Have you ever cheated death?

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You have to 'Report' it Alypoole and ask GN admin to remove it. All the best - assume you have a health programme now?

I was walking home from school with my friend and her mum. A car mounted the pavement and my friends mum just managed to shove us out of the way. I have not thought of this incident for over 65 years but reading all these stories it has come back to me

Nearly choked on a piece of beef, fell downstairs and punctured my lung, fell over a bannister whilst standing on a stool whilst changing a light bulb, fell out of the bath and dislocated my Shoulder, then finally falling off the bottom step and breaking my ankle in 3 places and had to have it operated on.

Heavens, MooMoo, you're certainly accident prone. I've managed to get to 82 without breaking anything! (Tempting Providence?)

Because, Welbeck, it was on the wettest night of the year. I told him I needed to go home, but he insisted on carrying on with the journey. I begged him not to, but he left me standing in the rain and drove off. I had to find a taxi and get into a hotel (in a city I’d never been too). The fact he was deemed okay to drive was beyond me. It appears he’d had an epileptic fit or seizure of some sort. I thought it totally irresponsible that he got into a car. He could have killed more than only me and him. I will only travel in a car with him for less than an hour. Yes, I was furious about the whole thing.

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Alypool hello. If you want people to respond to your post it will be better if you re-post it under Health. More people will take an interest, rather than your question being lost under a different topic. Hope this will help you.

How do I do that please?

I was coming back from a school field trip with my friend, we were the only 2 taking geography so had made our way to north Wales and home again. My dad was picking us up at Bristol station.
We were having a coffee in Birmingham, it was late evening and few people about, while waiting for our connection when a swarthy little man approached us and asked where we’re we going? We said Bristol and he said no problem, his car was outside and he’d take us. We politely refused but he became persistent. Luckily a Railway person saw him and as he came towards us the guy quickly walked away.
It was a while later when I saw a photo of Fred West that it clicked......

You know when they say "Where were you when such and such happened"? Well I can never remember but the one time that I can, it was two days before my eighteenth birthday. My older brother had an electric guitar and this particular day, I decided I was going to have a go with it. My dad had made a "stereogram" (remember those?). I was holding the electric guitar with one arm across the strings as I used my other hand to start a record on the stereogram. The second I touched the arm of the record player, I felt the shock go up my arm, everything when black and I came round on the other side of the room. My mom was in the kitchen and heard a loud noise and rushed into the front room. I remember her saying "Whatever happened?"to which I replied in a dazed fashion, "I dunno". I could have been electrocuted before my 18th birthday. I've always been very careful with electrical appliances since then.

I see I’m not the only poster whose cheating death experience involved being thrown by a horse. Anyone who rides falls off/is thrown at some stage. I only had one serious fall, thrown by a huge hunter type who had a reputation for behaving badly. I lost my hat flying through the air, landed on my head, unconscious, subsequent X-ray showed my top 7 vertebrae bent the wrong way.
Dangerous wonderful thing, riding

Alypoole

How do I do that please?

I use my phone for GN. This is how I would start a new post. Click on Forums. Select Health. Top right corner you will see a v in a pink circle. Click on the v and select the instruction to start a new post.

I nearly drowned when I was 4 years old I remember being on my back in the swimming pool going down and down very slowly and trying to reach for the bar to grab onto. My eyes were open and I could see the lights in the ceiling. I heard my mother screaming and a man jumped in and pulled me out.

3 years ago I survived serious sepsis I was in an induced coma for a week and all together hospital stay a month my hands and feet were completely black and I was incredibly lucky that I didnt lose any of my body parts

Yes many times during the London Blitz in WW2 when being bombed night and day. Plus being machine gunned in the hopfields and on the evacuee train.