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When life is boring, we wish it could be more like a movie. But hardly anyone ever wishes their life was more like a horror movie. We often want to put our horrible experiences behind us. Still, sometimes, sharing them with other people can help us get things off our chest and maybe bring awareness to things people wouldn’t normally pay attention to.
So when a person asked, “What is the scariest experience you have gone through?“, thousands of people rushed to share their stories and show support for people who were brave enough to tell theirs. If you feel inspired to share your own life-changing scary story, feel free to do so in the comments, dear Pandas!
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#1
When I was eleven years old, my neighbor was using a bulldozer to clear out some of the wooded area on his property. For context, we lived in a waaaay rural area; while the property lines were touching at the back end of the property, it would have taken twenty minutes to walk from our driveway to their driveway.
In this said wooded area, where our neighbors generally said we were allowed to play, I had constructed/cleared a little hiding place in a hollow in the ground surrounded by a big stump and some fallen trees.
The day of the bulldozing, I was watching from the edge of the wooded area when I suddenly had the STUPIDEST idea of my life: wouldn’t it be so much easier to watch from the hiding place? So I walked over and climbed in while my neighbor was facing another direction. I watched from a large peephole as he disappeared behind the big stump that was the largest portion of wall in my hiding place.
Wait… why didn’t he appear on the other side?
The stump started moving toward me at what seemed like light speed. To my horror, my feet were immediately caught underneath the clay clumped in the roots. I fell on my back, screaming. No one was going to hear me while the bulldozer was going, though. I screamed and tried to shake bushes around me to catch my neighbor’s attention, but he didn’t notice. The stump creeped further and further up my leg, sometimes stopping as the dozer repositioned, but always resuming its terrifying movement. It couldn’t have taken that long, but it felt like hours.
I knew I was going to die. I would die buried under earth and debris and no one would know what happened to me.
When the stump reached my waist, a miracle happened. It stopped moving! The bulldozer shut off, and suddenly I could hear my own screaming! So could everyone else, as my neighbor ran over, my sisters and mom sprinted down from our house, and for some reason my dog Cookie was licking my face.
Three hours, twenty volunteer firefighters, two jaws of life, and an ambulance later, I found out why I was alive. My scruffy little schnauzer Cookie, the hero that she was, had come to save me. I’m tearing up just typing this. I guess she heard me screaming or had already been close or something, but she jumped on top of the stump and stared down that bulldozer, barking at it like it was a mountain lion that was ready to eat me. Of course my neighbor didn’t want to hurt her, so he cut off the machine and finally heard me shrieking for help.
My injuries ended up not being too bad, considering. Leg broken in a couple places, several surgeries, in a wheelchair for a few months. Cookie and I made the front page in every city in the county, and two different feed companies awarded her a year’s supply of dog food. My sweet puppy is no longer with us, but she’ll always be the best dog I could ever have. I miss you girl, and thank you.
tl;dr My neighbor accidentally pushed a thousand-pound stump on top of me, and my dog saved my life.
Tessana Nemenski 1 year ago
12/10 Good doggo! I hope cookie is in the best part of doggie heaven.
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
Stories like this make me so mad about people saying that animals don't have human emotions. Bulllsht! That little dog risked her own life because she loved you so much🥰
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#2
It's happening right now. My wife is in the ICU with pneumonia on top of a year+ long battle with cancer. Sedated, on a ventilator and barely clinging to life, her heart could just give out at any time and that's it. I'm literally sitting in her room all night fully expecting to lose her sometime tonight or in the next couple days. Ive been through some scary moments in my life, but in a completely different way, this is by far the scariest night of my life.
Jake Languard 1 year ago
Update: this was posted 2 years ago and sadly op's wife passed away in 2021 a couple months after her 39th birthday. May she rest in peace </3
Lulu John 1 year ago
I, too did some digging and found out they are in another relationship that is going well. I’m happy for them.
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Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
This broke my heart for 2 complete strangers. I truly hope that she gets through the pneumonia and makes a full recovery from cancer. F U CANCER
Melissa Buddin 1 year ago
Nothing any of us can say will make this any easier, but know that a lot of thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife right now because of your post.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Losing my second husband nearly killed me. I divorced the first one. When we became a couple, as the moribund marriage died, we’d 20 years as best friends (we were 16 and 14 when we met) and he was the only one of my friends my ex had liked. We had another 20 years together. One month shy, actually. I’d planned to grow old with him, my Edward. I’m 60 now and he’s been gone 6 years. I wish you all the best, and you also have my deepest condolences.
tuzdayschild 1 year ago
I lost my best friend of 40 years to cancer 1week before last Christmas. I am so sorry you both have to endure this.
#3
My husband calling me to tell me his brother took his parents' lives and that I needed to get the dogs and myself out of the house immediately in case his brother was on his way to our house. I was incredibly fortunate that a neighbor let me hide the dogs in her garage and come in until my husband gave me the all clear to go home.
Nichole Harris 1 year ago
Baby girl.... Plz get you some help!!! You're wonderfully strong and not alone❤️❤️❤️
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Alexandra 1 year ago
Glad you were safe, but started wondering why you were 'fortunate' your neighbour took you and your dogs in because that seems to me to be the normal thing to do, until I realised that people might think taking you in would mean endangering themselves. You must have been so scared.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Am I reading this wrong that husband called to tell her that his brother killed his parents.?
#4
Giving birth to my son, they put him on my chest for about 5 seconds then snatched him up and an entire team of medical types crowded around him working in complete silence. He wasn't breathing. I got to see him for all of 3 seconds, and only heard a couple of weak cries before they rushed him to the NICU. Two hours later they came up to tell us he was on a ventilator and not doing great, they suspected a heart defect and were going to helicopter him to the closest children's hospital (about 90 miles away). We did not get to see him for five hours and it was a couple days before we could hold him. I gave birth at midnight, so all of this was happening in the late late hours.
A couple of relatively common issues had happened, both of which on their own need immediate attention but are not difficult to deal with, but the resolution of one caused serious problems because of the second. His heart is fine. He's a perfectly happy healthy preschooler now who is squirting bath water into the tub faucet and laughing hysterically.
Justme 1 year ago
My little boy was born a bit early and did pretty well in the NICU for a week. Then developed a bowel infection. Scariest thing I ever witnessed was them calling a code blue and doing CPR as his little belly swelled up and turned black. He suffered so much that day, they finally put him in my arms to say goodbye and I sang him a lullaby as he died.
Sunshine Lady 1 year ago
Something similar happened during the birth of my second child. He was crying, but his lungs didn't open as they should. Rushed to NICU, several hours later they said they can't tell if he will live. Due to lack of oxygen to the brain for several minutes he was getting spasms on each touch. Several days later doctors said he will probably live, but he will be damaged for life. Thank God, he is a happy 5 years old now, absolutely healthy boy. I was somehow prepared for that journey by God, I was completely calm during the whole time he was in NICU.
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
I caught COVID and bacterial pneumonia when I was 34 weeks pregnant with my twins. While both conditions were fairly mild, bacteria had migrated to my pacemaker and a couple of leads got infected. The doctors admitted me to the hospital and pumped full of antibiotics to no avail. I was getting sicker everyday. The only option was to deliver early by c-section and then replace my pacemaker. My OGBYN insisted on waiting until was 36 weeks. I barely made it. I was awake for the c-section but I could feel the life quickly draining from my body. I was crying hysterically because I genuinely thought my babies would motherless. I remember kissing my son and then everything went black. My heart had stopped. My daughter was safely born before my cardiologist cracked my chest and shocked my heart. Pacemaker surgery was successful. I was placed into a medically induced coma for three weeks because my body had endured a lot of trauma. My twins survived and are 2 years old now.
pocwaddler 1 year ago
My first daughter had the cord wrapped around her neck, and as she came out, her vitals plunged. The doctor and nurses grabbed her and took off; I plastered myself against the wall to stay out of the way. Got it sorted and she's happy and a mother herself now.
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Scariest thing I have ever experienced - the nurse holding my hand and saying "Stay with me" as the doctor yelled to staff because I was haemorrhaging after giving birth. Just as an FYI - telling someone to stay with me is tantamount to saying - hey, you are about to die. All I could think was, I'm going to die and I have never even held my beautiful little girl!
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago (edited)
When I had my first daughter, I needed an emergency c-section due to fetal distress every time I had a contraction. I remember telling my husband not to hold it against our baby if something happened to me during the surgery. The local anesthetic traveled which meant they had to put me out so they could breathe for me. Husband was fine with my dad, the retired surgeon, going into the surgery room to hold my hand and letting him (husband) stay in the waiting room. 29 years later, daughter's doing great but I really need to work on the baby weight.
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Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
That last sentence brought me genuine joy. We all love a happy ending!
#5
My mom was in ICU for a month when I was 18. She'd come out of ICU and been moved to a regular room and she seemed to be getting better. I had a scholarship to college and she told me to go. I did and I didn't want to go. This was my one shot, you know? But I wanted to stay and be there for her, but she told me to go, so I did. Second day of classes I got a call at 5am. She'd arrested. She had no living will so they brought her back and she was on life support but had no brain activity. I had to sign the papers to turn off the machines. I was 18 and she was my only family. I'm 51 now and I'm tearing up as I write this. I k*lled my mother. Yes, yes, I know, brain dead. They did scans, the neurologist advised me, I've had counseling. But at the end of the day, I signed papers, they turned off machines, and my mother died. And then I was alone. Make a living will. Don't ever put your children or spouse through what I went through.
Tara Moov 1 year ago
You didn't "kill" her. You let go of a body that no longer housed the person you knew and loved. Wishing you peace.
Nick Triantafyllidis 1 year ago
I can't imagine the emotional burden of having convinced yourself that you "killed" your mother. :/
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Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
Seeing my 17 y/o baby cousin on life support pronounced brain dead was so heartbreaking. I can’t imagine the pain of being the one who HAS to decide to let them go. I hope so much I never have to be in that position.
pocwaddler 1 year ago
I was 17 when my father died suddenly. My mother checked out, wailing and keening in their bedroom. My brother and sisters went back to their jobs and families and I was left to do everything. I cleaned out his office and his company car, I closed bank accounts because we were moving. I dealt with the funeral. Meanwhile my mother kept keening. I had to force food on her. Changed my relationship with her to the day she died.
Just me... 1 year ago
You DID NOT kill your mother but I understand. I DID NOT kill my father-in-law too.
María Hermida 1 year ago
You didn't kill her. I don't know whether there is an afterlife or not, but you freed her. Only her body was kept "alive", but the person she was, her wishes, dreams, experiences, sensations, memories, had vanished. You were generous enough to let her go.
#6
I grew up thinking my house was haunted.
Weird s**t would happen all of the time. I’d walk into rooms and lights would turn on. I’d go to the kitchen in the middle of the night and cupboards would be open. I’d hear footsteps upstairs when I was home alone. I’d feel the ghost sit down on the bed while I was trying to sleep… ya know, typical “haunting” stuff that would freak any kid out.
Then I had a stalker that started getting weird when I was in my late teens.
Turns out it was much, much worse than I could have imagined.
The stalker was actually a peeping Tom that had been watching me since I was (possibly as young as) 7. As it turns out, there was no ghost and the house wasn’t haunted. The psycho was breaking in when I was home alone and f*****g with me (as a little kid!). As I got older, he got more bold. He’d come in at night when my parents were home and even sit on my bed while I was trying to sleep.
Pretty sure he found where my mom stashed the extra key and just made a copy. Never caught the guy, cops said it was “just some high school boy making jokes.”
I’ve had lots of therapy.
Alexandra 1 year ago
Sorry what??? "just some high school boy making jokes'? Sounds like your friendly police department didn't feel like getting their finger out to resolve this situation.
Susie Elle 1 year ago
Ain't it great how psychotic behavior is sometimes just made out to be 'boys who do stupid s**t'?
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María Hermida 1 year ago
Sounds like that bunch of mother f*****s didn't feel like working. I'm not surprised you needed lots of therapy. I would have moved to a bunker and bought a gun, and obviously learnt how to shoot to kill. In general, I'm against weapons, but what else can people do when those who are supposed to protect you aren't willing to do their job?
FROGLET 1 year ago
I'm sorry, he was F*****G WITH YOU WHEN YOU WERE AS YOUNG AS SEVEN, and the police thought he was MAKING JOKES? I WILL STRANGLE THAT POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEN STRANGLE THE KID!
KariAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇵🇸🇩🇿 1 year ago
Kids making jokes? What kind of sick weird dismissive thinking is this? This is terrifying. My god the trauma that poor person went through. Its just horrifying. I can't believe how they were treated.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
My ex stalked and harassed me for over a year. He did weird sh*t like that, too. He'd sit in the front garden wailing "Why don't you love me?" Slashed my tires, etc. Even though I'd changed the locks, he broke in while my kids & I were at a wedding. His calling card? Leaving my jewelry box on top of the toaster. I got to work only to find a shoebox full of cards I'd given him in the back seat of my car (which was in the locked garage). We were having dinner one night and could hear him in the attic crawl space above us. The King County Sheriff officers were the best. I was on a first name basis with at leat 20 of them. As soon as my number showed up they were dispatched. He always managed to get away split seconds before they arrived. He left death threats against me & my kids ON MY ANSWERING MACHINE and Caller ID showed he had called from HIS PARENT'S HOUSE. Finally had cause to arrest him. Mf*cker went to jail for a year & we moved. Being stalked is horrifying.
#7
When I was a teenager I had an irregular heart rhythm, and required a medication called adenosine.
Adenosine is usually given via infusion just once or twice, in hospital under careful monitoring, and the side effects include an 'impending sense of doom'. This side effect relates to your heart beat temporarily stopping. This fires signals to your brain, telling you it's time to panic. Or you've reached the end.
'Impending sense of doom' doesn't begin to describe it. I was told in advance, but nothing prepares you for it. I went from sitting on the hospital bed, just finished a sandwich and thinking about my year 11 exam, to suddenly being certain that I was going to die here. I've never felt so sure of anything - I couldn't move or speak, and my mind suddenly raced very fast, to the extent I couldn't keep up with my own thoughts. It was similar to what you hear about your life flashing before your eyes. My brain was drowning, and telling me to find more oxygen - even though I was breathing fine. I was suddenly sure this was a nightmare, that this hospital was fake and all the doctors and nurses were actors, and I was poisoned.
Then it was over in seconds. I haven't had a single heart problem since.
Barbara Davis 1 year ago
Believe me, the nurses hold their breath during that brief interval as well. It is terrifying to watch the monitor flat-line while the heart resets, but then there is a wonderful beat and the patient is fine!
Upsetipasketi 1 year ago
That's exactly what panic attacks for Me feel like. Minus the being poisoned part.
Aranora 1 year ago
I had panic attacks in my 20s, it feels like you might die. I had crushing sense of doom, following anaphylaxis, it's the sense that you know you are dying.
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Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
I'm prone to my potassium levels dropping causing arrhythmia - easily treated with oral medication if caught in time, which I usually do. If it gets worse and my heart rhythm is too bad I need to go to a&e for IVs pronto before I arrest. Its been years since I've needed to do that but I remember the impending doom.
Aballi 1 year ago
This sounds horrifying. I did ketamine therapy for my depression a few years ago, and one of the at home doses the doctor gave me ended up being too much. I moved into this alternate world where I wasn’t sure if I was alive or dead, and everything seemed both too real and not real at all. It took me forever (because it was difficult to understand my phone and to press the letters) but I finally managed to type a text to a friend who happens to be a social worker, and she stayed on the phone with me for 2 hours. It was absolutely terrifying. I stopped the ketamine treatment after that!
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Ouch. I suffer from hallucinations so I know that impending doom. Glad it was short term. Unfortunately mine isn't.
Lady Lestrange 1 year ago
Certain medications are so complicated and comes with strange side-effects that it's really terrifying to take them even if you know those are going to save you. I've had very bad experience with my psoriasis medicines. But nothing like the one OP mentioned.
heather morris 1 year ago
I had that happen when they gave me a medication that I was allergic to and it is so scary I hope that never happens again
#8
My ex husband pressed a loaded pistol to my forehead and screamed at me because he thought I had cheated on him. I hadn't, but my emotional state was in such a bad condition that all I could think was, just pull the damn trigger, I know I haven't cheated and at least if I'm dead I won't have to be this unhappy anymore. It was not the first nor the last time he hurt me, but I got out eventually after being thrown down stairs, across rooms, threatened with a knife, punched, choked, burned with cigarettes and manipulated to make me think it was my fault. Screw that a*****e.
Helen Bennett 1 year ago
So many of these terrifying moments involve guns. What if... you know... guns weren't available to buy literally in Walmart?
Deeelite 1 year ago
Guns would just be replaced by knives or other objects - if someone is hell bent on hurting you - not having a gun isn't going to stop them
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Laura Williams 1 year ago
So happy you left. Nobody deserves to be put through that c**p. I yelled at my daughters boyfriend for similar action. They thought it was a joke. I informed them that a gun is not a toy and it is never to be put up to someone's head. Unfortunately not the only time I had to have that conversation. The other time it was children and a mother who put the gun under a pillow. Not a joke ever. Sorry you lived through hèll. Please try therapy.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Given I am literally watching a news report right now about the protests going on in Australia this week because of gender based violence, this hits hard. For every story of someone who got out, there are many more who didn't. We as public need to do more, teach children and call out adults that it is not okay, and our governments need to do more. People literally scream out for help and don't get it, or if they do, it's too late!
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
OMG, I've had that happen to me as well. I'm so sorry you went through that and sincerely hope you're in a much better place now.
Betty Vanderhooven-SchmaaSchmaa 1 year ago
Statistically more ppl have died from gun violence than both worlds wars combined. And that's just in America. Guns build or create nothing. Argue all you want but you can't win when someone that's supposed to love you is aiming a gun at you.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I'm sorry but your "statistic" is wrong. 75 million people died in WW2. The worst year of gun violence deaths in the US is about 48,000. The number of gun violence deaths has been steadily rising (ie: there were a lot less gun deaths in the past). Even if we use the higher figure of 48,000 per year you wind up with about 12 million deaths in the US. In reality it's actually a lot lower than that. Even WW1 had about 20 million deaths, again more than the *high* estimate for the US by gun violence. Don't get me wrong 48k deaths a year is way to high. But if you're going to quote stats you need to get them right.
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Tony Chambers 1 year ago
Had an ex fire a .22 rifle past my head while I was facedown on the bed. I felt the bullet go through my hair. In the end, I had a blown out eardrum, subsequent massive infection and survived.
#9
My son had his first seizure while I was driving. He was in the back seat and I heard a noise. I looked in the rearview mirror and he was convulsing with blood running out of his mouth. Then he collapsed, I thought he had died. To this day, I don't know how I was able to get off the freeway, call 911 and check his pulse. He was 7 years seizure free on Nov. 29, but that one day changed my life forever.
Lyoness 1 year ago
Seizure disorders (what used to be called epilepsy) need treatment ASAP, especially in young children. The seizures most people are familiar with are focal or mal (the big ones with convulsions and violent reactions) but people don't usually recognise an absence seizure. They're much less noticeable - the person's eyes unfocus and it's almost like they go away for a moment. The may waver a little, then snap back to reality. If you see this in your kids (or anyone else for that matter) please see a doctor.
ZGutr 1 year ago (edited)
That's scary stuff. My daughter -2 Yo at the time- started screaming from the backseat while I pulled on to the motorway. Quick look and I saw blood coming out of her mouth, so immediately I pulled over. 5 seconds later a police officer on a motorcycle knocked on my window to tell me I'm not allowed to stop there. No clue what I said to him -not very kind for sure- but he sped off faster than anything else I've ever seen.
B 1 year ago
The other night I was sleeping & heard my husband down the hall start coughing, Thankfully I'm a light sleeper he was having a seizure & choking. ( he has uncontrolled Epilepsy) my 5 ft 1 frame grabbed this 200 lb man & rolled him onto his side to start banging on his back & dislodge what he was choking on. He coughed some stuff up & then came to. It's true you go on autopilot & your brain just takes over. No emotions just do this now that. This has become such a normal thing for us anymore that he said I'm feeling better & I want a snack.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
My mother called me, hysterical, saying that my father died and she doesn’t know what to do. She was so upset she forgot how to call 911. Turns out, he had a seizure and looked like he was dead and not breathing. Three hours later, he walked out of the hospital under his own power. He found out he has a slow growing brain tumor but his current plan is to die of something else before it gets to be a problem as he’s 82. Two and a half years after the seizure, he’s out playing golf today.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
I had my first tonic-clonic seizure in the car with my mum driving! Luckily for both of us her job involves diagnosing and managing epilepsy so she knew what was happening and she didn't freak out (also, I didn't bite my tongue so there was no blood which always helps). Really helpful to have her as an eye-witness to the seizure when it came to getting a diagnosis of epilepsy - an epilepsy doctor describing a classic tonic-clonic leaves little room for doubt. Sorry you went through something so scary - and I'm so pleased your son's epilepsy is so well-controlled now.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My brother had a degenerative disability, which included epilepsy. One day he and my sister were being looked after by a friend/carer, who had taken them to an event. My brother stopped breathing, I'm not sure if it was epilepsy or general desaturation he often got, but his pulse oximeter began alarming. She had to pull over on the side of the freeway and begin bagging him, while my sister (4 or so) watched on. She said it was one of the most terrifying moments of her life, and she has had a lot of experience caring for children with disability. I can't remember if she finally managed to get his oxygen level up, or had to call an ambulance, but it was definitely a serious situation.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago (edited)
That's called "crisis mode". I'm grateful to have it myself. My brain just says "You can fall apart later, now's the time to get to work". I (usually with my Mom) have been the first on the scene of more accidents that I can count. Once the EMTs arrive I can freak out, but not before.
#10
Please no negative comments about this. It’s irritating when I get asked did I think to catch the ball. I got hit in the left eye at a baseball game by a line drive. It was going at 100 mph. It was to late to think is that the ball coming at my face because it is small and at the speed hard to see. I was looking for it as soon as I heard it leave the bat. I didn’t realize how much of an impact it had on my face until I sat down. I was standing up after the 8 inning stretch when it hit me. I was going to walk it off like a black eye but as soon as I sat down I knew something was wrong. I couldn’t see out of my left eye. The rush around me from my boyfriend (now my husband) and from others around me was frightening. I ended up losing my eye. Adjusting wasn’t hard because of the support system around me.
Prince Lee 1 year ago
lost my eye to a guy trying to keep me quiet and do as he wanted, when i was 7, he used a screwdriver on it.... only popped it out of socket but damaged it enough that i had to lose it fully, i now have a glass out/prop one {and they come in diff colors so that's cool!}
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago
I hope that guy rotted in jail for eternity or died a horrible, slow, violent death (like burnt to death)
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*Confused Screaming* 1 year ago
Yes. As a baseball player, this can 100% happen and it can be 100% not your fault. When you’re dealing with fractions of a second, the smallest things can be the difference between snagging the line drive or getting drilled. The sun being a little bit weird, or a hair too slow getting your glove out can have huge consequences
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Not baseball, but we see it in cricket too. It's a small ball and it's easy to lose it in the lights, or amongst the background visual noise of the stadium. It's actually surprising more people don't end up hurt. Especially these days where t20 cricket is a thing and the goal is pretty much to hit the ball into the grandstands as often as possible.
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Brenda 1 year ago
This person is lucky to be alive. A line drive that hits at just the right spot on the temple can just end your life like that. Wow. How awful!
Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
Just think about the professional football player that got struck in the chest last year with a football. Caused sometime of heart problem. Belive it stop his heart. Could have died from that. Had to be rush to the hospital. Can't recall all the details.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago
In response to several fatalities and God knows how many injuries, baseball has finally begun hanging netting up around the edges of the infield.
pocwaddler 1 year ago
I got hit full square in the eye by a racquetball, struck with force about three feet away. My eye closed up and stayed that way for about two weeks, but fully recovered. I really thought I was going to lose my eye.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I had eye surgery when I was 8 and a few months later my school had an excursion to a sports facility where one of the sports we could try was squash (racquetball). My mum checked with my surgeon and was told I was not allowed to play, even with safety glasses on, because the risk of detaching my retina was too high. I'm glad you managed to heal well.
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Binky Melnik 1 year ago
“Did you think to catch the ball?” is like asking “Did you think to catch the bullet?” Man, people aren’t just stupid, but also cruel.
