Have you ever cheated death?

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

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!!

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.

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...

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.

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 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 !!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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!

I had sepsis and went into septic shock almost four years ago. I remember very little apart from an out of body experience in resus; where I was looking down on myself and in intensive care trying to pull off my oxygen mask, someone placing it back on - and I remember thinking there I was going to die. Thankfully I'm still here ? but my family had been told it was touch and go and my daughter (a nursing sister) honestly thought I wouldn't make it ?

Dear Chestnut. I so understand. ran in front of a bus when I was four chasing my dad who covered his eyes as the bus stopped inches from me...I thought he was beckoning me but I think he was just waving.
Again ran in front of bus when about ten as I threw my GLB hat which was like a frisbee into the broadway (these are all in Wimbledon) and I was scared it would get crushed by the bus so ran to get it. I hid in shop window afterwards and police told me off for being so careless. (I loved that hat)
Ran away from men on Wimbledon common when I was collecting fungi and they were trying to stuff hay into my knickers (about 8). Hitchiked home to from Cafe des Artistes many times at 3 in the morning. Got hit by a car outside Cafe des Artiste and hid afterwards as it brought back memories and I was sure it was my fault. that's enough for now.

I shall be having nightmares after reading this thread! It's reading like a horror film. Never realised how many dangerous experiences people have had. ?

I was in my early teens and we were on holiday in Ireland, we'd spent the day in the North and were travelling back to the republic late in the evening.
Driving down a country lane, my dad saw a car parked at an unusual angle and a man was flagging him down, he presumed that there'd been an accident so stopped which was when the man pointed a gun at him / us.
He spoke very softly, telling us nobody would get hurt if we stayed in the car etc.
I can recall seeing my dad's hands shaking and his knuckles absolutely white holding the steering wheel....on hearing my dads accent, he then started chatting about our home city and the Beatles, it was totally surreal and after what felt like hours but was perhaps a few minutes, he backed away and told us to drive on suggesting to my dad that nothing had happened.
It was one of the few times I saw my dad cry afterwards and I'm sure his total calmness saved the situation.

Hope there aren't any ' no win, no fee' ambulance chasers reading this, they'd have a field day ??

crazyH

Daring back home on the Motorway , after a long, tiring day, I dozed off for a couple of seconds, I guess, and swerved into the middle lane. ?

I once did the same - very long journey with small dds in the back.
Nodded off momentarily, was woken - thank God! - by someone hooting at me as I was wandering into another lane.
Another ‘shudder to think of it’ episode.

I have enjoyed this thread. We have some harrowing tales to tell. I never consider myself the be clairvoyant or believe in anything like that but reading some of these posts about not being able to travel on a planned boat or plane journey and then learn it has subsequently sunk or crashed makes me wonder if other forces are at work in our lives.

Caleo

Horses ran away with me on them, one time among scattered rocks. Not having a good seat I sometimes got bucked off.

Oh, that's just reminded me of the time a friend asked if I wanted to ride her new horse. I did, and everything went fine for about five minutes until I was riding up hill and the horse reared up without any warning, and went right over backwards and landed on top of me! Another time I was amazingly lucky not to break any bones - or worse - but again, I was black and blue from head to foot.

Age about 6 at a traction engine rally Dad had to shout at me to get out of the way of a steam roller doing full speed, I was like a rabbit in the headlights.
Age 14, on a skiing holiday I challenged a lad to a race, hurtled down the mountain and fell at the bottom. Just in front of an orange rope, beyond which was a sheer drop.
Pushed into a river and nearly drowned, managed to grab a builders plank floating near me.