Any near death experiences?

[txteach]

When I was 17, I went swimming in Long Island sound at 6 a.m. (which I normally did when it was warm enough before school). No one was around so
I waded in I got really far out, about a football field away. I was relaxing and treading water when a fin popped up about 50 yards away. I tried to stay calm and dogpaddle away. The shark (yes, shark) moved with my movements. After about 5 minutes (what appeared to be an eternity) I went for shore, all out swimming. The shark headed right for me. I saw it's eyes, black as hell, and it's mouth wide open. I peed my pants and kicked him with everything I had in the nose. The shark shook like crazy and headed away from me. I got to shore hypervalating and lay there for an hour. I was still VERY scared. I made sure the water didn't touch me as I lay there. I finally headed home and went into my house. My mother was folding clothes in the kitchen and looked at me and said " Oh my god, what the heck happened to you?". I had left my clothes at the beach and was only in shorts. I was bone white and could not talk. Finally, after about 20 minutes, I told my mom the story. She forbid me from ever going down there again. To this day I fear the ocean. Sea world makes me very uncomfortable. I used to love the beach in my youth but now, heck no! Well that's the only time I almost died. Anyone else??

[Hector]

2004-2005 (I was given a 20% chance to live)

Worst year of my life.


But I made it, and I'm here.

[monkey tennis]

Wow
I suppose you can't watch jaws then.
"Just when you thought it was safe..."
Do you own the Aqua man and shark ?
Glad your both still around with us.

As a baby I was moved off of a bed just before the ceiling caved in.
And again as a baby I was moved away in my pram from some scaffolding
just before it collapsed.

[RG]

When I was 7 years old March 30, 1984, My Brother who was 15 years older than me (so he was 22 at the time) had been in and out all day driving his Jeep (an early 70's CJ5), it was a nice day, so he had the top and doors off. I had been wanting to go for a ride with him, but he was busy and really couldn't have me tagging along. He got back and was about to take me for a ride when he got a phone call from my cousin to pick something up, I almost went with him, and he was cool with me going this time, but my mom said no, and that he could give me a ride later. Well, on his way back from my cousins, a drunk 18 year old girl ran a stop light and smashed into his jeep. My brother was declared brain dead and passed away April 2nd. If I would have been with I would have been killed instantly. The girl was fine and because of her mommy's connection to the police department ... the local police didn't even give her a ticket for running the stop sign.

[monkey tennis]

Wow sorry man, that sucks.

[4NDR01D]

When I was a toddler (maybe 2 or 3?) I got into my Grandpa's medicine thinking it was candy and ate a wack of pills, and had to go to the hospital and have my tummy pumped. Yep, that's why they make "child-proof" caps, for kids like me.

[spiderrogue]

man, dont even get me started...too many to name...im just lucky to be alive at this point...lol

[Goblin19]

I guess the one I mentioned before a little while ago qualifies. On our trip to Peru that I just got back from, we went to fly over the Nazca Lines in a single engine prop plane. We flew at 1:30 and my wife's family flew at 2:00. The 3:00 flight crashed and killed all passengers on board. I swore I would never fly in one of those and now I never will again. Our flight was smooth, though.

[SUP-Ronin]

Txteach, That story literally gave me the chills. Seriously, I love the beach, but am totally paranoid about deep ocean water. Ughh... that would SO creep me out. Do you have any idea how long it was??? I am sure it looked like Jaws.

One night in college, I got in a car wreck. My room-mate was driving and fell asleep at the wheel, I was already asleep in the passanger seat, and had it tilted back all the way. I woke up and we were parked on the side of the road. There was a gaping hole in the windshield right in front of me. I had bitten a hole thru my lip and had a small gash on the side of my head, was covered in glass and wood pieces. He was shaken but ok.

We taped up the windshield, and headed home. He dropped me off at the hospital, and I got a few stitches. When I got back to our house, he showed me the 2"x6"x4 foot piece of barnwood complete with lag bolts and a mailbox on it, that had gone over my head and into the back, it was a Celica hatchback. If I had been in any other position I'd have literally lost my head. It sort of freaked me out but wasn't a religous experience or anything. Not like being stalked by a shark.

[Dr. Phibes]

Nothing as dramatic as some of those, but as a Humane Officer I had a huge German Shepherd chow mix dog jump on my head and bite my right ear almost completey taking it off. I bled all over while people just watched me fight this dog- another officer showed up when a witness called and we got the dog. All I could think about was the movie Cujo and being disfigured.

[Dr. Phibes]

By the way that shark story kreeped me out big time too!!!! I'm glad everyone who posted above made it out ok too.

[monkey tennis]

That Cujo story creeped me out.
Just keep remembering that scene in
Stand By Me
"Chopper, sick balls..."

[Sideshow Spock]

My senior year of HS I was on the varsity football team and after working my butt off in double sessions for weeks, it was finally the day of the first game. My receivers coach had told me that it looked like I was running in slow-motion a few days earlier (I was normally a fast guy, thus the position), but I felt ok.