Lorraine R 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoIdrrWDN8 - MLB Pitchers - "Comebackers". If these top-level athletes couldn't catch the ball, how can anyone expect a fan in the stands to do so?
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Malakai 1 year ago
People who say 'why didn't you catch it' have never been to an actual baseball game. If op had caught it, it would've been nothing short of impressive. Baseballs in the middle of a baseball game aren't going at the same speed your little leaguer is hitting them--these are pros who have trained to throw them at insane speeds and hit them with specially deaigned bats and catch them with specially made gloves. There's a reason the umpire is better armored than most football players--one hit from a pitched baseball, and they might potentially wind up just as hurt as op.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
OP should have gotten far more than a ball out of that!
Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
Just this weekend we were down at the ballpark hitting balls. I was slow pitching to my husband and he was sending them way out field with ease. There was one he hit though, that zoomed passed my head so fast I could hear the buzz off the ball. Had it hit me, anywhere, I would’ve needed a fast ride to the ER.
*Confused Screaming* 1 year ago
Soft toss without a net is an awful idea for exactly that reason
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My ex bf breaking into my house when I was asleep. Ambushed me in bed, r*ped me, beat me unconscious...woke up naked on the road, someone had luckily seen me and stopped, they were checking my pulse. His plan was to leave me there so someone else would k*ll me (accidentally.) Still in therapy dealing with PTSD.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
I hope the exact same thing happens to him in prison. Keep up with the therapy. You are not a victim. You are a warrior and a survivor. He, on the other hand is a goddamned piece of s**t who deserves every horrible thing that happens to him.
Mocha the Lion 1 year ago
most prisoners have at least some kind of moral compass so usually r*pists and child r*pists get beat and even killed in prison. so theres a chance that that could have happened too
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Being raped by someone you once loved and trusted is mind f*ckingly devastating. Back in the 80's it wasn't considered rape if your husband forced you to have sex. WTF? Being brutally sodomized and requiring 18 stitches isn't considered rape????
Anna Chandler 1 year ago
I hope he's in prison. He ought to love it there since he likes rape.
J 1 year ago
The evil that humans are capable of inflicting on other living things is endless and unfathomable.
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#12
I was visiting some family in Edmonton years and years ago and they use to have this big fair full of rides and attractions. I wish I could remember the name sorry. All the rides were your standard carnival rides, the gravitron, tilt-a-whirl, log flume, etc. I had gone to many of these traveling fairs in my time and had a good time so thought nothing of it. After going on a few rides and having fun I decided to go on that ride that is the boat the goes back and forth before going all the way around. So at the beginning everything seemed fine. However at a certain point when going back the safety bar that was suppose to hold me in place just fell forward. It had not locked in and the ride was underway. The ride started heading the other way and the safety bar fell back on to me again. I pulled it as hard towards myself hoping to lock it into place. Yet when we started heading back the bar just flopped completely open again. I was s******g myself. I literally thought I was going to fall out of this ride and die. All those carnival horror stories were true I was fearing. I just wrapped my arms around the bar and held myself with my hands. If worst happened I would dangle from the bar I thought. Fortunately after a rocky ride it came to an end and I was safe with maybe only leaving my seat a few inches. I immediately ran to one of the workers after I got off and told them. The ride was shut down for 30 minutes after and I was done having fun for the night. The only other time I've been that scared since was the few times I've had sleep paralysis .
María Hermida 1 year ago
I will never, ever, ever understand how people trust the rides in itinerant fun fairs. They are just an accident waiting to happen. No control, dismantled and assembled hundreds of times by god knows who, no safety check ups, no maintenance... I think you'd be safer jumping off a cliff.
Lorraine R 1 year ago
Depends on where you are -- my state (Maryland) has fairly stringent requirements and the rides are inspected before the fairs can open.
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Janet Sturgess 1 year ago
Pirate's Ship it was called. I had a scary experience as well. I sat at the back of the ship with my son at his request - he was 6? When it went up really high - he began to fly out of his seat! I grabbed him and slammed his a**e back down on the seat. Didn't let go of him again until the ride was over.
Aniviel 1 year ago
The same for me when my son *just* scraped the height restriction on a rollercoaster. Had nightmares about it for years afterwards.
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talliloo 1 year ago
had this same thing happen to me. i know exactly the death grip she/he had on that bar. the worst part of it was that i was on a first date and he was having a great time and didn't realize that my screams were from real terror. he did feel terrible about not noticing my panic. guess that's why he married me.
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
This sort of happened to me. I was sat between my overweight mother and grandmother. I was a stick thin 6 year old. After I slipped over the bar, they were literally holding me by my feet and I had my hands pressed against the flooring. luckily mortality wasn’t something I’d really considered at that age so I don’t believe I was thinking about death but I was afraid of being badly hurt. Also lucky for me, this wasn’t the type that actually went upside down, because I don’t think they would’ve been able to hold onto me. I really hope the kids that operate those things are trained better now.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
This is why my parents never let us ride on those carnival rides that are always being dismantled and then put back up. They’re unstable and sketch asf
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We had a ride like that at the Melbourne Show, but it didn't go right over. One time I went on with my brother and although the safety bar was still in place, my brother was obviously too small/skinny, because he slipped down off the seat for a bit. He managed to regain his seat with my help, but held on very tightly after that!
#13
When my daughter was about two, and was choking on something. I tilted her upside down and beat her back, nothing came up. She was making zero noise, fully suffocating. I was a complete mess, thought she was going to die in my arms. No sooner than I was out the door to jump in my van for the hospital she started whining and coughing. Best sound of my life. Took her to her pediatrician right away. They sent us to hospital for xray to see if object had been swallowed or possibly rearranged in her trachea. Got home and there was a bloody nickel on kitchen floor where incident occured. The whole thing probably lasted 20 seconds of her not breathing, but it felt like nightmare slow motion. This event actually pushed me to pursuing an EMT career. I completed EMT Basic, ended up deciding it wasn't the field for me. But the schooling was a great course of first aid I will carry forever, and I learned CPR and heimlech which I feel every single caregiver should learn.
Chris Osborn 1 year ago
Everyone should learn CPR. Saving a life is wonderful. My mother (then 65) performed chest compressions on my step-dad when he collapsed (and "died") if not for her efforts he wouldn't be here today. His heart went into a rhythm called ventricular fibrillation and he needed to be shocked out of out, but her compressions kept him going until first responders arrived.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago
My great aunt was a nurse when she was younger and a few years ago her husband had a heart attack (or something like that, it might not have been a heart attack, but it was something with his heart) and she did cpr and right when she was about to stop because she was exhausted (she has cancer and is older) their son came home and took over so my great uncle is alive thanks to cpr (unfortunately he has since been diagnosed with dementia and isn’t doing too good) I second that cpr should be taught to everyone
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Gretchen Esquilin 1 year ago
Every time I go to a baby shower & they have those little "advice" cards for the new parents, I ALWAYS put as my #1 for them to take a 1st aid class. It's literally saved my all my kids' lives at various points.
Blaze Onyx 1 year ago
My mom worked in a bunch of different medical fields and one thing she's said that carries through most of them is the idea that "crying is one of the best sounds you can hear from a baby"
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
This last statement is very true. We’d all “learned” the Heimlich maneuver in school but putting it to use in real life is very different. When my grandmother was choking we all froze in confusion and fright until my older sister took charge and performed it. Saved her life while we were still processing this was a real event and she did, in fact need it. I hope I’m never frozen like that in an emergency situation again.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I nearly choked on (ironically) a lifesaver when I was a little kid (maybe 7 or 8). I can tell you the bit about them having a hole in them so you can't choke on them - it doesn't work. Was sucking on the lolly and laughed at something, it went down the wrong pipe and got stuck. Managed to run to Mum in the kitchen who thankfully knew the heimlich and it worked. Couple hard squeezes and out flies the lifesaver. I think at the time though I was too young to be properly scared like I would be as an adult.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
We have a guy at work who used to be an EMT. He quit after working a wreck of a family of 5, with a 1, 3, and 5 yr old. All he said was that they died. It had to be bad because the car got caught in a pile up between two semis. We don't have a plant nurse, but we have Carl. If you mess yourself up or are in trouble, you want Carl there. I think the manager pays him a bit more, which is a ok by me.
Hoban Michelle 1 year ago
Hate to say this - but - I know CPR. When it happened to my 10 hour old baby I froze. My friend was yelling at me to turn the baby upside down but I could not comprehend what upside down was. She finally grabbed the very blue baby and did it herself. She told me later that her first instinct was to run out of the house. She didn’t want to see that baby die. She was a lifeguard. That baby is now 26 and a nurse.
#14
I was put in jail by some corrupt cops saying that my kid wasn't my kid. He put me in there for welfare fraud, as I was getting food stamps for us both.
I had to spend MONTHS in jail as I couldn't afford bond and I refused to settle, demanding a jury trial as my kid is my kid.
This is all while I'm trying to get treatment for a major tumor, which set me back for months. After that, I couldn't afford both the tumor treatment and a place to live, so I was homeless after jail.
I'm still feeling the effects from that a decade later.
Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
This is so wrong! They should have to help or owe you some type of compensation when you’re found innocent!!
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Should have. I knew quite a few innocent women in prison. They lose years of their lives for nothing.
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I hate corrupt cops they should have to suffer from pain and unending judgment for everything they do for the rest of their lives. Sorry your still feeling the effects.
JNDauterive 1 year ago
Cops are above the law. The only public agency with no checks and balances, they are protected by Prosecutorial Immunity.
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Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Stop Qualified Immunity!! Make all law enforcement carry liability insurance.
Polterbean 1 year ago
The OP didn't mention it but I can imagine there were some racists cops involved in this
#15
Scary, just a few weeks ago I got robbed at gunpoint by three guys that came up behind me. It was 9PM and right in front of my house. Even when I complied and gave them my cash, they still punched and kicked me afterwards. My focus was on trying to make sure they didn't get my keys either to my house, where my wife and kids were at the time, or my truck that I was unloading. They did get my phone though and dumped it off a bridge. The police found it, but it was smashed to hell, but they did get prints off of it and there is a warrant out for one of the guys. Still scary that they know where I live.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Wow. I try to be alert, especially in parking lots, but unfortunately these events cannot be avoided.
Whitefox 1 year ago
When I was much younger I did standing security at a medical office complex. I was circumnavigating the outer perimeter when I heard something behind me. I turned around and was nose to gun barrel. Some a*****e was trying to hold me up. I did the first thing that came to mind which was scream growl at him while vaulting over the retaining wall next to me and running for dear life. I reported it, but nothing came of it. 2 weeks later I was in the same area and again heard someone behind me. With no warning I swung around with my mag light extended like a baton and put *all* my considerable strength into it. I heard a satisfying crack and a high pitched scream as the man went down, He was wearing camouflage and appeared to be unarmed. I was on my radio so fast he didn't get a word in edgewise, I had my mag light poised for another strike when he started babbling that he was my supervisor. He was out of uniform, did not announce himself and snuck up on me. Broke his arm. He deserved it.
Cait Cadriel 1 year ago
I was pulled into a car at gun point about 7 yrs ago. I'm a rather small female but, he had seen me withdraw money from an atm and grabbed me before I could react. Gave him all the cash and basically said I just want to see my wife again who was in the hospital at the time. He let me go and for some reason gave me back 20 bucks. It was so intense but, I stayed calm and got lucky.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
Sympathetic/Empathetic theif? You got very lucky!
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I have walked in on my best friend's corpse after a s*icide.
Violet Radar 1 year ago
Happened to a good friend of mine too. Walked into his college dorm after his roommate used a shotgun on himself. He never EVER got over it. He's in his mid-50s now.
John Mosley 1 year ago
I was in an addiction treatment program and one of the people there hung himself from a tree along the trails behind the dorm building. In the early hours of the morning one of the girls was out walking the trails and came across his body. It was a hard situation for all of us there but I really feel for the girl that found him. We were all there to try and improve our lives and it was a real setback for some, one of the guys that had been pretty close to the deceased even left the program. It turns out the deceased's wife had told him she was leaving him and on top of everything else he just couldn't take it. I feel bad, but I still feel anger toward him for his selfishness to do that in the fragile environment we were all in.
