grandad sat and watched. My Nan came in and started trying to help me- my grandad told her to leave me ‘it’ll melt’ it did but I was terrified and in all honesty lost a lot of trust around my granddad.

driving on a dual carriageway- had recently had my car MoT’d and part of the work was new brake lines/pipes.
got over taken by a knob in a bmw that had been tailgating me for ages. Decided I’d put my foot down - accelerator got stuck.
i was frantically trying to free the pedal and I told my partner that I couldn’t slow down. He thought I was joking until I just have looked really panicked.
we are speeding up im trying frantically to get the car to slow down I tried dropping gears- thought about putting into neutral but I had cars around me and a truck ahead of me and I didn’t want to cause an accident. The back of the truck in front of me was getting closer and closer and I was really getting scared. I kept digging with my foot at the pedal- my car is over revving and sounding like it’s gonna blow up.
after what felt like an hour but was prob 2 mins I got the pedal free and pulled into a lay-by and cried.
we were 300 miles away from home- I’m the only driver and I’ve got to get us back safe. Pulled into a pub car park and asked to borrow a scissors - I cut the carpet out of my footwell - the accelerator was sticking on the edge of it after not being put back correctly by the mechanic.

and last one.
I crashed my bicycle and my helmet split in two- I had no memory of the crash- and the people who witnessed it thought I was dead. If I hadn’t had an helmet on I might not be here

Once I jumped at nigh in deep water - few meters deep.
I was being curious to see how it feels to dive in darkness.

Turned out to be a rather stupid idea - without visual clues it was impossible to know which way is up and which way is down. Didn't look good, but I was lucky.

Before I had a chance to get to the serious panicking stage, I touched the bottom and just pushed myself up to the surface.

There were other people around, but they couldn't have done anything to help me.

That would've been a really stupid way to die.

I remember some really unusual cases.
There was a sky-diving accident that happened not because the chute did not open but because it was opened too early - before getting under the base of the cloud.
The unlucky girl didn't weight much and the ascending air current inside the cumulonimbus lifted her few kilometres up. A cumulonimbus is the kind of cloud that produces hail.
By the time she was no longer being dragged upward, she was inside a big bloc of ice that dropped like a stone to the ground.

Another case happened some time after WW II in Napoli, in Italy. Someone was keeping a pig on their balcony, and feeding it food waste. The balcony was old and the pig was getting heavier and heavier. One day the balcony cracked and the heavy pig fell straight onto the head of a passer-by. Killed by a falling pig - that is really a stupid way to die.!

I've trodden on a rake and been donnnnged on the head 3 times. Stupid, but not death.

I did however choke on a pickled onion as a teen... Walked out to BBQ wide eyed and struggling, Mum laughed at me saying bit too vinegary? And walked off!
It went down eventually leaving me gasping and wheezing.
She still laughs about it now 😐

Oh my god

A couple of years ago I choked on a piece of meat, no not that type of meat.

I was at a barbecue and I got stuck. I stayed calm and poured a drink, it didn't move.

Obviously I dislodged or I'd be typing this whilst sitting on a cloud. It was so scary!

@anotherscroller about 500 years ago when I was at secondary school, I dropped my box of cigs down the toilet, took them out, dried them and the worst thing to happen was I smoked them all.
You poor thing, that must have been awful for you.

@Kona84 I had that happen! It was hideous! Just me in the car and the car mat had a hole in it and Caught the accelerator. Felt like I was going to sue. I eventually got the bastard thing away by sort of rubbing my foot aggressively against it. Pulled into a services and binned it.

Aussie dark humour public safety messaging. With an insanely catchy song.

BTW, get well soon, OP.

I once set fire to my own hair while trying to light a cigarette, what made me feel extra awkward was that I was standing directly outside the fire station at the time

I used to fall asleep in the bath..
And i almost got run over because i had both my earphones in..

I'm so very sorry