Have you ever cheated death?

As a three year old I got on my brother's tricycle and went hurtling down the hill. I didn't know how to apply the brakes. I crashed onto the road, luckily missing cars. I woke up on our settee. Mum was washing dishes. I cant believe so little concern was shown for an unconscious child!

as a very keen rider I used to help at a riding school in holidays and at weekend. getting others ready and taking rides out. In a field sloping upwards I allowed the riders to canter as the hill slowed them down. Just got into the field and a gun went off very close and the horses bolted and reared and went into each other. I was thrown but my stirrup held my leg - they have safety catches and should pull off , so was dragged along by my leg bounicing about close to the horses heels. fortunately the hill slowed them down and the others were able to catch my horse and set me free. Shaken and very bruised but no breaks I swore them all to secrecy as my parents already though horse riding was not very safe and I didnt want them to stop me riding. Never went to hospital about my head being banged about and wore trousers and long sleeved t shirts in quite warm weather as I didnt want them to see the bruises!! Much later a really dodgy situation. fortunately I am an experienced driver and dont panic in these circumstances. We had very recently bought this car and I was driving on a busy m way in rush hour. I was in the middle lane and driving ok watching the traffic when suddenly the engine cut out and there was nothing!! I tried to start the engine nothing, put hazards on and edged leftwards and at first this idiot in the inside lane was not going to let me in but only had momentum to move so forced my way across and we managed to get safely onto the hard shoulder glad to be there and shaking like a leaf at the thought of what could have happened. . Very frightening and we got the Rac out and were taken off safely. The car was checked and checked again and it was all correct and everything as it should be and they could not find any reason for it but that was that I got rid of it. Just didnt feel safe in it. Told the dealer what had happened as didnt want an accident on my conscience but never forgot it. Now with this ludicrous no hard shoulder situation I have no idea if we would have even survived the situation. Have driven over 50 years without any major incident but absolutely avoid m ways with no hard shoulder. Anyway still here to tell the tale so far!!

I had an internal haemorrhage after an operation. The nurses said I was fine but a junior doctor was concerned. By the time they rang the emergency bells I had lost over four pints of blood.

1. Hit by a car when I was 14 & spent 3 months in hospital.
2. Electrocuted twice.
3. Cancer.
4. Sepsis twice.
5. Near drowning.
6. A gun pulled on me.
Omg I feel like a walking fatal attraction!
I’ve never thought about them all together before. My guardian angel is doing a great job.

Walking home from town 5 years ago. Reached the crossroads where I could either cross an A road at traffic lights or continue to walk on pavement alongside the road. A car came from road opposite, shot across the lights across 2 carriageways and into a wall. Had I been 10 seconds earlier I would have been wiped out whichever route I had taken. The elderly driver's foot had spasmed on the accelerator and he lost control.

My son cheated death. Aged 3, he and the little girl next door were playing in the open-plan front gardens. My DH was looking after them but he was watching sport on TV. The two children left the garden, walked out of the estate to the main road and crossed it. It was a busy and wide A road with lorries, buses and cars going up and down it all day long. A man found them wandering, both having wet themselves with fright. Fortunately the little girl was able to say where they came from. Thank goodness for that dear man. I never got a chance to thank him. Anything could have happened.

During WW11 and although a child at the time can even now vividly remember a sunny august bank holiday monday, an air raid, that demolished many homes in the street I lived with my parents and grand parents.Clearly we were fortunate to have survived but will never forget as if it were yesterday.In todays present situation and what is happening in another part of our world it all comes back to me.

About 45 years ago when I was a teenager, I was travelling back from a concert with 3 lads ( one my then boyfriend) in a taxi when we assume the driver fell asleep and the car rolled over and over until it came to a stop on the opposite verge.
My short life passed before me! Fortunately, we all escaped with no harm done but needless to say I’ve never forgotten it!

Had a pulmonary embolism in the remote area ofWA caused by 2 long haul flights and an 8 hour drive! Pain was indescribable! 10 days in hospital saved my life !! Making the mist of every moment now !!

I once had a major anaphylactic reaction - was rushed to hospital where they gave me a 50/50 chance of making it through the night - 5 days in hospital and I made it!?

Had an appendectomy operation and was sent home from hospital. I woke in the night unable to speak or breathe properly. OH called the ambulance and off I went all sirens going. A doctor was measuring my legs and I didn’t understand why. It turns out that I had had a massive pulmonary embolism which had detached from my leg and lodged itself in my lung. On the X ray, you could see only a tiny bit of free lung at the top, the doc said the clot was about the size of a dinner plate. After about 12 months on various doses of Warfarin, I was given the all clear. The scariest part was not being able to breathe, tiny shallow breaths. I was 33 at the time, now 69 and grateful for every day.

Apparently I was born into the world with umbilical cord around my neck! I can’t think of anything worse than that for me, still living at 60...

Nearly fell out of a moving car when I was a toddler (not so safety conscious in those days). I was sitting in the front seat and my DF managed to grab me before I went under the bus behind.

I was crossing the road a busy three lane road which led to a roundabout and when the lights went green to cross the cars in the two outer lanes stopped. As I started to cross the road a van sped past me and raced around the roundabout. He was so close to me and as my DF used to say there could not have been more than a fag paper width between us. This happened about 10 years ago but even as I am writing this my hands are shaking.

rather differently i've cheated death several times! i've had cancer twice (ovarian and kidney) both caught in very early stages. i've also gad meningitus as an adult and an ectopic pregnancy. and once coming back from a visit to my son one dark december night i skidded on a patch of mud and ended up hitting a tree stump - which stopped the car from going into a ditch .... cracked sternum and seat belt bruises. hopefully there won't be any more as i'm now running out of lives!!

