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?

Garlic has antiviral properties. So it could indeed speed the healing process.

Oh gosh, this brought back flashbacks of an incident I clearly tried to forget.

My hair is short now (this is probably why) but when it was long I was getting into the car on a really windy day.

Yip you guessed it, as I closed the door a gust blew my hair out the door as I closed it. There I was stuck practically getting scalped, it was so painful that I couldn't move to open the door. It felt like a lifetime before my then bf ran to open the door to release me. Even my ear felt like it was being ripped off.

He thought it hysterical, I did not at the time.

I am laughing about it now. I wonder if he remembers me for saving my bonce.

The poor fella from Star Trek was killed by his own car www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36572649

Alliums do help with colds. No, they won't "cure a virus" but they help with the symptoms. Why are some people here so bloody literal and narrow-minded about any "natural remedies?"

You don't have to eat it raw though - make a soup and redouble the effects.

It looks like this might have been Aglione, also known as Elephant Garlic, which is actually not garlic, but a bulb forming leek.

I thought it was the allicin compound which has the antiviral effects? Allicin is very unstable and breaks down with time or cooking.

Im antibiotic resistant and had sepsis many times, my infection is both kidneys (so not removable, kidney function still works although I have suffered Acute Injury in the past) but you only develope resistance to the specifically overused type of antibiotic.

I can no longer use the most common Amoxocillan or anything with 'mycin' in the title, I can still use all other antibiotics I just have to constantly vary the type so it can adapt.

• can't adapt

@XenoBitch you don’t have the same blood type as your sister necessarily, mine and my sister’s are different.

Mosquitoes prefer babies and children to adults, and women to men.
Also I had a dna test with health properties and my dna (not blood type) indicated “more attractive to mosquitoes than average” (it’s true 😏)

Direct heat is too much for it - I did something similar with a ceramic oven dish. Put it down on the hob, baby DD was sitting on the floor, and it exploded and flew across the room in two large chunks, just missing her tiny little head.

I was working in a nursery kneeling on the floor putting books back into the bookshelf. There was a cry from some children "everybody climb on Mysterian!" and they managed to push me on my back and climb on me. It happens reasonably often. This time however, one of the children knelt with their full weight on my throat stopping me from breathing. It also seems to take away most of my strength. I was laying there trapped knowing if they didn't get off I'd be dead in about 3 minutes. My plan was to leave it as long as possible then, before it was too late, use everything I had in me to swing my arm at the child on me. It seemed like ages but luckily they climbed off before I needed to take action. No other staff had noticed a thing. I didn't mention it. I feel I deserved a big fuss though.

@Chloefairydust omg ! I was pining my hair back with those horrid little metal pin things and I used my teeth to prise it open as you do and it slipped down my throat I felt my whole life flash before my eyes I did the same as you chucked my head upside down and smashed on my chest it flew out like a bullet. Can’t even look at those pins anymore

Is that one of those DNA tests that tests for intolerances and allergies and stuff? I was thinking of doing one of those, do you think they are accurate? @hereyougoagain

@tinx aww no, that must have been scary, I use those hair pins all the time too 😮 … this thread is unlocking some new fears lol it’s surprising how such everyday normal things can become dangerous 😂

@Chloefairydust it was actually first of all for dna/relatives, but it had testing for all common diseases too (like Parkinsons or breast cancer etc), it was from 23andme.

No allergies but had lots of “curious” facts, like higher/lower likelihood of red hair, freckles, dimples, fear of heights, snoring, lactose (in)tolerance, likelihood of being overweight/an athlete/having blue eyes etc etc.
Obviously then you compare it with real you and most of my features fitted the predicted likelihood, it was a fun bonus, I didn’t even realise that info would be included.

Age about 5, I trapped my finger in a fire door. Felt weird and hot, my mum went to open the window. I fainted, falling back through a glass pane and smashed my head open on the frame, and then had a fit

Nothing else as bad but I've had boiling caramel on my arm (it sets when you run the burn under cold water..), broke my foot and ankle falling down the stairs, broke the other foot and ankle getting out of bed, broke my coccyx rollerblading down concrete stairs... A&E must hate me

Adding my dads slightly slower near death experience
He was bleeding and thought it was piles so ignored it. Eventually he felt a bit funny so went for blood tests then back to work. Ambulance turns up at his work closely followed by the doctor (wouldn't get that now!) basically surprised he's not dead. Dad "can't I finish work first before I go in?" They basically wrestled him into hospital
My dads idea of a bit of blood is losing enough of his blood volume to need blood transfusions and 3 weeks in hospital

Funnily enough I had this too. My haemoglobin was down to 5.2 and I was still doing my gym classes, running around after toddlers and wondering why my hands and feet were always yellow and why I couldn't breathe when I walked uphill 🙄

A week in hospital and 4 blood transfusions later, i was still massively anaemic and essentially had no blood left. When they tried to take a sample to check blood group before the transfusion, they couldn't get anything out of my veins. Just ... empty. Really grim and quite scary you could be that close to death and not know it.

Just catching up on the thread and this really tickled me. Thank you. 👏

Wow that’s scary 😮