Have you ever felt like you were dying?

[supercutebutt]

VOTE BELOW!

Yes, I have.

Nope, not me.

[Amy10223]

I once had the worst feeling while I began to gulf down my food at school when I had little time to eat. I had gone on an errand at the same time (we only had about 35 minutes to eat) and while I ate, I suddenly got a pain in my throat/chest area. It was so bad I felt as if I was having a heart attack. It has happened before under similar circumstances, eating too fast, so I'm careful not to do that now and grateful to be retired and not have to worry about coming back on time.

[Anonymous]

At least 4 times in my life

1) I almost drowned ( Boat sunk I was on in the ocean. We were about 10 miles from the shore)

2) Fell 60 feet off a roof

(installing a new roof and the roof jacks failed and I felled to the ground. What saved me that I got caught in extension cords and they slowed my fall down.

The extension cords just so happened to be tied off to something on the roof.

I ended up with 3 broken ribs, a puncture lung, broken leg and a busted nose)

3) I was stabbed during a mugging (I fought back and got stabbed)

4) Had some mysterious illness that cause me to stop breathing. ( It came on fast, doctors were stumped. It lasted a whole summer of 2020 and one day it just disappeared)

[DJB72]

Yes, but in fairness my heart had stopped and the nurses were starting CPR...

[supercutebutt]

Did u float above your body for awhile?

[DJB72]

I remember hearing my ribs break on the second or third compression and the concern in the nurse's eyes through the PPE he was wearing (I had Covid).

It wasn't painful physically. More of a relief after months fighting the illness.

It was a bit confusing. I knew it wasn't my "time" but my body couldn't keep going.

I'm told they kept going for four hours. Time of death is normally called after about 20 minutes and when Covid is involved as badly as I'd had it the guidelines said don't bother trying as survival rates were too low to risk cross-infection.

I felt like I slipped into a deep sleep, then woke up with pain in my side - two weeks later.

There's truth in the statement that at that point you think more about what you didn't do than mistakes you made. My only real regret at that point was I was leaving before I saw my son grow up - he was only 2 then. He's almost 5 now.

[douride2]

Yes I should have been dead twice by the summer of my 16th birthday. The doctors told my father I should never have survived.

[supercutebutt]

Was it a summer of romance with dangerous levels of turgid man meat?

[douride2]

I could only wish it was. But no one was the result of being run down by a car. The other was an infectious disease.

[21Cowboy21]

I got hit by a ford F150 in high school biking on my way to work. Won 75% of the lawsuit - lost 25% of the lawsuit because I was on the sidewalk as there were no bike lanes in my small town and was rush hour traffic.

That one hurt. Came close to breaking half the bones in my body. Made a full recovery. Backpack took the full blow on the sidewalk. Bike and helmet were both in 8 pieces. I jumped as high as possible at the last moment to take it on the grill rsther than going under the truck wheel where my bike went them obliterated into pieces.

No scars/highly concussed and used a cane and sling for rest of summer for 3 months made full recovery and now healthier/fitter than before 2 years later.

****Outcome

Only because I made a full recovery - and truck was coming out of a parking lot to the road at low speed - otherwise would have been seriously permanently fucked up and suffering/dead ling term in agony - becuase it was lighter impact on the grill only - I thought I was going to be dead in a split second with the grill as my last vision - but every week I get now I seek to make the most of for long term pleasure + balanced with short term gratification/pleasure as I go. I am grateful as hell now for most of the small things in life I always took for granted before like seeing family members again, or my brother who lives in another province when we're on travel when I can - and for my health and just getting out and experiencing nature and hikes and beautiful nature / friends around me a LOT more now - because I truly feel the reality of how quickly it can suddenly change on the drop of a hat or all be taken away from me, or someone else I love, or other great people in my community I hope that never happens to. And becuase of that I'm likely significantly happier most weeks now than most other people in my community or family members and friends.

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude." - Me

That is the lesson I have taken away from all of this and truly feel in my heart now most days that I didn't as much before when I just took ally dynamics I encountered/created in life I enjoyed for granted before. I still do to some degree but always but effort in to make the most it now most. times where I can lile I didn't before as much.

[strlb]

Yes, covid shot, the 2nd one I certainly believed that I was going to die. Hot/cold flashes, temperature, couldn't sleep, mind was racing. It was complete hell for 24 hrs.

[supercutebutt]

But you lived and had you not gotten it, who knows?

[AimeeKyle]

Yes, after several weeks of chemo and radiation treatments…. knowing there is still more to come.

[supercutebutt]

Be strong!