I was knocked over by a motorbike on a pedestrian crossing about 20 years ago but luckily was just shook up really. No serious injury

Redhead56 that’s awful, sorry you had that.

I think I am up to 7 on the 9 lives index;

Scarlet fever aged 1.
Appendicitis aged 21, I had been struggling to work every day over 5 days after it had burst. What woke me up was I woke up and couldn’t move. Sepsis had set in.
Violent partner mid twenties.
Ectopic pregnancy aged 37, it had implanted in the abdomen.
Cancer and nearly dying on the operating table, then nearly twice in intensive care.

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I used to walk around Aldgate in London to work everyday. The day the bombings took place I had taken off to take my daughter out to celebrate her birthday. Her birthday was the day before so by rights I should have been at Aldgate at the wrong time.

I had a childminder/nanny for my daughter, who drove over a narrow bridge every day. One day a juggernaut hit the car and flattened the part of the car where my daughter sits. Luckily she was off sick with me at home that day.

A stroke in 2008 definitely cheated death. Not in the UK and luckily my husband realised something was wrong as I wandered confused around a campsite in the USA. He got me to hospital and was admitted after several scans and rushed by ambulance to a care facility as my brain bled and I lost speech and became paralysed down one side. Super scary as I recall a discussion by doctors as to whether to drill into my skull as I was unable to respond and let them know I could hear. Still here today as mobility returned but not all the memories came back. The teenage near misses and driving near misses are minor compared to a life changing event. If we were here in the UK I wonder if I would have survived

Reading all of yours, I’m glad I don’t drive.

When I was new born my parents rented a house and my bedroom cot was in the basement. Mum had a nightmare that the ceiling had fallen into my cot, so she came and got me, took me into their bed. Next morning they discovered ceiling had fallen into my cot! When I was 5 the paraffin heater in my bedroom caught fire, my sister had only just been born and was in the same room as me. I shouted for parents but they didn't hear me, the wallpaper was on fire, and the grey smoke cloud on the ceiling was getting lower and finally touched my baby sisters cot rail. I realised they were not coming, so I tried to undo her cot side, but child lock, so had to climb up into the smoke cloud into her cot, threw her over my shoulder, climb back out into the smoke cloud and remember crawling into the hall carrying her before I passed out. I saved her life and was allowed to chose new wallpaper for my room - Rupert the Bear! Age 10 I nearly drowned saving my 5 yr old sisters life again, when on holiday in Devon on a caravan park in an unsupervised swimming pool. She jumped into deep end but could not swim. I stood on bottom of pool and pushed her out and then remember being very calm , floating underwater and thinking 'oh I am drowning and going to die' passed out next thing, coughing guts up on side of pool someone doing mouth to mouth and the sound of my sister crying. So I have had earth, fire and water aged baby, 5 yrs and 10 yrs, needless to say I dreaded my 15th birthday!

Several ti es, but I choose not to dwell on it. It’s too depressing.

Was due to fly to San Francisco years ago the day the planes were grounded because of planned terrorist attacks, found out afterwards our plane was one of the targets. Went two days later & spent the whole flight terrified, never really like flying anyway .

My wife and I are keen geocachers -a hobby which involves finding “things” hidden by other players using map co-ordinates.

In June 2016 we were on holiday in Normandy. We had parked the car and we’re walking down a rural track where a geocache was supposed to be hidden in the hedgerow. When we reached the point where our map said the geocache should be, I put on my thick leather gardening gauntlets (lots of hawthorn in French hedgerows) and began searching the hedges on both sides of the track. I was poking one particularly thick piece of hedge when my walking stick struck something hard. Parting the branches carefully I peered into the hedge and saw a metal cylinder about 15 inches long with metal fins on one end and a point on the other end! Oh <<EXPLETIVE>> It’s a bomb!

Run to a safe distance. Ring the police. Explain in broken French where we are and what we have found.

Police arrived in about 5 minutes. Army bomb disposal arrived in about 20 minutes, and after about another 30 minutes there was a VERY LOUD BANG!

Apparently, it was a British Aerial Mine (according to the local newspaper).

In 1994 I was separated and living alone in flat near work in st.annes.one evening after tea I poured a pint of cider and started eating a ginger nut, somehow it lodged in my throat and I started choking! I was shocked and could do nothing the thing that struck me was how silent choking is. I tried banging my back against door frame , started to feel as if my eyes would pop and getting dizzy , I suddenly remembered the pint of cider!!! I managed to grab and pour into my mouth tipping up entirely and it dissolved the lump of biscuit! I wondered how long it would be before I were discovered? It was a Friday and I had holidays booked until the Tuesday so nobody would miss me until then! I imagined my friend from work coming over Tuesday lunch to see why I'm wasn't at work!! All this whizzed through my mind along with dreadful feelings of the loss of my darling boys. Horrible.

2. Was in Woolworths in Manchester 10 minutes before fire went up!
3. Was in Lewis's in Manchester when IRA bomb blew in homewares dept in basement, ears popped really badly but unhurt, poor security guy lost his eye.