Tamra 1 year ago
That's a pretty awful situation. I won't deny the terrible effect his suicide had on the other people there, but there may be a bit of insight I can share. I was once suicidal. I made a plan, wrote a letter, and gave it a try. I can tell you that when someone is in the depths of a misery and hopelessness so deep that the thought of death is the only hope of release, they aren't capable of thinking how it will truly affect others. They just aren't. You just can't see past that kind of pain. I don't believe he was trying to be selfish, but that he just had no hope left.
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GrumpyRaccoon 1 year ago
I’m so sorry! That must have been devastating! I’m sure he/she/they are still watching over you, if you believe in that sorta stuff.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My stepdad's ex-wife found their son dead just over a year ago, when he had been suffering from virus/flu. She walked out of the room to get some food and came back to find him not breathing. She panicked, but was able to alert a neighbour and try cpr, but he never revived. She said she still gets flashbacks regularly.
#17
My baby's crib caught fire in the middle of the night. Some people's literal worst nightmare.
Edit: My baby was in it and he was severely burnt and spent a month intubated and in a medically-induced coma. He is 5 now and is ok though!
The fire was a freak accident. His humidifier caught fire, smoldered for a little while and drained the oxygen in the room before the smoke alarm went off. When we opened the door to his room if flooded with oxygen creating a backdraft and launched a fireball at his crib.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
I used to have a few aquariums when my son was small and we lived in NYC. One morning, my cat was running into my bedroom, acting strangely and woke me up. I look into my son's bedroom, and the small aquarium I had in his room was shorting out, sparking, because of corrosion! Thankfully, I was able to unplug it, etc. (I dismantled it right after and never had fish since! I kept the other aquarium I had until the fish lived out their lives.) My biggest fear is fire inside and I am thankful to my cat! I could have had a fire from this aquarium in my son's room!
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Is that smoke I smell? Nope, but it does smell like a lawsuit... glad the kid is okay.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
That needs some better safety precautions. Great news he's okay now.
Kristal 1 year ago
Question: if oxygen is drained from room how is baby still alive? Was just enough left in the room for the baby to breathe?
Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
You don't immediately die from oxygen deprivation
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I'd just finished a night shift, I'd only been asleep for a few hours band I got woken up by my mother frantically hammering on my front door. Open it to be told I needed to get to the hospital PDFQ as my wife had been taken in at 30 weeks pregnant, she'd had a placental abruption while out and about and was being rushed for an emergency C Section. The surgeon who operated told us after the fact that 5 minutes later and both her and my son would have been dead.
That whole day, man..... Best and worst day of my f*****g life.
Alexandra 1 year ago
That's maybe the hardest lesson to learn: that your entire life can change drastically within the span of minutes and that it's totally random.
Mela (qu33nwh0) 1 year ago (edited)
I had a really bubble wrapped childhood, but dad taught me this young. We had lived in a rental for 8 years and the new owner was selling. Wanted to break it to us gently since it ended up making us technically homeless for 6 months (luckily has money and friends and were never without a roof!)
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
This happened to me with second and youngest son. I had developed a condition during my 3rd trimester and my doctor felt it's best to induce me right at 37 weeks. I go in for the induction and they start the meds to induce labor. It's been a couple hours and I'm contracting but not badly and I wanted to try and hold off as long as I could before getting an epidural. The doctor comes in and checks the progress and I'm at 2.5 cm dilated and he decides to break my water, without asking or saying anything to me. I realize he's been down there for a bit, as he yells to the nurse that I needed to be in the OR stat. The pressure from him breaking my water caused the placenta to abrupt. We both almost died due to the doctors impatience and him wanting to get to his practice to see his scheduled patients/ appointments.
Bgray450 1 year ago
You were blessed. A young friend of mine's wife collapsed at 9 months pregnant, never woke up again. They took the baby C-section, she had multiple health challenges. With three days he lost his wife and daughter. He didn't let it destroy him though, and he's gone on to be a wonderful young man. we just never know.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
I was further along but had placental abruption they gave me 10 minutes before c section also told I almost died. Baby couldn't breathe was in nicu for 10days. Sorry your's was worse.
#19
Firefight while i was in the forces. At the time you just kind of shut off and run on instinct/training. But once it's all over, you look down and see you've pissed yourself, your mind runs through it again and again. That s**t stays with you for years. 15 years later and fireworks still f**k me up.
Donald 1 year ago
My uncle fought in Vietnam and doesn't talk about it much but this is almost word for word how he described being in a firefight. You can be engaged with the enemy for hours and not even think about what's happing. Your training immediately kicks in and instinct takes over, you're fighting for the guys to your left and your right. Its after the fight when everything is quiet and you're picking up the pieces of your friends and going through inventory that the fear kicks in. That war broke him, by all accounts he was your average 19 year old with a bright future before the war. He spiraled into a bad place for 30 years, no family, spotty employment, substance abuse issues, ect. before he got therapy and you can still see the cracks sometimes when he gets stressed. If you enjoy the freedoms your country affords you, thank a veteran (I know Vietnam is a bad example). They went through hell so you don't have to.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
Vietnam soldiers got hell at war and at home and deserve the utmost compassion. It's a travesty that the gov didn't care of them, but even worst that they were sent there in the first place. It was an unnecessary war, and the country was not a threat. One of many engagements that caused suffering for soldiers and civilians abroad. Tragedy whose aftermath is still unfolding. We maybe don't owe our freedom but we owe them a lot. They died for something, tho we may not agree on what that is.
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Moezzzz 1 year ago
My husband went through this (still going through it). He often wonders why he lived and his buddies didn't. We've lost so many of his friends due to suicide, because they just hang onto the guilt. My husband developed a drinking problem (sober 3 years now) but went through therapy. We need so many GOOD programs for combat veterans. Hell, veterans period. He's now retired from the Army (34 years in) and sometimes feels 'bad' that he's retired at 53 when the median age to retire is 65 (or older), but I remind him that he logged the hours and sacrificed to get where he is now. He's been accepted into an engineering course at UT in Austin Texas and I'm so proud of him. He got his associates years ago but always wanted a Bachelors. He's my real life GI Joe.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
My brother was in Afghanistan and he hasn’t been the same since. He always drank, but it’s gotten worse, still holds a damn good job and only drinks after work, but has never ONCE spoken a word about anything from his deployment. He’s finally started trusting and talking to our mom daily and I hope that one day he trusts her enough, or someone enough to talk about it because holding onto s**t like that tears people apart. If he doesn’t talk to us, I really hope he talks to someone, even if it’s the people he came home with so that he knows he’s not alone. I feel terrible for him and beg him all the time to go get help, for what he may have gone through and his alcoholism. He’s already lost his wife (he’s a million times better off without the greedy gold digging b***h, honestly) but she now is trying to take his kids from him. I told him if anything will do it, it’ll be the drinking. If he loves his kids (I know he does, more than anything) then atleast do it for them if not himself.
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I wish people realized this about fireworks and stopped setting them off! A lot of people have PTSD!
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
Most a******s don’t give a c**p about others. You try to tell ‘em something like that and they’ll laugh and call the guy a “pussy,” and other things for which they deserve a really hard shot to the throat.
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Start Wearing Purple 1 year ago
Never been in the army, but was a humanitarian worker in war zones. Fireworks are a nightmare
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I come from a large Military Family and have lost 5 family members to suicide due to PTSD after what they went through during their deployments. My Grandpa WWII, my Uncle Vietnam, 2 Nephews and 1 Cousin Iraq/Afghanistan and I still have countless other family members that are still active duty or retired from service. My Family has lost and sacrificed so damn much for this country and I'm beyond proud of each and every one of them that has put on a uniform.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Always thank a veteran wether they serve life long or a war. They are there to make sure we have the freedom that allows you to make choices.
Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
That's what my wife tries to work on 4th of July. She was in Afghanistan and a lot of other places.
#20
I got caught in a rockslide and fell off a cliff while backpacking. Early Spring, things were starting to melt, we were hiking on a ridge and looking for a way down the side, maybe a 60 - 70 degree loose scree slope, to a stream about 500 feet below. I was in the lead, heading down at an angle, rocks kicked out from under my feet, and I fell backwards onto my butt. All of sudden, the entire slope around me began to move en mass, like an island of broken up rocks with me sitting in the middle. I rode it down the hill, bouncing off stuff and trying to stop myself and dig in but no luck, just picking up speed. At the bottom, the hill dropped off to a 40 ft cliff, and I was launched off with the slide. I landed in a pile of debris and loose stuff that previously came down, including a lot of loose snow, which mostly absorbed the energy. I was mostly OK, muddy, lots of scratches and bruises, a separated shoulder and broken tail bone, but I was able to walk out. My one memory is being in mid air, time standing still, and looking to my left at a stove-size boulder likewise suspended in the air, about 6 feet away. Any good size rock would have killed me.
JM 1 year ago
Imagine being this person - in mid air with a boulder seemingly suspended there with you
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
It brings to mind the old Looney Tunes cartoons where the Coyote goes off a cliff and tries to climb back on top of the falling boulder...
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Courtney Christelle 1 year ago
How did he walk out with a broken tail bone? I bruised mine once and couldn’t fart properly until it healed.
#21
Collapsing to the ground because I couldn’t breathe due to covid pneumonia, not knowing if my time was up. I had taken every precaution and still ended up in a situation I thought was going to k*ll me. That was early on in the pandemic, when respirators were reported to be death sentences.
Anne 1 year ago
They were death sentences. Only used for those so incredibily ill, it was like a bandaid to an amputation.
Alexandra 1 year ago
True. No one really knew what they were doing at the start of the pandemic.
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DelvianBlue 1 year ago (edited)
And I still know some who make fun of people like OP and insist it's just a cold. I'll never get some people.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
For me it wasn't the respirators... In hospital it felt like Covid WAS a death sentence. I was already in hospital with Spinal Bruising etc. I made my Will, signed a DNR... Then fought that f*cking virus. I saw someone die, she died in the opposite hospital bed from me in front of me... It was before the vaccines, I was in hospital as the news reports were coming out of the vaccines being developed. We were all following that news on the Covid ward.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 1 year ago
Happened to me too. Did everything I could do at home just to not go to the hospital.
somnomania 1 year ago
we're still taking all precautions because my mom has COPD and an immune deficiency. we all mask, and use hand sanitizer as soon as we get back in the car, and use a diluted bleach solution to wipe down all groceries/mail/packages. is it overkill? maybe, but none of the three of us have yet had covid or any other transmissible illness in the last four years, and hopefully it'll stay that way.
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
I was lucky, when I got covid my gp gave me antibiotics and told me that I should start taking them as soon as I couldn't speak a sentence without stopping to breathe halfway through, still scared me half to death. I seriously thought I'd never see my daughter again
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
I did everything my Oncologist told me to do, I quarantined myself, rarely left my house and when I did I ALWAYS had a mask on. 2 family members LIED and said they had been vaccinated, when they actually had Covid when they came to my house. I contracted Covid AND Pneumonia, spent 34 days in the hospital almost dying and came home on supplemental oxygen for 6 months afterwards. Saying that I'm still furious is the understatement of the century and have been NC with a good portion of my family because "I should forgive them and be over it by now" Yeah, F**K YOU! This all took place a few months after My Mom, who I spent my entire life with and was her 24/7 caregiver the last 2 1/2 years she was alive with onlly 1Sister, who Mom and I are incredibly close too and the ONLY one that did anything to help us, had just died and I buried. My Mom was my EVERYTHING and I honestly thought that I was about to join her, hopefully wherever she is now. So NO, I'm not in the mood to forgive anyone!
#22
Two are tied:
Being shot when our neighbor’s gun “accidentally discharged” and the bullet came through the shared wall, severing an electrical line, barely missed my head, glanced off my chest, and landed on the other side of the room. The sheer thought of what could have been if I’d been laying an inch further left is terrifying.
Gas pedal getting stuck while driving home from my mom’s funeral. I somehow managed to get the car pulled over and turned off, but I was going 85 mph+ going uphill. If it had got stuck three miles earlier, I’d have plunged off a seaside cliff, taking my aunt, cousin, and 9 month old daughter with me.
DC 1 year ago
Pedal stuck ... ruined a Citroen CX's engine of my Grandpa - he just kicked the clutch and the rev limiter didn't really do anything, so it ran at about 9000 RPM until valves and piston came closer than they should... Had that happen, too - just shut it off or brake it down. Brakes, always, outpower engines. Never panic. Easily said, that...
