What's Your Closest Near Death Experience?

Will said:

I was swinging on a vine from a tree with my friend. This was a dead tree, but I was younger and didn't really care. It was fun while it lasted. Well my friend and I hopped on the vine after many times of swinging, and I heard a crack, and before I knew it the tree was falling directly towards me. Stupid me I wanted to get my bike before running to get away. I was 2 steps away from that tree crushing me, and I'm glad I saved my bike :3

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Dykerosoft said:

One time this guy spec'ed a 740 with his AGS. I had two HP left.

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Ireppgold said:

Just today I got dog piled on and passed out at school.

Win.

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Steezy said:

Closest near death experience eh, be prepared for a long one.

When I was 14, I was a diehard for skateboarding... did it every day I could.

Well, I was skateboarding down this huge cobblestone hill in front of our mall and you can get going pretty fast... especially when your bearings were as slick as mine, lol.

Well anyways, I was flying down this hill and it cuts into a courtyard. Right at the path exit into the courtyard, there is a curb/ledge you need to get over. Well, I thought I had ollied high enough to make it over, but my back trucks caught the ledge bring my skateboard to a complete stop.

Of course, when the skateboard stopped dead in it's tracks, it launched me about 4-6 feet and causing me to land on my side. When I landed, my elbow dug underneath my ribcage (on the left side) and I slid on it for about 3 more feet.

When I landed, I instantly stood up, winded as f*ck attempting to catch my breath. After about 5 minutes, I could finally breathe again and my buddy was asking me if I was alright. I replied yeah, as my shoulder was the only thing hurting, but I felt really weak. So we decided to head back to his place which was about a 2 KM walk.

When we got to his place, I decided to lay down, but I couldn't get comfortable no matter how I was laying down. His mom came in and I asked if I wanted to go to the hospital, and me being stubborn said no. She then told me she was going to take me home because I was turning really pale and I didn't look well.

After getting home, my parents asked me where I was hurting and I once again said just my shoulder... as that was the only place I was experiencing pain. So they didn't think much and told me to just lay down since I didn't want to go to the hospital. Well, that lasted for about 5 minutes before I was this excruciating pain and finally forced myself to go down to the hospital.

Once there, the Triage nurse checked me out and said she couldn't determine what was wrong with me and to wait out in the waiting room.

I was there for about 3 hours before I started feeling sick and I went into the bathroom. I sat down on the toilet and all I can remember is feeling really dizzy. I started puking up blood everywhere and my mom could hear me puking. She called in the nurses/doctors and they couldn't get me to respond. They started jumping over the stall and crawling underneath in an attempt to get the door open.

Once they had me out, I was covered in blood and I had lost ALL colour in my skin. I was thrown in a wheelchair and rushed to a room. They did a few tests, did an ultrasound and came to the conclusion that I was bleeding internally.

I had ruptured my Spleen in 4 places and nearly tore it in half. The reason I was feeling pain in my shoulder is because all the blood had nowhere to go and I guess it just goes the shoulder causing a lot of discomfort.

They decided to leave my Spleen in and let it heal on it's own... well that was a 3 week process of me laying down in a bed in the hospital eating their shitty food. After the 3 weeks, they let me out and I was back in a week because my Spleen had opened up again. I was there for 6 more days after that before my final release.

Then, after all of that... I had pneumonia. I guess from me healing and laying down the whole time caused some fluid to build up in my lungs so I had to go back so they could keep an eye on that.

It took another 13 months and I was right back on my skateboard =).

Was pretty fucking scary to think about though, because the doctor said if I had fallen asleep at home, I would have died... so I guess it's good that the pain was so much that I went down there, lol.

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Steezy said:

Closest near death experience eh, be prepared for a long one.

When I was 14, I was a diehard for skateboarding... did it every day I could.

Well, I was skateboarding down this huge cobblestone hill in front of our mall and you can get going pretty fast... especially when your bearings were as slick as mine, lol.

Well anyways, I was flying down this hill and it cuts into a courtyard. Right at the path exit into the courtyard, there is a curb/ledge you need to get over. Well, I thought I had ollied high enough to make it over, but my back trucks caught the ledge bring my skateboard to a complete stop.

Of course, when the skateboard stopped dead in it's tracks, it launched me about 4-6 feet and causing me to land on my side. When I landed, my elbow dug underneath my ribcage (on the left side) and I slid on it for about 3 more feet.

When I landed, I instantly stood up, winded as f*ck attempting to catch my breath. After about 5 minutes, I could finally breathe again and my buddy was asking me if I was alright. I replied yeah, as my shoulder was the only thing hurting, but I felt really weak. So we decided to head back to his place which was about a 2 KM walk.

When we got to his place, I decided to lay down, but I couldn't get comfortable no matter how I was laying down. His mom came in and I asked if I wanted to go to the hospital, and me being stubborn said no. She then told me she was going to take me home because I was turning really pale and I didn't look well.

After getting home, my parents asked me where I was hurting and I once again said just my shoulder... as that was the only place I was experiencing pain. So they didn't think much and told me to just lay down since I didn't want to go to the hospital. Well, that lasted for about 5 minutes before I was this excruciating pain and finally forced myself to go down to the hospital.

Once there, the Triage nurse checked me out and said she couldn't determine what was wrong with me and to wait out in the waiting room.

I was there for about 3 hours before I started feeling sick and I went into the bathroom. I sat down on the toilet and all I can remember is feeling really dizzy. I started puking up blood everywhere and my mom could hear me puking. She called in the nurses/doctors and they couldn't get me to respond. They started jumping over the stall and crawling underneath in an attempt to get the door open.

Once they had me out, I was covered in blood and I had lost ALL colour in my skin. I was thrown in a wheelchair and rushed to a room. They did a few tests, did an ultrasound and came to the conclusion that I was bleeding internally.

I had ruptured my Spleen in 4 places and nearly tore it in half. The reason I was feeling pain in my shoulder is because all the blood had nowhere to go and I guess it just goes the shoulder causing a lot of discomfort.

They decided to leave my Spleen in and let it heal on it's own... well that was a 3 week process of me laying down in a bed in the hospital eating their shitty food. After the 3 weeks, they let me out and I was back in a week because my Spleen had opened up again. I was there for 6 more days after that before my final release.

Then, after all of that... I had pneumonia. I guess from me healing and laying down the whole time caused some fluid to build up in my lungs so I had to go back so they could keep an eye on that.

It took another 13 months and I was right back on my skateboard =).

Was pretty fucking scary to think about though, because the doctor said if I had fallen asleep at home, I would have died... so I guess it's good that the pain was so much that I went down there, lol.

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