[AimeeKyle]

Thanks. All good… I am 4-1/2 years out. Only a 1/2 year remaining until I am considered cancer free.

[WindAtMyBack]

Don't know. I was unconscious at the time. When I came to with all kinds of tubes sticking in me I was past the dying part.

[Phoenix98]

A few times, I remember one time I was in such pain and throwing up so badly to the point where I couldn't even drink water that I was seriously hoping I'd just pass out.

[mobiusforniner]

Yes. When passing a kidney stone. I would have preferred to die.

[Nino2020]

Yes, I had horrible pneumonia as well as Sepsis and was in a coma for 2 weeks, I definitely didn’t think I was going to make it!

[supercutebutt]

But look at you now!

[DizzyDesii]

Only when my period cramps are super painful

[SamIam96]

Yeah. Years later, the smell of Southern Comfort still makes me nauseous.

[jamesgoldman]

Myopericarditis, even knocked up an impromptu will waiting for the ambulance

[MikeTheBartender]

Yep cancer scare a few year ago... Thought Mike the bartender was done...

[exitseven]

I was hit by a car once and thought for sure another car would soon run me over and finish the job.

[msc545]

wow - glad you are ok, sorry that happened!

[exitseven]

@msc545 it was a real near death experience.

[msc545]

I once spun a car on the freeway here when another car cut me off and I jerked the wheel. Four lanes of traffic and I couldn't stop the spin - rotated twice, wound up on the median - miraculously - no damage at all, no collision. a highway patrol guy saw it all, kindly escorted me off the freeway, talked with me awhile, and complimented my driving. I was shaking for an hour after.

[msc545]

We never forget this stuff. Near-death indeed.

[exitseven]

@msc545 Change of underwear?

[msc545]

several

[loveslongnails]

Yes, when I listen to trumpers or right wing nuts, it feels like I've either died and gone to hell, or I'm on my way.

[msc545]

Age 15: During a panic attack that felt like a heart attack, I felt like I was dying. I have since learned what a panic attack really is and how to stop it.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Many times when my assaulter of a stepfather half-murdered me.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Yes today, I saw whole identity politics IN POSTITIVE PREVENTION, THEYRE TEACHING THIS DISGUSTING BULLSH*T IN SCHOOL FOR REAL, I even threw up one of my kidneys and ALMOST had a stroke

[supercutebutt]

Were you afraid you'd melt because you are a fragile snowflake?

[Dinosaursandanime65]

I was more afraid of everyone else burning like your steaming hot temper.

[supercutebutt]

Right. You are shouting in ALL CAPS and typing filthy swears but I am the angry one. LOL!

[Dinosaursandanime65]

It wasn’t anger more like confusion and exponential concern. School is one of the last places anyone should be getting groomed like Meatcanyon Benson did to Mordecai and Rigbey with his gum balls.

[supercutebutt]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Where is Sir Trump when America needs him the most? After he makes his beautiful wall (s), he needs to build another metaphorical one between schools and identity politics so the innocent children of the modern day aren’t being taught disgusting ideals from woke satanic prevents, telling them things like

“AHOULGH, HeyYy little bOiii, evEr wanteD to castraTeE yourself? Oh don’t worry it’s so sharp you won’t feel a thin- AR AR AR AR look at that dang. It flops like a sleeping earth worm, congratulations you’re a girl now! Who cares about chromosomes that deny our absolute retardedness, it’s All abOut hOW yoU fEEl~”

[supercutebutt]

Grow a brain. Be thankful some gun nut Trump fucker hasn't shot up your school. Learn to discern between irrelevant BS and reality. OK?

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Skill issue. I’m one of his voters, not haters. Besides, me ending up with a fate like that is making sports bets.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

All said respectfully. Have you ever found a dolphin wearing a black leather jacket in your bathtub?

[supercutebutt]

I knew Trumptards cheated. You are 15 now so you voted for Trump when you were 12?

[Dinosaursandanime65]

I thought you had to be at least 18 to vote. Also, you Tweakin Tweakin like a Twipper Twipper who’s never been Twippin Twippin. That last election was totally rigged like hackers in Apex Legends, Sir Trump should have won.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

This is kind of funny. People always say talking politics is like getting punched in the face by someone’s car but I suppose it isn’t all that bad.

[AviatorTom]

From the moment we're born, we start to die.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but I was dying. I was saved with emergency surgery.

[Anonymous]

Every night when I go to sleep like it's my last sleep so i slept peacefully...
Everyday is new day.

[Anonymous]

Yeah everytime my life went downhill or when everything in my life is falling apart