The day of the first game, I was hit hard in gym class by another student during an impromptu game of touch football. Something happened, and I nearly passed out. It didn't feel like an ordinary hard hit.

The class soon ended, and I managed to make it to the locker room, where I was really having trouble. I then made it down to the nurse's office. This was last period anyways.

My father was head football coach, and a PE teacher.. he came in and assumed I had seriously bruised my ribs or diaphragm or something. He drove me home, where I immediately hit the couch in total misery.

An hour or two passed, and I writhed on the couch. The team trainer stopped by my house to check on me, and took my BP. He didn't like what he saw, and recommended I go immediately to the ER.

Once there, I was worsening. The doctors quickly diagnosed mono (no idea I had it.. who knows for how long..), which enlarges your spleen. They did a blood tap of my abdomen, and I saw the blood shoot up the tube. My spleen had been ruptured, and I was bleeding to death.

As they wheeled me into the operating room, I remember them piling hot towels on me to try and ease my convulsions.

A week later, I was home and starting recovery. Very close call. If that trainer hadn't stopped by, very good chance I wouldn't be typing this right now.

And it goes without saying I missed the whole football season.

[marbkwds]

My X wife tried to get me with a pair of scissors ( I outran her ) She came home and just started flipping out , To this day I don't know what set her off . She lunged at me with her nails to my face , I grabbed her held my arm around hers and my leg around her legs , This gave me time to think without getting freddy krugered , I move over by the door to go outside , put her down on the floor and hauled *** . While running I looked behind me only to see her coming fast with a pair of scissors raised up over her head . We ran some circles around a parked van , While I was running around the van I was planning my next move which was to run diagonally across the street , She came right after me , Then I hear her scream " Good keep going so we don't have to move the body " I look ahead of me and realize that St. Raymonds cemetary was right there so I veered of and headed for a gas station , I could hear her getting closer with scissor still in hand so as I was entering the gas station I started screaming for help . The gas station attendant opened his booth and let me in . He called the police , Well my X wife was nowhere to be seen so while waiting for the police to show I called the house ........ She answers the phone crying and telling me that she was sorry and that there was blood everywhere , Right away I thought maybe she did something to herself so I head back to the house , The police hadn't arrived yet so I waited for them , When they arrived I explained everything to them , They entered the house with me and she was balled up mon the bed crying and saying that she was sorry and would be good . The police tried to get her to go voulentarily to the hospital for an evaluation . She refused to go and the police then told me that since I was her Husband I could give them permission to take her by force ...... So I did .... At the hospital the doctor came out amd tpld me that she was fine and I could take her home , At that point I asked for a second opinion ......... He told me that it wasn't needed , I wslk into her room and open the curtain and shes sitting on the bsd with her head down , Her hair was wet and stringy and hanging in her face as she slowly lifted her head and said " I'll never fordive you for this " One of the many reasons why she is my X wife .

My X wife tried again , I locked myself in the Bathroom while she was stabbing the door , the way the batthroom was arranged , If I would have let go of the door to try to make a dash for the closed window she would have got me fist so I told her that we should both pray and stop this and after about ten minutes and her almost hacking through the cheap chip core door , I heard the knife hit the floor and she said get out , so I carefully grabbed my clothes and ran out the door into my jeep cherokee . No sooner do I lock the door and I see her running towards the jeep , I got my pants up to my knees , one boot on before starting it up and driving off with her hanging on the door , She feel off , I went to work and when I got home we had Chinese food . Another one of those reasons .

I was robbed at gunpoint in the projects in the south Bronx ,As I was walking down the street a woman ran over to me crying she was histerical , She told me that some guys beat up her brother and left him bleeding in the lobby of a building that was on the corner . She pleaded with me to come and help him , feeling bad for her and the brother I went with her , When we walked through the first set of doors in the vestibule she stopped , Me like a dummy walked over to the second set of doors looking in side for this bleeding kid and then it hit me that something was wrong ( I thought for a second , If it were my brother in there I wouldn't stop at the first set os doors , I would have ran in first ) right after that spilt second thought I realized something wasn't right so I turned around and was starring straight down the barrel of a .38 Magnum . She got me to go through the first set of doors , stepped aside and let a guy in behind me . The guy took my money while pointing the revolver right in my face then he told me to face the wall , At this point I am thinking this guy is gonna shoot me in the back of the head , But he didn't . He told me to count to 500 and then leave the building and if I stepped one foot out of the door before doing that he would shoot me ......... I got to about 18 when I heard a car door slam , I opened the door , saw him sitting in the back seat of a car watching me , I turned and walked away ...... It really scewed me up for a while .

I got more but after that one I need to go to bed .......

[Brown Bear]

Yesterday, I told my wife in passing that she was "putting on weight"......thought I was a goner right there.