What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you? (NON WOO)

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Enjoying the woo thread so much but I've finished it now so thought I would reenact another of my favourites.

So what's the scariest, non-woo situation you've even been in?

Bleeding from my retina due to eye disease.... being afraid I would go blind.. no one understanding how I felt, the NHS not caring. Had to go privately to get it sorted rather than wait for ages on an NHS list with no sight.

My middle kid has an unpredictable, recurring, life threatening asthma drama. He's nearly 11 now and doing fine. But, every time he coughs, I get the fear.

I am scared of coughing. I get flashbacks.

Oh dexter I'm so sorry

Some of these are terrifying!
I try not to think of mine, because I overthink and realise I was the stupidest twat ever. Ds was in a baby car seat (the ones that you can carry & only a few months old) put him on the back seat and sat next to him without putting the seatbelt on, my oh went round a roundabout and the seat rolled into the door (which must not have been shut properly) and flew out the door with him inside. I still feel sick to this day thinking about it.

Dexter yours is so sad and I too am so very sorry. i don't know you but from one mum to another my heart breaks.

I don't have anything terrifying but rolled down a hill in a car in the dark crashing through a fence and landing upside down. It happened so very fast I wasn't scared at the time though and apparently once brought comfort to someone on Mumsnet by telling them that as they'd lost someone to a car accident and wondered

I also witnessed a stabbing and physically stopped it. The man must have been shocked when I grabbed his arm as he didn't keep going . He was smaller than me but I was definitely scared for his wife.

Gosh some awful stories on here. My two don't really compare which I feel very grateful for.
Both mine involve tents. First in Africa camping in a national park where guide couldn't find the designated campsite area so we just had to wild camp. There were animals snuffling at the tent all night.
Second was camping with my DH and kids in a gale. Tent swaying, then pegs coming out and tent collapsing around us. Terrifying (but did have to wake two of the kids to abandon tent!).

Dexter

Mine was almost drowning in the Nile. That whole trip was full of terrifying experiences, including lions in the campsite, like a PP.

Probably the ecoli infection I had after having DS. Weakening up in bed at home with paramedics putting me into a stretcher. Feeling like I was going to die I felt so unwell.

Being in a small sailing boat in a hurricane off Bermuda.
I understand how boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.

I have never sailed again

Being suffocated on a bouncy castle. If my mum had not realised I'd not have survived. I was pulled out by 5 men and given oxygen in an ambulance until I'd stopped screaming. I won't go near them at all.

Also going for vulval surgery. I still remember writhing around the bed crying afterwards. I never got any more pain relief than 2 paracetomal from the hospital despite having 25 stitches. Awful. I was only just 20 and petrified.

Thanks everyone x I've since had two lovely little girls (17 months and 9 weeks old) they've made life better and got us through it. Checking on them when they are sleeping still terrifies me, I love a noisy snoring baby!
Some awful stories on here xxx

Looking out of my front window to see my neighbours one year old pushing his push along into the road I bolted out the door and grabbed him we got on the path and a car screeched around the corner

Screaming when I saw my son come within an inch of being hit by a car I lost my voice and nearly his brother because of that

My mum choking on food - we were home alone, she's bigger than me, and I was desperately trying to dislodge the food. It felt like hours, it was probably just minutes, before I managed to knock it out and it shot across the room - a piece of chicken. She was turning a funny colour. I was afraid I'd broken her ribs afterwards - had some nasty bruises from lifting and pushing in the heimlich manuoevre. So horrible I didn't stop shaking for three days I was so afraid of losing her. I was only 19!

I also fled from a crime scene when a car in front of me hit and run over a man, whose body was in pieces over the road, splattering my car and another person's car. I left my car there for the police to clean and ran home! I gave a witness statement later but luckily the kind man who was right behind the hit and run car told me to leave so I wouldn't have to see or drive through the body parts. I was scared but so thankful the kind man spared me having to see that.

DS3 was about 2 or 3 months old, had just had a feed and was laid down on a pillow in the middle of my bed. I went to a different room. Felt the need to check in him and found he had rolled onto his front and was suffocating on the pillow, turned him over. Blue lips. Not breathing. Screamed at XP to phone ambulance, picked up DS3 and ran him under cold tap in bathroom. Ambulance would take 20 minutes to get there (rural location) phoned local GP (it was a Sunday) who was there in 3 or 4 minutes. DS3 coughed up blood. Ambulance arrived. Was taken to children's hospital an hour away. Ds3 fully awake etc by the time we got there, but we were kept in overnight for obvs.

Ds3 now 17 years old, strapping 6fter.

I blamed myself for years for putting him on that pillow. XP blamed me too. When we split up, it transpired he'd been into the room to check him five minutes or so before I did and as DS3 had slid off of pillow a bit, he had re-placed him lengthwise on pillow. Fucker.

Returning to my student house in the dark aged 19 I disturbed a burglar. I walked past him to our front door and then he came up behind me (I'm 5"2 he was well over 6ft) I must have spooked him as he was flustered but I was so scared I couldn't get the key code into the door pad. Managed to get in eventually but still go cold thinking about it as I was the only one home.

