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 accidently put a box of cigarettes through the wash.

Friends told me to just dry them off with a hair dryer, then I could smoke them as usual.

I ended up on a ventilator because of the washing powder particles giving me a major asthma attack.

It was really odd. But in hindsight I think it might have had something to do with the fact I had put them in the fridge. I'd normally just keep them in the cupboard, but I had a pantry moth issue at the time, so put a load of new things I'd bought in the fridge (so they didn't get infested as well).

Wasn't a good day. Nearly died because of a nut AND had a cupboard full of horrid bugs.

As a child I nearly choked on a packet of polo mints, shouldn't have tried to see how many I could get in my mouth.

I’m not sure I’ll ever stop laughing at this 😂 😂

I was alone had to take those enormous antibiotics capsules that smell like hell. Glugged from a water bottle. The damned thing got into my lungs. I was choking drinking more water. Eventually I coughed up a bit, then more bits. The taste of the powder was indescribable. Rang the surgery insisted on smaller capsules. I then had to take it in liquid form.

I thought I would die 🙈

Omg, that sounds horrible! It’s something that always runs through my mind, if I ever see anyone doing any work under a car.

I’m loving this thread I nearly choked the other week it was terrifying, you can get garlic tablets not sure if they’ll work the same but a lot safer !

I did too ! I'm not entirely sure how it happened but it's an automatic and it moved forward as I got out, fell over as one foot in moving car one foot on non moving pavement then the back wheels ran me over as it kept going forward !

I once swallowed a Vitamin C dissolvable tablet whole,no water.How stupid can you get!! It started dissolving half way down,it was so painful.I panicked thought I was going to die,my husband was attentive until he found out what I had done!

Years later I still have an uncomfortable feeling there when I eat,especially toast.

Doctors and nurses are notoriously useless for noticing anything unless its spelled out... I have nearly died (very obviously, ended up in a coma) in front of doctors before and they where complete unaware.

I say that as someone who studied medicine myself too, so Im not just picking on them.

Most doctors go into it for entirely the wrong reasons and have zero bedside manner, nurses are usually even worse. I said it before and will again its janitors/cleaners/porters that are usually the heros that notice, they dont get into it for money, titles, to make their parents happy etc... they usually do it because they really do care about people and are often the first to notice when a patient they have been working around changes.

I’ve knocked myself unconscious a few times. I’m very clumsy (I think I have dyspraxia)

My closest call with death was when we had a jaffa cake competition in the Drs mess. I managed to fit 10 in my mouth at once but I'd pushed them so far back, they were covering my epiglottis and I couldn't breathe. I turned a puce whilst a room full or Drs and nurses just laughed. I had to do a finger sweep and clear my own airway. I admit to feeling slightly panicked. I'm still not sure at what point my colleagues would have intervened😲

My washing machine is on top of my dishwasher. (small flat/no space)

When we were trying to maneuver it into place, I was at the front giving directions and my partner was at the back holding it tipped at a 45 degree angle. I decided it would be a good idea to insert my head in the space in between the top of the dishwasher and bottom of the washing machine to make sure it was in the right spot🤨
Almost got my noggin crushed like a watermelon. Definitely would have been ridiculed on one of those dumbest ways to die shows. And I would have deserved it too.

Didiplanthis - glad to know it's not just me! Were you badly injured? I think the trick to surviving this sort of thing is to have a small car - not sure it would work with a people carrier.

I couldn’t figure out what a bud was either. Thought it was either an actual bud (been trying to figure out how it got up to such speed as to nearly kill someone) or some new fangled electric thingy 😂

My near death experience was choking on some fudge whilst driving at 60mph down an a road and struggling to find somewhere to stop. Found somewhere, DH managed to get it out of me luckily. It wasn’t even nice fudge, certainly not worth dying for.

I no longer eat fudge and worry a fair amount about choking again.

This made me cry with laughter!!! Thank you - the first time I've laughed since I've had bastard COVID.

Garlic does work. I've done it for years. But I always cut it and leave it for a few minutes so the good stuff can come out. Deffo works. Sorry you nearly died.

I almost died once eating crunchy peanut butter from a spoon

OP chop up the garlic and mix it in with honey. Make enough so that it's on hand when you're feeling peaky. Works a treat!

I once got run over by a double decker bus- when sci-fi got off school😃

I hooted!

(this is actually a fear of mine, so it's a panicked hoot as well as a most amused hoot)

Sci fi- sciving🤦🏼 ( can’t find the lady- face palm)

Sorry, it's not funny but 😂😂😂😂🧦

I can think of a few drunken incidents in my early 20's...notably falling down steep stairs to the loo in a restaurant on a works night out. No one noticed so when I came to, dusted myself off, went to the loo and then back to the works do (I'm now a very dull 50 yr old responsible parent etc etc)

😂😂😂

I chopped through a live electrical cable with a pair of secateurs and blew myself off a dinning room chair (standing on it) and across the room.

🙄