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Hey Pandas, What Was The Moment When You Were Closest To Dying? How Has It Changed You?
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I had four moments. I was nearly hit by a train, almost stabbed by ex-husband, committed suicide but found in time, and recently, biten by a probably rabid fox.
I had functional depression for long time, but now, after a long period, I value life. I live the moment, enjoy what life gives me.
I’m glad you could find happiness. I’m so sorry that you suffered this much
Severe clinical depression. I stood on that bridge and thought “I could just jump and it would end”. Broke down in tears instead and got help. 10 years later, I’m happily married, have a little kid and am almost depression free thanks to medication and therapy.
I'm so happy that you are doing much, much better. I wish you the best of luck in the rest of your life!
Right now, having cancer...... I'm gazing into that abyss.......
I took a look in the mirror and thought "I'm tired of being a blonde"...of course, six months later it was magenta...
that is what we're talking about, right?
Once when I was living on a small coral atoll in the Pacific, I decided to go swimming all by myself in a remote area of the island. No one else was around. (Never ever do this! It is incredibly stupid). When I decided to return to shore, I found to my horror that a riptide was pushing me further out into the ocean. Only by swimming parallel to the island was I able to finally make it safely back to land. (And, by the way, I’m a terrible swimmer). I’ll never know why I didn’t drown right then and there.
Driving in northern NY between Syracuse & Watertown - huge lake effect snowstorm area (like you’ve seen in Buffalo this past month). One minute clear skies, clear roads; the next, total whiteout. Wet, heavy snow my windshield wipers could barely scrape off. There are limited exits, sometimes 15miles in between. Couldn’t pull over, couldn’t stop or I’d get hit… I’ve driven hundreds of thousands of miles over the years, but never experienced the sheer terror of that whiteout. Thank the gods I came up on a trucker going 10mph within the first 20minutes. S/he saved my life, and my sanity. Took us 2hrs to get out the other side. The result? I moved to a part of the country where it doesn’t snow, and much as I love the northeast, I’ll never go back in winter again!
Few years back I had a really bad allergic reaction. (If you don't want to read this all the way, there is a TLDR at the end)
I was leaving my swimming practice for the day, and I was given a granola bar, which had alot of nuts in it. (That will be important later on) I eat about half of the bar and I had to stop eating it, as my throat started to feel weird. So I let my mom know, and she wanted to take me to the ER, but being the amazingly stubborn child I was, I declined.
We get home, and I was starting to feel worse and worse. My mom sent me to shower, as I had chlorine from the pool in my hair. At that point, my lips were completely swollen, and it was getting harder to breathe. I get out of the shower, and I'm feeling super sick, like really sick. My mom knew something was up, as my dad had made my favorite dinner that night, and I wanted nothing to do with it. Thus, I was ordered to lay on the couch.
About 5 minutes of doing so, I got up and ran to the bathroom. In said bathroom, I profusely threw up. (Thankfully in the toilet) Once I was done emptying the contents of my stomach, my airways were shutting down, causing me to gasp for air. My mom told my dad to go grab my slippers, because she was taking me to the ER. I was to focused on breathing to protest.
Once in the car, (my mom later told me) I passed out. She [my mom] was able to wake me up and only recently told me that was one of the scariest moments of her life. Thankfully at the time we lived near the ER, so the drive wasn't bad. Once we arrived, my mom rushed me into the building, and told the lady working at the desk "Please help, she's not breathing right" or something along those lines, I unfortunately discarded some of the bad parts from my mind. The front desk lady took us to the back, and they did a quick examination on me, and asked my mom what I had ate in the past few hours. The only thing I had ate was that granola bar. My mom told the doctor/nurse what was in the bar, and the drawn conclusion was I was in an extremely bad anaphylaxis. They weren't quite sure how I was still here...
The doctor/nurse left the room to grab an EpiPen, which are used to stop anaphylaxis is the most basic term I can think of. While the doctor/nurse was out, I threw up again. However, once I had puked once more, I was able to breath again. The doctor/nurse came back with the EpiPens, and explained to me how they worked. Similar to a needle, but not. You take the safety cap off *also known as blue to the sky* and stab the orange part to your thigh *orange to the thigh*. If anyone tells you the EpiPen is to go elsewhere than your thigh, they are wrong. The doctor/nurse gave me the 1st EpiPen, and left the room to call an ambulance to take me to the hospital. When she came back, I was still not doing better, so the 2nd EpiPen was administrated to me. A little bit after that, the ambulance arrived and took me to the hospital.
I left the hospital around 3am, and was diagnosed a few weeks later with being highly allergic to all tree nuts, (nuts that grow on trees, not peanuts, peanuts are a ground nut) and the nuts I was most allergic to were Pistachios and Cashews, both of which were in the bar. I was also diagnosed with the allergy of sesame.
Its been half a decade since that took place and I know now that even a slight misread of something could result in my death, and so I am very cautious around food, and for the 1st 3 months post reaction, I didn't eat much. That experience showed me that life can be taken away from you, even if you are young.
Thank you for reading this!!
TLDR: I had a very bad allergic reaction to a granola bar that had tree nuts in it, which caused me to almost die, it showed me that life can be ended in the blink of an eye.
Sorry it's really long...I don't write much and I just kinda let my thoughts free =D
I’m loving reading everybody’s stories. All of you are such cool people
I’m loving reading everybody’s stories. All of you are such cool people
