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?

I once hoovered up the end of my scarf and strangled myself, managed to eventually switch the machine off but was panicking about 'dying' so stupidly

@Burnamer garlic does have antiviral properties—for example, see this
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32836826/
I find it is best not to call an idea or statement stupid until you have researched the topic.

I’ve done the explosive Pyrex dish too but mine was due to brain fog while with 5 month old twins. DH was overseas. I forgot that Pyrex can’t go in the hob. Luckily I decided to cook my dinner while the babies were napping. The glass, while it missed me, would have hit the babies as it all flew across the kitchen to were they had been crawling.

Nowhere near as scary as other posters, but I hope it makes someone laugh. I was very "lucky" once to be given a top floor penthouse suite in a hotel 28 floors up - I had just booked a normal single room for work. It had two bedrooms, a massive lounge, dining room and a huge terrace accessible by all rooms FROM INSIDE. I was so overcome by my good fortune that the next morning I decided to have a cuppa on the terrace watching the sun rise. I felt on top of the world, but after ten minutes or so, I got cold (I was only wearing the luxury robe, the hotel slippers and nothing else), only to find that the living room door I had come out to had closed on me and I was completely alone trapped on a terrace miles above the city with no neighbours (it covered one face of the hotel). My phone was trapped inside, and the only things I had at my disposal were the robe, the slippers and two heavy pieces of rattan furniture - none of which I wanted to lob over the balcony to attract attention. After an initial stint of "hilarity" at my own stupidity, then a stint of reflection that I was not going to make my early morning meetings, followed by a more sobering stint of realisation that I was REALLY cold, I decided that housekeeping would eventually come and if I sat near the windows I would spot them, and could knock on the window to be let in. Only to find they were all "mirrored" and I could not see in to see them coming. I set about knocking every minute or two, the realisation dawning that I could be here for a really long time, and that quite possibly, and in my more morbid moments, indefinitely. After an hour or two, I was so cold I did some star jumps, ran up and down the terrace, and tried all of the doors only to find that the one I thought I had come out of, I actually hadn't, and a different one just swung open. I had previously read the Darwin awards and scoffed at the absolute stupidity of the people who have entries. I now realise it is easier to get into the listings than it initially seems.

I once nearly died eating a cheese fondue.

i was absolutely baked at the time, (uni days) gobbling down as much cheese as i could fit in my mouth, until I realised that melted cheese will solidify quite quickly on it’s way down.

I had to keep swallowing as it was too far down to regurgitate.

moral of the story; don’t fondue and fly.

Had 9yr old son at A&E all eve and night. Got home at 3am. Told to give him first dose of prescribed 8 dissolved steroids, reached into handbag and bought out brand new pack of the tiny white tablets, dissolved 8 and he drank them. Put him to bed. Found the unopened steroids. I’d had my mums asprin in my bag for a one-off bizarre reason, and had made him take 8 asprin. Back to A&E. Bloody nightmare.

Literally laughing so much I’m crying at this🤣

Glad you lived to tell the tale though 😁

What do the police say next when you say "I've got a bomb in my car". I want the full tale please!

I once left work early to go shopping.
Got the shopping home and arrived same time as DH and the kids so I told him to take the kids to the park to get them out of my way whilst I put the shopping away and prepared dinner.
Less than five minutes later, I bent down to get the shopping out of the bag, stood up and hit my head on the door handle.
Cue massive gash in the middle of my head, I was seeing stars and almost passed out. Then I noticed the blood, all over my fingers, panicked - got my phone and called DH who couldn't understand a word I was saying because I was panicking and crying so much.
He rushes back to find me in the bathroom covered in blood and tears but fine. Kids see the blood and they a start crying and panicking like something out of a horror movie.
The blood stopped after a few minutes but that gash hurt for days.
And that's how I was almost killed by the shopping.