Bexxxx 1 year ago
Would throwing it in neutral help too? That would be my first instinct in my automatic 😅
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Anna Drever 1 year ago
I think they mean the two happenings are tied for equal first place scare-wise, rather than tied together with a common link.
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Was doing some mineral exploration work up in Alaska this summer in a very remote mountain range. I was working at a drill site where a grizzly had been spotted at the rig earlier that day and I was naturally a little on edge. I was laying out some wires through very thick brush (couldn't see through it at all), and all of a sudden I hear a really large animal close by, and I smelled the typical wet dog bear smell. Before I had time to react the wire gets ripped out of my hands and dragged into the brush at probably 20mph. I'm freaking out trying to reach my gun and this massive bull caribou just pops his head out and looks me over, then walks away lol.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
And you guys say Aussie wildlife is scary... At least we don't have bears!
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
It's AMAZING how big those things are up close. We were camping and I went out to pee. Beautiful moonlight on snow brightness. So, I'm doing my business and hear this low throated chuffing type noise. I turned my head and came nose to nose with the biggest bull moose on earth. His rack was so huge that I couldn't see the ends of it in my peripheral vision. Trying desperately not to panic (done peeing, that's for sure) I just stayed as still as I could. He finished checking me out and went along his merry way. As he walked past the truck I saw that he was shoulder height to the cab. BIG moose.
Rae Andringa 1 year ago
I'm way more scared of moose and large herbivores than bears. Way more unpredictable.
#24
Coming out, yes this serious i came out to my family that yelled at me took my devices for a year threw bibles at me etc. Its not always sunshine and rainbows being bisexual but its who I am.
BTDubs 1 year ago
If you can't handle the possibility that your child might be LGBTQ+, then you shouldn't have a child.
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
I might not be hardcore christian, but doesn't he tell people to love each other? Why are so many "Christians" who HATE people when that goes against the principles of the BIBLE? I can't stand people who try using religion to justify their crappy treatment of others.
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Hey! 1 year ago
My oldest son came out to me as bisexual too. I had no idea what that was. I brought him up in a religion but he's my son and nothing trumps that. He calls me every week and we have a great relationship. I still have my beliefs but I don't go to church anymore. I'm really upset how your coming-out came about.
Angela C 1 year ago
The people who consider themselves the "best Christians" are the ones who are the least Christ like
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Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago (edited)
I've always told my son I will love him unconditionally. He knows he can believe what he wants, just not to push his beliefs on others and love who he wants. But, I am an eclectic pagan who is pansexual, so I mean of course I won't judge. lol
Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
I feel like throwing a Bible at someone defeats the purpose of it. Isn't there also a verse that says so ething like: thou shall not judge, for you too shall be judged? 0_o
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago
Christians generally ignore that passage until they have to trot it out to defend themselves.
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I don't know you, but hope you'll be ok. Be the honest person you are and find the family who will love you.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago
No, not really. It’s a contributor, sure, but not the root cause
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#25
We’d gone to an island for Christmas. It was the day before my daughter’s second birthday and we, plus my wife’s sister and her husband and child decided to visit one of the spectacular waterfalls. A proper welded-together Mad Max truck took us half way up the mountain with us having to walk the rest of the way. My almost two year-old had to be carried so I picked her up and walked up the trail. It wasn’t far before I lost my footing on the damp leaves, fell and, still holding my girl began to slide. I had no real concerns, after all I’ve fallen plenty, but I began to slide. Holding my daughter’s head with one hand I grabbed at everything I could with the other but carried on sliding relentlessly. I glanced over my shoulder to see a drop just meters away, a big drop, an unsurvivable drop with nothing to stop us from falling. I rolled onto my back with my daughter, crying, on my chest holding her tight with the hope that she, at least, would be ok when, at the very edge, I managed to push my foot into the vegetation that grew there. We stopped sliding. My wife and brother-in-law were scrambling down towards us and took my daughter from my arms and carried her away. I stayed there, entangled in the bushes and smoked two cigarettes, silently, with one leg dangling over the cliff. I didn’t speak at all for the rest of the day. When we visited the temple for her birthday the next morning we meant it.
#26
Someone breaking into my house last year. It was really early in the pandemic and my wife was in the bedroom asleep, I was in the living room with headphones in playing video games with some friends while my son was asleep in his little jawn next to me. Was maybe 8PM. Basically I stood up and took my headphones off, and turned around just in time to see this guy in a bright red ski mask (which is way scarier than black it turns out) opening up the doors into the living room / dining room area I'm in. Nearly sh*t myself. He pauses, I'm like, frozen for a second but then stammer out 'get the f*ck out of my house' and he just lunges at me. Like, he wasn't armed, he wasn't bigger than me, I think he just panicked and thought he could knock me down and run...or worse... But uh, it turns out when someone breaks into your house and your entire family is home and your child is now crying while you fight a tweeker in your living room...some really primal sh*t kicks in, and I fought the guy until I had him in like, my approximation of a choke hold (not a fighter), before shouting for my wife to call the police, who arrived like, instantly because:"My friends heard the entire thing on/through discord and one of them called the police." Was over in under 5 minutes but I couldn't use headphones anymore while I gamed in that room (we've since moved), I don't like having my back to doors, and I had to get a few stitches on my hand from how I fell.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Not wanting to have your back to the door is a trauma response thing. My dad served and he hates sitting with his back to the door.
#27
My perception of time is off, I think this was last summer. I was out camping with the wife (now ex) and kids and we decided to go swimming. The kids were playing on the beach and wife and I decided to swim out to the boundary line and back. About 80% of the way there we both got tired as we had grossly underestimated the strength of the wind and current we were swimming directly into. We turned around to go back and it hit. The wall. Neither of us could touch bottom and were already completely out of breath from swimming against the current. We both started to hyperventilate and each screamed towards shore once each. The beach was nearly empty other than two adults and two kids on the far opposite side of the beach in chairs with clothes on, who probably couldn’t even hear us or tell what was going on. As we both started to fall swiftly into sheer panic that neither of us could breathe and my wife started to go under I used every last ounce of strength I could muster and cheered her on to keep going. Suddenly, I could JUST touch the bottom with my big toes extended down. I grabbed her arm and dragged her forward in the water until she could also touch and we managed to get back to shore. I’ve been swimming hundreds of times. Maybe thousands. I grew up on the lake. NEVER have I felt so close to drowning in my entire life. We packed up camp that day and went home after she and I both fell asleep in the blistering summer heat at camp under a tree. I was seriously messed up mentally the several days following. It was a mistake I had never made before and definitely never will again. We really should have known better but we were enjoying the water and it’s difficult to explain but the bay we were in was so big that comparatively the distance that safety line was from the shore made it very hard to judge and we both just made a bad decision because of that. On a calmer day we might have made it to that line but it was quite windy that day and the current was way stronger than either of us had realized until it was too late.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
The feeling that you're going to drown is scary and when that panic sets in it's even worse, all you want to do is get a good breath in. In my younger days I was hard core into surfing. One day the waves were huge, at least 20ft and I had never surfed waves that big. I wiped out, the wave broke right on top of me and instantly pushed me to the bottom. As it hit me I didn't get the chance to get a good breath before going under. As I struggled to make it to the surface my lungs exhaled what little air I had, I was getting ready to inhale while still under the water, its an automatic thing, when you need air you need to breathe in. Luckily I broke the surface just as I was inhaling. I really thought I was gonna die. Scariest thing I ever experienced.
#28
A co-worker (and friend) severed an artery in his arm when a jagged piece of metal hanging off of a car door slipped from the stand it was resting on. He came in to the room I was in screaming for help. Every pump of his heart sprayed blood. While everyone else stood frozen, I somehow had the peace of mind to rip off my belt and apply it as a tourniquet. The EMT staff that arrived as well as the doctors that eventually saved his arm said he would have absolutely bled to death had I not applied the tourniquet.
#29
Being 18 and waking up to the FBI screaming and pointing guns in my face with bright lights and dragging me out of bed and getting cuffed and thrown into a van.
Dont build a bomb and then try to sell it online. The feds dont like that s**t. 1998 was a wild year for me, I didnt know what was going to happen to me. Sentenced to 10 years federal prison and was paroled after five. I dont do dumb s**t anymore and I dont buy anything that would make them think im up to my old ways.
Im on the straight and narrow now and after all that the only job I could get was in the trucking industry and now I own 5 trucks and built a nice life and try my best to be a up standing member in my community.
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
He truly "Grew & Changed as a person", good for you, OP. I hope the best for you, and you having a great life!
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HARRY KOPPERS 1 year ago
As G. W. Bush said, "When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid."
Bexxxx 1 year ago
What would the NRA have done to help OP in this situation? Genuine question 😂
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Got a couple knives pulled on me one night while working at a pizza shop. Had a little mexican standoff. First time experiencing the thought "I might have to stab this dude or be stabbed"
Luckily our pizza knives were bigger and with my coworker backing me up the two dudes both left. I owe my life to my coworker from that night, dude had my back.
#31
Being held underwater by some classmates in highschool. Not the worst or most damaging thing I've gone through, not even close to being the worst incident of bullying, but it was the most frightening.
River wolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Yeah, that s**t is terrifying. My brother has come SO close to drowning me SO many times.
Donald 1 year ago
I thought trying being almost drowned by your family members was just part of growing up lol
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Makenzie McNeal 1 year ago
This happened to me once with my cousin when we were little I ended up biting his leg because it was a mixture of his hand a floaty and his hand keeping me under and it was the closest thing to get him to stop.
#32
I have cheated death 3 times this year.
1. A car accident where a person didn’t yield and struck me driver side. I was airborne for a few seconds and flew over the median into a parking lot and hit a parked car. I walked out minor bruises. Same for other person.
2. At 2am a couple months ago carbon monoxide detectors go off in my moms house we start opening windows and calling the fire dept as we wait outside (w 2 dogs). The minute he opens the front door the detector starts going off like crazy. He said longer than 20 min we all could’ve died with the amount that was in the basement caused by a problem with the hot water tank.
3. A large patio chair flying out of the back of a pickup truck which almost smashed my windshield had I not swerved just in time.
An angel has my back and is watching out which I’m grateful for!!
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Wow, this is giving off some serious Final Destination vibes 😬
#33
I suffered from an illness with no name for years, when i got sick i would p**s blood, and be violently ill, i didnt have a problem as i was told i was going to grow out of it (Childhood Nephritis), so imagine my shock when i hit 19 and feel like s**t, like i was going to die... i went to the doctors office to see a GP, and they had closed early for a christmas party, but i forced them to open the door to deal with me, the GP said "WE NEED AN AMBULANCE NOW!" and i was forced in to the Ambulance and down to the ER. Whilst in the ER they took blood and found i was suffering from hyperkalemia, to much potassium in my blood, which was causing my heart rate to hit the 200's... i was on the verge of a stroke/heart attack... i was admit in to the hospital and immediately put on d***s to lower the levels so i didnt die, but i kept vomiting Black bile.... i thought, this is it... this is how i die, not doing something heroic or awesome, but in a hospital bed alone, vomiting and wanting nothing more then my mom and dad...and honestly i was scared out of my mind and couldnt stop crying. apparently after that i was put in to a medical coma, and pumped full of more d***s and given emergency dialysis... My kidneys had failed and i was dying of blood poisoning. when i woke up i had missed my birthday, and it was roughly 2 weeks later, i had a dialysis machine attached to a chest line, and a dialysis nurse, trying to keep me calm, but i was choking to death, so i ended up pulling the Ventilator out of my mouth and this long pipe came with it, i started to cough violently and almost vomited but there was nothing to come out so i just dry heaved alot and pulled alot of muscles.. later i was told my kidneys had failed, i was lucky to be alive and doubly lucky that i didnt clot and suffer a Stroke, or a heart attack.. i was weak as a newborn and could bearly lift my arms after a while and remained in hospital for 3 months, getting rehabilitation because i couldnt speak properly or walk properly, after 6 months i was basically back to being me, just struggling with this new condition that had basically ruined my life and my plans..
