Closest you have been to death?



Walking home one night pissed I kicked a football over a metal spiked fence. Went to retrieve it and slipped putting the spike through my throat and another through my chin. Managed to get off and to a phone box across the road. Phoned an ambulance and my dad. Told my dad I think I’m done in. Spent the night in surgery and had a blood transfusion. Remember seeing blood just pumping out of me and thinking there’s no way this can last. Weird experience.
f***ing hell mate
 
Walking home one night pissed I kicked a football over a metal spiked fence. Went to retrieve it and slipped putting the spike through my throat and another through my chin. Managed to get off and to a phone box across the road. Phoned an ambulance and my dad. Told my dad I think I’m done in. Spent the night in surgery and had a blood transfusion. Remember seeing blood just pumping out of me and thinking there’s no way this can last. Weird experience.
Ouch, glad you made it fella, it wasn't your time xx
Probably now. Relatively fit and healthy at 65 but appreciate that death is nearer now than it ever was
I feel the same at 43, as I'm not fit or healthy sadly. My hope is that I live to see my bairn grow up, anything more is a bonus xx
 
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Headache from hell dec 2017. Dr’s thought it was migraine. Ended up in A&E having a CT scan and then getting transferred to the John Radcliffe Oxford by ambulance on Xmas eve where I was diagnosed with a massive brain aneurysm which thankfully hadn’t ruptured. Spent Xmas and new year in there waiting for an operation which they didn’t do till the new year. Had 21 coils put in which they did while I was awake and I hope I never have to go through owt like that again.

Oh yeah, for the first couple of days in hospital I saw ghosts everywhere. Very weird....
 
Knocked off my push bike in 1983 by a hit and run driver being chased by the police when I lived in Germany.

I broke both collar bones, cracked 3 ribs which punctured my lung. I was left lying in the road at 1am and had to push myself up off the road despite my injuries and stagger to a pub where I knocked on the door and collapsed. I remember lying in the road thinking
- 1 I've got tickets for the German Cup Final tomorrow so they better sort me out sharpish
- 2 if I don't get up I'm going to die.

I spent 4.5 weeks in hospital, 2 of which were in intensive care. and a blood transfusion, so like Oz in Auf Widersehen Pet I'm part German now.

Puts life and Jack Ross's tactics into perspective @TAFKAHM @squashjoe @Botchie @Tin Soldier
 
I've been extremely lucky so far and haven't spent a night in hospital other than the day I was born. I haven't been to A&E for myself either. I am quite clumsy so it's a mystery how I've never managed to break a bone or need stitches.
 
I used to go to school with the lad. I'm 5ft 5 and he's about 6ft 4, he was high on drugs and claimed he couldn't remember any of it. Basically he knew he could chin me so he just did for the hell of it. I've still got 5 metal plates in my jaw and you can physically feel 2 of them.

Did he ever give a meaningful apology (not just through his brief during the trial)?
 
Crushed by a fork lift truck, driver had jumped off it continued on its way at a slow speed. I had my back to it, and felt the load it was carrying push into my back. Things were getting serious I yelled just before things were going black, the driver stopped the truck at the last moment. Suffered spinal injuries and crushed knees, life changing.
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Headache from hell dec 2017. Dr’s thought it was migraine. Ended up in A&E having a CT scan and then getting transferred to the John Radcliffe Oxford by ambulance on Xmas eve where I was diagnosed with a massive brain aneurysm which thankfully hadn’t ruptured. Spent Xmas and new year in there waiting for an operation which they didn’t do till the new year. Had 21 coils put in which they did while I was awake and I hope I never have to go through owt like that again.

Oh yeah, for the first couple of days in hospital I saw ghosts everywhere. Very weird....
I’ve had the coils put in as well as when I had the haemorrhage they found other aneurysms.

My mam had hers done last year but it was a type of webbing they used.
I was fished from the bottom of a swimming pool unconscious. Resuscitated at the side of the pool

Would have been about 5.
Scary that like.
 
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Hit by a golf ball when I was 14, I was stood to one side in the rough and the guy pulled the ball hard to the left. Hit me under the arm on the muscle at the back of the armpit, very lucky
My brother in law got struck by lightning while he was playing golf at Alnmouth. He was just a kid at the time, and still suffers with his nerves 50 odd years later.
 
Go on, very intriguing.
Every time I closed my eyes I could see them. They were just people going about their business but they weren’t nurses or anything. They were just regular people.....children too. I’d be watching them and thinking “why don’t they get out of my room when I’m trying to sleep?” It was relentless and then after a couple of days I didn’t see them anymore. The strongest medication I was on was paracetamol. It wasn’t scary.
I’ve had the coils put in as well as when I had the haemorrhage they found other aneurysms.
Can you feel them in your head still? I can.
 
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