In my teens I thought it would be a good idea to remove the hair from my foof with hair removal cream.
Slathered it on, all over making sure everything was covered well and then the burning started - oh my god- the burning spread up the foof and just got worse and worse.
I was trying to remove it, but it was all over my fingers and just getting pushed deeper and deeper and burning more and more and then ended up spreading into my butthole.
I was trying wash it out with water but that wasn't working. My eyes are watering and I'm trying not to scream. My vagina and arse are on fire.
All the while my parents and brother are in the next room and I'm in the bath thinking I'm going to die or be permanently disfigured down below for vanity.
Finally managed to wash it all out And then plonked myself into cold water to soothe the area. On fire below and shivering up top.

But on the upside- the hairs were gone.

Can we not just 'enjoy' each other's stories without the arguments about whether garlic can cure colds or not. It certainly has its place. Apparently, people who regularly consume garlic don't get bitten by mosquitos. I can certainly vouch for that.

I have another stupid almost died tale. I crossed a road in a bit of a dissociated state, and the car coming at me slammed on the brakes and skidded. It was an undercover cop car. What are the chances?

When I get a cold, I take extra garlic tablets, and zinc tabletas well as Vitamins C and D. I have taken garlic tablets for years at the first sign of a cold, and THEY DO INDEED WARD OFF A COLD.
Scientists agree.

I haven’t been on mumsnet for long, but from what I have seen so far most threads end up with some sort of argument passionate debate. 😁

Whether people believe in the powers of garlic or not is up to them. Personally I have found it helpful for viral infections (when it’s not lodged in my throat!), and I have also successfully treated thrush with it by sticking it up my foo.

Haha don’t think I would stick it up my cats ass tho as a previous poster mentioned her parents doing (poor pussy).

@XenoBitch I am sadly a counter example to the garlic / mosquito thing.

I love garlic, mosquitoes love me.

People who sit near me don't get bitten by mosquitoes because the mosquitoes are all otherwise occupied...

My mum is like this, if anyone doesn’t want to get bit by mosquitoes just sit next to her!

Im not sure why this is but I think maybe the type of blood you have? I guess you could take it as a compliment that you must taste good @Aria999 🤣

Try taking echinea tablets instead, very effective

Yes I like echinacea too, I find though it only really seems to work if I take it before I come down with a cold. So if there’s a nasty cold going around work I will start taking echinacea and then I won’t come down with it. However once the symptoms have set in I find echinacea doesn’t do a lot then.

I also want to know this 😳

My sister gets eaten alive by mosquitos. I assume we are the same blood type? I don't actually know what mine is.

I hear them in my bedroom a lot.. That annoying dull buzz.

That paper doesn’t seem to have any evidence (unless there is a link I’m missing) just a summary that says garlic can be used prophylactically to ward off viruses, not that it actually cures viruses.

😂😂😂😂

This sounds like something I would do too.

Nearly died from being so British and not wanting to make a fuss

🤣

My work colleague went to a friend's party on a new build development in the Docklands. The friend lived on the first floor. During the party, my colleague decided he wanted some fresh air so opened the door to the balcony. Except it hadn't yet been built so he fell a storey onto the car park below. Miraculously, although he had to be admitted to hospital, he was relatively unscathed as apparently his drunkenness meant he was relaxed as he hit the ground.

Not life threatening but another colleague answered the iron instead of the phone. He had a perfect iron burn mark complete with the pointy end by his ear for weeks. We didn't laugh. At all.

My son was guzzling the free boiled sweets in an airport lounge (aged 8 or so), one got stuck and he couldn't breathe. It was frightening as he was totally silent so we didn't realise it was happening at first. After what seemed like ages, he was sick and brought it up. It was a bit sobering.

Oh my goodness, I've wet myself laughing 🤣 I'm just sorry, I can't contribute- feeling left out now!

I did the same! Car dragged me 40ft down the drive and across the road with my head wedged under the wheel. No idea how I survived but apart from being black and blue all over and my clothes torn to shreds I was fine.