#34
This is going to sound really weird but my dad threatened to k*ll me over my grades. Last year I was a sophomore during zoom lessons and I was struggling in a trigonometry class. I asked my parents for a tutor and they obliged. However the tutor was very expensive. Every day I would go do my homework with the tutor and he helped me understand it perfectly. I’d do the hw and get an A. A on the study guide. But I’d fail my test . 5 tests in a row. After tutoring one day I was in the car with my dad and he asked me about my grades and because I was agitated I told him I hated school and that I was su!cidal and depressed. He then told me he wanted to go to the highway and k!ll us and make it look like an accident because he hated his work too and he was also depressed. He started speeding towards the highway and ran through multiple red lights. At this one light I got out of the car and he pulled me back in and asked what I was doing. I told him I was going to go into the nearby Wendy’s and call the police. He then told me that “ my own son would snitch on me “ and “ our bond meant nothing” and he drove me back home. We have never spoken about this since. I also have told my mom and she said I deserve it. I still live with both of my parents and I am very depressed and kind of unable to do any schoolwork.
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
I really hope you’re able to find a trustworthy adult you can share this with and get yourself out of this situation. If there is no way to alert the police through someone at school, is there a relative you could trust to take you to the police and not just try talking to your parents?
SleepSycho 1 year ago
Your parents have serious problems. But there is still hope! Grades aren't everything. Talk to your high school counselor. And get a job, find some good friends who want to be roommates, and get out! Freedom is sooner than you think.
#35
I'd say my mother's cancer but especially her last year, the first ones were bad to the point I would go to her bedroom to see if she was still breathing whenever I felt there was too much silence but the last one was nightmare, still remember one day when she had a really bad fever and while a nurse friend of hers worked on it I went to my bedroom and lied in like fetal position in my bed crying like a child, I was so damn scared.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
That's tough to go through. My mom had a terminal illness but I was still surprised when she passed. And I wasn't around her so I felt bad about that but I see there's no good way to go through such a thing.
#36
Psychosis brought on by a kidney infection. I thought my husband was trying to k*ll me and my kids were trying to help him k*ll me. Pretty dark times.
Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago
My dad had a reaction like this after getting C-Diff infection from a surgery. He thought lizards were crawling over the ceiling and couldn't figure out who anyone was or where he was. It was horrible and we were still in pandemic times so only my mom could be in the hospital with him.
#37
I had a man aggressively scream at and follow me for a good city block as he yelled about what he wanted to do to me about a year and a half ago. I managed to get back to my hotel and have the front desk call the police. Scariest experience of my life. I am convinced the only reason he didn’t attack me was because I had my dog with me, who was making it clear she was ready to kick his a*s. But I never want to go through that again.
#38
I had a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in my lungs) earlier this year. My wife drove me to the hospital at 10:00 PM when I couldn’t even lay down in bed, and I know I could have easily died from it. Two days in the hospital later, though, I was on a quick road to recovery.
Judy Reynolds 1 year ago
I had multiple blood clots in my lungs (just tiny ones), but the feeling that someone had removed all the oxygen in the room was terrifying!
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
My mother has had these three times and luckily they were always caught early and easily dissolved and she recovered. But my grandmother had them really bad sometime in the 40’s or 50’s and nearly died (she always thought she did die and had a near death experience) and the terror she felt was always palpable when she relayed the story. My mother, unfortunately, hasn’t made positive changes to prevent it happening again and I’m constantly thinking about the time the dr told her “one day you’re going to have a pain in your chest and you won’t be able to breathe and the paramedics will not make it in time”
#39
Finding out at 21.5 weeks of pregnancy that I had an incompetent cervix, and needed an emergency cerclage (getting my cervix stitched shut until 36 weeks) ASAP, as in “get out of our office and head straight to the hospital”. If I didn’t have the anatomy and physiology scan that day, and if the tech didn’t test my cervix, I would have lost the baby. It took us years of trying and fertility treatments to get pregnant. Losing him would have destroyed me.
#40
When I was told I might have a blood clot behind my left eye due to some concerning symptoms and I would be life flighted to the closest hospital with neuro and a nicu because I was 39 weeks pregnant with our second daughter. After quite a bit of scans, testing and a very concerned looking neurologist, it turned out to be an ocular migraine along with pregnancy hormones getting out of hand. I was induced and my OB asked the neurologist if he wanted to stay and he said, “I’m good, I saw enough births in med school and I’ll let you update me.”.
Scotira 1 year ago
If you have never experienced a migraine with all possible symptoms then they can scare the living daylight out of you and every medical personell bc migraine symptoms often present themselves similar to stroke symptoms. I had a severe migraine while on shift. I was taking an x-ray of a patient in ICU and suddenly lost the feeling and coordination on my left side paired with visual symptoms, nausea and killer headache. ICU is possibly the best and worst space to have these symptoms. Took me lots of talking to get the doctors to calm down 😅 it WAS a migraine but it could very well have been a stroke.
Griffy 1 year ago
I get blind spots, then numbness on one side, then I cant talk straight, mouth and tip of my nose goes numb which proceeds down my throat, then the pain. The nausea depends on which side of the head the migraine is on. I have had to ask to go home from work many times due to migraines. Even got suspended once for having them.
#41
Almost loosing my 3 week old son. My husband was watching him for me for a couple of hours while I did some errands. When I got home he said he slept the whole time. I woke him up to feed him. He seemed off and I kept telling my husband he seems sluggish. That night he started this moaning sound and felt hot. I woke my husband up and told him we need to take him to the children's ER. He ended up being septic. His fever was over 103, his oxygen was low, and his heart rate was extremely high. I just stood there panicking. All I can remember saying over and over was is he okay is he okay. Apparently he got ecoli in his blood. I have no idea how and neither do they. He's 3 now and has been fine since.
Zoe's Mom 1 year ago
I've had e-coli and it's not fun. Live alone and passed out due to my body evacuating everything I put in it. Blood pressure when too low. Came too with my head at the bottom of the tub. I fell sideways into the tub but I think the shower curtain soften the fall. I went to the E.R. right away and had to be pumped with fluids. Downside of living alone.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Been there from gastro, blacked out next to the toilet. One of the few things I hate and fear living alone, being really sick with no one to help or keep watch.
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#42
Almost being caught by the national guard on protests against the government. The government of my country is know for really f****d up tortures to protestants, so it was scary to get caught by them. There were a few risky moments, but the worst was when the national guard came out of nowhere with smoke grenades and shooting, so we lost the streets barricades and any sense of organization. Everyone just started running, some were caught and others managed to escape. I was saved by a citizen who let me in to his house, otherwise I think I would have been caught.
#43
Woke up just at dawn to a thunderous boom and roar like a jet engine way south west of the house. So deep the doors and windows were rattling but the sound was steady and not getting louder or softer. as the sound continued I felt less anxious and went to the sink to pour water for our morning coffee. As I started the water I saw outside the kitchen window the sky light up with a rolling fire wall of red yellow flames that were moving in all directions across the entire sky. Including towards us. Thinking the worse and scared to near death I immediately went into the bedroom and woke my wife up. I held her and kissed her telling her this may be it. The sky glow quickly subsided, thankfully, after all the "loose" gas burnt off. A large underground natural gas pipeline, 13" I believe, had burst ( initial boom) causing a huge pressurized release ( roar) that the wind carried south of town that finally found a ignition source. Continued to burn for a while until it could be turned off with a loud roar but contained to a quarter mile of the break with flames 400 foot up. Shortly therafter I turned on my police scanner. The first reported dispatch was from a town 12 miles away to the east and when they got outside of town they called in saying in disbelief that what they see is not in their jurisdiction. At the same time a town 15 miles to the south was notified by a truck driver that he could see the flame column straight in front of himand he was pulling over, despite being 12 miles down the road. Our town , closest was the 3rd call, although we were already on the way. It was hard to miss.
#44
I've been robbed at gunpoint twice at the restaurant I work at, but the 1st time was very traumatic. Walking out of the restaurant I was ambushed by 2 men, turns out they were brothers & 1 of them was a former employee but anyway they ran up on us (myself & crew) we ran to our cars but they caught me & got into the car with me , 1 brother took my keys out of the ignition & threw them, laid on top of me & his brother opened my passenger door, cocked his gun & pointed it directly against my temple. The 1 with the gun told me to give them the $ which I wasn't trying not to f**k that $ but I had already handed it to the 1 who was on top of me. I yelled at him that I gave it to him & they ran off. I somehow stayed calm the whole time, as soon as they were out of sight I fell to my knees crying. I was not brave I was scared f*****g shocked. To make matters worse as I said the 1 guy was a former employee I'm in SC & they were from New Orleans had very thick accents, as soon as the guy spoke I knew who he was, I told the cops when they arrived as we have personnel files I had all his information, address , SSN, etc for some reason the cops did not pursue any of the information I gave them. The next day they robbed a convienvece store in the area & shot the cashier. That could have been me & it could have possibly been avoided had they followed up that night.
#45
Hearing a smoke alarm go off and discovering my kid had set fire to her dollhouse. Nobody hurt thank god.
#46
Driving on I-95 in the rain when a truck cuts off the car in front of me and I had to slam on the brakes. Car goes into full hula hoop mode and spins erratically three full times at the speed of light through the left lane of traffic. It hits the concrete barrier that happens to form the side of the f*****g bridge I was driving over, tips a little like it might go for a swim, and then somehow spins AGAIN in the opposite direction. I swear that I experienced this all in slow motion, like long enough to think "when is the spinning going to stop?" and also long enough to appreciate the fact that "In the Ayer" by Flo-Rida was playing on the radio when I thought that I might, in fact, go airborne.
Bexxxx 1 year ago
I’ve been in 2 accidents (not my fault) where I got hit and my car was spinning off…..i totally relate to the slow motion thing. My last accident probably took 5-6 seconds total before both vehicles stopped moving, but it felt like a whole minute where I was thinking “aw f**k….I think I just got hit….I wonder when we’re going to stop spinning….insurance is going to be a pain to deal with….I should probably call someone to pick me up…..I wonder what so-and-so is doing right now….”
#47
I had found out that the man I had been dating for the last 9 months was an active IV d**g user and I couldn’t get free from him. I had gotten up to leave for work one morning for my 6:30 shift an hour away. As I was getting ready I heard his alarm go off. Turns out he had a scheme to take me to work so he could run d***s across the east Coast and use my car apparently with another female. I told him no that was not happening and the next thing I knew I was running for my life because he had a loaded gun hidden between the bed and the night stand. I remember hearing metal hit the floor and the evil look in his eyes.
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
A heavy d**g user will go to crazy extremes when their high is in jeopardy. You really can’t be too cautious when making plans to keep yourself safe.
#48
Kidney stones. They were only about 1-2cm in size, but the pain they caused me was the worst feeling I’ve ever experienced. Doctors thought my appendix burst.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
My Mom, who'd had 4 kids, used to say that kidney stones were the worst pain she'd ever experienced.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
The first time I had a kidney stone I thought one of my internal organs had exploded. That was the best description I had for the pain.
#49
The scariest thing was probably the car accident. I didn't know where or who I was, they had to use the jaws of life to get me out.
"Disembodied voice" 1 year ago
Something similar happened to me, I was upside down in my car. You have a feeling of wrongness but no idea why.
Kat 1 year ago
Something fireman use to pry open a roof or car door in an accident.
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Thus will probably get buried but at the age of 20 I went through critcal heart failure and my 4th open heart surgery. It started out like thd flu, I just fel like I had a bad cold and was sick to my stomache, nothing that I couldn{t handle and I just didnt think much of it. Then it started to get much worse, I would have these attacks where I could not stop shaking, so I went to the Hospital. I have Pulmonary Atresia, which is a form of Heart Disease (Something I was born with and nothng I can do about) So I told them and I figured they would account for that. They told me it was a bad cold and sent me home telling me to get some rest. It continued over the next month, I was barely sleeping and could not keep much down, I wasnt eating prettty much anything but I started gaining weight and had no energy during the day. One night, I was shaking horribly in the bed and went to go vomit (Something that I could not control and would happen frequently) and when I did it was all blood. The next day I went to the hospital again and by that time my Vision was loosing all of the color and the walls looked like they were melting. My heart rate was resting at 177 bpm and my blood pressure was 60/40. I had little to no blood flow in my arms and I was on the brink of dying. Thanks to some amazing nurses and doctors, I was emergency driven to another hospital in the town over. I spent 150+ hours in the ICU, 4 more weeks in the hospital, and went thorugh another open heart surgery trying to get the infection that has taken over my blood out. It was a success This all happened because of a Strep Throat bug that got into my mouth, and then into my blood stream after I accidentally brushed too hard one night with my tooth brush. Over all, I had 150 hours in the ICU, a month in the hospital, open heart surgery, a blood clot in my left lung, and a 2 million dollar bill, a month of infusion treatment, with some hefty PTSD with it, but I wasn't ready to go, and thanks to my loving Fiance, my caring family, and some absolutely incredible health care workers, I had the strength and determination to get through it Shout out to all the nurses and doctors out there, you don't realize how fragile life is until you are about to go.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My brother got endocarditis from a dental visit and also ended up having open heart surgery when he was 18. He was extremely sick from the infection and spent a lot of time in the hospital. I believe his bill was around a million dollars as well. It is scary how fragile we are!