Falling onto the cover on our pool and feeling it slowly sink under the water as I hadn't stupidly secured the brake at the roller end. I'd ran in to pick up wet towels I'd used earlier in the day, slipped and landed on the pool cover. As I sank into the water the cover was engulfing me and I couldn't reach the edge of the pool no matter how hard I kicked. Thank goodness DH was in the kitchen and heard me screaming.

Being in a car crash at 26 weeks pregnant, I knew it was bad, I could taste blood and it hurt to breathe...I sat there for what in reality was Seconds for people to start running over to help but it felt like eternity and I paralysed with fear, fear I'd leave my dd, fear my unborn baby had been killed.....
Second only to finding ,my son (he'd had to be delivered and was very sick for a while) not breathing in his cot after we'd got out of nicu. I was alone and every ounce of everything I'd been taught (it'd happened before in hospital) kicked in and I resuscitated him, called for help, help arrived and whisked us to hospital where shock set in and I screamed and shook about 2 hours straight - I was scared out of my mind.
I don't let myself think of it too often the fear still paralyses me.

A Coca-Cola lorry pulled in front of me and I crashed into the side. Wrote off my car and my son and I were badly injured.

As the lorry turned in front of me time seemed to stand still and I thought I'm going to die and so is DS, all the while the bloody coco cola sign got bigger and bigger!

Can't stand Coca-Cola to this day

for all posters on this thread

Tuesday evening just gone, scariest time of my life.
Cornwall was hit by severe flash flooding, I am 35 and don't ever remember anything like what we witnessed.
A huge amount of water came down in a very short space of time. We were driving along a road beside the river when it burst it banks and we were very suddenly in about 2 foot of water. Looking to our left the river was just exploding everywhere. Water lapping up over out bonnet. The car in front of us managed to pull into a driveway but there was nowhere for us to go. We ended up being pushed down the road by the force of the water.

Thankfully we got out ok, a bit shaken up but otherwise fine. The car is a write off. My 10 year old dd was with us bless her snd has since been telling her friends that she thought she was going to die. She was very scared, as was I.

I speak on behalf of my DB and SIL and their two children who went swimming in a crocodile infested lake in Nepal. The tour guides knew it wasn't safe and were standing around chatting while they swam. After a few funny looks though they got out and learnt the awful truth. They survived uneaten fortunately but the experience has stayed with DSiL.

My dd's anaphylaxis to nuts.

Dexter, MsJamie and Jemima, so sorry, so sad xxx

Driving along M25, doing 60mph, in the rain, 2 babies in the back...... F...king wipers stopped working, couldn't see a thing, hung outside of the window, rain thrashing my face and eyes, managed to get off the road, I couldn't stop swearing, I never usually swear, babes slept through the whole ordeal.
Bloody Renault......Grr!

Me and DD at home during summer holidays therefore living room windows wide open due to the hot weather.

A saw a man a few times walking past the house. The 4th time he approached my window and stated he was waiting for an estate agent to show him round next door and wanted to know more about the area.

I started to talk however I then noticed his huge puffer jacket, heavy jeans and black boots which struck me as extremely odd.

He stated he couldn't hear me properly and could I open the window for him abit more or open the front door..he kept repeating how important it was that I told him about the area as he had 2 children and didn't want them living somewhere bad. I explained that I had to go as was going out he then tried to grab the bottom of the Windows however I had got there first and immediately got to the second window.

I grabbed DD and hid in the upstairs bedroom - my window upstairs faces out to the front door and he stood outside for 10 minutes until my DH got home. When DH approached the house the man ran, DH chased to no avail.

I realise now I should have rung the police and not DH. I did report after.

Sounds daft but I know I would have been hurt that day if I had answered the door or he got to the window before I did.

My son's anaphylactic shock to peanut butter. I really thought he was going to die. Thank god I live close to a hospital.

The split second I knew the screeching car was going to hit me when I was 9. I fainted which saved me as by the time it did hit me I was floppy.

The doctor being in the room telling me DS was in distress and he had to come out NOW via forceps. They couldn't even find his heart rate and I wasn't even aware of the fact they must have pressed the red button, the room was just suddenly full of people.

Seeing DS have a febrile convulsion. I didn't know what it was and went into a blind panic. I rushed him to my neighbour (after trying to get a fitting 18 month old into a car seat ) who was a nurse, she asked if he'd had call and I went to get it. When I went back she was doing mouth to mouth on him. I lost it completely.

DH lost DD on holiday and we were all running around trying to find her. After a few minutes (felt like a lot longer) I saw her, being led away by the hand. I charged through people. Thankfully DD had the sense to find someone who worked there and who we had spoken to the day before and say she was lost. She told them I was carrying a balloon so they were trying to find me hence them walking her away. So relieved that's all it was but that instant of seeing her being led in a different direction but the hand scared the shit out of me.

Some of these are heartbreaking. to dexter and jamie. My cousin accidently set himself on fire. I wasn't there at the time but saw him after. It was awful (and I hate hedrin to this day, unfortunately it works).