08-03-2011, 04:33 PM
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Near to death!!
What is the nearest death experience that you survived?I have been in several precarious situations where death could have been imminent and suvived but I think the nearest was when I renewing some old electrical wiring in a factory.
The main switch for the room was situated high on the wall outside the room and some bright idiot had run a steam pipe across the front of it so that the lid would not drop down and I had to reach inside to cut the cables.
Having thrown the switch I reached inside and cut the cables only to find that they were still live and I could not let go of the cutters.
Lots of things flashed through my mind in that few seconds and the only answer I came up with was to step off the ladder and fall to the ground, which I eventually did and it freed me of an electicution death.
Close but still here.
08-03-2011, 07:33 PM
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Re: Near to death!!
I had a couple of close calls in my teens when I rode powerful motorcycles without giving them enough respect. I still bear the scars but managed to limp away.
Looking at modern motorcycle accident statistics though, the numbers walking or limping away are becoming even less! Too much power, not enough respect, it will always be a killer I'm afraid, and it's only the luck of the draw, you have no control over life or death sometimes.....
08-03-2011, 08:10 PM
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My closest call was about 20 years ago when I was on a training course miles away in Nottingham, I went to the bank with one of the girls on the course in her Suzuki jeep. She went straight over a cross roads and hit another car, our jeep rolled over and over and tipped on it's side. We was stuck in the seats and we could smell petrol! Luckily some people ran out to help us and we manage to get out through the jeep window. We had no injuries except I had a black breast where the seat belt had kept me in. Originally I had said to the girl "I'll just hold the seatbelt as I was having trouble clicking it in", thank God she said "no, I'll snap you in". If she hadn't of I would have been thrown out of that windscreen no trouble!!!!!!The police were amazed we got out of that alive!
08-03-2011, 09:01 PM
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1993 - had my first Pulmonary Embolism. No pain, just very breathless on any form of exertion. Finally collapsed and was taken to hospital. Blood clot found 2" away from heart at top of Pulmonary Artery. Had it travelled that final 2" I wouldn't be here to tell the tale. Have subsequently had four more and my lungs are now badly scarred.
08-03-2011, 09:42 PM
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Back in 2006 I had congestive heart failure. When admitted to the hospital trauma unit my blood pressure was 250/150, I was blue & couldn't breathe. I was a 3 pack a day cigarette smoker when I was admitted and have never touch another cigarette. They placed in intensive care for two days with nitroglycerin being pumped into me until they could ween me off of it and place me on pill forms of blood pressure medication. I was told my heart, kidneys and liver were twice their normal size trying to compensate for the fluid build up stress all my organs. That was 16 years ago and not my BP is 130/84 and I'm free of cigarettes. That was a close one!08-03-2011, 09:51 PM
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Re: Near to death!!
Originally Posted by plantman
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I had a couple of close calls in my teens when I rode powerful motorcycles without giving them enough respect. I still bear the scars but managed to limp away. Looking at modern motorcycle accident statistics though, the numbers walking or limping away are becoming even less! Too much power, not enough respect, it will always be a killer I'm afraid, and it's only the luck of the draw, you have no control over life or death sometimes.....
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