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
Several years ago my sister had strep go down into her lungs, she got pneumonia. Doctors kept poo-pooeing her and turning her away, telling her it was just a cold. Finally the last time she desperately tried to get help her body was in shock, her lungs were filled with liquid. She was rushed from the doctors clinic to a big specialty hospital in Seattle. She was in the hospital a couple weeks and had to have antibiotics administered through a port in her arm for several weeks after, but she made it. That infection and the damage it did also made her very high-risk in covid times. Strep is no joke, y'all
Virginie Michaud 1 year ago
2 million dollar bill? No way this is an ok outcome. You're alive but now indebt for the rest of your life. Wth.
#51
I was robbed at gun point in 2005 : I worked for an Advance Auto parts in Coastal South Carolina. 2 of our stores had been robbed in a 3 week period on Sunday nights and we were all nervous it could be us next. Sure enough. A little background : I was the third key manager or this store, and had one other person with me who's father happened to be a local police officer. Any way our Sunday night was stressful, we had the GM watching the place from across the street. Around closing time we wanted to celebrate and order pizza, we asked the GM if she would pick it up. My partner started brining in outside merchandise when we got hit. Short white guy with a ski mask (actually it was a beanie with eyes cut out) and a ball cap on. comes in pointing a gun at us. I'm fairly big in stature but I was scared as hell of this guy. He pointed the gun right at me and demanded we go to the safe. I opened the safe with the gun to my head then he made us lay on the floor. He cleared it out and started screaming at me about the money. Day time manager did an early deposit and stashed the PC in a locker... this guy is going nuts and I just plainly tell him "it's because of you, you hit 2 other stores they are making daily deposits to limit the cash" that's a paraphrase I was mostly stammering and please sir and yes sir to him. he made us empty the registers and lay back down, he cleared them and bailed out. When the cops showed up they were complete a******s to us, saying how we should have fought the guy especially me since i'm bigger (we caught everything on camera). Little note about me, i'm big but i'm not made to fight. I hate it, I don't mind sports much etc but unless I have to I don't go looking for fights. especially with guys with guns. Not to say i never learned to defend myself, but I've only been compelled to hit someone a handful of times max. My partner's dad showed up and was basically like "i had a feeling I should have checked on them because of everything , but I just didn't"... So got robbed, made fun of by cops, and essentially not prioritized in lieu of the situation. I have some PTSD about this and somewhat of a complex: I wonder if I was a coward? The video clearly shows a few opportunities I could have hit this guy, but I was scared to f*****g death. Had a gun held on me. Once the guy was caught there were no bullets found on him so its a possibility the gun was unloaded. Typing about this made me realize I think I still have something to work out about this night...f**k.
#52
When my dad hired two guys to get close to me and become friends of mine with a real intention of robbing and k**ling me later on.
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
Explanation: The two guys came to my house just completely blasted off of pills in the middle of the night, guard dog was chained up to keep away intruders (his chain can reach every corner in the yard without allowing him to jump, and he snarls and barks at anyone besides myself and my fiancé) , and one of them had the knife handle sticking out of their pocket like a jackass. I was on the phone with my fiancé at the time and had him tucked away in my pocket so he could hear everything. I think the guy that drove there said something like “are you gonna put the dog up” or “can we come in”, and I literally said “you’re trying to set me up.” And we just sort of stared at each other awkwardly while they fumbled around with “whaaat, no we’re not! We’re just being weird cause of tramadol” and then saying they “didn’t know my dad and I weren’t on good terms”. I didn’t say anything about my dad, they all knew about each other, they had just met as far as I knew (had been posting pictures to
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
… Ugh, I’d have to copy and paste like 10x because of the character limit. Just click on the tiny source link below the post, people. They elaborate partway down the page.
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Being locked in a house all alone without food or money starving to death for three months. I will never forget the smells, bugs and the silence Edit: This happened four years ago. I wasn't in a good place mentally and in a toxic relationship with alchohol and other person. Things escalated and I ended up bring stranded in the middle of nowhere for those three months .
#54
It happened so fast that I wasn't really scared during it, but the Aurora shooting. Wasn't in there very long.
River wolf (she/her) 1 year ago
One time I heard about a shooting at the store I had been at hours before. I had originally wanted to get groceries in the afternoon.
#55
Windy day, took the bus home, got off the bus, saw a lady selling husky plush toys on the sidewalk, slowed down my walk, 2 seconds later, a GIANT billboard blown off, fell from the building and landed 5 meters away in front of me. If I walked as fast as I normally did...
#56
I was caught in a tropical cyclone out in the Pacific in a shonky converted trawler with no hatch covers. The waves were taller than the boat. Genuinely wondered if this was the end.
#57
Walked through a skid row in LA downtown by mistake….
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
As teenagers living in SGV, my friends and I did some risky stuff. We walked down Hollywood Boulevard at night. People approached us with "offers", but when we said no thank you, they backed off and found willing customers. We also walked on the beach at Santa Monica late at night, in pitch black darkness. No one approached us there at all. Now, this may have been back in 1977-1978, but you can't tell me L A was 100% safe everywhere at night back then. Hell, the Night Stalker raped and murdered a girl---in her own bedroom---on the other side of the suburban town where I lived. Basically yes, we were taking stupid risks, but we came out of them unscathed. Either we had our guardian angels working overtime, or the people we encountered simply didn't want to mess with naive kids from the 'burbs, who may have had a small amount of coin but didn't want their "wares". I am in no way downplaying the riskiness of being in sketchy neighborhoods, especially at night. I'm just saying that, while you should be careful, don't expect the worst outcome. Sometimes neighborhoods are only sketchy because people are poor, but are honest hard-working law-abiding citizens, and simply can't afford to move or make much in the way of improvements. But they will often look out for people who wander into their neighborhood by mistake. I have had that happen while I was working a job that necessitated making calls on people in their homes, some of which were located in places where the crime rate was high. Most of them were working and saving to move someplace much safer. No one bothered me while I called on any of them. Those are my experiences with sketchy parts of large cities. Someone else's experiences would be different. All I can say is I never went there looking for trouble, and I never bothered anyone so didn't invite trouble to look my way. That might be why I came out just fine. I don't know.
#58
When someone broke into my house when I was 10. Me and my mum lived alone with my little sister apart from on weekends when my step dad slept over because my mum wanted me to get used to him. Of course the night he just so happened to not stay over this happens. We always double checked (we still do) locking the door because of my anxiety and of course my mum forgot to that day. Anyways getting to the point, it was 12am and my mum came through to me and my little sisters room and she said “there’s a man in the house” and of course my 10 year old brain was like “OH S**T ARE WE GONNA DIE?!” my mum told me to not panic but of course I was gonna panic because I was 10. She sat on my bed whispering to me trying to calm me down. She phoned my step dad first, he wouldn’t answer. She hates my sisters dad but she was so desperate for help she phoned him and he wouldn’t answer. After that we phoned the police and turns out the guy was just drunk and came into the wrong house. He lived in the apartment next to ours and he mistaken my house for his. I do feel bad for the guy and he wasn’t a threat at all but it was horrifying. It must of been embarrassing when he woke up the next day.
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
When are adults going to realize that telling kids something EXTREMELY TROUBLING and telling us to not panic, will not work 9.5 times out of 10.
Donald 1 year ago
I remember my mom telling me my ears are going to pop on the airplane and that it was going to hurt before getting on a flight to Florida. I was 6, had no concept of ears "popping", never flown before and was already nervous. That info was completely unprompted and delivered in a way that made me sit with crippling anxiety for the 4 hour flight. Some adults just don't know how to communicate with children.
Load More Replies... Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
If you’re ever in a situation where you’re not sure whether or not you need to call 911, call them, especially if there are kids involved. I know in the moment that sometimes isn’t obvious (I caught someone trying to break into my house and calling the police literally did not occur to me until the friend I had actually called asked me if I had done that, then I couldn’t believe I hadn’t called 911 first)
#59
I hydroplaned on a overpass, I broke the retaining wall and fell 17 feet to the bottom. I walked out with a sprained wrist— my truck was a 5speed and I was trying to down shift to get traction. I failed.
pocwaddler 1 year ago
Driving my VW Beetle on a rainy freeway, went to change lanes, and suddenly I was going round and round, down into the median, looking at the grass flying by, back up onto the freeway going round the other way, back down into the median to a nice stop. After I stopped shaking, I drove on. To this day rainy freeways make me nervous, and that was easily 50 years ago.
#60
Being mugged with a knife on my throat. Only time I've been scared for my life.
Hey! 1 year ago
That happened to my 5 y.o. by a 7 y.o. right in front of our window. We told his father. Later on we could hear the kid screaming from his house.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
Wtf. Where did the 7 y.o. Learn that kind of thing
Load More Replies... #61
A really bad ice storm in my area earlier this year. We got a couple days of freezing rain, which covered absolutely everything in an inch or so of solid ice. House roofs, cars, streets, tree branches, everything just frozen solid. A couple oak trees 30+ tall just collapsed and fell over (none on anyone’s house, thank f*****g god.) But for an entire weekend we had no power, no heat, no running water, and I had to go to sleep to the sound of tree branches cracking and falling, worrying that one would fall onto my house or through a window or something, while I shivered and struggled just to stay warm.
#63
Being stalked by a Tinder match. He would call me multiple times, moaning. I tried to block his number, but he kept leaving voicemails (it’s stupid that they can still do that even after you block them). He didn’t stop until I had my boyfriend that I met after the fact text him to leave me alone.
#64
Driving home late at night with my friends (we live in the middle of Yee-Yee Nowhere, WV), we’re all exhausted so I’m just taking it slow as we chat. We pull off the highway and hear a scream from out in the woods. That’s not totally uncommon bc Forest People Be Wildin, so I just rolled up the windows and carried on. The fog got really thick so I had to squint to see. As we get close to the house, my pal Petey yells and points out his window, and we all look at the ditch next to us. I swear to god, there was a deer that had been ripped apart and it’s organs were strung for like twenty feet. Naturally, I slammed the gas and we almost fell over each other getting in the house. None of us slept that night, and we just kept watching out the windows hoping to high hell that whatever tf did that didn’t see us.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
No disrespect to the story, or OP's frightening experience, but, "Yee-Yee Nowhere" lmao!!
#65
Being followed to work for accidentally cutting off some random guy 30 minutes before. Then getting screamed out in a language where I understood 5 out of the 100 words. And then getting the police called on me. Where after reviewing the tape sent me on my way If a car follows me for too long I start panicking now.
Thom Serveaux 1 year ago
If this ever happens, Google the nearest police station and drive there. They will likely take off when you get close, but if not, call 911 from your car before getting out.
Kathy 1 year ago
Do NOT get out of the car at the police station until there is an officer there telling you to.
Load More Replies... #66
Taking a 7 hour flight and not knowing if my mom would be alive when I touched down.
I don’t have a relationship with my mom, but her being rushed to the ICU when I live on the opposite side of the country was..depressing.
#67
I don't think that's the scariest thing that happened to me but it's the one I can remember now I was sleeping in class and when I woke up the class was empty and it was dark outside so I got up started panicking and ran down 3 stories of stairs in 10 seconds only to find out that it was break and it was dark outside because a storm came in the half hour I was sleep in and made it look like night time.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
Once I fell asleep high school and my teacher and everyone just left. I did wake up to a dark and empty classroom, missed my bus home. Wasn't night yet but was scary and the last place i wanted to be. Tbh I often used that class to catch up zzzs cuz we just watched movies all the time, so fair play.
