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?

van not can!

Oh and always dry your hands before opening and resetting the immersion heater cap, 3kw is a heck of a belt.

Garlic does actually work. I ate a bulb after DH tested positive for Covid and all I had was a mild headache! (Zero vaxxes). No sore throat, no cold symptoms...nothing really!

@Marmunia1066 did you test positive?

In March of this year my aunt was at home with her husband; he has dementia and Parkinson’s disease, and she was making a roast dinner for them both. After checking the meat was cooked right she inhaled some of the beef, ran around into the lounge where my uncle was sat and he was too weak to help her. He tried giving her water, smacking her on the back but it was too far down her throat. So so shocking and sad. He is so traumatised by it. After this happened I’ve been so wary about eating meat.

@Burnamer in fact it does. It is one of the most potent natural anti microbial remedies. Scientifically proven.

Ok, that was not near death like experience but awfully awful, painful and hilarious. I was about 18, living on my own as a student. Well, not exactly on my own, just shared an apartment with a friend, but I was living away from my parents. They would come sometime to visit me, to bring me food, check on me etc. So, my Dad called me earlier that day and told me he’d be coming over in an hour or so. I said, ok, and went on to do my stuff - tidy up my room etc. Then I thought I’d do a quick tidy up of my bikini line as had a date later that night. So, I was in a bathroom with an epilator doing my thing. I tried to be quick as I knew my Dad would arrive soon. So, I don’t know how, but the son of a btch epilator somehow jammed and pinched my inner fcking labia! 😩Ok, I can laugh about it, 20 years later but oh boy! I was sweating and shaking trying to pull it off but it world not come off! It must have gone for some time as the doorbell rang, it was my father! I tried to ignore it, thinking he’d fck off but I could tell he was in panic as he obviously knew I was expecting him! The door bell was ringing non stop! So, I had to put my underpants on, with my labia that had gone purple by then, still inside the fcking epilator. I could barely walk! I had opened the door (I was wearing a bathrobe, obviously!) and my father could tell something was not right. But how could I admit that underneath my clothes my “virginity” was on fire! Jesus Christ, it was so bad, such an awkward situation, I never ever want to re-live it! I mumbled something and disappeared back into a barhroom, limping…It took my a while to free myself and I was this close to actually shouting for help! So, as you can imagine, I never ever touched an epilator from that day on, on my bikini. Waxing is the only option for me! To this day I wonder how lucky I was to have escaped the visit to A&E. Let alone explaining to my Dad!

When I was a child (about 7 years old) my next door neighbour and I decided to have a tug of war game. She was a year older than me and quite a lot bigger. We got a skipping rope and lined ourselves up in the garden with my Dad’s mature rose bushes as the middle line. As it was a beautiful sunny day we were both in our swimsuits in the garden. I am sure you can imagine what happened next and I lost. I can still remember clearly my mum tweezing the thorns out of me as I sat crying at the side of the sink. I even had thorns wedged up beneath my toenails. What an idiot!! That was just one of the stupid things I did as a child. There are honestly too many to put in here I am embarrassed to say 😂😂

OMG - the epilator story made me laugh out loud. The best and the worst 🤣🤣

I once exploded a Pyrex baking pan with two beautiful roast chickens and stuffing in them, by placing it on a hob I didn’t realize I’d left on. Shards of glass all over me and the poor chickens looked like porcupines. Worst of all I did it in front of our dinner party guests. We had to order Chinese.

Choked on a hard mint at a very busy train station. Really awful and scary. Thing is, I was too embarrassed to flap my arms about and gesture for help. Nearly died from being so British and not wanting to make a fuss.

this.

not a story of stupidity but I had to heimlich myself over the back of a dining chair when I inhaled a boiled sweet when I was alone in the house....very scarey

The common cold is a virus - garlic has exactly zero effect on it. But caught in your throat a clove of garlic could kill you, whereas the common cold won't. JFC how could you be so stupid?

My sister did a very similar thing. She (stupidly) never kept the cap on her inhaler. Feeling wheezy, she reached in her bag and took her inhaler……..which had the squished foil from a dairy milk bar in the mouth piece.
She managed to dislodge it by whacking herself with an umbrella from the same bag.
Always keep the cap on your inhaler.

The proper cure is a clove of garlic and to chug a litre of fresh apple juice straight afterwards.
I have underlying health issues which causes me to kind of fog out and walked out into the middle of the road luckily it was at 2:30am and there were no cars but a police car did see it happen and asked me if I was okay.
I got given some amazing food by my neighbours once when I was about 14 and they'd forgotten to remove the string from around it and I didn't notice it so I ended up with string halfway down my throat and choking awfully on it.
I slipped on black ice, tried to keep my balance, slipped multiple times trying to keep my balance, heard a crunch as my knee gave way and I skidded into the road, luckily no cars again but I was in so much pain it took me nearly 3 hours to get where I was supposed to be going and my boss sent me to the hospital after finding out what had happened.
I was walking to work recently and super tired because my toddler is going through sleep regression so I had 2-3 hours sleep, had a cat basically run into me and make the most horrible noise I've ever heard from an animal that scared me so much I thought I was having a heart attack, my voice went all funny when I told the cat that it scared me.
Had a car clip me when I was cycling to work.
I'm beginning to see a pattern here relating to going to work 😂

I was eating a sandwich of chicken but there was a bone in I did not know till I swallowed it got stuck down my throat I ended getting plain bread tried to chew it on I ended swallowing the bone.it made my throat sore for few days

Why didn't you just let go of your ankles? 🤣🤣 cracking up at the image of this...sorry

I managed to do similar with armbands! I was about 10 and wanted to see what would happen if I put one of my younger siblings' armbands on my ankles, thinking I would probably just float around like those pictures of people in the Dead Sea. I did not, I flipped upside down and hit my head on the bottom (it was the shallow end) then was too disorientated to find the surface. I was really panicking that I was going to drown in the bloody shallow end of the pool!

Omg @7vio I started laughing at bikini line, your poor muff.

This thread is an absolute roller coaster. From the tragic and terrifying to the pant wettingly funny. Sometimes in the same post!

A couple of people on the first few pages have posted medical journals with evidence garlic does have an anti viral effect. Stops the key in the lock thing they do with cells.

I have done similar with my epilator, except I was epilating my armpits and the epilator somehow trapped some skin… OMG the pain!… I can only imagine how much worse it would be in your labia 😣 I’m crossing my legs right now thinking of it … Also extra cringey that your dad was there lol 😂

Some of these are hilarious 😂 I don’t have one to add as my brushes with death are all boring genuine accidents or medical.

Im also finding the continuing debate on how effective garlic is incredible. I can’t believe after 16 pages there is more to say on the antiviral properties of garlic and posters can agree to disagree and enjoy?! the thread.

You’re wrong.

I thought Pyrex was heat proof?!

Years ago I used to take a short cut home from the pub across a building site. It was new builds but only my block of flats had been completed and they had half built a bridge across the canal. You had to jump off the last bit of bridge. A rusty metal pole went in the bottom of my jeans and out
the top leaving me stuck to it. but an inch or so different I probably would have been inpaled 😱