#68
After I retaliated at a toxic family member by causing criminal damage to his car I left town for a bit. Slept rough on the streets of London. Few nights in I started freaking out. Walked through a graffiti tunnel then started hallucinating that I was been followed. Then I stared across the bridge and all I could see were hundreds of dark figures. I Walked into the river Thames. Was in the water 90mins. I wasn't feeling suicidal but in that moment I accepted my fate, It took a boat of rescuers 3 attempts to get me to get in the boat. The ambulance trip from Kings cross to Middlesbrough didn't seem to take long at the time but it was about 4-5 hours. The ambulance crew gave me cigs and let me have one every so often in the ambulance.
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
Then maybe don’t commit crimes and do d***s? Sorry, but this is just a solid example of “play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
Um...OP never said a word about drúgs? It read more like mental illness to me. Either way, there's not enough detail to know for sure, so why automatically judge them so negatively??
Load More Replies... #69
Hurricane Ida. That severely heavy sheet of rain scared me to death.
#70
Driving home, then nothing, then waking up days later in the hospital having no idea what had happen, where I was, why I was in so much pain, and no clue who I was.
#71
Being told while in the throes of severe mental illness that if I didn’t comply with taking ketamine again (which I had tried just 2 days prior and had paradoxically left me with such a severe, paralyzing apathetic depression that I had to consciously stop myself almost every waking moment from jumping in front of a car) by the psychological facility that I was at they would confiscate my belongings and make me homeless.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
Former psychiatrist here and no, such threats definitely didn't happen. You can only threaten to hold them back and only of they are a severe danger to themselves or others. This needs to be approved by a judge after the initial 3 days (in Germany)
What do you think ?
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
I saw my dad's heart stop in December 2023. He went into v-fib multiple times the night before, I took a red-eye from Virginia up to Michigan, and got there just in time for his heart to give way a couple more times. They kept shocking him back, which he responded well to each time, but each new occurrence took a lot out of him. I had just been talking to him and was sitting by his bedside. He was resting a bit when he looked up, then his eyes got really wide. I called for him but it was clear that he was not there anymore. The entire ICU rushed in and started chest compressions/shocks again. They got him back. In all, his heart went into v-fib 7 times in 48 hours. Multiple heart caths later and he's on hospice but alive. I've said goodbye to him since, but I'll be back up in Michigan in May. I hope I can see my daddy again.
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
Update: just saw my dad again this weekend and he's doing excellent! Probably could be taken off hospice at this point but it's such a great resource for my mom, they might just leave him on it. Saw him walk down the aisle at my nephews wedding as the grandparents were sat. No walker, no problem. Next opportunity to see him will be in September.
Load More Replies... Amanda Lalonde 1 year ago
Waking up after a simple gallbladder removal surgery unable to even sit up without help, and before you can ask anything being told its 2 months after the surgery
Kristal 1 year ago
Why were you unconscious for 2 months after surgery? By that time you would mostly be healed from your surgery and could move with minimal pain. I had my gallbladder out too bit that's a crazy story.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
God-damned mother-f*****g shithead doctor at the hospital called me at 5:59, leaving me a message that my son had been diagnosed and that I should call the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which closes at 6. It wasn't muscular dystrophy, and certainly not Duchenne, which is by far the most common, classical form of MD, and which is fatal 100% of the time. I had to carry that s**t alone until I heard for certain what the doctor was referring to, which was the right call since the MDA has branched out into other diseases and letting my sick wife know probably would've killed her.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
A little more light-hearted: Turns out that my model of car had a common defect that allows you to pull the keys out of the ignition when the car is still running. Wife went into labor, and I put her travel kit into the car, pulled it around and went in to get her. I went to turn on the car, and the engine won't turn over! "ACK!!! THE CAR WON'T START! This is going to be one of those episodes of a bad sitcom where the Mom gives birth in a TAXI!!!" Oops... the engine won't turn over because the car is still running from when I ran inside....
Load More Replies... FROGLET 1 year ago
I stopped reading very soon. Anyways, here's mine-two of the most horrifying feelings are 1. when your little sister choked on her granola bar and you're waiting for 911 to arrive and 2. when your little sister got a concussion and you're restless, pacing back and forth, waiting for the doctors to call you and say she's okay, but even then you're hellbent on hoping she's ok but feel like she's probably not. My sister's still alive to this day, but damn that was horrifying!
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My sister had at least three (we think for but can't remember what the forth was from) concussions by the time she was 5! The one I remember the most was when she was about 18months and ran off the end of a table. I was the one who had to hold her and make sure she didn't lose consciousness and dodge her vomit while mum called for an ambulance. Definitely the scariest one for me.
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AR 1 year ago
My husband has given me a couple. First, when an ER doctor gave him Imitrex while he was taking Wellbutrin, and he ended up with Serotonin Syndrome. There an FDA Black Box warning about that potentially happening. Second, he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and a few months later his organs started to shut down. Almost lost him but a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) was implanted and it’s keeping him going so far until he can get a heart transplant. But he could still die very suddenly.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My mum was taking Tramadol and another med that caused serotonin syndrome when combined. Her doctor warned her about it and stopped giving her Tramadol, but one day the pain got so bad she used an old one and it happened, thankfully a minor case. She was put onto something else, until it started causing central vision loss!
Load More Replies... Sean McLaughlin 1 year ago
I was attacked by a couple of guys with knives. I reacked into my pocket to give them my money, and realized I had my pocket knife with me. I took it out and opened it, and told them, " ok, a******s, go ahead, make my day!" ( thanks, Clint!). They took off. Those idiots had 6-8 inch knives. Mine was a 4 inch little thing. Remember, folks, most attackers are cowards!
LB 1 year ago (edited)
I've written about this on here before, but my pacemaker surgery failed. That is, they poked a hole in my heart so the blood was slowly leaking out. Being autistic, I focussed on communicating clearly an calmly that I was intense pain for about 24h. They didn't take me too seriously because I wasn't distressed enough om the outside, but I had to lower the bed in small increments with five minute breaks because otherwise it was too painful. At some point I started fainting, after which my body decided to empty its contents in every way possible. They tried different things, but couldn't get the blood pressure back up, so I was like halfway upside down for a while there. Eventually they called in a team in the middle of the night to put a drain in, and then it was better, but before I was wheeled to the OR, I was wondering if this was going to be it. They had to redo the first surgery, and that guy didn't listen when I told him I need more painkillers due to my condition. That s**t *hurt*.
R.C. 1 year ago (edited)
I used to have sleep paralysis when I was younger that ended around 14 yrs. It would happen as I was on the cusp of falling asleep and that was pretty bad. Worse, however, was when it happened after forcing myself awake from a nightmare. I would jolt awake only to have my nightmare continue on in my bedroom. I'd be "awake", paralyzed and unable to get away from whatever my nightmare was about. While in this state I could feel (as you do in a dream) and smell whatever was going on. Absolutely traumatizing. Edit: spelling
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This happens to me too! This week it has happened on two mornings, one of which, it happened two times in a row! I am less scared now, because I generally can recognise it when it happens but it still feels like a terrible anxiety attack.
Load More Replies... ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
I saw my dad's heart stop in December 2023. He went into v-fib multiple times the night before, I took a red-eye from Virginia up to Michigan, and got there just in time for his heart to give way a couple more times. They kept shocking him back, which he responded well to each time, but each new occurrence took a lot out of him. I had just been talking to him and was sitting by his bedside. He was resting a bit when he looked up, then his eyes got really wide. I called for him but it was clear that he was not there anymore. The entire ICU rushed in and started chest compressions/shocks again. They got him back. In all, his heart went into v-fib 7 times in 48 hours. Multiple heart caths later and he's on hospice but alive. I've said goodbye to him since, but I'll be back up in Michigan in May. I hope I can see my daddy again.
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
Update: just saw my dad again this weekend and he's doing excellent! Probably could be taken off hospice at this point but it's such a great resource for my mom, they might just leave him on it. Saw him walk down the aisle at my nephews wedding as the grandparents were sat. No walker, no problem. Next opportunity to see him will be in September.
Load More Replies... Amanda Lalonde 1 year ago
Waking up after a simple gallbladder removal surgery unable to even sit up without help, and before you can ask anything being told its 2 months after the surgery
Kristal 1 year ago
Why were you unconscious for 2 months after surgery? By that time you would mostly be healed from your surgery and could move with minimal pain. I had my gallbladder out too bit that's a crazy story.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
God-damned mother-f*****g shithead doctor at the hospital called me at 5:59, leaving me a message that my son had been diagnosed and that I should call the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which closes at 6. It wasn't muscular dystrophy, and certainly not Duchenne, which is by far the most common, classical form of MD, and which is fatal 100% of the time. I had to carry that s**t alone until I heard for certain what the doctor was referring to, which was the right call since the MDA has branched out into other diseases and letting my sick wife know probably would've killed her.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
A little more light-hearted: Turns out that my model of car had a common defect that allows you to pull the keys out of the ignition when the car is still running. Wife went into labor, and I put her travel kit into the car, pulled it around and went in to get her. I went to turn on the car, and the engine won't turn over! "ACK!!! THE CAR WON'T START! This is going to be one of those episodes of a bad sitcom where the Mom gives birth in a TAXI!!!" Oops... the engine won't turn over because the car is still running from when I ran inside....
Load More Replies... FROGLET 1 year ago
I stopped reading very soon. Anyways, here's mine-two of the most horrifying feelings are 1. when your little sister choked on her granola bar and you're waiting for 911 to arrive and 2. when your little sister got a concussion and you're restless, pacing back and forth, waiting for the doctors to call you and say she's okay, but even then you're hellbent on hoping she's ok but feel like she's probably not. My sister's still alive to this day, but damn that was horrifying!
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My sister had at least three (we think for but can't remember what the forth was from) concussions by the time she was 5! The one I remember the most was when she was about 18months and ran off the end of a table. I was the one who had to hold her and make sure she didn't lose consciousness and dodge her vomit while mum called for an ambulance. Definitely the scariest one for me.
Load More Replies... AR 1 year ago
My husband has given me a couple. First, when an ER doctor gave him Imitrex while he was taking Wellbutrin, and he ended up with Serotonin Syndrome. There an FDA Black Box warning about that potentially happening. Second, he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and a few months later his organs started to shut down. Almost lost him but a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) was implanted and it’s keeping him going so far until he can get a heart transplant. But he could still die very suddenly.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My mum was taking Tramadol and another med that caused serotonin syndrome when combined. Her doctor warned her about it and stopped giving her Tramadol, but one day the pain got so bad she used an old one and it happened, thankfully a minor case. She was put onto something else, until it started causing central vision loss!
Load More Replies... Sean McLaughlin 1 year ago
I was attacked by a couple of guys with knives. I reacked into my pocket to give them my money, and realized I had my pocket knife with me. I took it out and opened it, and told them, " ok, a******s, go ahead, make my day!" ( thanks, Clint!). They took off. Those idiots had 6-8 inch knives. Mine was a 4 inch little thing. Remember, folks, most attackers are cowards!
LB 1 year ago (edited)
I've written about this on here before, but my pacemaker surgery failed. That is, they poked a hole in my heart so the blood was slowly leaking out. Being autistic, I focussed on communicating clearly an calmly that I was intense pain for about 24h. They didn't take me too seriously because I wasn't distressed enough om the outside, but I had to lower the bed in small increments with five minute breaks because otherwise it was too painful. At some point I started fainting, after which my body decided to empty its contents in every way possible. They tried different things, but couldn't get the blood pressure back up, so I was like halfway upside down for a while there. Eventually they called in a team in the middle of the night to put a drain in, and then it was better, but before I was wheeled to the OR, I was wondering if this was going to be it. They had to redo the first surgery, and that guy didn't listen when I told him I need more painkillers due to my condition. That s**t *hurt*.
R.C. 1 year ago (edited)
I used to have sleep paralysis when I was younger that ended around 14 yrs. It would happen as I was on the cusp of falling asleep and that was pretty bad. Worse, however, was when it happened after forcing myself awake from a nightmare. I would jolt awake only to have my nightmare continue on in my bedroom. I'd be "awake", paralyzed and unable to get away from whatever my nightmare was about. While in this state I could feel (as you do in a dream) and smell whatever was going on. Absolutely traumatizing. Edit: spelling
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This happens to me too! This week it has happened on two mornings, one of which, it happened two times in a row! I am less scared now, because I generally can recognise it when it happens but it still feels like a terrible anxiety attack.
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